Faculty by Research Area

Advanced Materials Systems
	Ashraf Bastawros Wilson Engineering Professor, Associate Chair for Research, Department of Aerospace Engineering; Courtesy Professor, Departments of Material Science and Engineering and Mechanical Engineering; Associate, Ames Lab Phone: 515-294-3039 Office: 2347 Howe Hall bastaw@iastate.edu		Leonard Bond Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering; Director, Center for Nondestructive Evaluation; Interim Director, Institute for Physical Research and Technology (IPRT) Phone: 515-294-6337 Office: 2361 Howe Hall bondlj@iastate.edu
Research Interests: Mechanics of soft and flexible materials and structures under combined external fields; Surface evolution under stress, electrochemical, and plasma fields; Mechanics of interfaces and layered structures.		Research Interests: Ultrasonics applied to nondestructive evaluation (NDE); Advanced diagnostics and prognostics, to estimate safe service life, applied to aerospace and energy systems.

	Vinay Dayal Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering; Associate, Center for Nondestructive Evaluation Phone: 515-294-0720 Office: 2351 Howe Hall vdayal@iastate.edu		Stephen Holland Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering; Associate, Center for Nondestructive Evaluation Phone: 515-294-8659 Office: 2331 Howe Hall sdh4@iastate.edu
Research Interests: Non-contact and non-invasive methods of flaw detection in composites; NDE of wind turbine blades made of composites; Composite aerospace structures: design and analysis.		Research Interests: Vibrothermographic nondestructive testing; Location of leaks in spacecraft; Finding flaws – cracks in metals, delaminations in composites through heat signatures.

	Wei Hong Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering Phone: 515-294-8850 Office: 2239 Howe Hall whong@iastate.edu		Valery Levitas Vance Coffman Faculty Chair Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering & Department of Mechanical Engineering (Secondary); Courtesy Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Faculty Scientist, Ames Laboratory Phone: 515-294-9691 Office: 2351 Howe Hall vlevitas@iastate.edu
Research Interests: Mechanics and physics of soft materials; Multi-physics modeling and simulation; Smart materials and structures; Fracture, deformation, and mass transportation; Biomechanics.		Research Interests: Stress- and strain-induced phase transformations and chemical reactions; Theoretical and computational nano- and micromechanics; Mutliphysics theory and modeling.

	Azadeh Sheidaei Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering Phone:515-294-2956 Office: 2237 Howe Hall sheidaei@iastate.edu
Research Interests: Multiscale characterization, multiscale modeling, 3D reconstruction of heterogeneous materials, statistical continuum mechanics and microstructure design, composite processing, additive manufacturing

Aerodynamics, Combustion and Aero-Structural Interaction
	Paul Durbin Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering Phone: 515-294-7234 Office: 2237 Howe Hall durbin@iastate.edu		Hui Hu Martin C. Jischke Professor, Associate Chair for Graduate Education, Department of Aerospace Engineering Phone: 515-294-0094 Office: 2251 Howe Hall huhui@iastate.edu
Research Interests: Turbulence and fluid dynamics of transition; Analytical models, theory, computer simulations of complex flows.		Research Interests: Advanced flow diagnostics and instrumentation.; Aircraft icing physics and anti-/de- icing technology; Bio-inspired aerodynamics and unsteady vortex flows and control; Wind energy and wind turbine aeromechanics.

	Valery Levitas Vance Coffman Faculty Chair Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering & Dept. of Mechanical Engineering (Secondary); Courtesy Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Faculty Scientist, Ames Laboratory Phone: 515-294-9691 Office: 2351 Howe Hall vlevitas@iastate.edu		Ganesh Rajagopalan Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering Phone: 515-294-6796 Office: 2233 Howe Hall rajagopa@iastate.edu
Research Interests: Stress- and strain-induced phase transformations and chemical reactions; Theoretical and computational nano- and micromechanics; Mutliphysics theory and modeling.		Research Interests: Computational fluid dynamics; Simulation of flow through rotors; Aerodynamics of helicopters and wind turbines; Wind energy conversion systems.

	Alric Rothmayer Professor, Associate Chair for Education, Department of Aerospace Engineering; Courtesy Professor, Department of Mathematics Phone: 515-294-8851 Office: 2235 Howe Hall roth@iastate.edu		Partha Sarkar Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering; Director, WiST Laboratory; Courtesy Professor, Department of Civil Engineering Phone: 515-294-0719 Office: 2343 Howe Hall ppsarkar@iastate.edu
Research Interests: Aircraft and wind turbine icing; Aerodynamic flow control; Aircraft propulsion.		Research Interests: Wind Engineering/Wind Energy ; Wind tunnel simulations of ABL and unconventional winds (e.g. tornado, microburst) for wind loads; Aeroelasticity (flutter) of civil and aero structures; Aerodynamic/dynamic loads and response of wind turbines.

	Anupam Sharma Assistant Professor and Walter W. Wilson Faculty Fellow, Department of Aerospace Engineering Phone: 515-294-2884 Office: 2341 Howe Hall sharma@iastate.edu		Thomas Ward III Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering Phone: 515-294-3925 Office: 2324 Howe Hall thomasw@iastate.edu
Research Interests: Aero acoustics: turbo machinery fan noise; Wind turbine aerodynamics and aero acoustics; High performance computing.		Research Interests: Microfluidics for heat and mass transport; Micro scale devices for heat transfer; Electronic flapping devices; Potential flow in porous media; Multiphase/granular flow.

Aviation Biofuels
	Thomas Ward III Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering Phone: 515-294-3925 Office: 2324 Howe Hall thomasw@iastate.edu
Research Interests: Microfluidics for heat and mass transport; Micro scale devices for heat transfer; Electronic flapping devices; Potential flow in porous media; Multiphase/granular flow.


Complex Systems and Optimization
	Christina Bloebaum Interim Department Chair, Dennis and Rebecca Muilenburg Professor of Aerospace Engineering; Director, Iowa Space Grant Consortium Phone: 515-294-4766 Office: 1620F Howe Hall bloebaum@iastate.edu		Thomas Gielda Professor of Practice, Department of Aerospace Engineering Phone: 515-294-4393 Office: 2326 Howe Hall tgielda@iastate.edu
Research Interests: Multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) for complex aerospace systems; Visual design steering for trade-space exploration; Incorporation of decision and game theory for complex design.		Research Interests: Guidance, navigation and control; Nonlinear and optimal control; Networked dynamic systems (including for UAVs); Unit commitment and load management of energy systems.

	Leifur Leifsson Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering Phone: 515-294-6549 Office: 2331 Howe Hall leifur@iastate.edu		Peng Wei Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering; Courtesy Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Phone: 515-294-8215 Office: 2315 Howe Hall pwei@iastate.edu
Research Interests: Surrogate-based modeling and optimization; Multidisciplinary design optimization; Aerodynamic shape optimization		Research Interests: Control, optimization, statistical machine learning, and artificial intelligence for air transportation systems and aviation systems.

	Kristin Y. Rozier Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering; Courtesy Professor, Department of Computer Science; Courtesy Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Phone: 515-294-6956 Office: 2335 Howe Hall kyrozier@iastate.edu
	Research Interests: Formal methods, safety-critical systems, biomedical privacy, secure protocols, model checking, property-based design, model-based design, automated reasoning, runtime monitoring

Guidance, Controls, and Astrodynamics
	Bong Wie Vance D. Coffman Faculty Chair, Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering; Director, Asteroid Deflection Research Center Phone: 515-294-3124 Office: 2355 Howe Hall bongwie@iastate.edu		Peter Sherman Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering; Associate Professor, Department of Statistics Phone: 515-294-0091 Office: 2339 Howe Hall shermanp@iastate.edu
Research Interests: Guidance, navigation, and control; Attitude dynamics and control of spacecraft; GN&C technologies for asteroid deflection/disruption; Planetary defense technology flight validation mission development & design.		Research Interests: Estimation theory; Random processes; Dynamical systems; UAV Surveillance and Guidance.

	Peng Wei Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering; Courtesy Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Phone: 515-294-8215 Office: 2315 Howe Hall pwei@iastate.edu		Kristin Y. Rozier Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering; Courtesy Professor, Department of Computer Science; Courtesy Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Phone: 515-294-6956 Office: 2335 Howe Hall kyrozier@iastate.edu
Research Interests: Control, optimization, statistical machine learning, and artificial intelligence for air transportation systems and aviation systems.		Research Interests: Formal methods, safety-critical systems, biomedical privacy, secure protocols, model checking, property-based design, model-based design, automated reasoning, runtime monitoring.


Non-Destructive Testing and Evaluation
	Leonard Bond Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering; Director, Center for Nondestructive Evaluation; Interim Director, Institute for Physical Research and Technology (IPRT) Phone: 515-294-6337 Office: 2361 Howe Hall bondlj@iastate.edu		Dale Chimenti Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering; Associate, Center for Nondestructive Evaluation Phone: 515-294-5853 Office: 2345 Howe Hall chimenti@iastate.edu
Research Interests: Ultrasonics applied to nondestructive evaluation (NDE); Advanced diagnostics and prognostics, to estimate safe service life, applied to aerospace and energy systems.		Research Interests: Ultrasonic study of the propagation of elastic waves in anisotropic, layered advanced materials; Experimental measurements of guided elastic waves in highly inhomogeneous layered composites.

	Thomas Chiou Associate Scientist, Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering Phone: 515-294-0299 Office: 2361 Howe Hall		Vinay Dayal Associate Professor Department of Aerospace Engineering Associate, Center for Nondestructive Evaluation Phone: 515-294-0720 Office: 2351 Howe Hall vdayal@iastate.edu
		Research Interests: Non-contact and non-invasive methods of flaw detection in composites; NDE of wind turbine blades made of composites; Composite aerospace structures: design and analysis.

	Timothy Gray Adjunct Assistant Professor Scientist, Center for Nondestructive Evaluation Phone: 515-294-7743 Office: 127 ASC II		Stephen Holland Associate Professor Department of Aerospace Engineering Associate, Center for Nondestructive Evaluation Phone: 515-294-8659 Office: 2331 Howe Hall sdh4@iastate.edu
		Research Interests: Vibrothermographic nondestructive testing; Location of leaks in spacecraft; Finding flaws – cracks in metals, delaminations in composites through heat signatures.

	Norbert Meyendorf Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering Phone: 515-294-5642 Office: 2361 Howe Hall		Norio Nakagawa Adjunct Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering; Scientist, Center for Nondestructive Evaluation Phone: 515-294-9741 Office: 181 ASC II


	Ronald Roberts Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering; Senior Scientist, Center for Nondestructive Evaluation Phone: 515-294-9743 Office: 131 ASC 11

Advanced Materials Systems

Aerodynamics, Combustion and Aero-Structural Interaction

Aviation Biofuels

Complex Systems and Optimization

Guidance, Controls, and Astrodynamics

Non-Destructive Testing and Evaluation