Swanson School of Engineering 2016 statistical summary

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The Swanson School of Engineering Since 1846, the University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering has developed innovative processes and designs that have shaped our state, our country, and our world. Swanson School faculty and students are on the forefront of developing solutions to create a better future and continue its founding commitment to industrial, electrical, and mining engineering, the fields the world relies on for its energy and raw materials. The Swanson School also focuses on our health, our planet, and the ingenuity that keeps us competitive with recognized programs in bioengineering, sustainability, and energy. Nanotechnology, manufacturing, and product innovation are also critical strategic initiatives.

The Swanson School of Engineering prepares graduates through actual experience to enter exciting careers in advanced research and industry. Students find their place in the workforce through our established co-op program and working partnerships with engineering’s top companies. Our faculty and staff represent countries around the world and are internationally recognized for providing excellent educational programs, for conducting cutting edge research, and for creating the partnerships that shape the industry. International experience in engineering is a core component of the academic curriculum, with study abroad programs offered in South America, Europe, and Asia.

The mission of the Swanson School of Engineering is to produce highly-qualified engineers and useful creative research and technology through academic excellence. The faculty and staff at the Swanson School of Engineering are recognized for providing excellent educational programs, for conducting leading edge research, and for creating innovative industrial partnerships.

Since 2000, undergraduate enrollment has grown almost 40 percent to approximately 2,800 students. Undergraduate first-year engineering students are among the most academically successful in the entire university, with average SAT scores of 1395 and GPAs of 4.2. Graduate enrollment has increased nearly 40 percent as well, to 988 students, and PhD enrollment has increased nearly 60 percent to 438 candidates. Faculty research and journal publications have soared, and research productivity within the School now exceeds $90 million.

History The University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering has a long and distinguished history. The earliest engineering courses at Pitt were established in response to the growth of Western Pennsylvania during the early industrial revolution, with the first degrees of “Engineer” awarded in 1846, thereby establishing Pitt as the nation’s sixth earliest engineering program.

The involvement of Pittsburgh industry in the years surrounding the Civil War transformed a regional industrial base into one with strong international significance, and the University responded to the need. In 1868, specialized degrees in Civil and Mechanical Engineering were initiated, with Mining Engineering following in 1869, and Electrical Engineering in 1890. In 1909, the Department of Metallurgical Engineering was established, followed by the Department of Chemical Engineering and the world’s first Department of Petroleum Engineering in 1910. Also in that year, the School created one of the nation’s first undergraduate Cooperative Education Programs. Pitt Engineering’s tradition of innovative programming resulted in the establishment of one of the nation’s first Industrial Engineering Departments in 1921. The most recent department, Bioengineering, was established in 1998.

Among the many prominent individuals associated with the early history of the School were Samuel Pierpont Langley and Reginald A. Fessenden. Langley, who is credited with developing the engineering science of aerodynamics during his 24 years at Pitt, designed the first heavier-than-air craft capable of flight and greatly influenced the Wright Brothers. Fessenden, brought to Pittsburgh by George Westinghouse as the first electrical engineering department head, obtained more than 300 patents. Through his pioneering studies with voice transmission, he is now credited with being the “Father of Radio” and made the first broadcast of the human voice in 1906.

Throughout the 20th century the School of Engineering continued its growth, and moved to a new Engineering Hall in the 1950s. This was also accompanied by the institution of new programs such as international education to strengthen the academic experience of engineering students. As the student population continued to grow, the University developed plans for a larger facility and commissioned the construction of Benedum Hall of Engineering, in honor of a grant from the Benedum Foundation. Benedum Hall was completed in 1971. The 1990s saw the emergence of new centers of excellence which promoted cross-disciplinary infrastructure between departments, as well as the launch of the new bioengineering program and the Center for Biotechnology and Bioengineering at the Pittsburgh Technology Center, on the former site of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Mill Complex in nearby Hazelwood.

Engineering for the 21st-Century In 2007, the School became the Swanson School of Engineering after a landmark event: John A. Swanson (PhD ’66), founder of ANSYS Inc., made the largest individual philanthropic commitment in the history of the University of Pittsburgh at that time. As a result of his remarkable generosity, the Board of Trustees presented a formal resolution on February 29, 2008 and announced the changing of the school’s name to the John A. Swanson School of Engineering. His gift, along with that of John C. “Jack” Mascaro (BSCE '66, MSCE '80), founder and chairman of Mascaro Construction Company, enabled a multi-year transformation of Benedum Hall into a building with more open labs and “smart” classroom space, enabling greater collaboration between faculty and students.

A new three-story annex that connects to Benedum Hall was completed in 2009 and is home to the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation as well as labs, classrooms and the new Bevier Library. In 2012 the Swanson School received a $22 million grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation - one of the largest private foundation grants in Pitt’s history. The gift will accelerate the research and education efforts of the Center for Energy, create new faculty positions and graduate fellowships, and establish a fund for spurring innovative research on a newly designated Energy Floor in Benedum Hall.

Later in 2012 the Swanson School exceeded its $180 million campaign goal and announced that over $200 million had been reached. The goal was part of the University of Pittsburgh’s comprehensive $2 billion campaign, which was also reached in 2012. The funds will enable the full transformation of the Swanson School of Engineering, both physically and academically, and establish it as one of the leading engineering programs in the world.

On April 14, 2014, to mark the tenth anniversary of the University of Pittsburgh’s Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation (MCSI) and to build upon the ongoing philanthropy of two of Pitt’s most generous donors and engineering alumni, Pitt announced a new $37.5 million funding initiative comprising various endowments and current funds to support sustainability-related academics and research. Through the leadership of a new Sustainability Task Force established by the Office of the Provost, the University will extend sustainability initiatives throughout Pitt’s academic programs and research initiatives. This expanded commitment to sustainability was inspired by Mr. Jack Mascaro and Dr. John A. Swanson, both of whom contributed toward the new sustainability initiative.

On March 3, 2016, Pitt and the Swanson School that an expansion of engineering, energy research and entrepreneurship at the Energy Innovation Center (EIC) in Pittsburgh’s Hill District. The 18,600-square-foot laboratory and incubator – which will occupy more than one-fourth of the EIC’s Central Lab area, making it the largest tenant – represents Pitt’s initiatives to provide more flexible, large-scale space for energy research and to encourage partnerships with industry. The EIC, developed by Pittsburgh Gateways Corporation in the former Connelly Trade School, is designed to engage corporate and community leaders, align workforce development and education, develop and demonstrate technology, and incubate businesses to support emerging clean and sustainable energy markets. The facility provides Pitt with more space than currently available in Oakland or at the Swanson School’s Benedum Hall of Engineering. The laboratories will include: The Next Generation Energy Conversion and Storage Technologies Laboratory, headed by Prashant Kumta, Professor of Bioengineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, and Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, focuses on energy conversion and storage including high energy and power density rechargeable battery systems, photoelectrochemical systems for harnessing solar energy for water splitting, and high power density charge storage systems.

The Electric Power Technologies Laboratory, led by Dr. Reed, will focus on advanced electric power grid and energy generation, transmission, and distribution-system technologies; power electronics and control technologies; renewable energy systems and integration; smart grid technologies and applications; and energy-storage development.

The High-Temperature Corrosion Testing Laboratory, led by Brian Gleeson, Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, focuses on the assessment and development of materials needed for harsh service environments. The EIC allows Dr. Gleeson to relocate his lab from Iowa State University to Pittsburgh.

Lastly, the Pitt Incubator Laboratories, developed by Vice Provost for Research Mark S. Redfern and the University’s Innovation Institute, will provide affordable space for start-ups launched by faculty and students at Pitt.

New International Partnership, New Campus In 2013 the Swanson School led a University effort to create a joint institute with Sichuan University, one of China’s premier engineering schools. Pitt is one of only five U.S. universities to have entered into a large-scale partnership agreement with a university in China; the others are Carnegie Mellon University, Duke University, New York University, and the University of Michigan.

Sichuan University will initially invest nearly $40 million to support the construction and equipping of a new 300,000-square-foot building to house the Sichuan University – Pittsburgh Institute on its campus. With emphases on advanced sustainable manufacturing and educational innovation, the institute will initially offer three undergraduate degree programs: industrial engineering, mechanical engineering, and materials science and engineering. Students in the institute will be recruited from the United States, China, and possibly other countries, with the first class in fall 2015 expected to comprise 100 students. Within seven years, enrollment is projected to grow to 1,600.

Students will spend the first two years of the program immersed in the Pitt curriculum in China with the option of transferring to Pitt’s main campus during their third year in the program. Students who transfer to Pitt directly after their sophomore year will earn a bachelor’s degree from both Sichuan University and Pitt, and all students will receive an institute certificate upon completion of their studies. Qualified students will also be able to continue their graduate studies at Pitt.

Officials from the University of Pittsburgh and Sichuan University in China participated in a groundbreaking ceremony on July 2, 2014 at the Sichuan University campus in Chengdu to launch construction of the first building.

The first entering class matriculated during a special ceremony with Pitt Chancellor Patrick Gallagher and others on September 25, 2015.

Deans of Engineering Daniel Carhart

1882 - 1908

Frederick L. Bishop

1910 – 1927

Elmer A. Holbrook

1927 – 1950

G. Raymond Fitterer

1951 – 1963

Harold E. Hoelscher

1965 – 1973

Max L. Williams

1973 – 1985

Charles A. Sorber

1986 – 1993

H.K. Chang

1994 – 1996

Gerald D. Holder

1996 –

To mark Dean Holder’s 20th anniversary as Dean of the Swanson School, Provost Patricia Beeson appointed him as a Distinguished Service Professor, a title that recognizes distinctive contributions and outstanding service (e.g., professional, regional, national, international) to the University community in support of its multifaceted teaching/research/service mission, as well as performance excellence and national stature in his discipline.

SWANSON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING U.S. Steel Dean of Engineering Distinguished Service Professor GER ALD HOLDER

Leighton E. and Mary N. Orr Chair Professor Associate Dean for International Initiatives

Distinguished Service Professor Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

John A. Swanson Professor Associate Dean for Research

Assistant to the Dean

Administrative Coordinator

MINKING CHYU

LARRY SHUMAN

DAVID VORP

CATHY VARGO

NANCY DONALDSO N

Bioengineering Distinguished Professor Gerald E. McGinni s Chair Professor and Chai r SANJEEV SHRO FF

Director of Investing Now and EXCEL ALAINE ALLEN

Chemical and Pet rol eum Engineering Wil liam Kepler Whit eford Professor and Chai r STEVEN LITTLE

Civil and Env ironmental Engineering Wil liam Kepler Whit eford Professor and Chai r

Electri cal and Computer Engineering Associate Professor And Interim Chair

Indust rial Engineering Ernest E. Roth Professor and Chair

Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Harry S. Tack Chair Professor and Chai r

RADISAV VIDIC

MAHMOUD EL NOKALI

BOPAYA BIDANDA

BRIAN GLEESON

Associate Professor Associate Dean for Diversity

George M. and Eva M. Bevier Chair Co-Director of Mascaro Center fo r Sustainable In novation

Co-Director of Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation

Director of Administration

SYLVANUS WOSU

ERIC BECKMAN

GENA KOVALCIK

RAMA BAZAZ

Associate Professor Academic Director of Freshman Engineering Program

Assistant Dean

Senior Executive Director of Development and Alumni Relations

SCHOHN SHANNON

CAREY ANNE ZUCCA*

Executive Director

Director of Marketing and Communications

BRIAN VIDIC

PAUL KOVACH

DANIEL BUDNY

Undergraduate Enrollment: 3015

Director of Cooperative Education MAUREEN BARCIC

Director of International Engineering Initiatives KRISTINE LALLEY

Director of Engineering Student Services CHERYL PAUL

Graduate Enrollment: 945 Degrees Granted (School Year Ending April 2016): BS: 591 MS: 244 PhD: 78

*Reports Directly to the Office of Institutional Advancement

SWANSON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING BIOENGINEERING Distinguished Professor and Gerald E. McGinnis Chair SANJEEV SHRO FF

Distinguished Professor Robert L. Hardesty Professor

William Kepler Whiteford Professor

Professor

Edward R. Weidlein Chair Professor

HARVEY BOROVETZ

XINYAN TRACY CUI

TIN-KAN HUNG

PRASHANT KUMTA

Vice Provost for Research William Kepler Whiteford Professor

Professor and Vice Chair PATRICK LOUGHLIN

Professor

Professor

GEO RGE STETTEN

JONATHAN V ANDE GEEST

Associate Dean for Research John A. Swanson Professor

MARK REDFERN

William K epler Whiteford Faculty Fellow Associate Professor

Associate Professor

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor

STEVEN ABRAMOWITCH

AARON BATISTA

BRYAN BRO WN

TAKASHI KOZAI

William Kepler Whiteford Professor YADONG WANG

DAVID VORP

Distinguished University Professor

William Kepler Whiteford Professor

SAVIO WOO

Director of Graduate Program

Undergraduate Enrollment: 273

WILLIAM FEDERSPIEL

Graduate Enrollment: 191

Associate Professor

Wellington C. Carl Faculty Fellow Associate Professo r

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor

RAKIE CHAM

LANCE DAVIDSON

SPANDAN MAITI

WARREN RUDER

Wil liam Kepler Whiteford Faculty Fellow Associate Professor

Associate Professor

Assistant Professor

RICHARD DEBSKI

NEERAJ GANDHI

GELSY TORRES-OVIEDO

Associate Professor

Associate Professor

Research Assistant Professor

Professor Executive Director of CMI

Director of Coulter Program

Research Assistant Professor

TAMER IBRAHIM

PARTHA ROY

KURT BESCHOR NER

ALAN HIRSCHMAN

MAX A. FEDOR

JUSTIN WEINBAUM

Degrees Granted (School Year Ending April 2016): BS: 65 MS: 22 PhD: 24

Associate Professor Director of Undergraduate Program JOHN PATZER, II

Department Administrator GLENN PETERSO N

Associate Professor DOUGLAS WEBER

Financial Administrator

Graduate Academic Administrator

Financial Administrator

Coulter Program Administrator

Personnel Coordinator

Undergraduate Academic Administrator

DANIEL GEALEY

NICHOLAS MANCE

DANIEL CESNALIS

LINDSAY RO DZWICZ

SALLY MCKELVEY

ALICIA KEMP

SWANSON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING CHEMICAL AND PETROLEUM ENGINEERING William Kepler Whiteford Professor Professor and Chair STEVEN LITTLE

Professor MOHAMMAD ATAAI

Associate Professor IPSITA BANERJEE

Distinguished Professor Robert v. d. Luft Professor

Distinguished Service Professor George M. and Eva M. Bevier Professor

ANNA BALAZS

ERIC BECKMAN

Associate Professor DI GAO

Associate Professor SACHIN VELANKAR

Willam Kepler Whiteford Professor

Bayer Professor and Vice Chair for Research

Wil liam Kepler Whiteford Professor and Vice Chair For Education

ROBERT ENICK

JOSEPH MCCARTHY

J. KARL JO HNSON

Assistant Professor

R.K. Mellon Faculty Fellow Assistant Professor

SUSAN FULLERTO N

JOHN KEITH

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor

LEI LI

IOANNIS BOU RMPAK IS

Professor

Professor

Nickolas A. DeCecco Professor

BADIE MORSI

ROBERT PARKER

GÖTZ VESER

William Kepler Whiteford Professor JUDITH YAN G

Undergraduate Enrollment: 459 Graduate Enrollment: 118

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor

JAMES MCKONE

JASON SHOEMAK ER

CHRISTOP HER WILMER

Assistant Chairman ROBERT TOPLAK

Degrees Granted (School Year Ending April 2016): BS: 108 MS: 25 PhD: 10

Executive Assistant to the Chairman

Unit Ops Lab Manager

Academic Administrator

Senior Electronics Specialist

Business Administrator

Pittsburgh Coal Conference Coordinator

Executive Assistant

ALICE LIANG

MATTHEW FRANCE

RITA LECCIA

ROBERT MANIET

PATRICIA PARK

VACANT

ADRIAN STARKE

SWANSON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING William Kepler Whiteford Professor and Chair RADISAV VIDIC

William Kepler Whiteford Professor

Professor

XU LIANG

LUIS E. VALLEJO

Roberta Luxbacher Fellowshi p Associate Professor

Associate Professor

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor

MELISSA BILEC

DANIEL BUDNY

KYLE BIBB Y

ANDREW BUNGER

LEANNE GILBERTSON

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor

VIKAS KHANNA

CARLA NG

QIANG YU

Bicenten nial Board of Vis itors Faculty Fellow Associate Professo r

Associate Professor

KENT HARRIES

ANTHONY IANNOCCHIONE

Associate Professor

Associate Professor

JEEN-SHANG LIN

PIERVINCENZO RIZZO

Associate Professor

Assoiciate Professor

MORTEZA TORKAMANI

JULIE VANDENBOSSCHE

Associate Professor Academic Coordinator LEO NARD CASSON

Assistant Professor

Undergraduate Enrollment: 279

Structural/ Materials Technician

Technology Lead

Department Administrator

CHARLES HAGER

FRED TYLKA

AMY KAPP

Graduate Enrollment: 147 Degrees Granted (School Year Ending April 2016): BS: 73 MS: 37 PhD: 7

Academic Support Coordinator

Administrative Coordinator

VACANT

ERIN GOLEN

SWANSON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING Associate Professor and Interim Chair MAHMOUD EL NOKALI

Paul E. Lego Professor

Bell of PA/Bell Atlantic Professor

PENG CHEN

HONG KOO KIM

Bicentennial Alumni Faculty Fellow Associate Professor

Associate Professor

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor

YIRAN CHEN

GEO RGE KUSIC

MURAT AKCAKAYA

STEVE JACOBS

R.K. Mellon Faculty Fellow Associate Professor

Associate Professor

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor

ALEXIS KW ASINSKI

GUANGYONG LI

NATASA MISKOV

FENG XIONG

Fulton C. Noss Faculty Fellow Associate Professor

William Kepler Whiteford Faculty Fellow Associate Professor

HAI LI

ZHI-HONG MAO

Associate Professor

Associate Professor

KARTIK MOHANRAM

ERVIN SEJDIC

Associate Professor

Associate Professor

Undergraduate Computer Engineering Administrator

Business Affairs Administrator

JUN YANG

MINHEE YUN

ANDREA V ARELA

CAITLIN MATHIS

Professor

Professor and Director of Center for Energy

Professor

CHING-CHUNG LI

GREGO RY REED

WILLIAM STANCHINA

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

Associate Professor and Director of Computer Engineeri ng Undergraduate Program

Assistant Professor and Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Coordinator

AMRO EL-JARO UDI

ALEXANDER JONES

IRVIN JONES, JR.

Undergraduate Enrollment: 456

Graduate Enrollment: 180 Degrees Granted (School Year Ending April 2016): BS: 111 MS: 35 PhD: 14

Administrator

Undergraduate Electrical Engineering Administrator

Graduate Student Administrator

JESSICA DAWSON

NICO LE KLAN

SANDR A WEISBERG

SWANSON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING Ernest E. Roth Professor and Chair BOPAYA BIDANDA

Nickolas A. DeCecco Professor MARY BESTERFIELD-SACRE

Associate Professor Director of Undergraduate Program

Associate Professor

KAREN BURSIC

JOEL HAIGHT

Professor

Professor Director of Graduate Program

JEFFREY KHAROUFEH

JAYANT RAJGO PAL

William Kepler Whiteford Faculty Fellow Professor RAVI SHANKAR

Distinguished Service Professor Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs LARRY SHUMAN

BP America Faculty Fellow Associate Professor

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor

PAUL LEU

MOSTAFA BEDEWY

HODA BIDKHORI

YOUNGJAE CHUN

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor

DANIEL JIANG

MOHAMMAD MOUSAVI

NATASA VIDIC

Associate Professor

Associate Professor

Associate Professor

LISA MAILLART

BRYAN NORMAN

OLEG PR OKOPYEV

Undergraduate Enrollment: 215

Associate Professor

Graduate Enrollment: 82

Department Administrator

BO ZENG

Degrees Granted (School Year Ending April 2016): BS: 70 MS: 40 PhD: 5

MINERVA PILACHOWSKI

Research Projects Administrator

Undergraduate Administrator

Graduate Administrator

GEO RGE HAR VEY

KELLY RUNCO

KYLE BISHOP

SWANSON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AND MATERIALS SCIENCE Harry S. Tack Chair Professor and Chair BRIAN GLEESON

Professor JOHN BARNARD

Leighton E. and Mary N. Orr Chair Professor Associate Dean for International Initiatives

Professor WILLIAM CLARK

Professor Director of BAMPRI ANTHONY DEARDO

Leighton E. and Mary N. Orr Professor GIOVANNI GALDI

MINKING CHYU

Professor and Vice Chair

Professor

ANNE ROBERTSON

JEFFREY VIPPERMAN

JORG W IEZOREK

SUNG KWO N CHO

Associate Professor Director of Nuclear Engineeri ng Program

William Kepler Whiteford Professor

William Kepler Whiteford Professor

SCOTT MAO

GER ALD MEIER

PEYMAN GIVI

William K epler Whiteford Professor & Director of Center for Faculty Excellen ce

Associate Professor

Distinguished Professor James T. MacLeod Professor Co-Director of CMS PhD Program

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor

HESSAM B ABAEE

MARKUS CHMIELUS

Professor Director of Graduate Program

Associate Professor Director of Undergraduate Program

QING-MING W ANG

WILLIAM SLAUGHTER

Undergraduate Enrollment: 659 Graduate Enrollment: 227 Degrees Granted (School Year Ending April 2016): BS: 164 MS: 85 PhD: 18

DANIEL COLE

Research Professor

William K epler Whiteford Faculty Fellow Associate Professor

Associate Professor

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor

JUNG-KUN LEE

IAN NETTLESHIP

TEVIS JACOBS

SANGYEOP LEE

Associate Professor Director of Engineering Science

CNG Faculty Fellow Associate Professor

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor

PATRICK SMO LINSKI

ALBERT TO

NITIN SHARMA

DAVID SCHMIDT

Associate Professor

Associate Professor Associate Dean of Diversity Affairs

Assistant Professor

Graduate Student Administrator

Undergraduate Student Administrator

Administrative Assistant

GUOFENG WANG

SYLVANUS WOSU

WEI XIONG

CARO LYN CHUHA

HEATHER MANNS

KELLY WODNICKI

ISAAC GARCIA

Assistant to the Chair JULIE NYS

Associate Professor

Research Specialist

XUDONG ZHANG

COLE VAN ORMER

Departments and Degree-Granting Programs Bioengineering Degrees Offered: BS, MS, and PhD in Bioengineering Areas of Specialization: Bioengineering research at the University of Pittsburgh incorporates the application of engineering and biologic principles, methods, and technology in two broad areas: scientific inquires into fundamental biological and biophysical phenomena; development of instrumentation, materials, devices, and systems relative to application in the biological sciences and medicine. Active, externally funded areas of research include: computer processing of biologically derived signals; computer analysis of radiographic, ultrasonic, and nuclear magnetic resonance images; gene therapy and adult stem cells; development of prostheses, artificial organs, and implantable sensors; ultrasound; neural tissue engineering; structure, function, and interactions of individual biological macromolecules; cell migration; development of medically related instrumentation; mathematical modeling of physiological systems; tissue engineering and regenerative medicine; biomaterials and biocompatibility; musculoskeletal biomechanics and sports medicine; cardiovascular biomechanics; bladder biomechanics; rehabilitation biomechanics; ergonomics and occupational biomechanics. Further details regarding individual research programs can be found on the websites of Laboratories and Groups directed by our faculty and of their Affiliate Institutions and Departments Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Degrees Offered: BS, MS, PhD in Chemical Engineering; MS in Petroleum Engineering Areas of Specialization: Active areas of research in the Department include Biological and Biomedical Systems; Energy and Sustainability; and Materials Modeling and Design. Additional research areas exist in programs that have exploited opportunities at the interface between disciplines. The Department’s recognized research activities impact the following boundaries between established disciplines: Biotechnology/Environment; Biology/Engineering; Energy/Environment; Polymer Chemistry/Physics; and Catalysis/Chemistry/Materials; Catalysis/Energy; Catalysis/Environment.

Civil and Environmental Engineering Degrees Offered: BS, MS, and PhD in Civil Engineering Areas of Specialization: Solid mechanics; structural mechanics; structural engineering; mechanics of fluids; geotechnical engineering; hydraulics; hydrology; water resources engineering; civil engineering design; construction management; environmental engineering

Electrical and Computer Engineering Degrees Offered: BS, MS, PhD in Electrical Engineering BS, MS, PhD in Computer Engineering (joint with Computer Science Department) MBA/MSECE Areas of Specialization: Biomedical devices and signal processing; electric power systems and smart grid; power electronics; nano-photonics and nanoelectronics; green computing with nanoscale technologies; radio frequency technologies and RFID; low power computing—architectures and circuit techniques; optoelectronic sensors, lasers, and ultra-fast optoelectroncs; digital signal and image processing; pattern recognition; heterogeneous system simulation; neuromorphic computing, novel silicon and post-silicon devices and networked control theory.

Industrial Engineering Degrees Offered: BS, MS, and PhD in Industrial Engineering Areas of Specialization: Operations research; manufacturing systems; information systems; engineering management; computational optimization; automatic data collection technologies; medical decision making; activity based costing; mathematical programming; scheduling, production and inventory control; computeraided design; computer-aided manufacturing; manufacturing technologies for bio-medical products; simulation; stochastic models; robotics; total quality management; health systems applications; engineering education; project management, and product development; wireless systems.

Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Degrees Offered: BS, MS, and Ph.D. Areas of Specialization: Kinematics; dynamics; thermodynamics; heat transfer; fluid mechanics; mechanical measurements; mechanical design; vibrations; acoustics; mechanical and thermal systems; stress analysis; energy utilization; fuel cells; advanced energy technology; solid mechanics; continuum mechanics; biomechanics; micro-electrical-mechanical systems; nanotechnology sciences; manufacturing and controls; ceramics; metallurgy; materials science engineering.

Interdisciplinary Programs Bioengineering Joint MD/PhD (Bioengineering) Program Dual BS Degree Program in Bioengineering & Chemical Engineering Joint MBA/MS (Bioengineering Program) Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Degrees Offered: MBA/MSChE in Chemical and Petroleum Engineering

Civil and Environmental Engineering Degrees Offered: MBA/MSCEE in Civil and Environmental Engineering Electrical and Computer Engineering Degrees Offered: MBA/MSECE, PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering Industrial Engineering Degrees Offered: MBA/MSIE in Industrial Engineering Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Degrees Offered: MBA/MSMSE

Undergraduate Programs Computer Engineering Degrees Offered: BS in Computer Engineering (with Arts and Sciences) Areas of Specialization: VLSI design; digital system design; computer architecture; embedded systems; software engineering; microprocessor systems; operating systems; optoelectronic information processing; digital design; VHDL design and tools development; parallel processing; programming languages.

Engineering Physics Degrees Offered: BS in Engineering Physics Areas of Specialization: Electronics, electromagnetic materials, modern physics, optics, applied thermodynamics.

Swanson School of Engineering Special Academic Programs First Year Engineering Academic Program – Integrated Curriculum The School of Engineering’s First Year Engineering Academic Program consists of a welldesigned series of integrated courses in mathematics, chemistry, physics and engineering. All engineering first year students pursue this common, integrated core, which includes an honors component for the most academically gifted students. The two specially designed engineering courses (ENGR 0011 and 0012) not only introduce students to basic engineering skills and problem formulation and solving methodologies, but also provide an overview of the various engineering disciplines. A unique aspect of the program is the integration of instructors from the English Writing Center and the School of Engineering Bevier Library staff into the first year coursework. As a result, students complete two major writing projects: a first semester paper describing in-depth an area of engineering that the student is interested in as a possible major and a second semester paper that is part of the professionally run Annual Freshman Engineering Conference, in which all first year engineering students participate. This later paper must be on a relevant engineering topic and include a discussion about sustainability. Student papers are arranged into sessions chaired by professional engineers. Session chairs meet with the students during the semester, critiquing the developing papers and offering suggestions for improvement.

First year engineering students also participate in a two-term engineering seminar (ENGR 0081 and 0082), conducted in part by upper class peer advisors. These seminars provide general information on the transition to college, the improvement of study skills, and an overview of the various engineering fields. Moreover, students are given several opportunities to visit the various programs to discuss with faculty their anticipated program of study.

In addition to these opportunities, the First Year Engineering Program office provides career and academic advising, workshops, and assistance with the Engineering Living Learning Community which is located in Forbes Hall. Special programming is also conducted in Sutherland Hall, the LLC for first year honors students.

Honors Options A selected number of outstanding students are offered the opportunity to take ENGR 0711 instead of ENGR 0011 during the Fall Term. This accelerated course covers the two-course sequence in one term, enabling students to choose from two special courses in the Spring Term:  ENGR 0712 provides an opportunity to learn mathematical modeling and research methodologies with one of the School’s most distinguished faculty  ENGR 0715 provides students with an opportunity to apply engineering methodologies in a service learning environment with local organizations.

ENGR 0715 Engineering Applications for Society is a unique, rewarding learning experience for first year engineering students who have completed the prerequisite ENGR 0711 Honors Engineering Analysis and Computing Fall semester course. The course provides a “Service Learning” experience through which students learn and develop valuable skills necessary to succeed as an engineer by solving a real problem of value to a local community organization.

The goal for this course is to create a win-win experience for both the students and the community organizations. In return for their participation in the students’ educational process, the

community organizations benefit by having a problem of value addressed or “solved” by the students.

Not only are the students rewarded by the satisfaction of solving a real problem of value to their community, but through this experience they learn many personal and professional skills that cannot be learned in a traditional engineering curriculum. In particular, they learn that solving problems as an engineering professional truly involves more than the equations learned in classrooms where the answers can be found at the end of a book.

International Programs The Swanson School of Engineering has been one of the first engineering programs in the country to recognize the increasingly international dimensions of engineering practice. To us, this not only means that a large proportion of our graduates must be prepared for overseas assignments, some of which may be of long duration, but it also means that a substantial portion of engineering work will continue to be sent offshore to technically competent engineering graduates who demand salaries that are considerably less than current US salaries. The implication is clear – US engineering education will have to change if our graduates are to remain competitive in the market place and bring value beyond their technical skills.

Consequently, a major long-range objective has been to create a broad, coordinated program of international opportunities for our students that enable them to learn to work as engineers in cross-cultural environments. This suggests creating a variety of courses and exchanges, including some in which Pitt engineering students join international students in design projects working both virtually and on-site.

Swanson School students have the option to choose to study abroad for a semester, a summer, or as part of a short-term program (of four weeks or less), as well as to participate in an international research experience, internship, or service learning project.

Much of our success is due to the Swanson School partnering with the International Business Center and the College of Business Administration. We have also worked closely with the University Center for International Studies (UCIS), its area studies centers, and especially the University’s Study Abroad Office. These partnerships have resulted in several successful initiatives, several of which are outlined below: The Plus3 Program - The “Plus 3” program is for rising sophomores. It builds upon material covered in Managing Complex Environments for CBA students and ENGR 0012 for engineering students. The School of Engineering has participated actively for the past several years, sending both faculty and students abroad. The three-credit course begins with four preparatory class sessions in March and April, followed by a two-week study trip in early May, then ends with each student team presenting a final report in early September. During the two-week trip, business and engineering students work in teams as they make a number of company visits and prepare a report on a particular industry. Pitt students also have an opportunity to interact with local students, hear guest lectures and make several cultural visits while in the host country. Each trip is led by a faculty member accompanied by a support staff from Engineering, the College of Business Administration, or the University Center for International Studies (UCIS). The Plus3 program aims to cultivate interest in foreign language study and future study abroad. This is particularly important for engineering students, as the discipline has traditionally been less well-represented due to time constraints imposed by strict curriculum requirements. The Plus3 model has been so successful that the University of Pittsburgh has adopted it to create “Integrated Field Trips Abroad,” now a component of courses across the university curriculum. The Plus3 Program received the 2005 Institute for International Education’s Heiskell Award for innovation in study abroad.

Engineering for a Better Environment Brazil – this short-term program is offered to students who have an interest in renewable energy. The program, which is offered as a three credit course at Pitt, introduces students to various forms of green energy in Brazil.

Engineering in the Americas Before Columbus: Cusco, Peru – this short-term program is offered to students with an interest in structures. The program, offered as a three credit course at Pitt, brings students to Cusco, Peru to study sites from the Incan culture and to work directly with a local community to address a technical issue relating to structures.

Engineering in the Americas Before Columbus: Belize - this short-term program, developed as an alternative to the Cusco, Peru location, is offered to students with an interest in structures. The program, offered as a three credit course at Pitt, brings students to Belize to study sites from the Maya culture and to work directly with a local community to address a technical issue relating to structures.

Engineering of the Renaissance: Pitt in Florence – this four week, six credit program focuses on exploring various sites of significance to the development of the European Renaissance. By visiting the actual places where the great minds of the Renaissance- including da Vinci, Galileo, and othersactually conducted their research and studies, students are introduced to the important principles of engineering and physics that were developed during this period.

Undergraduate Student Exchange with the Universidad De Montevideo – this three credit, two-week course on “Global Supply Networks and Manufacturing Cultures in Latin America” was developed in collaboration with colleagues at the Universidad De Montevideo. It provides participants with an understanding of international supply chain operations with a special focus on Latin American and Uruguay. The two-week study visit to Uruguay enables students to place their understanding of those concepts within an international, cross-cultural context. As part of our agreement with the Universidad de Montevideo, we accept their students as part of an exchange, where they can study at Pitt for a full academic semester.

INNOVATE (International Technology, Innovation and Leadership Conference) – this program was created by Rice University and IAESTE in 2004. The Swanson School joined (in 2012) as a sponsor and created a special course, ENGR 1600, in conjunction with the INNOVATE Symposium.

This ten-day study trip for a large group of US students and several international students in early March visited several countries in Asia. The Symposium addressed how technology has driven globalization and business decision-making. The ENGR 1600 course was taught as a collaborative effort between Pitt and Rice University using video conferencing. It was divided into three sections: the pre- and post-trip phases and the actual trip. Prior to the trip, the course focused on topics related to Asian countries and globalization, with guest speakers drawn from Asian Studies alumni with expertise in Asia. These lectures provided the basis for comparative discussion and analysis. Topics included: leadership, technology trends, history and politics, economics, contemporary culture and demographics, and specific analysis of different business sectors. After returning, students documented their experience, through an end-of-semester formal paper and presentation at the annual Alumni Dinner.

Internship and Exchange opportunities in Germany The University signed an exchange agreement the UAS-7 Consortium – seven Germany universities (Berlin School of Economics, Bremen University of Applied Sciences, Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Munich University of Applied Sciences, Münster University of Applied Sciences, Osenabrück University of Applied Sciences) whose core academic strength is their engineering/technical degree programs. The agreement allows for the exchange of students from the UAS-7 universities and the University of Pittsburgh for study and internship experience.

As part of this exchange agreement, SSOE undergraduate students can be selected to participate in the UAS-7 Consortium’s “Study and Internship Program (SIP) in Germany” Program. Selected students spend the fall semester taking courses at one of the Universities of Applied Sciences, and spend the spring semester doing a full-time internship at a German organization that is arranged by their host university. Students in the SIP program receive substantial funding from Germany to participate in this program.

FIPSE-CAPES Program (Brazil) - In AY 2007-2008, an agreement was signed for the federally-funded FIPSE-CAPES program: “US-Brazil Partnership in Sustainability and Innovative Design (S&ID) between the SSOE and two Brazilian institutions, the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and the Federal University of Espirito Santo (UFES). This agreement allows for the exchange of SSOE students and UNICAMP and UFES students for study, as well as a provision for key faculty to develop curricular projects that focus on issues of sustainability, product realization, and innovative design.

In AY 2010-2011, a new FIPSE CAPES agreement was signed for the project “Bilateral Development on Aeronautic Skills between U.S. and Brazil” between the SSOE and two new Brazilian institutions, the Federal University of Itajuba (UNIFEI) and the Federal University of Parana (UFPR).

This agreement has allowed the exchange of students and faculty, as well the development of innovative shared curricula. To date, 17 Swanson School of Engineering students have participated in both of our FIPSE CAPES programs.

Energy Today – Energy Tomorrow: Australia. This 12-week, 12-credit certificate program involves course work in the Swanson School of Engineering and the University of New South Wales (UNSW). Students also conduct independent research with a faculty member and write a paper on a topic related to their research and an area covered in the academic program. Course content at Swanson School of Engineering consists of power generation and energy efficiency. Courses at UNSW cover the following topics: world energy, energy and sustainable development, energy and the built environment, emerging energy technologies, and renewable energy. The Australian component of the program begins in Darwin for three days, and then students will travel to Sydney and be based at the main UNSW campus. There will be a brief stop-over in Melbourne. The last week of the course is in Cairns.

Students who complete the full program – two Pitt courses, the UNSW summer program and submit an acceptable paper will receive the Certificate in Energy Today – Energy Tomorrow.

Engineering the German Way: Munich. This 3-week, 4-credit program is offered in conjunction with the Munich University of Applied Sciences in May. This intensive term highlights the German approach to engineering from various perspectives. Academic course modules include R&D management, introduction to production and manufacturing systems, digital factory layout and factory simulation, product ergonomics, cooperation between unions and employers and the impact of technology laws in Europe on manufacturing. The program is designed to split time between the classroom and integrated field experiences at various industry locations around Munich. Each technical component of the course is combined with a factory tour to gain deeper insights.

Globex (Beijing, China) - this 4-week (spent in China), 6-credit program provides the opportunity to study two of a variety of engineering courses including Cell and Tissue Transport, Nano materials and Nanotechnology, Cross Cultural Design for Service, Mechanics of Solids, Manufacturing Engineering, Biomaterials and Biocompatibility, or Photovoltaics: Solar Energy. The courses are taught through a combination of classroom lectures, projects, and presentations in a very exciting and modern society. This is a joint study abroad program with Peking University (PKU).

The French Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Normandy, France. This two-week, 3-credit program is based in Rouen, France and is run in partnership with ESIGELEC, a French graduate school of electrical engineering. The French have the most complete implementation of the nuclear fuel cycle of any country in the world. AREVA, a French public multinational industrial conglomerate, is mainly known for nuclear power. Their interests in the nuclear power includes mining, milling, conversion, enrichment, fuel fabrication, the design and construction of nuclear power plants, the service of nuclear power plants, used/spent nuclear fuel storage, the reprocessing of used/spent nuclear fuel, the fabrication and utilization of mixed oxide fuel. The French agency CEA, Commissatiat Ă l'Energie Atomique, conducts research on advanced fuel cycles, advanced applications of nuclear power, applications of radioactivity, and the longterm disposal of radioactive waste. This course will acquaint the student with the nuclear fuel cycle via the implementation of the French nuclear fuel cycle. The course will provide introductory material on the nuclear fuel cycle in the classroom at the University. Then the students will travel to France to interact with nuclear engineering academics, engineers and scientist working in the area, and tour facilities in France.

Semester-Long Engineering Exchanges. The Swanson School of Engineering has agreements with over 45 engineering schools from around the world. These institutions provide at a minimum some instruction in English. Exchanges allow Swanson School of Engineering students the opportunity to pursue a full-semester of coursework in their academic major at a foreign institution.

Student Organizations Engineers Without Borders - is a non-profit, humanitarian organization dedicated to improving the quality of life in developing communities via small engineering projects. EWB addresses problems of health, sanitation, economy, technology, or education by partnering with the community to design an appropriate and sustainable solution. The University of Pittsburgh student chapter is currently completing an international project that involved assessment, design and implement of a sustainable fish farm to provide a source of protein and trade for the community of Makili, Mali, West Africa. Student members and professional mentors from the Pitt chapter traveled to Makili in order to complete assessment and implementation phases of this project.

Engineers for a Sustainable World - is a non-profit organization of technically-minded individuals working on improving solving sustainability challenges through technical design projects and educational initiatives. ESW's members and student chapters work on their campuses, in local communities, and internationally. The University of Pittsburgh chapter has a strong record of collaboration with local communities, including rainwater catchment systems for the local neighborhood of Oakland, designing green renovations for the town of Vandergrift, and a current project to revitalize a pond and community center in the town of McKeesport. The chapter also proposes and implements multiple smaller on-campus projects every year, including Pitt's inter-dorm energy reduction competition and a rain garden at the Petersen Events Center.

Engineers for Sustainable Medical Development (ESMD) - is a multi-disciplinary, multischool student-run organization comprised of students in the fields of engineering, pre-medicine, and business. ESMD is directed toward providing students with the skills and resources necessary to design and implement novel, low-cost healthcare technology and processes suitable for markets on a global scale. Currently a student design team is working on design of a portable ocular microscopy mount in conjunction with a larger project at the Ear and Eye Institute that is funded by the Coulter Program.

ESMD holds weekly workshops to teach skills such as SolidWorks design, soldering, and working with microprocessors. ESMD volunteers also help to refurbish wheelchairs weekly at Global Links, an NGO with operations and contacts throughout Central America. EMSD is working with Global Links to create an international immersion experience that would provide EMSD members with an opportunity to work directly with health care providers in developing countries.

Cooperative Education Program (Co-Op) The co-op program had a strong year. We had a total of 1075 students, which included 1039 undergrads and 36 graduate level participants, a 4.8% increase over last year’s program numbers. During 2014-2015, there were 985 undergrads and 40 graduate level co-ops. There was no change in the number of new placements (for students entering the Co Op program) – which has remained at 415 for both 2015-2016 and the previous year. While there was a small decrease in the number of graduate level participants, one of our goals for the upcoming year is to increase the number of graduate level participants.

Our post-graduate survey of BS level co-op graduates entering the workforce reported that 48% of the coops received full-time offers from their companies, and 87% of those students accepted, which is higher than last year’s 45% offer rate and 83% acceptance rate. The average starting salary for a co-op who graduated and entered the work force was $65,835. The average GPA of a graduate who participated in co-op was 3.362. The report shows 91% placement of the co-op engineering graduates, based on a 94% response rate, which is 3% lower than last year’s placement data.

Our Co-op Co-Employers of the Year for 2015 were Robinson Fans, Inc. and ZOLL LifeVest. Both employers have been partners with our program for many years, each hiring their first co-op in the late 90’s. Both companies were long overdue for this award, since they both have a strong connection to the co-op program and our students. Pitt’s Co-op Student of the Year was Nathan Smialek, who completed a four-rotation co-op with Philips Respironics.

Our goals for the upcoming year will be to increase our number of student and employer participants in all engineering fields while retaining the quality of our program. We are implementing some new processes to ensure the continued satisfaction of students who are committing to the co-op employers for the three terms.

Sustainable Engineering Undergraduate Research Program through Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation MCSI currently offers a 12-week undergraduate summer research program aimed at providing talented undergraduate students with creative opportunities that go beyond the engineering classroom curriculum and enable them to develop their own ideas and work independently on hands-on research projects in sustainable engineering with advice and guidance from a faculty mentor.

Pre-College and Undergraduate Diversity Programs The Swanson School of Engineering implements programming that promotes and supports the academic excellence of high achieving pre-college and undergraduate students from groups traditionally underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. INVESTING NOW is the pre-college diversity program and Pitt EXCEL is the undergraduate diversity program.

These two initiatives provide a continuous pipeline for students from groups traditionally underrepresented to prepare for, enter and graduate from the University of Pittsburgh as STEM majors.

INVESTING NOW Created in 1988, INVESTING NOW is a college preparatory program designed to stimulate, support and recognize the high academic performance of pre-college students from groups that are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) majors and careers. The purpose of the program is to ensure that participants are well prepared for matriculation at the University

of Pittsburgh. The primary goals are to 1) create a pipeline for well-prepared students to enter college and pursue science, technology, engineering and mathematics majors; 2) encourage and support students’ enrollment and achievement in advanced mathematics and science courses; 3) ensure that the participants make informed college choices; 4) support and encourage parents in their roles as advocates for their children; and 5) coordinate partnerships between the University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering and local and regional schools.

INVESTING NOW recruitment, which focuses on eighth grade students, takes place in the spring of each academic year. However, membership involves a student commitment to attend year-round programming from ninth through twelfth grade. Some of the student activities include academic advising, tutoring, hands-on science and engineering workshops, college planning sessions, summer enrichment classes and SAT preparation. Approximately 214 students, including the 2016 graduates and the newly admitted eighth grade students, participated in the INVESTING NOW program during the 2015-2016 academic year.

In 2016, 37 INVESTING NOW students graduated from high school. Of these, 100% of the graduating class enrolled in college for 2016-2017 and 54% of the students are majoring in science, technology, engineering or mathematics fields at various colleges and universities.

Pitt EXCEL Program Pitt EXCEL is a comprehensive program committed to the recruitment, retention and graduation of academically excellent undergraduates, particularly individuals from groups traditionally underrepresented in the field. Program activities include academic counseling, tutor and study sessions, engineering research and mentoring opportunities, graduate school preparation and career development workshops, as well as a two-week intensive chemistry, math, physics and study skills review session for pre-freshmen entitled the Summer Engineering Academy. Brief descriptions of the major programs sponsored by Pitt EXCEL are highlighted below: Summer Research Internship (SRI) Each year, selected Pitt EXCEL students participate in a nine-week Summer Research Internship (SRI) Program. Students are assigned to faculty mentors who lead research teams. Each student meets regularly with Pitt EXCEL academic counselors to review daily journals, discuss progress, and collaboratively discover innovative solutions to engineering problems. The primary objective is for students to develop a positive relationship with a role model in their discipline of engineering. Additional objectives for facilitating a mentoring partnership include the following: personal and career guidance; access to the professional community; and guidance that will ease the transition from school to work or undergraduate to graduate school. There were 10 students and 9 faculty mentors involved in the 2016 Summer Research Internship Program.

Summer Engineering Academy The Summer Engineering Academy is a two-week residential program for incoming engineering students that enable them to make a smooth transition from high school to college. During the program, students learn essential study skills for college and receive an intensive review of chemistry, math and physics concepts, with an introduction to engineering problem solving. There were 24 incoming first year engineering students who participated in the 2016 Summer Engineering Academy class; this number included 10 females and 14 males.

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Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate -Transition to the Doctorate by Adaptable Engagement (PITT- STRIVE) The University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering Transition to the Doctorate by Adaptable Engagement (PITT- STRIVE) is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate-Knowledge Adoption and Translation (AGEP-KAT).

The primary goals of the AGEP (PITT-STRIVE) are to (a) significantly increase the number of underrepresented minorities (i.e., African Americans, Hispanics, American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians or other Pacific Islanders) obtaining graduate degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), and (b) enhance the preparation of underrepresented minorities for faculty positions in academia.

The overarching goals of PITT-STRIVE at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering are to:  Improve the transition of URM (African/Black American, Hispanic/Latino Americans, Native Americans) students, who are US citizens, into doctoral engineering programs at the University of Pittsburgh; and  Create a systemic engineering culture and climate that ensures the success of URM transition to the doctorate through adoption/adaptation of evidence-based strategies for student and faculty engagement.

PITT-STRIVE scholars are recruited from universities across the U.S. Students must meet U.S. citizenship or permanent residency requirements. Qualified participants will have graduated from an accredited STEM undergraduate program with a 3.3 GPA and show strong motivation for entering a PhD program. All PITT – STRIVE Scholars must maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.3 to maintain the award. PITT- STRIVE currently has 6 scholars and 20 fellows who are enrolled in different engineering fields within the Swanson School of Engineering.

A grant, totaling $1,584,793, was awarded in October 2015 to the Swanson School of Engineering by the National Science Foundation. Additional support and funds were provided by the University of Pittsburgh and the Swanson School of Engineering. This award provides U.S. underrepresented students with a stipend and tuition, in addition to support for summer study. This is a five-year program and it continues through August 31, 2020. Activities associated with PITT-STRIVE include a mentor/mentee weekend retreat, the Discover Graduate Recruitment Weekend, faculty-student engagement training, and the faculty-student engagement training.

PITT-STRIVE is part of the National Science Foundation's Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP).

Global Engineering Preparedness Scholarship Program (GEPS) In 2014, the Swanson School of Engineering and its Office of Diversity were awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to establish the Global Engineering Preparedness Scholarship Program (GEPS). The goals of the GEPS program are: to provide access for engineering education to talented low-income students, with a concerted effort to increase the enrollment of underrepresented minority students; to provide continuous academic support for the retention and graduation of the GEPS scholars; and to provide more opportunities for GEPS scholars to develop global competency and leadership experience. All GEPS Scholars must maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.0 to retain the scholarship. As part of the scholarship, GEPS scholars live in the Engineering Living Learning Community; participate in peer and group mentoring sessions; and participate in internships, CO-OP, and

research opportunities. Additionally, all GEPS Scholars who complete the second year of the program with a GPA of 3.0 and above are eligible for the GEPS International Study Abroad Scholarship and will travel to South Africa.

GEP Scholars are selected from a pool of admitted students or transferring students meeting U.S. citizenship or permanent residency requirements and having unmet financial needs as determined through the Office of Admissions and Financial Aid. During the spring of 2016, 4 freshmen and 3 transfers were recruited as the final GEPS cohort, bringing the total number of GEP Scholars to 24 as of fall 2016. Excluding four scholars who are first semester freshmen and two new transfer students, 83% (15/18) of the scholars currently hold a GPA above 3.0. The remaining 16.6% (3/18) have been placed on probation while they work to raise their GPAs. Currently, five scholars are in co-op programs; two have had research opportunities in SSoE labs; and all of the scholars have become active in student organizations, with four serving in leadership roles.

Undergraduate Enrollment The School continues to actively engage students from groups traditionally underrepresented in the field of engineering. Figures from the beginning of academic year 2015-2016 indicate that there are approximately 177 ethnically underrepresented (African American, Hispanic and Native American) students enrolled, representing 6.0% (177/2973) of the undergraduate student body in the School and 3.3% (99/2973) multiracial undergraduate students. Female students represent 28.1% (835/2973) of the undergraduate student body.

Undergraduate Graduation During the 2015-2016 school year, 29 ethnically underrepresented students (25) African Americans and (4) Hispanics graduated from the Swanson School of Engineering, representing 4.9% (29/591) of the graduates. In addition, 31 multi-racial students graduated, representing 5.2% (31/591) of the graduates. Of the 591 graduates, 148 were women, representing 25% of the graduate population.

DIVERSITY GRADUATE ENGINEERING INITIATIVES The Engineering Office of Diversity (EOD) administers the Diversity Graduate Engineering Initiatives to identify, prepare, and recruit traditionally underrepresented students for graduate engineering education through partnerships with student organizations, graduate research experience and diversity graduate fellowships and scholarships.

GRADUATE RECRUITMENT PROGRAMS Pre-PhD Undergraduate Research Experience Program The purpose of the Pre-PhD Summer Experience is to create a pipeline for students who wish to pursue PhD degrees in engineering at the University of Pittsburgh and support their preparation and transition to SSoE. The Engineering Office of Diversity (EOD) identifies engineering students with a GPA of 3.5, and from groups traditionally underrepresented in engineering from institutions across the nation. Students are assigned faculty mentors who lead multidisciplinary teams in advanced research and are expected to challenge the students and inspire them for graduate education. Each student is required to perform a number of tasks, including work a minimum of 30 hours per week; meet with their faculty mentor regularly; and attend bi-weekly mentoring sessions with the Associate Dean for Diversity. Four students participated during the summer of 2015 and five students participated during the summer of 2016.

Graduate Diversity Fellowships The EOD has implemented an aggressive strategy to recruit underrepresented graduate students, expand college visits and widen fellowship opportunities. With the support of the Office of the Dean, the Office of the Provost, and the Office of the Chancellor, the University of Pittsburgh is a member in the National GEM (Graduate Engineering Minority) Consortium. The GEM Consortium program awards fellowships designed to offer opportunities for undergraduate students to obtain M.S. and PhD Degrees in engineering through a program of paid summer internships and graduate financial assistance. One GEM Fellow is continuing her studies in Bioengineering.

Twelve K. Leroy Irvis Fellows were enrolled in PhD program studies in 2015-2016; seven in Bioengineering, two in Mechanical Engineering, one in Electrical and Computer Engineering and two in Chemical and Petroleum Engineering.

The Dean’s Graduate Diversity TAs continue to be a positive incentive to departments that make best efforts in the recruitment of students from diverse backgrounds. Eight terms were given to departments for the 2016-2017 academic year: Bioengineering received 2.5; Chemical and Petroleum Engineering received 2.5; Civil and Environmental Engineering received 2; Electrical and Computer Engineering received 1; and Mechanical and Materials Science Engineering received 1.

GRADUATE RETENTION PROGRAMS Graduate Student Organizations The Engineering Diversity Graduate Student Association (EDGSA) was created in 2011 as a network of minority graduate engineers. The purpose of EDGSA is to foster an opportunity where minority graduate students can connect and network with each other as accountability partners to provide a strong support group to encourage academic retention and transition to professional careers within engineering. EDGSA students also serve as peer mentors to NSBE and SHPE as models to follow in graduate education.

The Graduate Women in Engineering Network (GWEN) is a newly recognized student organization whose mission is to retain women in STEM fields, promote women in leadership capacities, and create an official network for women in engineering. GWEN, although founded in 2005, was reactivated in 2013 as an official women graduate student organization by female faculty members and EOD as a major voice for Women’s issues at SSoE. As with EDGSA, GWEN also serves as peer mentors to SWE as models to follow in graduate education and retention of more women in engineering.

STATISTICAL PERFORMANCE MEASURES Graduate Enrollment and Graduation: The School of Engineering has had success in increasing the numbers of female and underrepresented students enrolled in its M.S. and PhD programs.

The M.S. enrollment in 2015-2016 reflected 114 female students (21.6%); 25 underrepresented M.S. students (4.7%); and 5 multiracial students (.09%).

Of 78 PhD degrees conferred between August 2015 to April 2016, 17 were upon women (21.7%) and one was awarded to an underrepresented minority student (1.2%). Of the 244 master’s degrees awarded in 2015-16, 58 were awarded to women (23.7%); three were awarded to underrepresented students (1.2%) and seven were awarded to multi-racial students (2.8%).

PhD Enrollment and Degree

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SCHOOL TOTAL WOMEN URS PHD PHD PHD PHD PHD PHD (E) (D) (E) (D) (E) (D) 276 44 92 12 14 2 288 37 92 12 12 1 321 48 96 18 14 2 349 52 99 21 18 1 389 57 102 22 17 3 387 50 90 8 14 0 413 58 95 10 13 1 419 69 103 16 17 4 438 68 112 23 22 1 442 78 116 17 23 1

MS Enrollment and Degree Multi racial PhD ( E)

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SCHOOL TOTAL MS MS (E) (D) 276 92 272 117 314 93 402 132 426 165 475 189 523 176 562 241 550 270 526 244

MultiWOMEN URS racial MS MS MS MS MS MS (E) (D) (E) (D) ( E) (D) 52 16 16 7 48 29 13 8 64 20 19 6 73 35 18 9 86 28 17 4 98 50 17 11 1 123 39 12 4 6 140 64 9 5 4 5 124 84 18 7 5 7 114 58 25 3

George M. Bevier Engineering Library The George M. Bevier Engineering Library provides access to books and journals both in print and electronically, in addition to a wide variety of databases to serve the teaching and research needs of following disciplines: engineering, physics and astronomy, mathematics, geology and planetary sciences, and statistics. The Library is named in honor of George M. Bevier (BSE, ’43) a pioneering geologist, geophysicist and engineer. Library patrons can access the collection of the University Library System's Digital Library via PITTCat+, an on-line catalog. Specifically, the University Library System also provides access to many remote resources for the University of Pittsburgh faculty, students, and staff, including Compendex, Scopus, ScienceDirect, Knovel and thousands of electronic journals from publishers, including the American Chemical Society, the Institute of Physics, Elsevier and Wiley.

PITTCat+ and other databases are available through the ULS website at http://www.library.pitt.edu/ The University of Pittsburgh is a member of the Association of Research Libraries with extended memberships in several other library consortia which include PALCI and NERL.

Research Facilities, Centers and Institutes The strength and diversity of the School’s research centers and institutes reflect the interrelationship and often complementary nature of faculty research activities. The concept of centers and institutes within the University and the Swanson School of Engineering takes advantage of this natural grouping process, thereby producing synergistic interactions that enhance the faculty research capabilities. Consequently, the scope of research that can be addressed by any group of faculty is expanded significantly. The students who participate in center and institute research have a unique opportunity to be involved in important projects throughout their graduate experience. Furthermore, centers and institutes represent an attractive opportunity for corporate and agency sponsorship of both basic and applied research. There are a number of centers and institutes that exist in the University and the Swanson School of Engineering and several that are in various developmental stages. The following are brief descriptions of existing centers and institutes.

The Michael L. Benedum Hall of Engineering Students enrolled in the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering receive their education in the modern, well-equipped Michael L. Benedum Hall of Engineering. The building complex is named in honor of Michael L. Benedum, a pioneer in the oil industry and co-founder of the Benedum Trees Oil Company. A grant from the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation enabled the University to purchase the land on which the engineering complex is built. The Michael L. Benedum Hall of Engineering consists of a completely air-conditioned 14-floor engineering tower and a separate 538-seat auditorium. Classrooms and offices occupy the perimeter of the building, with the library, student lounge and student activities offices located on the plaza level. Laboratories are confined to central bays with heavy-equipment laboratories located in the sub-basement, which extends under the entire complex. These large rooms accommodate special instructional facilities that approximate actual industrial conditions.

Interdisciplinary University of Pittsburgh Centers Involved with the Swanson School of Engineering University of Pittsburgh Applied Research Center (U-PARC) U-PARC, located 12 miles from the main campus is a multimillion-dollar, 55-building facility housing scientific equipment and services available to the University community. Over 100 corporations, including a number of emerging high-technology companies, have offices at U-PARC. In addition, several of the Swanson School of Engineering’s research groups maintain laboratories at this site. U-PARC’s pilot plant services range from petroleum, petrochemical, and chemical-based technologies to environmental, synthetic fuels, biotechnology, and other emerging technologies.

Bioscience Tower 3 (BST3)

In the fall of 2005, the University of Pittsburgh formally opened the newly constructed, state-of-the-art Biomedical Science Tower 3 (BST3), adjoining research facilities and UPMC clinical facilities as well as the medical school’s Scaife Hall. BST3, one of the most advanced research facilities of its kind, houses more than 50 laboratories occupied by approximately 500 scientists, graduate students, technicians, and support staff. Among the programs housed in BST3 are:  Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC)  Center for Vaccine Research in Biodefense and Emerging Infections  Department of Computational Biology  Department of Neurobiology  Department of Structural Biology  Developmental Biology Group  Drug Discovery Institute  Pittsburgh Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases (PIND)  Proteomics Core Laboratory  Regional Biocontainment Laboratory The Department of Bioengineering occupies approximately 5,500 of BST3’s 331,000 square feet, in close proximity to other research groups. The 10-story structure was built to stand as a national model for how modern laboratory space should promote interaction among scientists, foster more fruitful collaborations, and adapt to ever-changing research demands and priorities. Bioengineering research at BST3 includes applications of microtechnologies to explore cell polarity during vertebrate cell differentiation, cell and tissue mechanics during vertebrate development, biomaterials for neural prostheses and tissue regeneration, and unraveling how neural circuits transform sensory inputs into motor commands.

Neural Tissue Electrode Interface and Neural Tissue Engineering Laboratory (NTE) (BST3)

This laboratory is under the direction of Tracy Cui, PhD. The primary research focus is on the interactions between neural tissue and smart biomaterials and biosensors. Research projects include neural prostheses biocompatibility, CNS biochemical sensing and drug delivery, neural stem cells and neural tissue engineering. The NTE lab provides a crossdiscipline interface that brings bioengineer, neurobiologist, stem cell biologist and neurosurgeon together for rapid scientific discovery and therapeutic advancement. Multidisciplinary research and training experiences are offered to graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and undergraduate students. The facility has all essential equipment to carry out biomaterial fabrication, electrochemistry, cell culture, animal surgery, in vitro and in vivo neurophysiology, histology and fluorescent imaging.

Morphogenesis and Developmental Mechanics Laboratory (BST3)

This laboratory is directed by Lance Davidson, PhD and seeks to understand the rules and principles of self-assembly used by embryos during early development and to apply those principles to direct the self-assembly of engineered tissues. This research uses a number of techniques ranging from classical embryology to cell and molecular biology to cell and tissue biomechanics. The laboratory is equipped with a range of imaging tools from stereodissecting microscopes to laser scanning confocal microscopes. The group develops custom

cell biological protocols and biophysical and biomechanical devices such as microaspirators, uniaxial unconstrained compression devises, and microstretchers to characterize the mechanical properties of small extremely soft biomaterials and to investigate the roles of mechanics during embryogenesis. Ongoing collaborations across a range of disciplines is seeking to extend systems biology approaches to investigate both chemical and mechanical processes driving development and to apply this knowledge to forward-engineer the patterning and shaping of novel 3D tissue structures.

Radio Frequency (RF) Research Facility (BST3) This laboratory, located in the basement of Biomedical Science Tower 3, is under the direction of Tamer S. Ibrahim, PhD. Ultrahigh (≼ 7) Tesla (T) field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have been growing at considerable rate over the last decade. More than 60 7T and higher human scanners are currently or expected to be operational. Images obtained using 7T MRI systems have shown tremendous research potential at super high resolutions. Using Pitt’s state of the art 7T human MRI system which is equipped with parallel transmit system, Dr Ibrahim’s lab has developed an RF coil system that consists of 20-Ch transmit array with 32-Ch receive insert 7T Neuro Studies. The coil system addresses electromagnetic inhomogeneity and heating issues associated with 7T MRI. The RF coil system is capable of producing 0.2mmx0.2mmx1.5mm as well as isotropic (0.45mm)3 in-vivo human images in a reasonable scan time with excellent tissue contrast. The 3D field homogeneity of RF coil system in human brain/cerebellum represents one of the most homogenous performances for 7T imaging and is currently being utilized in several NIH funded studies spanning Alzheimer's, Mild Cognitive Impairment, Dementia, Late Life Depression, Sickle Cell, Schizophrenia and arm-transplanted patients. In addition, the lab also performs wide variety of very high resolution 7T extremity, breast and whole-body imaging using custom-made RF coil systems designed and constructed in our lab. Using in-house developed proprietary electromagnetic simulation software, members of the RF Research Facility study the interaction of electromagnetic fields and biological tissues in many applications including brain machine interface and MRI. The RF Research Facility is equipped with expanded RF testing devices and a super computer cluster.

Sensory-Motor Integration Laboratory (BST3)

This laboratory, located in Bioscience Tower 3, is under the direction of Aaron Batista, PhD. The lab's research goal is to design next-generation neural prostheses that can allow paralyzed individuals to control computers and robotic arms. The laboratory provides a cross-disciplinary training experience (neurophysiology, engineering, and computational analysis) for graduate students, undergrads, and postdocs. The lab features two state-of-theart experimental rigs. During experiments, monkeys are placed into an immersive virtual reality environment. Via a multielectrode array, the animals' intentions are decoded from neural signals in motor cortex, and are used to steer a computer cursor to a specified goal.

Equipment includes a 100-channel electrode amplifier, custom-built LabView-based software for rendering the visual stimuli and recording data, and trackers for the animals' arms and eyes. Students are involved in designing novel brain-computer interface algorithms, testing them experimentally, and conducting multidimensional statistical analyses. Currently, we are identifying the principles that will make neural prostheses accurate, reliable, and comfortable for the user.

Center for Assistive Technologies The Center for Assistive Technologies in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences is comprised of rehabilitation engineers, physical and occupational therapists, and technicians which closely collaborate with a regional and national network of physicians, vocational counselors, educators, physical and occupational therapists, speech and language pathologists, rehabilitation technicians, consumers, and advocates in the provision of assistive technological services. Jorge Letechipia is Director of the Center for Assistive Technologies.

Center for Bioengineering

The Center for Bioengineering was founded in 1987 to foster the application of the University's growing portfolio of research expertise in the areas of biotechnology and bioengineering. Its mission includes the encouragement of the development of crossdisciplinary research teams by providing laboratory space and interdisciplinary educational programs. The Center site is located one mile from the main University of Pittsburgh campus.

The Department of Bioengineering occupies about 12,600 sq. ft. of research space. The following bioengineering laboratories are currently housed at the Center: Musculoskeletal Research Center, MSRC (Dr. Savio Woo), Cardiovascular Systems Laboratory (Dr. Sanjeev Shroff), Cell Migration Laboratory (Dr. Partha Roy), Vascular Bioengineering Laboratory (Dr. David Vorp), Biotransport Laboratory (Dr. Jack Patzer), The Bio-Integrating Optoelectric Neural Interface & Cybernetic (Dr. T.K. Kozai), Computational Biomechanics Laboratory (Dr. Spandan Maiti), Simulation and Medical Technology R&D Laboratory (Dr. Joseph Samosky), Bioengineering Methods and Applications Laboratory (Department), Molecular Biological and Biophysical Core Facilities (Department), and Bioengineering Methods and Applications Laboratory (Department).

Cognition and Sensorimotor Integration (CSI) Lab (EEI) This research laboratory directed by Neeraj Gandhi, PhD, focuses on the nervous system as it continuously monitors the environment and produces overt or covert orienting behavior in response to relevant sensory stimulation. Research in the lab investigates neural mechanisms involved in the multiple facets of sensory-to-motor transformations, including cognitive processes. Some specific topics explored in the lab include: Premotor theory of attention Dynamics of population activity Interception of moving stimulus Cortical control of eye and head movements These themes are addressed using both experimental (extracellular recording, microstimulation, chemical microinjections, transient blink perturbation) and computational tools.

An understanding of the cognitive and motoric processes that produce integrated orienting behavior has diagnostic value for deficits resulting from neuropsychiatric disorders (e.g., ADHD, schizophrenia) and ocular dysmotility (e.g., strabismus).

McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine (MGOWN and BSP2)

To realize the vast potential of tissue engineering and other techniques aimed at repairing damaged or diseased tissues and organs, the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC Health System have established the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine.

The McGowan Institute serves as a single base of operations for the University’s leading scientists and clinical faculty working to develop tissue engineering, cellular therapies, biosurgery, and artificial and biohybrid organ devices. The Institute mission includes the development of innovative clinical protocols as well as the pursuit of rapid commercial transfer of its technologies related to regenerative medicine. Regenerative medicine is an emerging field that approaches the repair or replacement of tissues and organs by incorporating the use of cells, genes, or other biological building blocks along with bioengineered materials and technologies.

Medical Devices Laboratory: Biotransport, Pulmonary, and Cardiovascular

(MGOWN)

The Medical Devices Laboratory (formerly the Artificial Lung Laboratory) is part of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine (MIRM) under the director of William Federspiel, PhD. The lab is located in space allocated for the McGowan Institute approximately 47,000 square feet of labs, offices and conference rooms are dedicated to the Institute in two buildings. It houses approximately 20,000 square feet of MIRM labs and offices, including the Center for Preclinical Studies, laboratories, prototype machine shop, offices, and conference rooms.

Medical Devices Laboratory (~2300 square feet)

The Medical Devices Laboratory provides space for the development and testing of hollow fiber membrane based cardiovascular devices related to mass transfer including several artificial lungs projects (acute, implantable, and extracorporeal), extracorporeal hemofiltration and hemoadsorption devices, and biohybrid artificial alveolar capillary modules. Expertise exists in handling and assembling membrane fiber components and devices, and functional testing of oxygenators, artificial lungs, polymer hollow fiber membrane or porous bead modules and other cardiovascular devices requiring perfusion loop testing in aqueous solution or blood. Additionally, the lab is equipped with necessary equipment for chemical modification of polymer samples and subsequent incorporation of biomolecules through covalent coupling. The lab includes over 200 linear feet of wet-lab bench space with nine desks and two chemical fume hoods. One area is equipped with a drainage sink and wall-mounted stand for performance testing with fluid circuits, including blood circuits. Two additional sink areas are available at the end of bench space, each with de-ionized water hook ups. Central air and central vacuum are provided to each bench. The Medical Devices Laboratory is situated strategically within close proximity to the investigator's office, Flow Visualization Laboratory, and the Prototype Machine Shop.

Flow Visualization Laboratory (~342 square feet)

The Flow Visualization Laboratory, part of the Medical Devices Laboratory located in an adjacent room, is well equipped with optical instruments, imaging systems, and apparatus for performing advanced flow visualization (qualitative and quantitative flow measurement, multiscale flow visualization) by using particle image velocimetry (PIV).

Medical Device Prototype Laboratory (~500 square feet)

A fully equipped Prototype Machine Shop (formerly known as the Prototype Machine Shop) is located immediately adjacent to the Medical Devices laboratory. The fabricator/designer on the proposed project (Mr. Brian Frankowski) has full prioritized access to the shop as one of its two founders.

Brown Laboratory (BSP2)

The Brown Laboratory is a newly established space housed within the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine. The focus of the laboratory is tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, with a focus upon the role of the host immune response to implantable biomaterials. The phenotype and function of host innate immune cells is of particular interest, and has been shown to be a predictor of the success of biomaterials based strategies for tissue reconstruction. The Brown Laboratory also participates in new biomaterials development and identification of biomaterials for clinical applications. The Brown Laboratory is equipped for both in vitro cell culture and assessment of samples from in vivo experimentation.

The Motor Learning Laboratory (Bakery Square) This laboratory, directed by Gelsy Torres-Oviedo, PhD., offers graduate and undergraduate students the infrastructure to investigate human motor learning mechanisms during balance and locomotor behaviors. The space for this facility is 700 square footage with a state-ofthe-art 14-camera motion analysis system for recording three-dimensional body kinematic data in real time. The laboratory is also equipped with an instrumented split-belt treadmill and 2 force plates flushed with the ground, allowing kinetic recordings from each foot while human subjects from all ages walk on the treadmill or over ground. The facility also has a system for electromyographic recordings and instrumentation to digitize up to 64 analogue signals. This laboratory is located in Bakery Square and it is part of the Human Movement Research Laboratories, which were developed as a collaborative effort between the Department of Bioengineering and the Department of Physical Therapy. This favors the collaborations for Dr. Torres-Oviedo' research group with colleagues in the Department of Physical Therapy.

Musculoskeletal Research Center (MSRC)

The MSRC, which is located at the Center for Bioengineering, offers diverse multidisciplinary research and educational opportunities. Graduate and undergraduate students conduct research toward their degrees in the Department of Bioengineering or any of the traditional engineering disciplines. The MSRC encourages collaboration between clinical and basic scientists in the study of the musculoskeletal system. Education is the primary goal of the MSRC. Students work with bioengineers, orthopaedic surgeons, biochemists, molecular biologists, and gene therapists, exploring innovative orthopaedic applications of basic science principles and technologies. Savio L-Y. Woo, PhD and DSc, is Director of the

MSRC. Other bioengineering faculty, Dr. Steven Abramowitch, maintain their primary laboratories within MSRC. Rehab Neural Engineering Laboratory (RNEL) (MWRI) This laboratory, located in the Magee Women’s Research Institute, is under the direction of Doug Weber, PhD. RNEL scientists and trainees work at the intersection of neuroscience and engineering, exploring neural coding and feedback control in sensorimotor systems and developing neurotechnologies for restoring sensory and motor functions. Researchers use a variety of advanced techniques for studying biomechanics and neurophysiology of reaching, grasping and locomotion, including 3D motion analysis, electromyography, multichannel neural recording and stimulation, human magnetoencephalography (MEG), and human electrocorticography (ECoG). Active projects include development of motor and sensory neural interfaces for controlling and sensing prosthetic limbs, and functional neuroimaging and neurofeedback therapy in people with spinal cord injury. RNEL research focuses intently on human rehabilitation applications and the breadth of research projects provides a rich training environment for students interested in rehabilitation science and engineering.

Swanson School of Engineering Centers and Laboratories Advanced Manufacturing and Magnetic Materials Laboratory (AM³) The Advanced Manufacturing and Magnetic Materials Laboratory (AM³) of Dr. Markus Chmielus focuses on additive manufacturing, processing, alloy development, thin films deposition and single crystal growth of high performance metals for structural, high-temperature and biomedical applications as well as functional magnetic materials including magnetic shape-memory and magnetocaloric alloys. The laboratory is not only using all additive manufacturing methods available in the ANSYS-PITT Additive Manufacturing Research Laboratory but also develops new methods to a manufacture alloys with distinct properties and functionality.

Major experiments that are performed in the AM³ laboratory include thin film deposition and in-situ characterization (stress and microstructure) of metals with a customized AJA ultra-high vacuum magnetron sputter deposition system, processing furnaces, non-destructive (e.g. micro-computed tomography, density measurements), mechanical testing overall length scales (e.g. tensile and fatigue testing, hardness testing, shear-punch testing, indentation), microstructural characterization (e.g. optical and electron microscopy, orientation mapping, porosity and phase determination), characterization of magneto-mechanical, magnetocaloric, thermo-magnetic and magnetic properties and synchrotron and neutron diffraction experiments at large user facilities.

Ansys-Pitt Additive Manufacturing Research Laboratory (AMRL) The Additive Manufacturing Research Lab (AMRL) has 1,200 ft2 of workspace dedicated to advanced manufacturing research with a primary focus on additive manufacturing (AM) of metal, polymer, and composite materials. The facilities in the lab available to the faculty in the SSOE include 1) EOS M290 DMLM system, 2) Stratasys Objet260 Connex 3D printer, 3) Optomec LENS 450 system, 4) ExOne M-Flex binder jetting system, and 5) ExOne X1-Lab binder jetting system. The research activities in the lab include design and optimization for AM, process modeling, materials design and development, and process-structure-property relationship of AM materials.

The Lab is directed by Albert To and managed by Jason Oskin. It is partially supported through a private-public partnership between both ANSYS Inc. and Oberg Industries and the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science of the University of Pittsburgh.

Applied Signal and System Analysis Laboratory

This laboratory provides research opportunities to undergraduate and graduate students in bioengineering and related disciplines to conduct research in signal processing, systems analysis and modeling in biomedical and electrical engineering. The lab is housed in Benedum Engineering Hall and is directed by Patrick Loughlin, PhD. Current research activities include the analysis and modeling of human postural control; design of vibrotactile feedback for balance; pulse propagation in dispersive media; and propagation-invariant classification of underwater sounds.

Assistive Technology Evaluation Laboratory The Assistive Technology Evaluation Laboratory is used to develop standards for assistive technology, and to test assistive devices for compliance with existing standards. This Laboratory contains a full compliment of testing equipment for wheelchair standards and limited equipment for other types of assistive devices. Laboratory personnel are actively involved in developing wheelchair standards. We currently have critical roles in the development of several national and international standards. This Laboratory also provides testing and design services to industry, consumer groups, insurance agencies and government agencies.

Atom Probe Field Ion Microscopy Laboratory The Atom Probe Field Ion Microscopy Laboratory is a unique, highly sophisticated research facility for investigating the structure and chemistry of solids on an atomic scale. The installation includes three units for field ion microscopy and atom probe analysis.

Auditory Physiology Laboratory Audiology testing related to the speech enhancement research is conducted in the Psychological and Physiological Acoustics Laboratory of the Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders in Forbes Tower. The laboratory provides approximately 200 square feet of laboratory space and contains a sound-isolation booth, diagnostic-level audiometer, and sound generation, measurement and sound calibration equipment and a computer that is used to control the test protocol.

Automatic Data Collection Laboratory (ADC)/ Virtual Enterprise Lab Industrial Engineering’s ADC/Virtual Enterprise Laboratory is an educational and research laboratory developed under a grant from the National Science Foundation, AIMUSA, and the Swanson School of Engineering. This state-of-the-art laboratory is the most comprehensive and complete NSF funded laboratory of its kind in the United States and focuses on information systems engineering and software development. The facility is designed to aid the teaching of Automatic Data Capture concepts and tools to undergraduate and graduate engineering students. Students gain hands-on skills and perform research in such technologies as virtual enterprises, bar codes, wireless communications, speech recognition, and smart cards. They are involved in projects in areas including E-Commerce and web software development, automatic data collection for new product conformance testing, and supply

chain engineering. These labs are collocated as they make use of much of the same equipment even though their research domains are distinct. Equipment includes barcode technology, magnetic stripe, RF Data Capture, machine vision and voice technology. All software operates on ten networked Pentium Computers. Some of the application software includes manufacturing execution and warehouse management, inventory management, vision and voice inspection, personnel access, barcode printing, barcode verification, magnetic strip encoding and decoding, and point of sale (POS) Control. Professor Ming-En (Alex) Wang in Industrial Engineering is the director of this laboratory.

Basic Metals Processing Research Institute (BAMPRI) The Basic Metals Processing Research Institute (BAMPRI) focuses on metallurgical research of interest to the basic metals industry, especially steels. The objectives of BAMPRI are to compensate for the reduction of in-house research & development by industry that has occurred in the past two decades. BAMPRI develops and implements the latest product and processing technology for producers, fabricators, and end-users. It also helps educate the future leaders in the metals industry by offering undergraduate and graduate level courses in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science. Anthony J. DeArdo, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Professor, is director of BAMPRI. BioDesign Lab (Laboratory for Automation of BioSystems Design and Learning) The BioDesign Lab focuses on automation of design, learning, modeling and reasoning about complicated systems, for the purpose of understanding, explaining and predicting system behavior. The lab works on applications such as interplay between immune system and diseases, to allow for rapid development of disease treatments. Specifically, researchers are studying changes in cancer microenvironment, as well as vaccine development and resistance in infectious diseases. To study these complicated systems, the lab is developing tools that assemble the information automatically extracted from published literature and big data into big mechanism models. These in silico models are explored via simulations and formal analysis, implemented in software or on suitable hardware platforms. The BioDesign Lab is also designing and conducting laboratory experiments and synthetic biology methods to aid in the discovery of the fundamental principles of biological systems.

Bioengineering Design and Multimedia Laboratory

The Design and Multimedia Laboratory facilitates the interaction of small interdisciplinary student teams in an effort to collaboratively solve real-world design, analysis, and prototyping problems. The lab is outfitted with a network cluster of 19 custom built PCs and peripherals all with comprehensive design capabilities, enabling students to develop paperless designs that have been analytically dissected and evaluated. In addition, students have access to an 800 square foot multimedia area where professional level presentations and technical demonstrations are developed, rehearsed, and delivered.

Bioengineering Instrumentation and Physiology Laboratory This laboratory was designed to accommodate small teams of students working collaboratively and is unique in that it enables students to obtain instruction in a lecture environment and directly apply that information in a hands-on laboratory setting. Students can experience experimental data collection, data processing and data analysis all in one facility. The laboratory is equipped with sixteen experimental stations. Each station can accommodate three students and is equipped cluster of 16 custom-built PCs and peripherals. All computers are running Windows 7 as the operating system. All of the computers are equipped with a National Instruments PCI-MIO-16E-4 data acquisition card that can be used with the National Instruments BNC 2090 adapter. Six of the stations utilize a Biopac Systems MP30 Adapter. The Biopac adapter provides the students with the ability to collect physiological measures and analyze the signals through several different isolated plug-in signal conditioners and amplifiers. The National Instruments Adapter allows the students to interface the PC with other instrumentation.

Bioengineering Instrumentation Laboratory (B10) The Instrumentation Laboratory is designed to accommodate small teams of students working collaboratively to directly develop and apply instrumentation technology in a hands-on laboratory setting. The space also serves as an adjunct to the Maker-Space Design Laboratory.

The Instrumentation Laboratory houses the laboratory component of BIOENG 1310 (Bioinstrumentation) and is used for small classes that require hands-on computing and instrumentation during instruction. Students experience experimental data collection, data processing and data analysis all in one facility. The laboratory is equipped with fifteen experimental stations that can accommodate two students each. Stations are equipped with PCs with all necessary software to perform multifunctional tasks (new software is added as necessary), data acquisition systems, signal conditioners and amplifiers, multi-meters, soldering irons, and supplies necessary to breadboard instrumentation.

Bioengineering Maker-Space Design Laboratory (B09) The Maker-Space Design Laboratory, conceived as an ideation and rapid prototyping facility, provides open space with movable furniture to allow students to arrange their space needs for working on group design projects. While the space is primarily intended for Senior Design projects, it is available to graduate students in the Center for Medical Innovation (CMI) education program and other Bioengineering student groups working on design projects. The space is equipped with 3D printers, computers, electronics stations, tools, supplies, and moveable furniture for rapid prototyping for initial design investigations and is capable of more substantial prototyping once desired design parameters/specifications are known.

Bioengineering Methods and Applications Laboratory

The Methods and Applications Laboratory enables students to participate in an undergraduate laboratory course that integrates the knowledge and skills from two core Bioengineering courses: Biothermodynamics and Biotransport Phenomena. Equipment utilized in the laboratory includes hemodialysis simulation flow loops, adult and pediatric blood oxygenation flow loops, blood viscosity measurement systems, blood gas analyzers, and spectrophotometers. The laboratory is designed to accommodate 24 students in a session

Bioengineering Tissue Engineering Laboratory This facility is adjacent to the Methods and Applications Laboratory described above and provides state-of-the-art tissue engineering facilities for graduate students. Equipment in the laboratory includes a biological flow hood, incubator, centrifuge, microscopy station, and several freezers.

Bioengineering Human Movement and Balance Laboratory This research and teaching laboratory is under the direction of RakiĂŠ Cham, PhD, and Mark Redfern, PhD, and offers graduate and undergraduate students the ability to participate in a variety of whole body biomechanics research. The facility utilizes a variety of motion analysis systems, forceplate equipment and EMG units to collect kinematics, kinetics and muscle activity during various human movement experiments. An overhead support system allows for the safe collection of data during locomotion on flat and inclined surfaces. Modeling software is also available to simulate, validate and predict whole-body biomechanics.

BioManufacturing and Vascular Device Laboratory This lab is directed by Dr. Youngjae Chun and its objective is to design, manufacture and test medical devices for treating vascular diseases. Primary research focuses on improving device performance and developing more diverse biomedical applications for treating vascular diseases with a focus on novel materials and manufacturing concepts. This lab also focuses on developing novel artificial biomaterials such as fully biocompatible hybrid/composite materials made of metals, polymers, and bio-species. Facilities include in-vitro pulsatile flow circuits with vascular disease models, cell-tissue culture capabilities, and florescent microscopy with imaging system. Current research is focused on the development of (1) a novel biomaterials and biocompatible surface modification processes, (2) minimally invasive surgical solutions that include smart stent, stent graft, and guidewire, and (3) low-profile mechanical prosthetics.

Biomaterials Foundry

The primary goal of this laboratory, under the direction of Yadong Wang, PhD, is to advance medicine through material innovation. We use tools from chemistry, biology, and materials science and engineering to create functional biomaterials that enable new treatments in regenerative medicine. We actively engage in 3 areas of research: 1. Coacervtebased delivery of heparin-binding proteins; 2. Cell-free in situ tissue engineering; and 3.

Biomimetic nerve guide for nerve regeneration. Project 1 introduces coacervate, nm-sized oil droplet of assorted organic molecules held together by hydrophobic forces from a surrounding liquid, to controlled release of proteins. This novel approach enables highly efficacious delivery in a very small package. Project 2 uses biodegradable elastomeric scaffolds to enable in-situ regeneration of small diameter arteries without cell seeding or culturing steps. Project 3 combines micron scale contact guidance with biomimetic presentation of growth factors. The end goal of all 3 projects is clinical translation and we are actively collaborating with clinicians, basic scientists, and engineers to pursue this.

Biomedical Materials Laboratory The primary goal of this laboratory, under the direction of Yadong Wang, PhD, is to advance medicine through material innovation. We use tools from chemistry, biology, and materials science and engineering to create functional biomaterials that enable new treatments in regenerative medicine.

We actively engage in 3 areas of research: 1. Coacervte-based delivery of heparin-binding proteins; 2.

Cell-free in situ tissue engineering; and 3. Biomimetic nerve guide for nerve regeneration. Project 1 introduces coacervate, nm-sized oil droplet of assorted organic molecules held together by hydrophobic forces from a surrounding liquid, to controlled release of proteins. This novel approach enables highly efficacious delivery in a very small package. Project 2 uses biodegradable elastomeric scaffolds to enable in-situ regeneration of small diameter arteries without cell seeding or culturing steps. Project 3 combines micron scale contact guidance with biomimetic presentation of growth factors. The end goal of all 3 projects is clinical translation and we are actively collaborating with clinicians, basic scientists, and engineers to pursue this.

BIONIC Laboratory The Bio-Integrating Optoelectric Neural Interface & Cybernetic (BIONIC) lab is under the direction of T.K. Kozai, PhD and studies the nervous system and neural interface technology with multiple in vivo techniques. The lab offers students and postdocs on opportunity to study brain injury and diseases using 4-channel functional in vivo two-photon imaging, 64-channel functional in vivo electrophysiology (primarily in visual and somatosensory cortex), electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, immunohistochemistry, intrinsic imaging, cyclic voltammetry, transgenic & AAV, silicon & carbon microelectrodes, polymer devices, electrical and optical stimulation techniques, and biological and pharmaceutical intervention strategies. Combining these tools with principles in molecular and cellular neurobiology, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, computer science, physics, biochemistry, material science, optics, and biomaterials, the BIONIC lab aims to elucidate long-term cellular and molecular tissue interactions to chronically implanted medical devices and brain injuries.

Bio Tissues and Complex Fluids Laboratory The Bio Tissues and Complex Fluids Laboratory is devoted to the characterization and experimental study of complex materials. Much of the work in this laboratory focuses on understanding and quantifying the link between material behavior and structure. These results are used for the development of constitutive equations to model these materials in a predictive fashion. A second focus of the laboratory is the study of the motion and stability of particles in viscous and viscoelastic fluids.

Bio Transport Laboratory

This laboratory is under the direction of Jack Patzer, PhD, and focuses on research related to the application of Biothermodynamics and Biotransport Phenomena (principles of heat, momentum, and mass transport) to understanding the properties of physiological systems, medical devices, and bioreactor engineering. Current investigations involve the application bound solute dialysis (BSD) as a detoxification approach to support patients with liver failure, use of ischemia protective polymers (IPP) to mitigate ischemia/reperfusion injury in organ harvest and transplant, and wound perfusion/skin regeneration for patients with severe burns. Major equipment includes a Sun workstation for finite element analysis fluid dynamics, spectrophotometers for colorimetric composition analysis, plate reader for

colorimetric composition analysis, blood-gas analyzer, table-top refrigerated centrifuge, cell incubators, and Prisma dialysis machines. Other equipment includes multiple roller pumps, gas mass flow controllers, oscilloscope, electrochemistry controllers and analyzers.

Cardiovascular Systems Laboratory

This laboratory is under the direction of Sanjeev Shroff, PhD and focuses on research related to cardiovascular mechano-energetics and structure-function relationships. This research utilizes a variety of biophysical, cell and molecular biology, biochemistry, and imaging techniques. The facility has: 1) setups for biophysical measurements at isolated heart, isolated muscle, and single cell levels (mechanics and intracellular calcium transients), 2) a cell-culture room (incubator, laminar flow hood, centrifuge, microscope), and 3) a wet lab which has equipment necessary to do protein biochemistry and molecular biology research.

Cell and Molecular Biophysics Laboratory This research laboratory is under the direction of Hai Lin, PhD and offers graduate and undergraduate students the ability to participate in research related to Cellular and Molecular Biophysics. The research of this lab focuses on the structure, function, and interactions of individual biological macromolecules at the cellular and molecular levels with a multimodal approach, using the Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) combined with cell biology and electrophysiological techniques.

The facility has 1) an atomic force microscope and an fluorescence microscope (Olympus IX70), which can be integrated to carry out simultaneous nanometer resolution AFM imaging and optical fluorescence imaging; 2) a cell-culture room that is equipped with tissue culture incubators, laminar flow hood, centrifuge and a microscope, 3) a wet lab which has equipment necessary to for biochemistry and molecular biology research. There is also an adjacent core cellular and molecular facility that is equipped with a gel-imaging station, spectrophotometer, high speed centrifuge, ultracentrifuge, -80o C freezer, environmental shaker and incubator for microbiological research, a cold room, sterilizer and labware washer.

Cell Migration Laboratory This research laboratory is under the direction of Partha Roy, PhD and offers graduate and undergraduate students the ability to participate in research related to molecular mechanisms of cell migration with emphasis in tumor metastasis. This research utilizes a variety of cell biology, molecular biology, biochemistry and imaging techniques. The facility has: 1) a cellculture room that is equipped with tissue culture incubators, laminar flow hood, centrifuge and a microscope, 2) a wet lab which has equipment necessary to do protein biochemistry and molecular biology research, and 3) a microscopy room that houses an IX-71 Olympus research grade inverted microscope and image acquisition system.

Center for Complex Engineered Multifunctional Materials (CCEMM) This research laboratory and Center for Complex Engineered Multifunctional Materials (CCEMM), directed by Prashant N. Kumta, PhD, offers graduate and undergraduate students to participate in variety of applied biomaterials research fields for tissue regeneration. Some of the current research activities include (i). Bio-functionalization and degradation of carbon nano-tubes for tissue engineering applications, (ii). Responsive biosensors for implants, (iii). Development of novel biodegradable and biocompatible metallic implants for craniofacial and orthopedic

application, (iv). Nano-structured calcium phosphate based bone cements for bone regeneration process, (v). Calcium phosphate nano-particles for targeted gene delivery, (vi). Biocompatible and degradable polymers and calcium phosphate-polymer composites for controlled delivery systems of proteins, peptides, drugs and gene. (vii). Functional inorganic-organic and metalorganic coatings for tissue regeneration. The lab has state of the art biomaterials syntheses and processing capabilities and is equipped with wide variety of materials characterization tools (e.g.

X-ray Diffractometer, Fourier Transformed Infrared Spectrophotometer, Specific Surface Area Analyzer, Mercury Porosimeter, Helium Pycnometer, Inductively Coupled Plasma-Atomic Absorbance Spectrometer, Apparent-Tap Density Analyzer, electrochemical potentiostats, etc.).

This lab also has cell culture rooms equipped with biosafety cabinets, incubators, centrifuges, fluorescence microscope, optical plate reader, and atomic force microscopy.

Center for Energy The Center for Energy at the University of Pittsburgh is dedicated to improving energy technology and sustainability, with particular emphasis on energy efficiency and reliability, advanced materials for demanding energy technologies, and energy diversification. These areas of research focus, coupled with associated educational initiatives and regional industrial collaborations, make the Center for Energy unique among other university energy centers in the USA. As a University-wide endeavor, the Center for Energy leverages the energy-related expertise of more than 40 faculty members from multiple disciplines, including chemical engineering, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, industrial engineering, geology, mechanical engineering, and materials science. Indeed, the Center serves to promote and facilitate multi-disciplinary research collaborations concerned with resolving the world’s current and future energy-related challenges. A major goal and defining characteristic of the Center is to work closely with the concentration of energy-related companies in this region and from around the globe. To that end, the Center acts as an easily accessible entry point for industry in identifying energy-related research expertise, form collaborations, and participate in research at the University.

Center for Industry Studies The Center for Industry Studies supports multidisciplinary research that helps link scholars to some of the most important and challenging problems faced by modern industry in the highly competitive global marketplace. Our activities and programs are motivated by the firm conviction that bringing engineers and social scientists together for research collaboration can lead to important advances in scholarship and produce research of significant practical value to industry. In building this community of scholars, the Center reaches out to faculty members from all of the social science disciplines and professional schools for research collaboration opportunities with faculty members in the Swanson School of Engineering. The Center also encourages communication between scholars and industry practitioners as a means of building partnerships that can enhance the impact of academic research, yield educational opportunities, and promote economic development.

Center for Medical Innovation (CMI) The Center for Medical Innovation (CMI) is an interdisciplinary program housed within the Department of Bioengineering. The Center’s purpose is to stimulate, guide, and promote the development and commercialization of technological innovations to improve health care. Under the direction of Alan Hirschman, PhD and Kilichan Gurleyik, PhD, the CMI provides an organizational structure that links faculty, students, and clinicians across the University of Pittsburgh through collaboration among the Swanson School of Engineering (SSOE), Schools of

the Health Sciences, the Katz Business School, the School of Law, the Coulter Translational Research Partnership, and the Innovation Institute. As of 2016 almost 50 early-stage projects have received seed funds totaling more than $800,000 from CMI out of 177 competitive proposals considered since program inception in 2012. At least 5 of these clinical translation projects have attracted significant external investment for commercialization, and all have resulted in significant intellectual property development. Other projects have successfully competed for large external awards from government and private foundations as a result of the CMI Early Stage Seed Grant Funding Program. A few projects have resulted in new company formation.

CMI’s educational mission to train the next generation of medical product innovators, managers, and developers is met through the Master of Bioengineering/ Medical Product Engineering curriculum. The 30 credit MS program, established in 2012, is aimed at providing clinical project experience, introduction to new product methodologies considered state of the art in industry, and networking opportunities with regional players in the medical product development industry. Most of our program graduates go on to careers in medical product development, marketing, regulatory affairs, consulting, and entrepreneurship.

Center for Simulation and Modeling The Center for Simulation and Modeling (SAM) was established in October, 2008 as a University-wide effort with major contributions from the Swanson School of Engineering, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Health Sciences. SAM (www.sam.pitt.edu) grew out of the Center for Molecular and Materials Simulation (CMMS), augmenting the original mission of CMMS to go beyond providing computing hardware to establishing a center that provides support for high performance computing at all levels. SAM is dedicated to supporting and facilitating computational-based research across campus. Faculty across the University are using modeling and simulation to further their research. SAM serves as a catalyst for multidisciplinary collaborations among professors, sponsors modeling-focused seminars, teaches graduate-level modeling courses, and provides individual consultation in modeling to all researchers at the University. Professors J. Karl Johnson (ChE) and Kenneth D. Jordan (Chem) are co-directors of SAM, Michael Barmada of the Departments of Human Genetics and Biomedical Informatics serves as Associate Director. There are more than 175 faculty associated with SAM using simulation and modeling at the University. They come from a wide range of disciplines, including astronomy, biology, chemistry, economics, engineering, health, and medicine. Areas of research include: energy and sustainability, nanoscience and materials engineering, medicine and biology, and economics and the social sciences.

Computational resources are available through SAM, which has a full-time technical director and several consultants who assist users with installation and parallelization of software.

SAM provides in house high-performance computing (HPC) resources allocated for shared use for campus researchers. The systems are housed in the University’s Computing Services and Systems Development (CSSD) data center and are administered and maintained jointly with CSSD. The cluster compute nodes were purchased with funds provided by the University and by faculty researchers.

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23 quad-socket 12-core AMD Magny Cours (6172) 2.1 GHz CPU (48 core) nodes. 2 nodes have 256 GB, 18 have 128 GB, and 3 have 64 GB of memory.

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44 dual-socket 6-core Intel Westmere (X5650) 2.67 GHz CPU (12 core) nodes and 48 GB of memory.

110 dual-socket 4-core Intel Nehalem CPU (2.93 GHz X5570, 2.67 GHz X5550, and 2.27 GHz L5520) nodes (8 core). 8 have 48 GB, 56 have 12 GB and 46 have 24 GB. 16 NVIDIA Tesla C2050 GPGPUs (1.15 GHz) each with 448 cores and 2 GB of memory. These are distributed across 4 dual-socket 6-core Intel Westmere (X5650) nodes.

1 single-socket 8-core Intel Sandy Bridge (E5-2643) node. This node has 3 TB of SSD local scratch and 128 GB of RAM. 82 dual-socket 8-core Intel Sandy Bridge (E5-2670) 2.6 GHz nodes. 36 have 32 GB of RAM and 1 TB of local disk connected by Infiniband. 36 have 64 GB of RAM and 1 TB of local disk connected by Infiniband. 8 have 64 GB of RAM and 2 TB of local disk connected by GigE. 2 have 128 GB of RAM and 3 TB of local disk connected by InfiniBand.

54 quad-socket 16-core AMD Interlagos (Opteron 6276) 2.3 GHz nodes. 18 nodes have 256 GB of RAM. The remaining 36 nodes have 128 GB of RAM. All nodes are connected by QDR Infiniband and have 2 TB of local scratch.

24 NVIDIA GTX Titan GPGPUs (837 MHz) each with 2688 cores and 6 GB of memory.

24 dual-socket 8-core Intel Sandy Bridge (E5-2650) 2.6 GHz nodes with 128 GB of memory, 1TB of local scratch, and FDR InfiniBand interconnect.

20 dual-socket 8-core Intel Ivy Bridge (E5-2650v2) 2.6 GHz nodes with 64 GB of memory, 1 TB of local scratch, and FDR InfiniBand interconnect.

32 dual-socket 10-core Haswell (E5-2660 v3) 2.6 GHz nodes with 128 GB of memory, 1 TB of local scratch, and FDR InfiniBand interconnect.

16 dual-socket 8-core Haswell-EP (E5-2630 v3) 2.4 GHz nodes with 256 GB of memory, 256 GB of SSD local scratch, and FDR Infiniband interconnect.

1 dual-socket 6-core Haswell (E5-2620 v3) 2.4 GHz node with 128 GB of memory, 2 x 250 GB HDD, 2 x 800 GB SSD.

The nodes are clustered via a fast Infiniband low latency network fabric in order to enable efficient distributed parallel runs. The global storage is comprised of a 130TB Isilon home space, 80 TB of standard NFS home space, and a 450 TB Lustre parallel filesystem. The infrastructure is designed for future scaling via additional resources funded by national instrumentation grants, internal University funds, or faculty contributions from grants or start-up funds. The system is housed at the enterprise level, state-of-the-art facilities provided by the University's Network Operations Center, and it is connected with the rest of the campus via a high-bandwith fiberoptical 10G network and to Internet 2 via 100G network.

Center for National Preparedness The Center for National Preparedness (CNP) was established in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks to develop holistic and logical approaches to education, research, and training on issues related to national preparedness. CNP has been formulated around four primary guiding principles for Homeland Security: prevention, protection, response, and recovery. Prevention requires effective diplomatic policies, border security, and surveillance systems, which must be a first priority prior to catastrophic events. Protection provides the assurance of military vigilance, the health of the

American population, the security of critical infrastructure, and the continued operation of cyber networks. Response focuses on employing properly trained and equipped professionals at the local, state, and federal levels. Recovery emphasizes the importance of rapid restoration of key components within critical infrastructure. CNP is uniquely positioned to use this multi-layered approach to provide expertise to organizations that must deal with homeland preparedness. CNP is a broad, multidisciplinary, collaborative enterprise that engages the University’s scientists, engineers, policy experts, and clinical faculty. Members of CNP possess expertise in biomedical research, public health, medicine, national security policy, engineering, and information technology. The unifying theme of our efforts is the application of systems (and systems of systems) approaches from the engineering sciences to a new academic discipline of Homeland Security and National Preparedness Studies.

Center for Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure The Center for Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure’s (CSTI) vision is to advance the state of sustainable transportation research through collaborative, multi-disciplinary efforts, education, and dissemination of new technologies and knowledge. The path of the Center’s success is centered on achieving established goals and objectives both in the short-term and long-term, and the partners and support needed to realize the vision. CSTI was created in August 2007. In total, CSTI has secured over $5.5 million in external funding. Annually, CSTI sponsors the Transportation Forum at the University of Pittsburgh. CSTI, in conjunction with the Pittsburgh Chapter of the American Society of Highway Engineers (ASHE), holds this one-day forum to advance learning on the research being performed to support PennDOT. Ceramics Processing Laboratory The Ceramics Processing laboratory includes glove box facilities for chemical synthesis of powders and thin films. Powder preparation facilities allow for mixing and milling of powders, Horiba CAPA-300 particle size analyzer, Quantachrome BET surface area analysis, mini spray drier, Brookfield viscometer, uniaxial press and colloidal filtration pressurization unit, cold isostatic press.

Firing facilities include a high-temperature sintering dilatometer and various tube and box furnaces for firing ceramics and melting glass at temperatures up to 1700°C in air.

Chemical Engineering Process Simulation Laboratory The Chemical Engineering Process Simulation Laboratory brings to the Department the full complement of commercial design software that is used throughout the world by practicing chemical engineers. Students use software systems including AspenPlus, BJAC, Emission Master, BatchFrac, and the Icarus Process Evaluator to blend their technical skills with applied designs. This marriage of theory and practice at a level used by practicing engineers has significantly enhanced the ability of the Department’s graduates to quickly contribute in a professional setting. The Process Simulation Laboratory is located in B72A Benedum Hall. It serves as a teaching lab and as a study area for the students using the simulation software.

Cluster Computing Laboratory The Cluster Computing Laboratory is dedicated to the development of new architectures that utilize commodity personal computers as the processing/storage nodes. More efficient computer communication and coordination is facilitated through a high-speed, intelligent network. Equipment includes a cluster of 16 Pentium III computers, a cluster of 8 Pentium computers, a surface-mount soldering station for custom hardware development, and a number of development workstations.

Mentor Graphics has donated over $2M worth of hardware development software for this Laboratory and for the teaching laboratories in the Computer Engineering Program.

Composite Materials Laboratory The Composite Materials Laboratory focuses on penetration and fracture mechanics of composite materials, the characterization of associated dynamic failure modes, and understanding of the physics of dynamic failures of new generation of composite materials. Recent new generation of material designed and under investigation includes a TaC/CNTs/SiC cermic matrix composite, a potentially high temperature performance structural composites that is light weight, and possesses good toughness, thermal shock resistance and good energy absorption capacity.

Fracture toughness measurement for the TaC/CNTs/SiC CMCs is being carried out by the three point flexure test, with SEM employed to observe the deformation phenomena and detect the fracture toughening behavior. The penetration Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar (P-SHPB) is used to carry out the low velocity high strain rate dynamic impact test of this new material. In terms of the failure or fracture in the ceramic composites, the perforation is characterized by matrix crack, fiber crack and plug push out. Problems investigated include the effect of CNTs reinforcement and loading condition on the compressive strength of the composites, and understanding the energy absorption mechanism and the wave propagation phenomenon which causes the composite plate damage and characterizes the damage mode. The lab is equipped with a highperformance penetrating and fracturing Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar (SHPB) integrated to a high speed optical/CCD imaging system for high strain rate testing. The system is capable of capturing dynamic fracture, crack propagation, and fragmentation processes during composite materials failure at over 2 million frames per second. Laser Raman spectroscopy is used to directly measure fiber stress at the microscopic level because Raman frequencies or unique atomic vibrational energy levels of the constituent fibers are stress-strain dependent.

Computational Biomechanics Laboratory

Spandan Maiti, PhD directs this laboratory located at the Center for Bioengineering and provides graduate and undergraduate students the opportunity to conduct computational biomechanics research. Computational models for complex constitutive and failure behavior of native and engineered tissues are developed in this lab. Theories from applied mathematics, numerical algorithm and computational science are utilized to develop simulation software that examine the mechanical behavior of these tissues in a multiphysics environment. The lab is equipped with a number of state of the art 12 core Mac Pro workstations in a parallel environment.

Computational Nanomechanics Lab The Computational Nanomechanics Lab focuses on investigating the mechanics of materials at the nanoscale using large-scale computer simulations. Current research projects include 1) Thermomechanical behavior of carbon nanotube based and nano-bio materials, 2) Atomistic-tocontinuum themomechanical theory in solids, and 3) Multiscale method development. The computational tools the lab employs include molecular dynamics simulations, first-principles methods, Monte Carlo simulations, and finite element/meshfree methods. The computational resources the Lab has access to include a brand new 800-core cluster (shared with other research groups at Pitt) and a 24core cluster. This 800-core cluster has 100 nodes each with two quad-core Intel Nehalem CPUs. The computer nodes are connected via a high speed Infiniband network, which will deliver exceptional performance for parallel calculations using large numbers of CPUs. The 24-core cluster consists of 4 x

6-Core Intel Xeon E7450 processors with 12GB of memory. The cluster has SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 installed along with MPICH, MPICH2 and Intel compiler ICC and IFC version 10.1 with Math Kernel Library 10.0.1.014. The lab also has several brand-new desktop computers, each having an Intel quadcore processor. The computers are well-equipped and are fully integrated into the University of Pittsburgh high-speed network. In addition, the lab has access to the state-of-the-art computing facilities at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (www.psc.edu).

Computational Optimization Laboratory The Computational Optimization Laboratory contains state-of-the-art computing facilities including several optimization software packages. The laboratory is used for applied research thrusts as well as course instruction. Techniques employed include linear and mixed-integer programming, network flows, nonlinear programming, stochastic programming, Markov decision processes, and heuristic optimization. The applications include medical decision making, facility layout, energy modeling, supply chain management and scheduling. The goals of this laboratory include applying optimization techniques to industrial problems, developing new algorithms for solving speciallystructured problems, and teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Computational Transport Phenomena Laboratory The primary objective of the Computational Transport Phenomena Laboratory is to conduct theoretical research in fluid mechanics, combustion, heat and mass transfer, applied mathematics, and numerical methods. The emphasis of current research in this laboratory is on “understanding physics” rather than “developing numerical algorithms.”

Several areas of current investigations are turbulent mixing, chemically reacting flows, high-speed combustion and propulsion, transition and turbulence, nano-scale heat transfer, magnetohydrodynamics, and plasma physics. The numerical methodologies in use consist of spectral methods (collocation, Galerkin), variety of finite difference, finite volume and finite element schemes, Lagrangian methods, and many hybrid methods such as spectral-finite element and spectral-finite difference schemes.

The laboratory is equipped with high-speed mini-supercomputers, graphic systems, and stateof-the-art hardware and software for "flow visualization." Most computations require the use of off-site supercomputers (mostly parallel platforms), for which high-speed links are available.

Computer Aided Design/Computer Aided Software Engineering Classroom-Laboratory This state-of-the-art laboratory is used to support the teaching and research program in Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering. Specifically, the laboratory combines a lecture facility together with high performance UNIX workstations each having dual quad-core processors and 8GB memory. Software includes design tools from Cadence Design Systems, Synopsys, Mentor Graphics, ARM, Xilinx, and Forte Design Systems. This facility is used by the students and faculty in the courses on VLSI design, System on a Chip Design, Digital System Verification, and Hardware Design Methodologies. This laboratory contains the hardware and software necessary to provide for the analysis and simulation of both course projects and advanced research digital systems designs.

Examples include new proposed Internet security solutions, experimental wireless ad hoc networks and configurations, and schemes for the management of networked systems. The laboratory also provides for the development of CAD design tools and the integration of these tools to support industrial strength design flows. Finally, this facility supports the many System-on-a-Chip and Mixed

Technology Micro-systems research projects currently in process in the school by providing the platform for high performance CAD software tools.

Computer Aided Manufacturing and Automation Laboratory The Computer Aided Manufacturing and Automation Laboratory is a comprehensive teaching and instructional laboratory with the following equipment:         

an Adept SCARA robot with six-axes movement an American AARM robot with motion controller three table top teaching six-axes robots four programmable logic controller (PLC) workstations a mini-manufacturing cell with part identification capability a computer-controlled flow line for physical simulation part-identification equipment including a laser scanner a video digitizer with a frame grabber an optical text scanner

Computer Architecture Laboratory The Computer Architecture Laboratory in Electrical and Computer Engineering is a research laboratory devised to investigate advanced computer microarchitectures, computer system architecture, power/thermal management in computer systems, multi-core microprocessors, memory systems, emerging memory technologies, interconnection networks, 3D integration and hardware security. The lab is equipped with networked high-end multi-processor Linux servers, over 10TB mass network storage and solid state drivers, testing motherboards, and more than a dozen Windows and Linux workstations. The laboratory software consists of state-of-the-art simulation tools from both public domains and in-house developed simulation warehouse. The laboratory is sponsored by NSF, SSOE, and Intel Corporation.

Computer Lab for Innovation and Productivity (CLIP) The Computer Laboratory for Innovation and Productivity (CLIP) is a state-of-the-art laboratory that provides IE students access to state-of-the-art industrial engineering software. It allows them to work on projects and enable them to succeed and excel when they join the global workforce. In addition to general University and School software, the lab offers Computer Aided Design, Database, and Productivity Analysis software to students. The Lab mirrors the Holzman Learning Center and allows students to work off-hours on homework and projects.

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition The Laboratory for Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering supports research in computer vision, pattern recognition and machine learning, image processing, and multimedia information processing. Special research interests include applications of wavelet transforms, image/video compression, artificial neural networks and nonlinear support vector machines. The Laboratory is equipped with PC-based image processing and pattern recognition workstations with associated cameras.

Coulter Translational Research Partners II Program (Coulter Program) Coulter Translational Research Partners II Program at the University of Pittsburgh is led and administered by the Swanson School of Engineering's Department of Bioengineering in partnership with the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Medicine and the Innovation Institute.

The Coulter Program provides the anchor for translating University of Pittsburgh biomedical and engineered technologies to commercialization. Under the direction of Sanjeev G. Shroff, PhD; Marc S. Malandro, PhD, CLLP; Stephen F. Badylak, DVM, PhD, MD; and Mr. Max Fedor, MBA, the Coulter Program plays a leadership role in translational biomedical research, education, and commercialization, making significant contributions to enhancing healthcare, educating future innovators and entrepreneurs, and promoting economic development in our region.

Since its inception, the Coulter TPII Program has established a new model to assure that Pitt’s world-class biomedical research ideas become commercial solutions to real-world problems.

Since its inception in July of 2011, the Coulter TPII Program has:  Attracted over 157 applications covering medical devices, drug delivery systems, and diagnostics  Funded 25 projects and 50 principal investigators with an awarded a total of over $3.3 million in direct grant support  Five companies formed with $4.5 million in professional funding  Two license options granted, of which one is under negotiation toward full licenses  Generated an additional $12.3 million in follow-on grant funding to the University  Directly and indirectly impacted over 101 student researchers in Engineering, Law, Business and the Health Sciences  71 business advisors from industry actively working with funded projects Design Studios Industrial Engineering’s Design Studios, provides students with computer facilities that are available 24 hours a day with computers and printers and with full Internet and e-mail access.

The lab provides high-speed PC hardware and provides general University and School software and includes specialized Industrial Engineering software. The laboratory and its equipment are available to senior students participating in research projects and graduate students participating in research projects in the areas of computational intelligence and operations research.

Electric Power Systems Laboratory The new Electric Power Systems Lab (EPSL) at the University of Pittsburgh, sponsored inkind by Eaton, is a multi-use facility for both research and educational activities. The lab provides opportunities for faculty and graduate students to perform advanced work in the areas of AC and DC micro-grids, smart grid technologies, power electronic devices and converters, renewable energy systems and integration, controls and communications, automation and relaying, distribution engineering, and other emerging electric power technology areas. Supplied by a 75 kVA feeder at 480 V, the EPSL incorporates a diverse mix of generation, including photovoltaic panels, wind turbines, localized gas generation, and the traditional grid tie. Through variable system strength, these generation sources feed a variety of loads, centered on innovative laboratory workbenches combining passive and motor loads in a system with advanced metering and control. Testing equipment in cases of voltage surges and sags are also incorporated.

Energy Systems Laboratory The purpose of the Energy Systems Lab at the University of Pittsburgh is to investigate the multi-scale thermal-fluid behavior encountered during the conversion and use of energy. The laboratory includes a National Instruments DAQPad-6020E multifunction I/O device for USB connected to an SCXI system with multiple thermocouple, voltage, and current terminal blocks, an Omega Engineering OMB-DAQ-55 data acquisition module, fine-gauge thermocouples with low noise connectors and electric ice points, Omega FP-5070 mini-flow sensors, millivolt pressure transducers with full bridge design, heat flux sensors, digital meters, high accuracy rotameters, a Sony DCR-TRV900 3 CCD digital video camera with frame-grabbing and streaming video cards, a Leitz Epivert modular inverted microscope with swappable high-precision objectives, and a number of computer workstations.

The Environmental Engineering Laboratory The Environmental Engineering Laboratory provides research and analytical capabilities in environmental science and engineering for wastewater treatment, water resource protection and development, industrial waste, toxic and hazardous waste management, and environmental impact assessment remedial action. The facility consists of about 10,000 square feet of space, divided into individual laboratories which contain equipment for standard chemical, microbiological and instrumental analyses including: Agilent 5100 inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometer (ICP-OES); Agilent 7820 Gas Chromatograph with 5977E mass spectrometric detector and 7693A autoinjector; Hewlett Packard 5890 Series-II Gas Chromatograph interfaced with Electron Capture and Flame Ionization Detectors; Dionex ICS-1100 Ion Chromatography System with Conductivity Detector, Ion Suppessors and AS-DV autoinjector; Agilent 1200 series HPLC with degasser, quaternary pump, autoinjector, 1290 thermostatically controlled column compartment, VWD detector and 1260 refractive index detector; Stanford Research System QMS-100 Mass Spectrometer; Perkin Elmer 4100-ZL Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer; Perkin Elmer 1100B Direct Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer; CEM MARSXpress Microwave Digester; TA Instruments Q5000 IR Thermogravimentic Analyzer; Anton Paar Litesizer 500; PINE Wavedriver 20 Bipotentiostat with rotating ring-disk electrode; Genesys 10S UV-visible spectrophotometer; Microtrac S3500 Laser Particle sizer; Parr 1266 Bomb Calorimeter; Azur Microtox-500 Bioassay Analyzer; Hach 2100-A Turbidimeter; Millipore Synery-R water ultrapurification system; Sorvall Legend X1R refrigerated centrifuge; Fisher Accuspin 400 centrifuge; Thermo Accuspin Micro17 Microcentrifuge; Thermo Accuspin Micro 17R refrigerated Microcentrifuge; Synergy HT Microplate Reader; BioTek Synergy HTX Multimode Reader; EVOS FL Imaging System; BioRad CFX Connect Real Time PCR System; Thermo Arktik Thermocycler; Thermo EC300 Horizontal Gel Electrophoresis Systems; MarketForge Sterilmatic SteamE Autoclave; UVP Transilluminator; Baker BioChemGard laminar flow hoods; Baker SterilGard laminar flow hoods; Fisher Vortex Genie-2 Mixer; Fisher Micromaster Phase-Contrast Microscopes; Quebec Colony Counter; Bausch & Lomb 20 Spectrophotometers; Hach COD Digesters; Ion-Analyzers; Mettler XPE 26 micro-analytical balance in a LabConco XPert Nano weigh enclosure; pH-meters; Dissolved Oxygen Probes; Branson Ultrasonics Sonifier S-450 Digital Ultrasonic Cell Disruptor/Homogenizer with soundproof enclosure; Thermo MaxQ Incubator-Shakers; Incubators; Isotemp CO2 Incubator with IR Temperature Control and Hepa Filtration; Countess II Automated Cell Counter; Water-baths; Magnetic Stirrers; Ovens; Barnstead Thermolyne 1100C Laboratory Furnace; Revco 30 CF -20C Freezer; VWR 13 CF Ultra Low Temperature -86C Freezer; Hot-plates; Mettler AE-163 and AE-50 Analytical Balances; Research grade glassware and supplies; Extensive chemical library of over 700 reagents.

Evolutional Intelligence Laboratory The EI Lab is a research laboratory the focus of which includes: nano-electronic devices, emerging and bio-inspired computing architecture, storage system and sensing technology, display technology and human-machine interaction, security theory of nano-devices, and embedded and mobile systems.

Fischione Instruments Electron Microscopy Sample Preparation Center of Excellence This laboratory, located within the MMCL, is a private-public partnership between E.A. Fischione Instruments Inc. and the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science of the University of Pittsburgh. The lab offers a suite of specialized state-of-the-art instruments for the preparation of high-quality samples and for anti-contamination solutions for quantitative and highest resolution electron microscopy experiments. Specific instrumentation includes the Fischione Model 1010 Ion-Mill, Model 1040 NanoMill, Model 1050 TEM Mill, Model 1060 SEM Mill, Model 1070 NanoClean Plasma-Cleaner, Model 200 Dimple Grinder, Model 170 Ultrasonic Disk Cutter, Model 110 Twin-Jet Electroplisher, a Allied HighTech Products TechCut4 low speed saw and Multiprep8 automated precision sample preparation system. As part of the partnership, Pitt researchers interact directly with technical staff from Fischione Instruments.

Fluids Mechanics Laboratory The Fluids Laboratory is the center for experimental research in fluid mechanics and rheology at the University of Pittsburgh. Much of the research in this laboratory examines the behavior complex fluids, such as polymeric solutions, suspensions, and biological fluids in processing-like flows. Laboratory work focuses on the understanding of the link between flow behavior and the material properties so that materials can be processed more efficiently to yield the desired characteristics. In obtaining this goal, this laboratory develops and applies many cutting-edge technologies to obtain precise, in situ measurements of fluid velocity, stress, pressure, and temperature. These measurements are compared with direct numerical simulations to model, understand, and predict the flow behavior.

Gas Turbine Heat Transfer Laboratory The Gas Turbine Heat Transfer Laboratory is equipped with advanced flow and heat transfer measurement facilities directed toward obtaining fundamental understanding and design strategies of airfoil cooling in advanced gas turbine engines.

Major experimental systems available include a particle imaging velocimetry, a computerautomated liquid crystal thermographic system, a UV-induced phosphor fluorescent thermometric imaging system, and a sublimation-based heat-mass analogous system. Specific projects currently under way include optimal endwall cooling, shaped-hole film cooling, innovative turbulator heat transfer enhancement, advanced concepts in trailing edge cooling, and instrumentation developments for unsteady thermal and pressure sensing.

George A. Davidson, Jr. Unit Operations Laboratory The Department’s Unit Operations Laboratory was renamed to reflect the support of George A. Davidson, Jr. in implementing a five-year development effort to enhance the existing Unit Operations Laboratory. This development effort provided an opportunity for our students to develop laboratory and process design skills and solve a multitude of design problems using stateof-the-art apparatus and instrumentation. In 2009-2010, the Unit Operations Laboratory located in room SB33 was completely renovated as part of Swanson School’s Benedum Hall Transformation Plan.

Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory The Geotechnical Engineering laboratory, which is computer controlled, includes static triaxial and direct shear apparatuses for both soils and rocks, a ring shear apparatus, a gyratory compactor, a dynamic triaxial apparatus, consolidometers, constant and variable head permeameters, a resonant column apparatus, an ultrasonic velocity testing apparatus, and a shaking table. In addition the laboratory houses standard equipment for Atterberg Limits determination, and grain size analysis.

Human Engineering Research Laboratories (HERL) The Human Engineering Research Laboratories (HERL) is a joint effort between the University of Pittsburgh, UPMC Health System, and the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System.

HERL occupies approximately 20,000 square feet of laboratory and office space. Under the direction of HERL Founder and Director, Rory Cooper, PhD, and Michael Boninger, MD, HERL Medical Director and Director of the newly established University of Pittsburgh Model Center on Spinal Cord Injury (UPCM-CI), HERL is dedicated to wheelchair and mobility research, specifically the biomechanics of wheelchair use and upper extremity pain that can result from years of manual wheelchair propulsion. The laboratory, which was designated as a Center of Excellence for Wheelchair and Related Technology, also studies the effects of force and vibration on a wheelchair user’s “ride comfort.” HERL is the only wheelchair-testing laboratory outside the private sector. HERL is the home for the VA Rehabilitation Research and Development Center for Wheelchairs and Related Technology, and a NIDRR Model Systems Center for Spinal Cord Injury. In addition, HERL is a partner in the NIDRR Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center for Wheelchair and Seating, and Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Telerehabilitation.

Human Factors Engineering (HFE) The Human Factors Engineering (HFE) Laboratory is a team-based teaching and research laboratory for undergraduate and graduate students. The laboratory focuses on cognitive, ergonomic, and environmental aspects of human factors, and their influence on productivity and quality. The lab has a wide array of hardware and software to include Ergomaster for conducting ergonomic studies, Discovery Machine virtual reality software for teaching energy isolation, as well as Minitab, SPSS and NVivo7 for data analysis.

Human Movement and Balance Laboratory This research and teaching laboratory is under the direction of Rakié Cham, PhD, Mark Redfern, PhD, April Chambers, PhD, and Kurt Beschorner, PhD, and offers graduate and undergraduate students the ability to participate in a variety of whole body biomechanics research. The facility utilizes a variety of motion analysis systems, force-plate equipment and

EMG units to collect kinematics, kinetics and muscle activity during various human movement experiments. An overhead support system allows for the safe collection of data during locomotion on flat and inclined surfaces. Modeling software is available to simulate, validate and predict whole-body biomechanics. The lab also specializes in developing novel experimental and modeling methods to assess the tribology mechanisms of shoe-floor-contaminant interface.

Hydraulic Fracturing and Geomechanics Laboratory The Hydraulic Fracturing and Geomechanics Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh is under the direction of Andrew Bunger, PhD. This laboratory supports research into hydraulic fracture propagation, rock mechanics, and soil mechanics. It includes: 1) a true-triaxial cell, including hydraulic pump and pressure control, capable of applying up to 20 MPa of stress independently in each of 3 direction to specimens measuring up to 300 mm on a side, 2) multi-axis video monitoring that is enabled by viewing ports in the loading platens of the triaxial cell, backlight sources built into the loading platens, and digital video cameras 3) a syringe pump used for injecting fluid for hydraulic fracturing, 4) sensors for monitoring injection fluid pressure and temperature, 5) Hoek-type triaxial cells for 35 mm and 150 mm specimens including pore pressure platens for permeability testing, 6) 16 channel MISTRAS Acoustic Emission (AE) detection system, 7) 8 channel pulse and 16 channel receive MISTRAS Ultrasound Tomography (UT) system. Topics currently under investigation include: - Multiple hydraulic fracture initiation and growth - Interaction of hydraulic fractures with naturally-cemented and/or non-persistent natural fractures and faults - Containment of hydraulic fractures within desired strata in the presence of weak bedding planes - Rapid simulation of multiple hydraulic fractures - Role of turbulent flow on hydraulic fracture growth - Time-dependent breakage of rocks This laboratory receives funding from the petroleum industry with recent and ongoing projects supported by and in collaboration with Chevron, Shell, and Schlumberger.

Innovative Medical Engineering Developments (iMED) – www.imedlab.org The iMED lab was founded in 2011 and its vision is to become an international leader in dynamical biomarkers indicative of age- and disease-related changes and their contributions to functional decline under normal and pathological conditions. In particular, the mission of the lab is to develop clinically relevant solutions by fostering innovation in computational approaches and instrumentation that can be translated to bedside care. Given the vision and mission behind the lab, our motto is: "Output and outcome." These two simple words fully describe the essence of the lab.

"Output" describes the first goal of the iMED lab: to conduct rigorous scientific investigations whose results will be published in respected high impact journals. In order to achieve this goal, we strive to conduct cutting-edge research projects which produce results with an immediate impact. "Outcome" describes the second goal of the iMED lab: to conduct research projects that matter to patients and the public. In other words, our research must make a difference in people's lives. The research conducted in the iMED lab must lead to important and real-life relevant advances in biomedical computational approaches and instrumentation. The iMED lab serves as a unique, clinically oriented training ground for undergraduate students, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows interested in computational tools and instrumentation. We work very closely alongside numerous health and allied health professionals and scientists, including physicians, occupational therapists, physical therapists, speech language pathologists, throughout all stages of research, from problem formulation to grant application, from data collection to journal publication.

Instrumentation and Controls Laboratory This mechanical engineering laboratory, directed by Dr. Daniel Cole, is dedicated to the study of cyber-physical systems. The lab’s research lies at the intersection of real-time estimation and control, high-performance computing, and Bayesian and probabilistic estimation methods.

Our focus is on the application of these techniques to industrial control systems, SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition), and cybersecurity. We investigate state of the art control systems from the physical systems to analog-to-digical conversion and industrial controllers all the way to the cloud. The 800 sq. ft. facility includes modern simulation platforms and networked controllers on which to implement and test new schemes. Past and current applications include nuclear instrumentation and control, control of small modular reactors, faulttolerant systems, and cybersecurity.

Intelligent Control Laboratory (ICL) The general research interests of the Intelligent Control Laboratory (ICL) include (i) developing advanced control methods inspired by neural control principles and (ii) studying the human neural system using techniques from control theory and information theory. The ICL is also devoted to the application of intelligent control technology in design and optimization of electric power systems, transportation systems, and economic systems. Currently, the lab is equipped with the following major devices: (i) CyberGlove, a data glove for capturing hand movement. It has 22 sensors that can measure angles at all the finger joints of the right hand. (ii) GWS Mini Dragonfly, a remotely controlled, electronically powered helicopter. (iii) Polhemus' Fastrack, a 3 dimensional motion-tracking device with 4 signal channels. Each channel computes the position and orientation of a small receiver as it moves through space. (iv) Delsys EMG machine (Bagnoli 8), an electromyogram device with 8 single differential surface electrodes. (v) Four workstations.

Joint Replacement Biomechanics Laboratory The Joint Replacement Biomechanics Laboratory focuses on the improvement of both the life span of joint replacements and the design of the components used in joint replacement. The laboratory is equipped for computational and experimental analyses.

John A. Jurenko Computer Architecture Laboratory This laboratory in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering provides the hardware and software necessary for students to design and build digital circuits. It is used in two undergraduate laboratory courses where students are provided with an understanding of the three-way relationship between the mathematical abstraction of logic as expressed in Boolean algebra, schematics and simulations using CAD tools, and the physical realization of these circuits in hardware. The facility contains 24 networked high-performance workstations, complete with logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, and related equipment used to design, breadboard, and test digital circuits. In addition, the laboratory contains complete support for both Altera and Xilinx Field Programmable Gate Array system development. Finally, a full complement of software, including the Mentor Graphics Design Tools and the Microsoft Visual Studio, is available which allows students to simulate their designs and develop new hardware and software systems.

This laboratory was created through a generous gift from John A. Jurenko, a Pitt alumnus and friend of the University.

W.M. Keck Rapid Prototyping and Reverse Engineering Laboratory The Departments of Bioengineering and Industrial Engineering have joined efforts in the creation of a state-of-the-art laboratory that provides students with a unique hands-on experiences in the development and production of functional prototypes through the utilization of leading-edge rapid prototyping and reverse engineering technologies including stereolithography, fused deposition modeling, 3-dimensional printing, and laser scanning. Engineering students are given the opportunity to bring new designs and redesigns to reality through the utilization of leading-edge rapid prototyping and reverse engineering hardware and software.

Keystone Mixed-Technology Microsystems Design Laboratory The Keystone Mixed-Technology Microsystems Design Laboratory is used for the investigation of computer-aided design, simulation, and testing techniques associated with the design and analysis of very large-scale integrated circuits (VLSI) and research on computer-aided design of mixed technology micro and nano scale systems such as optical mechanical electrical micro-systems (OMEMS) and optoelectronic integrated circuits (OEICs). The laboratory equipment consists of a network of a dozen Linux and Windows desktop workstations with access to a compute cluster of 16 multi-core nodes. In addition to access to the commercial tools hosted by the department servers, a number of university based tools and other utilities have been developed and maintained in-house.

The Kresge Rapid Manufacturing Laboratory The Department of Bioengineering has teamed with the Department of Industrial Engineering to further extend the laboratory capabilities in the School of Engineering to include Rapid Manufacturing technology. In a joint effort, the departments secured a $500,000 grant from the Kresge Foundation for the development of the Kresge Rapid Manufacturing Laboratory. This laboratory will enable students to take a prototype to the production stage by manufacturing small batches of fully functional products. The technologies included in the new facility will complement the existing laboratories and will include: Plastic Injection Molding, CNC, Vacuum Casting, and Materials Testing.

Laboratory for Advanced Materials at Pittsburgh (LAMP) The Laboratory for Advanced Materials at Pittsburgh (LAMP) under the direction of Professor Paul W. Leu focuses on designing and understanding advanced materials by computational modeling and experimental research. Simulations and experiments are used in a synergistic manner to study the mechanical and electronic properties of nanomaterials and surfaces for various applications. Facilities include chemical vapor deposition tube furnace for nanotube synthesis and nanowire synthesis. Current research is focused on transparent conductors and solar cells.

Laser and Opto-Electronics Laboratories In the Laser and Opto-Electronics Laboratories facilities exist for research in nonlinear optics, materials, and devices. As part of the Department of Electrical Engineering, these laboratories emphasize. Facilities for maskmaking, lithography, dry-etching, evaporation and sputtering of metals or insulators, diffusion alloying, and wire-bonding are available. The structural and electrical characteristics of fabricated material and devices are evaluated using state-of-the-art test equipment.

Semiconductor devices can be characterized at low temperatures in a continuous flow cryostat, capable

of reaching temperatures as low as 5 degrees Kelvin. These laboratories contain argon, Nd:YAG (frequency doubled and tripled), carbon dioxide and Ti:sapphire lasers.

Manufacturing Assistance Center (MAC) The MAC is a working factory opened in November of 1994 at the University of Pittsburgh Applied Research Center (U-PARC) as an initiative of the University of Pittsburgh, School of Engineering’s Industrial Engineering Department. It is comprised of a synergistic network of laboratories encompassing machine tooling, computer aided design and manufacturing, metrology, materials tracking, and human issues. The MAC’s mission is twofold: 1.) provide research and educational support to the University of Pittsburgh and 2.) provide Southwestern Pennsylvania small and mid-sized manufacturers with the tools necessary to compete in the global marketplace. With the resources available in the MAC labs, area manufacturers can receive demonstrations on new equipment and manufacturing processes, perform pilot manufacturing, and conduct limited production. In addition to these services, the MAC also provides training on computer numerical control (CNC) machining, computer aided design (CAD), computer aided manufacturing (CAM), and computer integrated manufacturing (CIM), plus a variety of other concepts (e.g. materials requirements planning, total quality management, team development, etc.) utilized in today’s highly successful manufacturing organizations. David I. Cleland, Professor in Industrial Engineering, is the Co-Director of the MAC, along with Dr. Bopaya Bidanda.

Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation (MCSI) In 2003, through funding from the Heinz Endowments, the George Bevier Estate and John C. Mascaro (Chairman of Mascaro Construction Company), the Swanson School of Engineering established the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation (MCSI) as a center of excellence that focuses on innovative research, education and outreach to enable more sustainable communities.

MCSI’s expertise includes the built environment, infrastructure and materials. Over the past ten years, MCSI has supported over 57 research teams who are tackling diverse and challenging sustainability issues comprising faculty from all six engineering departments. MCSI has also supported over 165 undergraduate students for 12-week summer research projects in sustainable engineering and MCSI faculty have developed 6 interdisciplinary courses for undergraduate and graduate students as well as hosts the Engineering for Humanity Certificate. The Center boasts a strong community outreach component including a biannual Engineering Sustainability conference where experts in the field gather to explore the state-of-the-art in sustainability research. For more information visit us at: www.mascarocenter.pitt.edu Materials Micro-Characterization Laboratory (MMCL) The MMCL is located on the 5th floor of Benedum Engineering Hall and is part of the Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Department. Directed by Professor Jörg Wiezorek, the laboratory provides instrumentation and personnel expertise for the complete microstructural characterization and analysis of materials and locally resolved micro- and nano-mechanical measurements. Major characterization equipment resources housed in the MMCL include a versatile X-ray diffractometer (XRD) platform, two scanning electron microscopes (SEM) and two transmission electron microscopes (TEM), a multi-mode scanning probe microscope (SPM), a nano-mechanical testing system, a micro-hardness tester and light-optical microscopes (LOM) for metallographic investigations and measurements.

For X-ray diffraction investigations the multipurpose diffractometer platform, Empyrean from PANalytical, offers non-destructive, cutting-edge characterization solutions for solids, fluids, thin films or nanomaterials. The system provides detailed information on elemental and/or phase constitution, crystallographic texture, crystalline quality, lattice strains and/or nanoparticle size distributions and shape, which can be acquired with either Cu-K-alpha or Cr-K-alpha X-ray beams. Computers for online and off-line processing and analysis of diffraction data are also available in this laboratory.

For studies of surface topography and morphology, elemental composition and crystal orientation analyses, there are two separate a SEM platforms available. The JEOL JSM 6610-LV with Oxford EDS and EBSD is a tungsten-cathode equipped analytical SEM that accepts large samples (diameter ≤8”) and can operate in a low-vacuum (Environmental) mode. The FEI Apreo Hi-Vac is equipped with a field-emission gun (FEG) and optimized for high-through-put integrated back-scatter diffraction (EBSD) based orientation imaging microscopy (OIM) and energy-dispersive-spectroscopy (EDS) studies for crystal orientation and phase mapping (Team Pegasus Hikari Super Octane 25, Edax). The FEI Apreo FEGSEM is equipped with an Everhart-Thornley secondary electron (SE) detector, two additional in-lens SE detectors for separation of high and low energy SE signals and a segmented back-scatter electron (BSE) detector offering atomic number sensitive contrast formation.

This state-of-the-art analytical high-resolution FEGSEM is capable of imaging with 1nm (1.3nm) at 15kV (1kV) without beam deceleration and 1nm at 1kV with beam deceleration. The two SEM instruments permit elemental mapping by energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) for elements of heavier than Boron (Z>6).

The TEM Laboratory has two 200kV transmission electron microscopes available. The FEI Tecnai G2 F20 S-Twin TMP microscope is a true multi-purpose computer controlled analytical highresolution FEG TEM. It offers an information limit of 0.11nm and a lateral spatial resolution at Scherzer defocus of 0.24nm for high resolution atomic lattice imaging (HREM) in combination with a specimen tilt range of ≤±35˚ and capable of forming intense electron probes as small as ≈0.4nm in diameter. The FEI Tecnai G2 F20 S-Twin is equipped with a bottom-mounted 2kx2k CCD camera, and EDS detector for elemental analysis and a precession electron diffraction assisted automated crystal orientation mapping (NanoMegas Topspin / Astar) for 1nm lateral spatial resolution OIM for quantitative studies of texture, crystallite size, strain and phase fractions in the TEM specimens. It is used for routine high-resolution lattice imaging and permits analysis and characterization of the detailed microstructural and micro-chemical changes in materials by diffraction (selected area, convergent beam and nano-beam diffraction) and EDS with 0.4nm diameter probe size electron beams. This facilitates the study of material interfaces, observing microstructural defects, dislocations, precipitates, and quantifying elemental composition and elemental segregation at the nanometer scale. The Jeol JEM 200CX instrument offers a large sample tilt range of ≤60˚, very fast specimen exchange and 0.34nm information limit. It is used for conventional diffraction contrast (bright and dark field) imaging and selected area diffraction investigations. Apart from standard single-tilt and double-tilt low-background analytical specimen holders, numerous specialized sample holders for specimen cooling, heating, straining and for analytical or specialized crystallographic studies are available or acquisitions in the near future are in planned to support increasing interest and needs for in-situ studies.

In the SPM lab the DI Dimension 3100 SPM has recently been upgraded with new control electronics and software. It permits atomic force microscopy (AFM), scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), and magnetic force microscopy (MFM) investigations in a single platform. This multi-modal surface morphology and property characterization instrument accepts samples up to eight inches in diameter for SPM analyses in air or fluids and automated stepping can be used to scan multiple areas of the sample without operator intervention. The Nano-mechanical test system is a Hysitron TI900 Triboindenter which allows nano-Newton level resolution depth-resolved measurements of hardness and elastic modulus Both normal (hardness) and lateral (friction) force loading configurations are

available to provide a sub-micron scale testing arena with real-time data collection and nanometer resolution in-situ SPM imaging.

Mechanical Testing This facility includes two hydraulic MTS machines. One has a high temperature capability for hot deformation simulation and the other is an MTS 880, 20,000-pound frame with hydraulic grips and temperature capability up to 1000˚C. Two screw-driven machines are available, a 50,000-pound Instron TT and a 10,000-pound ATS tabletop tester (this machine has fixtures for loading in tension, compression and bending). The facility also includes several digital hardness testers, including one Brinell, two Rockwell, one Rockwell Superficial, and one Vickers, plus a new Leco M-400 G microhardness tester. Two impact test machines are available—one with 100 foot-per-pound and the other with 265 foot-per-pound capacity. An ultrasonic elastic modulus tester is also available.

Mechanics of Active Materials Laboratory The Mechanics of Active Materials Laboratory focuses on the experiment- and physicsbased constitutive modeling of smart materials, with a strong secondary emphasis on applications.

A smart (or active) material is any material that can transform energy from one domain to another, akin to how man-made motors transform electrical energy into mechanical work. Dr. Lisa Weiland is the director of this laboratory, in which active materials such ferroelectric ceramics, electroactive and photoactive polymers, and nastic materials are considered both experimentally and computationally. Experimental studies focus on developing characterization methods for novel materials for which there are no established procedures. Computational studies generally focus on nano length scale active response as a means to anticipate macro length scale response. The goal of research is to understand the multi-scale physics responsible for the 'smart' behavior observed in these materials in order to expand viable engineering applications which range from shape morphing structures and bio-sensors to a range of adaptive structures concepts appropriate to sustainability challenges.

Metals Processing This laboratory includes a cold rolling mill and various muffle and recirculating air furnaces for heat treatment of metals and alloys. Metal melting and casting facilities include air, inert atmosphere, and vacuum facilities. A special arc melting unit also provides a facility for preparing buttons and rapidly solidified ribbons.

Micro/Bio Fluidics Laboratory Micro/Bio Fluidics Laboratory is primarily devoted to (1) engineering and developing a variety of micro/bio fluidic sensors, actuator and integrated systems that enable us to handle a wide range of micro/bio objects with more direct access and to (2) studying science and engineering associated with them. In particular, most research activities are heavily involved with micro fabrications. Available equipment includes a high-power florescent microscope, a lowpower microscope, optical benches, a parylene coater, computers, data acquisition systems, highvoltage amplifiers, a conductivity meter, arbitrary waveform generators, MEMS device design software and so on.

Micromechanics and Nano-science Laboratory This mechanical engineering laboratory is a modern facility with cutting-edge technology for the study of micromechanics and physics of micrometer and nanometer scaled structures and materials. The laboratory contains atomic force microscopes and a nano-indentation testing facility, which provide a capability of measuring load vs. displacement at scales of 10-9 Newton versus nanometer, nano-scaled adhesion, and micro-mechanical behavior for advanced materials including semiconductors and biosystems.

Micro-/Nano-electronic Device Characterization and Modeling Lab The ECE Department houses measurement and modeling capabilities for physical characterization of micro- and nano-scale electronic devices and for derivation of equivalent circuit models for novel devices. DC characterization instrumentation includes a Keithley 4200 Semiconductor Characterization System (4200 SCS) including pulsed excitation and RF instrumentation includes an Anritsu 37397D Vector Network Analyzer which can make s-parameter measurements on the device under test (DUT) between 40 MHz and 67 GHz. Measurement can be made on fabricated wafers or bare die using a Cascade Microtech M-150 manual probe station.

Additionally, Agilent IC-CAP integrated software is available to enable computer based control of instrumentation, computation of extracted parameters, and extraction of equivalent circuit models.

Tanner L-Edit Prof software is utilized for designing photolithographic mask sets for novel device fabrication and it’s also utilized for SPICE integrated circuit design and performance assessment using the derived equivalent circuit models. Synposis Saber is used for modeling and simulation of power electronic devices and circuits. Nanowire structures are grown for device application in a chemical vapor deposition system.

Microsensor and Microactuator Laboratory With supports from federal funding agents, the current and future research activities conducted in the two Labs can be grouped in following closely related areas: 1) fabrication and property characterization of piezoelectric, pyroelectric and ferroelectric thin films and thick films; 2) on-chip integrated microsensors and microactuators that are based on piezoelectric AlN, ZnO and PZT thin film materials; 3) acoustic wave devices, including thin film bulk acoustic wave devices for RF and microwave frequency control application, and acoustic wave sensors; 4) piezoelectric and electrostrictive ceramics, and polymers such as PZT, PMN-PT, PVDF and copolymers, electro active elastomers, magnetostrictive materials, multiferroic materials, and other functional materials for transducers and biomedical applications; 5) Fabrication and characterization of semiconductor nanowires, nanoparticles, and multifunctional nanocomposites.

The laboratories accommodate extensive fabrication and characterization capabilities for functional materials and devices.

Molecular Biological and Biophysical Core Facility

This core facility has: 1) gel-imaging station, spectrophotometer, high speed centrifuge, ultracentrifuge, -80o C freezer, environmental shaker, and incubator for microbiological research, 2) cold room, sterilizer and lab ware washer, 3) an atomic force microscope and an fluorescence microscope (Olympus IX70), which can be integrated to carry out simultaneous nanometer resolution AFM imaging and optical fluorescence imaging, 4) a cell-culture room that is equipped with tissue culture incubators, laminar flow hood,

centrifuge and a microscope, and 4) a wet lab which has equipment necessary to for biochemistry and molecular biology research.

Frank Mosier Chemical Engineering Learning Center The Department’s state-of-the-art Frank Mosier Learning Center has been designed to facilitate active learning through a unique classroom design. The computer and audio-visual systems in the Learning Center permit computer-based “hands-on” activities in class under the direct oversight of the professor. This instructional format promotes improved learning and retention of recently acquired skills and knowledge. Full use of this new integrated instructional methodology is made possible by the integrated computer, audio-visual, and facility design.

The Frank Mosier Learning Center is located on the 12th floor of Benedum Hall. The development of the Learning Center was made possible through the generous support of Mr. Mosier and supplemental support from the University Classroom Renovation Project. The computer system was designed and implemented by the University’s Computer Support and Systems Design Department.

Nanoelectronics and Novel Memory Laboratory The Nanoelectronics and Novel Memory Laboratory is equipped for the fabrication and characterization of energy efficient nanoelectronics, novel memory devices such as resistive random access memory (RRAM) and phase change memory (PCM), and nanoscale thermal transport. Low-dimensional nanomaterials such as carbon nanotubes (CNTs), graphene, transitional metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) furnaces. Aligned transfer platform is employed to transfer aligned CNT array, two-dimensional (2D) graphene and TMD films into arbitrary substrates to build heterostructure stacks.

Characterization facilities include a vacuum probe station for temperature dependent (4-600 K) transport measurement, an in-air probe station, a semiconductor parameter analyzer with pulse measurement and CV measurement capabilities, memory test station for retention and endurance testing. The laboratory is also in the process of obtaining a cryostat, lock-in amplifiers, function generators and an infrared (IR) microscope for thermal transport measurements.

Nanorobotics and Scanning Probe Laboratory The nanorobotics and scanning probe laboratory is a research lab devised for the investigation of nanorobotic manipulation for nanodevice fabrication and for the development of advanced scanning probe technology in characterization of nanoscale materials and devcies. The major equipment in this lab includes: Agilent 5500 Reconfigurable Scanning Probe Microscope; PHANTOM Omni Joystick (SenSable Inc.); Programmable spin coater VTC-200; Precision Diamond Wire Saw With Digital Control STX-202; Mini Plasma Sputtering Coater GSL-1100X-SPC-12; and etc. The onging research activities include: deterministic assembly of nanowire-based electronc device; in situ characterization of organic solar cells; and nanorobotic patch-clamping guided by molecular recognition.

Nanoscale Optoelectronics Laboratory Facilities exist for research in developing new device structures and device physics that are based on optical and electronic phenomena occurring in nanoscale structured materials. A broad spectrum of instruments are available for synthesis, fabrication, and characterization, including bottomup (self-assembly) and top-down processes of nanostructured materials and their integration at all length scales (from nano to wafer scale). Plasmonic phenomena occurring in nano-optic structures are

of particular interest, since many novel properties derived from the phenomena can be incorporated into an on-chip configuration for nanosystems-on-a-chip that offer multifunctionality across heterogeneous domains (optical, electrical, chemical, biological, etc). The facilities include wafer cleaning and chemical etching; deep-UV contact mask aligner (Karl Suss MJB 3); plasma etching (Unaxis ICP-RIE 790); surface profilometer (Alpha-Step 200); thermal oxidation, annealing, diffusion, pyrolysis, or alloying processes; optical microscope; wire saw and polishing/lapping machine; UV holographic lithography; anodic oxidation and electrodeposition processes; physical vapor deposition (RF magnetron sputtering and thermal evaporation); semiconductor parameter analyzer (Hewlett Packard 4145B); electrochemical doping profiler (Bio-Rad PN4300); capacitance-voltage measurement (Keithley); deep level transient spectroscopy (Bio-Rad DL4600); probe-station (Karl Suss PM 3); LN2 cryostat; a broad spectrum of optical apparatus for spectroscopy and imaging in the UV-visible-IR and (200-1750 nm); plasmonic optical trapping; scanning-probe-based near-to-far-field optical characterization setup.

National Science Foundation Center for e-Design The Center's mission is to serve as a national center of excellence in IT enabled design and realization of mechanically engineered products and systems by envisioning that information is the lifeblood of an enterprise and collaboration is the hallmark that seamlessly integrates design, development, testing, manufacturing, and servicing of products around the world. The Center for e-Design and Realization focuses on its activities through three intertwined areas to deliver value to its members. First, the Fundamental Basic Research focuses on creating new collaborative design methods and technologies to address industry relevant needs in IT enabled product development and realization including: enabling information infrastructure; conceptual design tools & design process models; life cycle, collaborative, multidisciplinary design; and virtual prototyping and simulation. The Research Test-bed (Pegasus) is being developed for benchmarking various design technologies for interoperability. This platform will ensure the integration of interdisciplinary research activities to validate developed tools, methods and technologies and establish a common framework for multiple applications. The test-bed fosters collaborative research projects between industrial and academic engineers and scientists. The Education and Technology Transfer programs disseminate research results to industry and academic communities. This NSF Industry/ University Cooperative Research Center has current members from government and industry including: Wright Patterson Air Force Research Laboratory, RDECOM, BAE Systems, GE Aircraft Engine, IBM, Pratt & Whitney, Ansys, GMC, Raytheon, Respironics, Vistagy, Siemens, and Lockheed Martin, Engineous Software, PTC, VCollab. The research at the Center for e-Design is largely conducted in virtual space therefore the Center is home to numerous high powered workstations with access to outside supercomputing facilities. Currently, the academic partners are the University of Pittsburgh (lead University), and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Professor and Chairman Bopaya Bidanda in the Department of Industrial Engineering University of Pittsburgh is the Director of the NSF Center for e-Design.

Nondestructive Evaluation and Structural Health Monitoring Laboratory The Laboratory for NDE and SHM studies was established by Dr. Piervincenzo Rizzo in September 2006 upon his arrival at the University of Pittsburgh. In September 2012 the laboratory was re-located in a totally renovated floor. The laboratory consists of about 900 square feet of dust-free space, which contains the state-of-the-art equipment of some of the most widely used NDT and SHM methods. The laboratory includes but it is not limited to:

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Acoustic Emission Instrumentation: one Physical Acoustics Corporation 4-cahnnel PCI/DSP system with waveform module including a notebook computer and AE-Win software; acoustic emission pico, WD, and S14 AE-transducers.

Ultrasonic Testing Instrumentation: one Tektronix AFG3022 arbitrary function generator (2 output channels); one Lecroy Waverunner 44Xi 4-channels oscilloscope (with PC incorporated running under Windows XP); eight commercial broadband OlympusNDT-Panametrics Ultrasonic Transducers; one OlympusNDT-Panametrics high power (max 400 Volts) signal generator; several immersion transducers.

Modal Testing Instrumentation: 8-channel, line-powered, ICP® sensor signal conditioner; four 1/4 in. pre-polarized condenser microphone, free-field, 4 mV/Pa, 4 to 80k Hz (± 2 dB); Modally Tuned® Impulse Hammer w/force sensor and tips, 0 to 100 lbf, 50 mV/lbf (11.2 mV/N); one 086D80 Miniature Instrumented Impulse Hammer w/force tips, 0 to 50 lbf.

Two National Instrument-PXI 1042Q chassis with arbitrary function generator and multifunction Data Acquisition System; Infrared Thermography equipment. We have one FLIR Infrared Camera (~8k value), one Infrared Video camera and accessories SLC400 (~50k value) for infrared thermography testing, and one FLIR lower end (~2k value) infrared camera.

Optical testing equipment. One optical table, one Nd:YAG pulse laser, several posts, lenses, and tools to conduct high-precision optical testing.

LCR meter, sensors, and general supplies to perform Electromechanical Impedance measurements; Miscellaneous: unidirectional and omnidirectional acoustic Audio-Technica microphones; seven personal computers, 2 laptops, piezoelectric transducers, hundreds of spherical particles of different size and materials to assemble nonlinear medium to support the propagation of HNSWs.

Neuromuscular Control and Robotics Laboratory The laboratory is broadly interested in the derivation of new control algorithms for rehabilitation interventions that combine functional electrical stimulation (FES) with a robotic system.

The research seeks to develop and translate state of the art FES technologies to improve quality of life and community participation of individual with neurological disorders. The theory tools used towards this research includes nonlinear control theory, neural networks-based intelligent control, and dynamic modeling and dynamic optimization. The main project currently underway is the development of a hybrid walking exoskeleton that combines FES with a powered exoskeleton to restore walking with persons with spinal cord injury. Equipment includes computers and data acquisition hardware for simulation and real-time control of the FES and exoskeleton, electrical stimulators for muscle stimulation, a Baxter robot (7-DOF dual arm robot), a body weight support system, a motion capture system, electromyography signal measurement systems, and a motorized leg extension machine.

Sustainability and Green Design Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) and energy consumption monitoring equipment: A dedicated IAQ and energy monitoring system was installed in the MCSI building. Energy consumption is sensed with application-specific (e.g. lighting, receptacles, mechanicals), panel-based electrical meters and HVAC system flowmeters, while IAQ data (CO2, PM, VOCs) were collected using the AirCuity OptiNet system. OptiNet is an indoor air quality sensing system which features a central sensor suite and unique structured cables housing air sampling tubes and control wires. Vacuum pumps continuously bring air from the sample locations through the tubes to the sensor suite for analysis. The OptiNet system was selected due to its compatibility with the existing campus-wide building automation system and its ability to measure air quality data at a high level of temporal resolution at multiple locations within the

building. The MCSI OptiNet data has been correlated with local environmental agencies’ air quality sensors to establish a reference standard, and the resulting data have been used in several peer-reviewed publications.

Recently, our research team has developed a mobile IAQ monitoring system or cart, which utilizes GrayWolf technology to sense total VOCs (TVOC), CO2, CO, ozone, temperature and humidity, as well as a 6-channel optical particle counter which can measure PM10, PM2.5 and finer particles. We have integrated developmental, inexpensive sensors such as the Dylos and Speck as a means to extend the spatial measurement capability of our mobile system, while relying on the finer quality equipment as a “backbone” for calibration and benchmarking.

Software: Licenses for the following specialized software include: - SimaPro life cycle assessment (LCA) software, including licenses for ecoinvent and other life cycle inventory databases.

- Statistical analysis software: SPSS, SAS, and SPlus.

- Computer aided design (CAD) and Building information modeling (BIM): AutoDesk AutoCAD and Revit, with updated licenses each year for new editions.

- Energy modeling software including EnergyPlus, eQuest, EnergyPlus, Design-Builder, Green Building Studio, and Trnsys.

Optical Computing Systems Laboratory The Optical Computing Systems Laboratory supports joint research with Computer Science in guided wave optical computing, communications, and storage. Equipment consists of two high speed sampling oscilloscopes: a Tek 11402 3GHz digitizing scope and a Tek CSA803 50GHz Communications Signal Analyzer, as well as a Tek 1240 Logic Analyzer, assorted bench equipment: supplies, function generators, etc. and facilities for PCB design and prototyping of opto-electronic subsystems.

Orthopaedic Robotics Laboratory

This research laboratory is under the direction of Volker Musahl, MD and Richard E. Debski, PhD and offers graduate and undergraduate students the ability to participate in research related to musculoskeletal injuries with emphasis on soft tissue injuries at the knee and shoulder. This research utilizes novel robotic technology to study the structure and function of the soft tissues (ligaments, tendons, meniscus, cartilage) at these joints. The facility has: 1) a robotic testing system to apply 6-DOF loads to cadaveric specimens, 2) a Shoulder Testing Apparatus r4 to simulate muscle loading at the knee and shoulder, and 3) a materials testing machine. These capabilities are enhanced by supporting equipment that can measure joint contact pressures; tissue deformations and forces during joint loading. State-ofthe-art fluoroscopy, ultrasound, and arthroscopy systems are also available.

Orthopaedic Engineering Laboratory The Orthopaedic Engineering Laboratory is collaboration between the Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Department and the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh. This lab performs computational simulation and experimental evaluation of surgical procedures, injury modeling and assessment of biomechanical functions. Other activities included the medical device development, tissues engineering, characterization of tissue properties and quantitative anatomical description. The goal of this lab is the advancement of othopaedic medicine through the application of engineering analysis.

Pavement Mechanics and Materials Laboratory The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Pavement Mechanics and Materials Laboratory has developed into an all-encompassing laboratory equipped to perform a full range of tasks including the casting, curing and testing of everything from concrete specimens to full-scale pavements.

The 2700 ft2 facility features the latest equipment in both destructive and non-destructive testing of Portland cement concrete. Housed within the lab are two environmentally controlled rooms. The 1007-ft3 room can be adjusted to replicate a wide range of environmental conditions for curing Portland cement concrete test specimens while the 630-ft3 room is maintained at a constant temperature and humidity for determining the drying-shrinkage properties of concrete in accordance with ASTM-157. The laboratory is equipped with everything needed for measuring basic aggregate properties such as the gradation, absorption capacity and specific gravity, as well as, more detailed characterizations such as determining wear resistance using the Los Angeles abrasion machine or running a micro-deval test. A 5.5 ft2 concrete mixer and all other necessary tools for casting concrete specimens are available along with equipment for measuring the properties of fresh concrete. The laboratory is equipped to test the more basic properties of hardened concrete, such as, strength, elastic modulus and Poisson’s ratio along with the more elaborate testing equipment needed for measuring such things as the dynamic modulus, thermal coefficient or fracture toughness of concrete. Some of the sample preparation equipment available in the laboratory includes a concrete saw, core machine and a fume hood for sulfur capping. The laboratory houses a Baldwin compression machine with a large loading head that can be used to apply loads up to 200,000 lbs. and Test Mark compression machine with a 400,000-lb capacity. A multitude of tests can also be performed using the MTS TestStar Controller. The controller can be used for performing dynamic testing using a closed-loop servo hydraulic test machine. This system can be fed by either a 10 gpm or 60 gpm hydraulic pumps. The laboratory is also equipped with an accelerated vehicle load simulation test frame capable of testing full-scale pavement structures with simulated wheel loads of a truck traveling at a speed of 45 mph simulated at a loading rate of 4.5 Hz. The laboratory is also equipped for evaluating the performance characteristics of wellbore cement during hydration under in-situ conditions. This includes cement preparation equipment meeting API standards and a wellbore simulation chamber. The wellbore simulation chamber provides the unique opportunity to characterize the cement completion job at various depths within the wellbore.

The wellbore simulation chamber allows the evaluation of the cement job while using actual in-situ formation properties, a pressurized untargeted gas within the formation and overburden pressures representative of the desired depth of evaluation within the wellbore and as well as the in-situ condition of the casing and formation wall.

Photonics Innovation and Research Laboratory (PIRI) This Electrical Engineering lab is equipped with state-of-art facilities to perform cutting edge research in nanophotonics, fiber optics, advanced manufacturing, energy, and medicine. Laser facilities in PIRI ranges from sub-10 fs ultra-short pulse lasers to ultra-short wavelength deep UV lasers, and extensive collection of laser systems for laser processing, metrology, mid-IR, and fiber optical applications. Our dynamic laser beam shaping tools can synthesize laser pulse with < 1fs temporal resolution and < 10 nm spatial resolution to study and to optimize laser-matter interaction; to perform coherent control of carrier dynamics in nanostructures; to carry out highly sensitive metrology measurements.

Equipped with 6-axis motion control systems with nanometer accuracy, both ultrafast and UV laser systems can perform high-precision 3D laser manufacturing (micro-pending, 3D direct laser

writing, laser-assisted lift-off, micro-bonding, and other subtractive and additive manufacturing). A 12axis motorized integrated optical interrogation system is available for lightwave circuit characterization.

PIRI possesses strong fiber optical capability. A scanning laser writing setup is available for fabricating long and sophisticate fiber Bragg grating arrays (phase-shift, chirped, moire Bragg grating and long-period grating) in traditional silica fiber, air-hole microstructural fibers, and non-silica fibers.

PIRI has a rich collection of phase mask to produce fiber Bragg gratings in 1.0, 1.5, and 2.0 mm wavelength windows. A high-pressure (>200 bars) hydrogen loading chamber is available to photosensitize standard fibers or waveguides. Support equipment including multiple sets of optical spectral analyzers, fusion splicers, high-resolution tunable lasers, broadband sources (to cover from 980 nm to 2000 nm).

PIRI has board capabilities and expertise in fiber grating sensors and distributed fiber sensing using both Rayleigh and Brillioun scattering schemes. Working with industrial partners, our sensing expertise includes fiber sensing at both cryogenic and high temperature environments for space, energy, and environmental monitoring. PIRI also has strong mid-IR capabilities including Tm-doped ultrafast fiber laser developments and applications, mid-IR laser waveguide and fiber lasers between 2 and 4 mm.

Together with world-leading medical experts from UPMC, PIRI research engages in endoscopic therapies and diagnostics research to determine cancer margins, to develop minimal invasive cardiovascular surgical procedures, and to improve outcome of kidney disease treatment.

PIRI has unique expertise on development and applications of radioactive micro-sources.

Physical Metallurgy and Materials Design Laboratory The physical metallurgy and materials design (PMMD) lab performs research on different kinds of advanced materials, targeting high performance of materials in various engineering applications. The design fundamental tool is an integration of atomistic modeling, CALPHAD materials thermodynamics and diffusion kinetics, which are indispensable for microstructure optimization. The multidisciplinary research combines efforts on physical metallurgy, applied mechanics, quantum mechanics, hierarchy of materials microstructure characterization, and thermodynamic behavior analysis.

The PMMD lab has close collaborations with many national labs and industrial companies, such as Thermo-Calc Software Inc, NIST, Caterpillar, GM, QuesTek, Quad City Manufacturing Lab, and Argonne National Lab. Our current research are but not limited to: (1) thermodynamic and kinetic investigation of strengthening in engineering alloy design (2) materials and processing design for advanced manufacturing (3) modern computational thermodynamics for hard and soft matters (4) high throughput experimental methods and materials design genomic database development.

Students and researchers with interests on materials and manufacturing design are highly welcome to join the PMMD lab. We try our best to transfer fundamental research to useful engineering technology.

Pitt Circuits and Systems Laboratory (CASL) The Pitt CASL focuses on the broad conceptual understanding of the theory of computation using unreliable circuits, with applications to robust circuit and system design for scaled CMOS, lowdimensional nanomaterials such as graphene and carbon nanotubes, and computational systems biology.

Specifically, CASL researchers investigate cross-layer optimizations for adaptive architectures to address challenges of static and dynamic variability with CMOS scaling in modern embedded, superscalar, and multithreaded processors. CASL's research also addresses the technology optimization, device modeling and characterization, and novel design solutions necessary to harness the early science of novel nanomaterials such as graphene into practical solutions for digital as well as analog, mixed-signal, and radio frequency electronics. Members of CASL are also engaged in the development of discrete models and algorithms to study the dynamics inherent to regulation of cellular processes, which can lead to a better understanding of disease mechanisms, pharmaceutical drug discovery, and drug target validation. CASL researchers thus bridge: electrical and computer engineering and systems, computer science, device physics, materials science, and interdisciplinary fields such as computational systems biology.

Planar Lightwave Circuit (PLC) Laboratory This Electrical Engineering lab has complete design, growth, fabrication, test, trimming, and packaging facilities for both passive and active photonic circuits. This lab is based on a flame hydrolysis deposition system and is capable of producing single-mode and multimode silica waveguides on 6-inch wafers with thickness from 1 to 400 microns. The films can be doped with B, P, and Ge for controlling the refractive indices with a precision better than 10-4. Active dopants (e.g. Er) are also available. Fabrication facilities include a spin coater, a mask aligner, and a deep reactive ion etcher (ICP). The characterization facilities are capable of conducting fully automatic transmission, birefringence, and polarization-dependent loss measurements in sophisticated waveguide structures.

The packaging facilities include edge polishing, dicing, birefringence compensation, and fiberwaveguide bonding. The supporting equipment for the PLC laboratory includes optical spectrum analyzers, high-precision tunable lasers, optical multimeters, Er-doped ASE light sources, diode lasers (635 nm and 1550 nm), a polarization controller, high power UV light sources, a phase contrast microscope with motorized sample stages, a metricon prism coupler, a wet etching station, and simulation packages for waveguides and free-space optical elements.

RFID Center of Excellence The RFID Center of Excellence is likely the most well equipped RFID Research Center in the world. The Center is currently housed in six laboratories within Benedum Hall. Equipment includes numerous Real Time Spectrum Analyzers, state of the art Network Analyzers, numerous professional grade power meters, Spectrum Analyzers, LCR meters and all the necessary bench support equipment including as RF amplifiers, power supplies, various antennas, etc. The Center also houses two Anechoic Chambers and a GTEM Cell. Commercial RFID readers and tags for all classical RF bands are available for use in standards and performance testing.

Radio Frequency (RF) technology is permeating most all aspects of everyday life well beyond cellular telephones and pagers including the Internet of Things. The components to use RF in various devices are relatively simple to use and they extend the functionality of common household, personal and industrial, scientific and medical objects and equipment.

The RF Prototyping and Measurements facilities provide for testing and demonstration of novel and unique applications of this technology. The devices available include commercially available

components and custom designed devices built within the Swanson School of Engineering of the University of Pittsburgh. Examples include: implantable medical devices, low power communications, and human interface systems.

This laboratory is the home of the PENI Tag. The PENI Tag technology is an enabling technology that makes possible operational devices that are currently as small as 3 cubic millimeters in size with no batteries or connecting wires. The design of the small Systems On a Chip devices (SOC) requires the most modern computer workstations and software.

Chips are designed and simulated in this laboratory by a team of researchers. They are then submitted for fabrication over the internet to a remote foundry. The completed chips are then tested here.

The PENI Tag technology makes it possible to remotely provide power to operate a wide range of devices and systems that are used for product identification, such as bar codes in the supermarket, as well as sensing things such as temperature and humidity, and also to provide security functions.

Devices designed by teams using this laboratory have been the subject of extensive media coverage and have acquired the interest of technology and management persons of numerous major US corporations.

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Applications Laboratory The Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Applications Laboratory within the IE Department is part of the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering's RFID Center of Excellence.

The lab complements the work done at the Center in the development of RFID technology by focusing its research on the development and implementation of RFID applications in areas such as asset tracking, supply chain management and logistics. Facilities include software and hardware for testing readers and tags as well as other equipment such as conveyors and portals. Examples of current research projects include the optimal design of RFID portals and the optimal location of RFID reader antennae, evaluation and testing of tags and tag locations on consumer goods, statistical evaluation of data generated by RFID tags in retail environments, and the development of optimal implementation strategies for the EPC Global Gen2 protocol.

Radio-Frequency Prototyping and Measurements Laboratory Radio Frequency (RF) technology is permeating most all aspects of everyday life well beyond cellular telephones and pagers. The components to use RF in various devices are relatively simple to use and they extend the functionality of common household, personal and industrial, scientific and medical objects and equipment.

The RF Prototyping and Measurements Laboratory provides facilities to test and demonstrate novel and unique applications of this technology. The devices available include commercially available components and custom designed devices build by the Swanson School of Engineering of the University of Pittsburgh. Examples include medical equipment, communications and industrial human interface systems.

The Shankar Research Group The central themes of research at the Shankar Research Group are to characterize, control and exploit physical phenomena that are operative at the nanometer length-scale to engineer material systems with unprecedented properties. To this end, we focus on understanding the fundamental mechanics of deformation at the nano-scale, elucidation of kinetics of atomic transport in nanostructured domains and characterization of phase-transformations in nanomaterials. Facilities include sample preparation capabilities for electron microscopy and micromechanical characterization, microhardness and tensile testing and capabilities for the creation of ultra-fine grained multi-phase materials. Current research is focused on the elucidation of microstructure evolution and behavior of multi-phase materials subjected to severe thermomechanical deformation and investigations of development of environmentally benign machining processes.

Simulation and Medical Technology R&D Laboratory The Sim|Med|Tech R&D Lab is a multidisciplinary research, development and innovation center directed by Joseph Samosky, PhD. Its mission is the development of new enabling technologies for simulation-based healthcare training and medical devices. The ultimate goals are enhancing healthcare training and improving patient care and patient safety. Research centers on the development of both fundamental new enabling technologies and practical systems for healthcare simulation, particularly the user-centric design of real-time interaction, sensors, advanced information displays, learner-adaptive feedback, and autonomous operation. The aim is to increase the efficiency and efficacy of healthcare training by providing engaging simulationbased learning experiences with objective, quantitative performance assessment and built-in expert guidance. An additional core research focus is the design and development of medical devices, particularly those that incorporate smart technologies (sensors, information displays and automation) to enhance accurate, effective use of devices in life-critical medical applications. The laboratory fosters an inventive community of faculty researchers, clinicians, undergraduate and graduate students, and promotes collaborations among faculty and students of the Schools of Engineering, Medicine, and Nursing as well as external academic and industry collaborators.

Soft Tissue Biomechanics Laboratory This laboratory is under the direction of Jonathan P. Vande Geest, PhD and focuses on studying the structure function relationships of soft tissues in human health and disease.

Undergraduate and graduate students in the Soft Tissue Biomechanics Laboratory (STBL) are offered opportunities to participate in research that successfully integrates state of the art tools in cell mechanobiology, continuum mechanics, computational simulation, and bioimaging. The STBL is composed of a cell culture room equipped with the necessary equipment for cell and tissue culture, including several novel bioreactors for regenerative medicine and tissue engineering research. The STBL also consists of a main wet laboratory equipped with devices for advanced biomechanical and microstructural tissue characterization, computational simulation, biochemistry, molecular biology, histological processing, and medical device functional assessment. The STBL also has access to and manages an advanced intravital microscope for quantifying the growth and remodeling of soft tissues using nonlinear optical microscopy.

Sound, Systems and Structures Laboratory This mechanical engineering laboratory is dedicated to development, modeling, and experimental characterization of active systems at the micro (MEMS) and macro scales. The

diverse range of projects typically blend the related fields of acoustics, noise control, hearing loss prevention, vibrations, structural-acoustic interaction, controls, and analog/digital signal processing. A 1,000 ft2 laboratory equipped with state of the art equipment. Past and current applications include biological modeling and control, development of automated classification systems, applied controls, and hearing loss prevention.

Statistical Signal Processing Laboratory This lab is dedicated to research in wireless communications, biomedical applications, and software defined radio.

Stochastic Modeling, Analysis and Control (SMAC) Laboratory The primary mission of the Stochastic Modeling, Analysis and Control (SMAC) Laboratory is to support research that addresses the modeling, analysis and control of engineering and service systems that have inherently stochastic elements. Research in the Lab emphasizes analytical and computer-based modeling of such systems (e.g., maintenance, production, telecommunications, inventory, transportation and healthcare), and their optimization by exploiting applied probability, stochastic processes and discrete stochastic optimal control techniques. This collaborative Laboratoryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aim is to gain valuable insights into solutions to complex decision-making problems in uncertain environments. The SMAC Lab is primarily funded through grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Department of Veterans Affairs and other governmental agencies. Current research thrusts include the performance evaluation of largescale sensor networks; degradation-based reliability modeling and evaluation; data-driven, adaptive maintenance planning models; spare parts inventory modeling and control; multi-server retrial queueing systems; medical decision making applications; healthcare operations; and satellite constellation maintenance modeling and optimization.

Structural Nanomaterials Laboratory This lab is directed by Dr. Ravi Shankar and its objective is to characterize, control and exploit physical phenomena that are operative at the nanometer length-scale to engineer material systems with unprecedented properties. To this end, we focus on understanding the fundamental mechanics of deformation at the nano-scale, elucidation of kinetics of atomic transport in nanostructured domains and characterization of phase-transformations in nanomaterials. Facilities include sample preparation capabilities for electron microscopy and micromechanical characterization, microhardness and tensile testing and capabilities for the creation of ultra-fine grained multi-phase materials. Current research is focused on the elucidation of microstructure evolution and behavior of multi-phase materials subjected to severe thermo-mechanical deformation and investigations of development of environmentally benign machining processes.

Sustainable Nanomaterials Laboratory The Sustainable Nanomaterials Laboratory is led by Dr. Leanne M. Gilbertson, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering. Dr. Gilbertsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s research focuses on sustainable design of emerging materials and products. Specifically, her work aims to i) identify specific (nano)material properties that can be manipulated to control functional performance maximization and minimize inherent hazard, and ii) use life cycle impact assessment as a tool to inform emerging product design in a way that maximizes the net environmental or human health benefit across the entire life cycle. The lab is equipped for materials preparation, physicochemical

and biological interaction characterization, including a thermogravimentic analyzer (TGA, TA Instruments Q5000 IR), dynamic light scattering (DLS) and zeta potential on an Anton Paar Litesizer 500, electrochemical characterization using a PINE WaveDriver 20 Bipotentiostat with rotating ring-disk electrode (RRDE), Branson Ultrasonics Sonifier S-450 Digital Ultrasonic Cell Disruptor/Homogenizer with soundproof enclosure for sample preparation, Lindberg Blue tube furnace with custom quartz tube, a multimode plate reader (BioTek Synergy HTX), a microanalytical balance (Mettler XPE 26) in a weigh enclosure (LabConco XPert Nano) for safely weighing powdered nanomaterials (1 microgram readability). The Environmental Engineering Laboratory is equipped with BSL-1 and BSL-2 certified laboratory spaces as well as basic needs (e.g., laminar flow hoods, centrifuges, incubators, autoclave, UV-vis). The lab also uses advanced equipment available in core facilities in SSOE (PINSE) and the Chemistry Department (Materials Characterization Lab).

Ongoing research projects in the Gilbertson group include, i) elucidating fundamental underlying mechanisms of interactions at the material-bio interface to inform material design for dual function and hazard objectives, and ii) determining ways in which nanotechnology can be leveraged to maximize net life cycle environmental benefit in products for a range of industry sectors (e.g., sensors for hazardous gas detection, emerging agriculture applications, water treatment and reuse in hydraulic fracturing blowback water, antimicrobial composites, textiles and surface coatings). Her groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cross-disciplinary research incorporates aspects of materials chemistry, biology, and engineering, and includes both experimental and life cycle modeling thrusts.

Thermal and Chemical Analysis The department has thermograyimetric analysis and differential thermal analysis capabilities. DTA 7, differential thermal analyzer and a Theta high speed dilatometer are housed in the MEMS department.

Thermal Science and Imaging Laboratory The Thermal Science and Imaging Laboratory is equipped with advanced flow and heat transfer measurement facilities directed toward obtaining fundamental understanding and design strategies for advanced thermal control systems. Major equipment includes a subsonic wind tunnel, a particle imaging velocimetry, a computer-automated liquid crystal thermographic system, a UVinduced phosphor fluorescent thermometric imaging system, and a sublimation-based heat-mass analogous system. Specific projects currently underway include optimal endwall cooling, shaped-hole film cooling, innovative turbulator heat transfer enhancement, advanced concepts in trailing edge cooling, and instrumentation developments for unsteady thermal and pressure sensing.

Vascular Bioengineering Laboratory This research laboratory located in the Center for Bioengineering is under the direction of David A. Vorp, PhD, and offers post graduate, graduate and undergraduate students the ability to participate in research that seeks solutions for vascular pathologies.

This research utilizes a variety of tissue engineering, cell biology, molecular biology, and experimental and computational biomechanics techniques. The facility has a cell-culture room that is equipped with tissue culture incubators, laminar flow hoods, and equipment for mechanical stimulation of cells in a 2D and 3D environment; a wet lab which has equipment necessary to do protein and molecular biology research and mechanical testing of biological materials; a microscopy room that houses a Nikon Eclipse E800 research grade microscope

and NIS elements image acquisition and analysis system; and a computational analysis lab which has high end computer modules and engineering software for reconstructing and analyzing 3D models of vascular aneurysms.

Veterans Engineering Resource Center The Veterans Engineering Resource Center (VERC) is a collaboration with the Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Health System (VAPHS). Its goal is the development and application of systems engineering methods and principles to health care systems. These include analytical and computer based modeling methods such as queuing, optimization, simulation, and decision analysis. The methods that the VERC develops will contribute to data driven analysis that provides insight into operational problems faced by health care systems management and suggest potential courses of action. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Current research is focused on surgery scheduling, critical care management, reusable medical equipment, and prosthetics inventory management.â&#x20AC;?

Vibration and Control Laboratory The Vibration and Control Laboratory is devoted to the study of smart structures and microsystems. The primary focus is on the use of smart materials in a variety of applications, including structural vibration control, microelectromechanical systems (including sensors, actuators, resonators, and filters), and energy harvesting. The laboratory is well equipped for experimental and analytical research. Equipment includes computers and data acquisition hardware for simulation and real-time control of dynamic electromechanical systems; a variety of modern transducers and instrumentation for sensing, actuation, and measurement such as dynamic signal analyzers, shakers, high voltage power supplies, and amplifiers, and a variety of basic instrumentation and sensors; and a work center for constructing electronics and test rigs, with emphasis on piezoelectric systems.

The Visualization and Image Analysis (VIA) Laboratory This laboratory, directed by George Stetten, MD, PhD, is based at the University of Pittsburgh in Benedum rooms 434 and 435, and at Carnegie Mellon University in Newell Simon Hall A427. We are developing new methods of displaying and analyzing images, primarily for medical applications. We have introduced a new device called the Sonic Flashlight TM, for guiding invasive medical procedures, and are currently developing similar technology using optical coherence tomography to guide eye surgery. We have introduced FingerSight TM to allow visually impaired individuals to sense the visual world with their fingertips, and ProbeSight to give ultrasound transducers the ability to incorporate visual information from the surface of the patient. Finally, we are developing a new type of surgical tool, the Hand Held Force Magnifier, which provides a magnified sense of forces at the tip of the tool for microsurgery.

Watkins-Haggart Structural Engineering Laboratory The Watkins-Haggart Structural Engineering Laboratory is the facility at the heart of the experimental structural engineering research efforts at the University of Pittsburgh. This unique facility located in the sub-basement of Benedum Hall on the main campus of the University of Pittsburgh. The Lab is a 4000 sq. ft. high-bay testing facility, with a reaction floor capable of resisting a half million pounds of force (tension or compression) over any 3 square foot area. The high-bay testing area is serviced by a 10-ton radio controlled bridge crane and other heavy materials handling equipment. As a compliment to the reaction floor, the lab is equipped with a re-configurable, self-contained reaction frame and a suite of servo- and mechanical controlled actuators and materials test frames that range in capacity from 20,000 pounds to 500,000 pounds. The laboratory maintains a number of computer controlled data acquisition systems and a digital image correlation system. The lab has full-scale

nondestructive evaluation equipment and field-testing equipment suitable for a variety of in suit test programs.

Since 2004, the laboratory has specialized in conducting large scale fatigue testing at load ranges up to 50,000 pounds (220 kN). To date, fatigue tests totaling over 120 million load cycles have been conducted. The largest tests conducted by the Watkins-Haggart lab team were the 2006 tests of a pair of 90 foot long (28 m), 70 ton long prestressed girders recovered from the collapsed Lake View Drive Bridge. The lab has conducted extensive research for PennDOT, NCHRP and various other public and private agencies

John A. Swanson Institute for Technical Excellence The John A. Swanson Center for Product Innovation is a Swanson School of Engineering initiative that consists of four state-of-the-art laboratories that serve as a focal point for product development research and education at the University. The SCPI has been configured to provide a one-stop shop for University researchers and manufacturing and bioengineering companies interested in developing innovative new products and processes. The center ties together four otherwise distinct laboratories that parallel the new product's development lifecycle of design, prototyping, and manufacturing. It includes the Design and Multimedia Laboratory, the W.M. Keck Rapid Prototyping and Reverse Engineering Laboratory, the Kresge Rapid Manufacturing Laboratory, and the Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) Laboratory. These laboratories contain design workstations, reverse engineering equipment, rapid prototyping equipment (that allows the manufacturing of polymer-based prototypes), rapid manufacturing equipment (that will produce fully functional prototypes and soft tooling), and micro- and nano-scale design technology.

John A. Swanson Micro/Nanotechnology Laboratory The Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS) Laboratory is a newly established research and educational facility directed for design, fabrication, and performance characterization of various engineering systems in micro- and nano-scales. This laboratory is built upon the existing capabilities in precision manufacturing, smart materials and transducers, rapid prototyping, and semiconductor fabrication in the School of Engineering.

For the typical silicon-based MEMS processing, the school is already equipped with various workstations and laboratories for lithography, thin-film deposition, wet-etching, bonding, and device characterization. The Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Laboratory is currently expanding its research capabilities to both nano-scale devices and non-silicon-based thickfilm micro-devices.

New fabrication equipment, such as thick-film deposition/patterning facilities, deep reactive ion etching facilities, and special equipment to develop MEMS devices for biological and medical applications, is being established.

John A. Swanson Embedded Computing and Interfacing Laboratory The John A. Swanson Embedded Computing and Interfacing Laboratory provides a variety of the latest equipment and development software that allows students to design and test real-time embedded computer systems. The laboratory is used in undergraduate and graduate ECE and COE courses that focus on the interaction and interconnection of computers with real-world physical devices and systems. The facility contains 13 sets of high speed networked workstations, oscilloscopes, and

other related equipment used for demonstration and experimentation. In addition, the laboratory contains a set of nine Altera DE2 FPGA boards and a set of nine ARM Evaluator-7T boards. Each of these system prototyping boards includes a complete suite of design software that allows students to program, compile, simulate, analyze, and debug their designs. This laboratory was created through a generous gift from John A. Swanson, a Pitt alumnus and friend of the University.

Swanson Center for Micro and Nano Systems (SCMNS) The Swanson Center for Micro and Nano Systems supports the numerous micro and nano technology research projects taking place in the School of Engineering. In the Center, industry members have the opportunity to work side by side with the researchers on emerging micro and nano technologies.

The epicenter of the SCMNS activity occurs in the John A. Swanson Micro/Nanotechnology Laboratory (JASMN). JASMN is a highly specialized research and educational facility directed for design, fabrication, and performance characterization of various engineering systems at the micro- and nano-scales. This laboratory is built upon the existing capabilities in precision manufacturing, smart materials and transducers, rapid prototyping, and semiconductor fabrication in the Swanson School of Engineering. For the typical silicon-based MEMS processing, the school is already equipped with various workstations and laboratories for lithography, thin-film deposition, wet-etching, bonding, and device characterization. The JASMN Laboratory has recently expanded its research capabilities to both nano-scale devices and non-silicon-based thick-film micro-devices. New fabrication equipment, such as thick-film deposition/patterning facilities, deep reactive ion etching facilities, and special equipment to develop MEMS devices for biological and medical applications has bee incorporated into JASMN. ď&#x201A;ˇ Sounds, Systems, and Structures Laboratory ď&#x201A;ˇ Vibration and Control Laboratory

Student Awards and Honors HONORS STUDENTS Fall 2015 Top 2% Undergraduate Honors Students Seniors Zachary A. Barnes Thomas A. Bednar Logan J. Case Christopher Chung Emily J. Crabb Dante A. Denillo Hannah C. Fernau David C. Fudurich Garrett E. Green Le Huang

Sarah M. Ireland Alexander D. Josowitz Shane J. Martin Isaac A. Mastalski Jeremy E. Miller Cameron D. Myers Scott D. Overacker Kenneth S. Pechtl Henry T. Phalen Erin M. Sarosi

Nicholas J. Shea Timothy M. Shearer Jr. Stephen C. Snow Abraham E. Stucky Quentin J. Torgerson Garrett J. White Benjamin Y. Yeh Nicholas A. Zervoudis Toby Zhu

Maxwell G. Lindsay Samuel A. Nosenzo Qihang Ou Sara A. Pike Stephen P. Provencher

Andrew D. Ragonese Christopher J. Siak Eric G. Stratman Abigail A. Wezelis

Donald E. Kline Jr. Stephanie F. Lee Tyler D. McCauley Eric D. Moe

Michael J. Moody Joshua B. Selling Tyler D. Wolf

Juniors Akila B. Amaratunga Jennifer Cashman Aaron T. Johnson Ben Z. Knopfmacher Anne C. Lertola

2015 Graduates Corey J. Blackwell Claudie Blignaut Matthew J. Hilger Zachary S. Kauffman

AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION FELLOWS RESEARCH DAY 2015 BASIC SCIENCE CATEGORY SECOND PLACE AWARD, to Timothy R. Jackson.

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS PROFESSIONAL PROMISE AWARD, to Payton N. Forrest.

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION COOPERATIVE AND EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION DIVISION 2015 NATIONAL INTERN STUDENT OF THE YEAR, recognition for outstanding performance at work, to Gian-Gabriel Garcia.

ARCS FOUNDATION PITTSBURGH CHAPTER FREED-JONE-MEADOWCROFT AWARD, to Michelle R. Heusser.

MICHAEL BAKER CORPORATION SCHOLARSHIP IN CIVIL ENGINEERING, for meritorious civil engineering students, to Hannah C. Fernau and Elisabeth C. Lively.

ELIZABETH U. BARANGER PREDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP, to Erinn M. Grigsby.

BASHIOUM AWARD IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, for participation in departmental activities in chemical and petroleum engineering, to Elyse D. Dumas.

JOHN F. BAZYK ENDOWED RESOURCE FUND, to Sarah T. Akintoye.

RUSSELL VOHR BECKETT AND HAZEL LEY BECKETT SCHOLARSHIP IN ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING, for undergraduate students in electrical or computer engineering, to Emily J. Crabb.

THE BERENFIELD FAMILY ENGINEERING LEGACY FUND FOR BIOENGINEERING, to Brian J. Martin.

PHYLLIS S. BERSON SCHOLARSHIP, to an outstanding student in engineering, to Emily D. Adelsohn.

SELWYN D. BERSON SCHOLARSHIP, to outstanding students in engineering, to Brianna V. Birk, Bianca De, Julie C. Fornaciari, and Deepa Issar.

GEORGE M. BEVIER FELLOWSHIPS, to Yashar Aucie and Stephanie A. Wiltman.

BRACKENRIDGE UNDERGRADUATE SUMMER RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP, to Alexandra M. Delazio.

BRASKEM AMERICA, INC. FELLOWSHIP AWARD, for a student in chemical and petroleum engineering, to Andrew J. Kozbial.

PAUL R. AND ANN T. BRIDGES SCHOLARSHIP, for an undergraduate student in civil and environmental engineering concentrating in construction management, to Renee M. Corbett.

DAVID BUNDY SCHOLARSHIP FUND, for meritorious undergraduate students in engineering, to Lynette C. Cohen, Courtney T. Eason, Margaret E. Lucas, and Garrett S. Ott. FRANCIS J. BURTT SCHOLARSHIP, to Katrina Weinmann.

SHIO-MING CHIANG UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP IN CHEMICAL AND PETROLEUM ENGINEERING, to Samantha J. Heidlebaugh, Bryce A. Kampfe, Ouiam Koubaa, Amanda J. Ward, and Andrew C. Wright.

GEORGE H. CLAPP SCHOLARSHIP, for academic merit, to Janae N. Butler, Alyssa M. Ferdetta, Shealyn E. Forshee, Bon C. Ikwuagwu, Ashley A. John, and Elinor Lou. LON H. COLBORN SCHOLARSHIP IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING, for a deserving student majoring in chemical and petroleum engineering, to Maura A. Beck.

WILLIAM R. COOK SCHOLARSHIP, for a deserving student in chemical and petroleum engineering, to Brandon I. Nelson.

JAMES COULL MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP, for an outstanding graduate student in the chemical and petroleum engineering department, to Omar M. Basha.

COVESTRO AWARD, to Ian D. Abrahamsen, Natalie M. Isenberg, and Jill C. Palski.

HARVEY L. CUPP JR. SCHOLARSHIP, for deserving students in mechanical engineering, to Brandon M. Bennett, Michael L. Greene, and Stephanie N. Viscovich.

DEANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SCHOLARSHIP, for outstanding academic achievement and contribution to the educational mission of the Swanson School of Engineering, to Hashim A. Al-Hassan, Pei Liu, and Poovaiah M. Palangappa.

JAMES AND MARGARET DEGNAN SCHOLARSHIP, for undergraduate students in chemical and petroleum engineering, to Bridget S. Derksen, Nina F. Obwald, and Joshua M. Peters.

RALPH W. DENISEVICZ MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP, for an outstanding electrical engineering student, to Mariam M. Khalil.

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL AND PETROLEUM ENGINEERING ANNUAL RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM GRADUATE OMEGA CHI EPSILON AWARD, to Andrew J. Glowacki, Sharlee L. Mahoney, and Thomas C. Richardson.

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL AND PETROLEUM ENGINEERING ANNUAL RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM UNDERGRADUATE OMEGA CHI EPSILON AWARD, to Natalie M. Isenberg and Gautam Swamynathan.

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL AND PETROLEUM ENGINEERING OUTSTANDING PHD PAPER AWARD, to Natalie A. Austin, Pavlo Kostetskyy, and Melissa Lash.

DICK QUASI SCHOLARSHIP, to Katelyn F. Axman, Lauren E. Field, Joy A. Frazier, Mary J. Heddinger, Summer E. Jiries, Leah Kaighn, Emma L. McBride, Meredith P. Meyer, Samantha Morin, Rachel E. Sides, Melissa R. Smith, Vani H. Sundaram, Hannah G. Thombs, and Jennifer J. Zhuang.

GEORGE S. DIVELY UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP, for academic achievement in engineering, to Kimberley L. Dickinson.

SAMUEL J. EASTON JR. MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP, for outstanding upperclassmen in electrical engineering, to Jessica N. Schneider.

EATON MULTICULTURAL SCHOLARSHIP, to Mara C. Palmer and John H. Walker.

ENGINEERING MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP, for achievements and leadership in engineering, to Casey C. Tompkins-Rhoades.

WILSON J. AND KAREN A. FARMERIE FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP, for undergraduate students in mechanical engineering, to Jennifer E. Bracken, Caren T. Dieglio, Rachel A. Dunn, Carolyn L. Normile, and Rowan P. Walker.

FESSENDEN-TROTT SCHOLARSHIP, for outstanding scholastic merit and activities, to Robert J. Donahoe, Kevin M. Fleischmann, Mark H. Russell, and David J. Skrovanek.

REGIS F. FILTZ SCHOLARSHIP, for a qualified student in engineering, to Chloe S. Kaunitz.

PAUL F. FULTON MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP, for academic achievement in chemical and petroleum engineering, to Payton N. Forrest, Ian J. Moy, and Sara S. Saidman.

ALBERT E. AND OLGA GAZALIE ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP, for high academic achievement in engineering at the undergraduate level, to Peter C. Carter, Conor K. Peyton, and Abigail A. Wezelis.

GENERAL MOTORS FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP FOR MINORITIES, for academic achievement, to Annmarie N. Grant and Oghogho M. Igbineweka.

GENERAL MOTORS FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP FOR WOMEN, for academic achievement, to Erin M. Sarosi.

BARRY M. GOLDWATER SCHOLARSHIP, won in national competition, for outstanding U.S. students with excellent records and demonstrated interest in, and potential for, careers in mathematics, the natural sciences, and engineering, to Zachary A. Barnes.

HUMAN ENGINEERING RESEARCH LABORATORY ASPIRE SUMMER REU BEST SCIENTIFIC PAPER AWARD, to Alexandra M. Delazio.

IEEE NUCLEAR AND PLASMA SCIENCE SOCIETY RONALD J. JASZCZAK GRADUATE AWARD, to Matthew J. Oborski.

INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS POWER AND ENERGY SOCIETY SCHOLARSHIP PLUS INITIATIVE, to Stephanie P. Cortes, Santino F. Graziani, and Emma B. Raszmann.

INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERS DWIGHT D. GARDNER SCHOLARSHIP, in recognition of graduate and undergraduate industrial engineering students for academic excellence and campus leadership, to Garrett J. White.

INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERS HAROLD AND INGE MARCUS SCHOLARSHIP, in recognition of academic excellence and noteworthy contribution to the development of the industrial engineering profession, to Justin F. Traino.

INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERS MATERIAL HANDLING EDUCATION FOUNDATION, INC. HANEL STORAGE SYSTEMS HONOR SCHOLARSHIP, to Daniel J. Allison.

INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERS MATERIAL HANDLING EDUCATION FOUNDATION, INC. HOWARD BERNSTEIN SCHOLARSHIP, to Joseph A. Leone.

INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERS MATERIAL HANDLING EDUCATION FOUNDATION, INC. PROTECTIVE GUARDING MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION SCHOLARSHIP, to Sean P. Leone.

INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERS OPERATIONS RESEARCH TRACK BEST PAPER AWARD 2015, to Ashley N. Anhalt.

LEROY IRVIS DIVERSITY DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP, to provide outstanding minority students with the opportunity to become involved in research in engineering, to Ashley C. Greene and Martin J. Haschak.

ITALIAN ROOM COMMITTEE SCHOLARSHIP, to Jamie E. Cooper.

JACOBS ENGINEERING GROUP SCHOLARSHIP, to Jonathan M. Hightower, Casey A. McBride, Saundria M. Moed, and Alexander Weinstein.

ROBERT REED JOHNSON FUND, to Cara M. Ocampo.

JOHN A. JURENKO SCHOLARSHIP, for academic achievement by undergraduate electrical or computer engineering students, to Katherine Coronado, Autumn L. Good, and Donald E. Kline Jr. WILLIAM J. KERSCHGENS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP, for meritorious students enrolled in engineering, to Victoria E. DeVore, Jessie R. Liu, and Jonathan M. Mahoney.

EDWARD AND ALICE KONDIS SCHOLARSHIP, for an outstanding sophomore, junior, or senior student in engineering, to Molly E. Knewtson.

KOREAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SCHOLARSHIP, to Mintai P. Hwang.

KOREAN SOCIETY FOR BIOMATERIALS BEST POSTER AWARD, to Mintai P. Hwang.

FRANK W. KOZEL SCHOLARSHIP IN ENGINEERING, for a meritorious student, to Mary B. Hassan.

JOSEPH F. LAGNESE JR. AFRICAN AMERICAN FELLOWSHIP FUND IN ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING, to Jelani Jahi Virgo.

JOSEPH AND HELEN LAI SCHOLARSHIP, to Monica L. Bell, Elizabeth C. Bottorff, Lauren A. Fox, Taylor G. Jones, and Katherine S. Poduska.

KARL H. LEWIS IMPACT ALUMNI ENDOWED FUND, to Victoria C. Mbakwe.

LUBRIZOL FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP, for outstanding students in chemical and petroleum engineering, to Julie C. Fornaciari, Matthew S. Pulleo, and Sarah A. Trossman.

ROBERT LUFFY ENDOWED FUND IN THE DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING, to Alexis P. Wesenberg.

ROBERT V.D. LUFT SCHOLARSHIP, for academic merit in engineering, to Mara C. Palmer.

RICHARD J. MADDEN FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP, for undergraduate electrical or computer engineering students, to Tyler A. Kim and Samantha L. Porach.

THOMAS H. MADDEN JR. SCHOLARSHIP, for chemical engineering students, to Zane W. Barnett and Alexa N. George.

JOHN MAROUS STUDENT LEADERSHIP FUND, to Amy M. Howell and Brian J. Rhindress.

GERALD E. MCGINNIS BIOENGINEERING GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP, to support outstanding bioengineering graduate students, to Randy Lee. MCGOWAN INSTITUTE FOR REGENERATIVE MEDICINE 2015 PINCH WINNERS FOR OXI-DENT, to Kasey A. Catt, Zhanhong Du, James R. Eles, Andrew J. Glowacki, and Noah R. Snyder.

WILLIAM T. MCKEON SCHOLARSHIP, for a meritorious undergraduate student, to Alexandra C. Schroer.

ELMER J. AND CHARLOTTE MCMURRAY KIDNEY MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP, for academic achievement, to Shannon L. Gorman.

RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS, to Emily C. Cimino, Nicholas G. Franconi, Patrick T. Lewis, and Stephen M. Whaite.

JOHN M. MILLIKEN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP, for meritorious students from Allegheny County, Pa., enrolled in engineering, to Christine M. Baker, Eileen L. Burke, Chelsea M. Carter, Michelle M. Hoch, Kelly R. Lynch, Kaitlyn A. Wagner, and Lia L. Winter.

FRANK E. MOSIER SCHOLARSHIP, for engineering honor students from Elk County or Western Pennsylvania, to Angela M. Beck, Alannah J. Malia, Adam L. Smoulder, Sarah A. Trossman, and Tatyana Yatsenko.

NATIONAL GEM CONSORTIUM GEM FELLOW OF THE YEAR AWARD, to Sossena C. Wood.

NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CHAIRMANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S AWARD, to Mintai P. Hwang.

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP, to Jenna L. Dziki, Maritza A. Jimenez, Alexis L. Nolfi, Erika M. Pliner, and Carly J. Sombric.

FRANK V. NAUGLE SCHOLARSHIP, for deserving students in mechanical engineering, to Amanda C. Murau.

OMICRON DELTA KAPPA AWARD, to Michael P. Nites and Dhanalakshmi K. Thiyagarajan.

JOSEPH C. OTT FUND FOR ENGINEERING DIVERSITY PROGRAMS, to a deserving and qualified student, to Mohamed A. Kashkoush.

OUTSTANDING BIOMECHANICS STUDENT OF THE YEAR 2015, to Yashar Aucie.

OUTSTANDING SENIORS, to Corey J. Blackwell, Hannah Edelmann, Ryan J. Gongloff, Jonathan M. Goodwill, Emmett J. Hollyer, Donald E. Kline Jr., Drake D. Pedersen, Michael N. Rutigliano, and Donald K. Voland Jr. MARK G. PAPA SCHOLARSHIP, for undergraduate students in chemical and petroleum engineering, to Kavitha Chintam, Katharine M. Eichelman, Taylor R. Finn, Anne C. Lertola, and Joslin F. Sellers.

JOHN C. PAPP ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP, to Emily E. Kieffer.

PEX CLASS OF 1949 ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP, for outstanding students in engineering, to Sidney E. Cannon-Bailey, Jennifer A. Cortes, and Shruti K. Vampati.

PJ DICK INCORPORATED/TRUMBULL CORPORATION SCHOLARSHIP, to Nicole M. Dejean.

PROVOST DEVELOPMENT FUND, to Bradley Campbell and Sharlee L. Mahoney.

RANDALL FAMILY BIG IDEA COMPETITION GRAND PRIZE WINNER FOR OXI-DENT, to Kasey A. Catt, Zhanhon Du, James R. Eles, Andrew J. Glowacki, and Noah R. Snyder.

CHARLES M. RUSSELL SCHOLARSHIP, for a sophomore, junior, or senior in civil and environmental engineering, to Veronica A. Boyce and Sarah C. Russek.

ROBERT E. RUMCIK â&#x20AC;&#x2122;68 SCHOLARSHIP, for academic merit in materials science and engineering, to David C. Fudurich and Emma Sullivan.

GEORGE R. SHIARELLA SCHOLARSHIP, for high scholastic achievement in chemical and petroleum engineering, to Macy E. Divens and Bryce A. Kampke.

JAMES W. SHIELDS ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP, for industrial engineering students, to Victoria A. Portier.

SILENT HOIST AND CRANE COMPANY AWARD, for meritorious achievement in chemical engineering, to Cassidy N. Teixeira.

EDWARD J. SLACK ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP, for academic achievement by engineering students, to Laura E. Bechard, Breanna T. Bogan, Marci M. Carter, Suzanne M. Fischer, Avin Khera, Abigail E. Loneker, and Saundria M. Moed.

LESTER C. SNYDER JR. AWARD, to David Matelan, Joab Naylor, Charles R. Riddle, and Paul Wozniak.

SOCIETY FOR BIOMATERIALS ENGINEERING CELLS AND THEIR MICROENVIRONMENT POSTER AWARD, to Mahdis Shayan.

SOCIETY FOR BIOMATERIALS STUDENT AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING RESEARCH, to Abigail E. Loneker.

SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS BAYER SCHOLARSHIP, to Mahalia Bradford.

SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS BECHTEL CORPORATION SCHOLARSHIP, to Rebecca L. Glucksman.

SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS CUMMINS SCHOLARSHIP, to Julie C. Fornaciari.

SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS OUTSTANDING COLLEGIATE MEMBER AWARD, to Dhanalakshmi K. Thiyagarajan.

EDWARD B. AND GERALDINE J. STUART MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP, to Isaac A. Mastalski and Nicholas A. Zervoudis.

SWANSON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING ENGINEERING GRADUATE STUDENT ORGANIZATION RESEARCH ASSISTANT OF THE YEAR, to Salim S. Olia.

TEXACO FOUNDATION MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP, to Sharif G. Abdelbaky and Ashley S. McCray.

MARGARET A. THOMAS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP, for students who demonstrate high scholastic aptitude, to Giselle M. Baillargeon and Sarah M. Ireland.

JOHN W. TIERNEY SCHOLARSHIP, for outstanding academic achievement and service to the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, to Charles J. Hansen.

KEITH R. AND MARTHA A. TIMLIN AWARD FOR AN ENGINEERING SCHOLARSHIP, to Stephanie L. Sexton.

THE TRANSLATIONAL SOCIETY 2015 TTS-IHCTAS YOUNG INVESTIGATOR SCIENTIFIC AWARD, to Shailesh B. Raval.

UNIVERSITY CO-OP STUDENT OF THE YEAR, to Nathan S. Smialek.

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CHAPTER OF SIGMA XI, THE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH SOCIETY 2015 GRADUATE STUDENT POSTER AWARD WINNER, to Timothy N. Bachman.

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH INNOVATION INSTITUTE MICHAEL G. WELLS COMPETITION WINNER FOR OXI-DENT, to Kasey A. Catt, Zhanhong Du, James R. Eles, Andrew J. Glowacki, and Noah R. Snyder.

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY OAK RIDGE INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND EDUCATION RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP, to Mohamed A. Bayoumy and Aidong Yan. GEORGE WASHINGTON PRIZE, WINNER, to Dhanalakshmi K. Thiyagarajan.

MICHAEL G. WELLS STUDENT HEALTHCARE ENTREPRENEURSHIP COMPETITION, second place, to Heather M. Bansbach.

GEORGE W. AND DIANA L. WHETSELL INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FUND FOR INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING, to Diana B. Hoang.

WOMEN’S AUXILIARY OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF MINING, METALLURGICAL, AND PETROLEUM ENGINEERS, INC.— PENNSYLVANIA, WESTERN SECTION, to Tyler R. Alan, Payton N. Forrest, Sara S. Saidman, and Andrew C. Wright.

WOMEN’S INTERNATIONAL CLUB GRANT, to Madalyn R. Fritch.

PETER J. WYNNE ’43 SCHOLARSHIP, to Dannah R. Gersh.

MARIE B. ZEIS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP, for students in chemical or materials science engineering, to Colleen Hilla and Kristin M. Zucarelli.

JOSEPH E. ZUPANICK SCHOLARSHIP IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, for a deserving engineering student, to Stephanie F. Lee. TAU BETA PI An honor society promoting integrity and excellence in engineering and honoring students who have shown a history of academic achievement as well as a commitment to personal and professional integrity. Initiates for 2015 are: Emily Dana Adelsohn Akila Brian Amaratunga Givan Mark Amaratunga Zachary A. Barnes Benjamin S. Bartholomew Eric Matthew Baumann Andrew William Beck Angela M. Beck James D. Braza Gregory J. Brunette Brandon Matsumura Contino Patrick R. Corelli Jennifer A. Cortes Stephanie Paola Cortes Emily June Crabb Neil A. Debksi Luke J. Drnach Michael Duli Alyson M. Egan Alyssa M. Ferdetta Hannah C. Fernau Julie C. Fornaciari Payton Noelle Forrest

Riddhi M. Gandhi Rebecca L. Glucksman Shannon L. Gorman Santino Fiorello Graziani Marshall D. Hartman Mary Jessica Heddinger Michelle M. Hoch Richard Lee Hollenbach Amy M. Howell Karen A. Hranek Amy M. Johnson Taylor Grace Jones Alexander Danels Josowitz Huaxiu Li Abigail Erin Loneker Fanghua Lou Lee Tylor Maccarone Jonathan M. Mahoney Isaac Amadeus Mastalski Meredith P. Meyer Jeremy Evan Miller Amanda C. Murau Emily N. Olson

Zachary J. Patterson Noah E. Perryman Brian J. Rhindress Piyusha Mahesh Sane Erin M. Sarosi Jessica N. Schneider Ryan Schwartz Sarah F. Shaykevich Nicholas John Shea Melissa R. Smith Adam L. Smoulder Evan B. Sparks Katherine Suzanne Subosits Gautam Swamynathan Robert Andrew Taylor Yajnesh K. Vedanaparti Aaron Joseph Wannemacher Daniel A. Whitehurst Corey M. Williams Kevin M. Woeppel Raymon Yao Kenneth F. Zamora

FALL TERM 2015 HEADCOUNT ENROLLMENT

Dept./ Program Bioeng ChE & PetE CEE COE CMS EE IE ME MSE Nuclear EnRes MSEP EngrPh EngrSC Special Fresh.

TOTAL

FullTime 265 451 273 231

Undergraduate PartTime Total 3 268 12 463 3 276 8 239

FullTime 177 102 87 3 5 119 62 113 43 2

FTE 266.2 455.8 274.2 234.2

194 234 506 52

5 3 14 2

199 237 520 54

196.0 235.2 511.6 52.8

22 25 665 2918

1 1 3 55

0 23 26 668 2973

0.0 22.4 25.4 666.2 2940.0

Graduate PartTime Total 19 196 15 117 42 129 0 3 0 5 49 168 11 73 81 194 18 61 8 10 0 0

FTE 184.6 108.0 103.8 3.0 5.0 138.6 66.4 145.4 50.2 5.2 0.0 0.0

0

12

12

4.8

713

255

968

815.0

FullTime 442 553 360 234 5 313 296 619 95 2 0 0 0 22 25 665 3631

Total PartTime Total 22 464 27 580 45 405 8 242 0 5 54 367 14 310 95 714 20 115 8 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 23 13 38 3 668 310 3941

FTE 450.8 563.8 378.0 237.2 5.0 334.6 301.6 657.0 103.0 5.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 22.4 30.2 666.2 3755.0

HEADCOUNT ENROLLMENT BY SEX AND RACE

Dept./ Program Bioeng ChE & PetE CEE COE CMS EE IE ME MSE Nuclear EnRes MSEP EngrPh EngrSC Special Fresh.

TOTAL

M 158 298 193 199

Af. F Am. 110 11 165 19 83 7 40 6

164 139 436 37

35 98 84 17

19 17 478 2138

4 9 190 835

8 11 16

Undergraduate Asian/ Am. Pacific Indian/ MultiHisp. Islander Alaskan HAW Racial 3 57 14 6 23 2 1 12 9 13 8 7 26 10 9 3 13 2

13 7 21

3 8 17 26

1 27 105

17 70

M 130 81 96 3 4 139 54 172 44 8

Af. F Am. 66 9 36 4 33 1 0 1 1 29 6 19 1 22 3 17 2 1

Graduate Asian/ Am. Pacific Indian/ MultiHisp. Islander Alaskan HAW Racial 4 26 1 11 2 4 2 1 4

3 2 7 1

4 1 1 1 1

20

42

1 1 1

1 1 46 207

2

1

Graduate Engr. Tech. Mgmt. Cert. (PT) = 0 (inc. in IE) Graduate Electric Power Engr. Cert. 1 (FT) 12 (PT) = 13 (inc. in EE) Graduate Mining Engr. Cert. 4 (PT) = 4 (inc. in CE) Graduate Medical Product Innovation Cert. (PT) = 0 (inc. in Bioeng) Graduate Nuclear Engr. Cert. (PT) = 0 (inc. in ME) Graduate Safety Engineering Cert. 1 (PT) = 1 (inc. In IE)

99

7

5

1

738

230

27

1

0

16

Af. M F Am. Hisp.

288 176 20 7 379 201 23 8 289 116 8 10 202 40 7 7 4 1 0 0 303 64 14 12 193 117 12 5 608 106 19 20 81 34 0 3 8 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19 4 0 1 24 14 1 0 478 190 27 17 2876 1065 132 90

Total Asian/ Am. Pacific Indian/ MultiIslander Alaskan HAW Racial 83 1 0 25 27 2 1 14 17 0 0 8 26 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 17 0 0 4 8 0 0 9 22 0 0 18 1 0 0 26 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 46 0 0 0 249 3 1 115

FALL TERM HEADCOUNT ENROLLMENT Undergraduate Dept./ Program

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

Bioeng

149

153

178

197

230

254

287

268

ChE

190

237

263

308

322

370

434

463

CEE

273

278

294

280

282

274

260

276

COE

140

147

141

166

181

194

227

239

EE

171

176

192

183

183

180

182

199

IE

172

171

175

205

219

242

249

237

ME

315

338

363

385

414

438

460

520

MSE

24

28

17

19

29

36

47

54

EngrPh

14

8

16

11

8

2

0

0

9

24

27

23

23

EngrSc Special Fresh.

TOTAL

7

8

6

5

12

3

22

26

559

560

546

555

564

605

607

668

2,014

2,104

2,191

2,323

2,468

2,625

2,798

2,973

Graduate Dept./ Program

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

ChE & PetE

49

46

64

74

61

63

91

117

CEE

93

118

154

134

162

175

151

129

Pub Wks

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

COE

4

5

5

5

8

6

3

3

CMS

0

0

0

0

2

4

6

5

EE

109

126

128

144

148

161

167

168

IE

82

95

86

84

116

138

111

73

ME

119

140

159

199

210

195

199

194

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

35

44

44

56

56

48

60

61

10

14

10

Mining MSE Nuclear Bioeng

150

146

147

145

156

167

178

196

EnRes

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

MSEP

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Special

22

31

28

21

17

14

8

12

663

751

815

862

936

981

988

968

TOTAL

FALL TERM 2015 IN-STATE/OUT-OF-STATE

Undergraduate Out-of-State Total FT PT FT PT

In-State FT PT

Total

Graduate Out-of-State Total FT PT FT PT

In-State FT PT

Total

Totals Out-of-State FT PT

In-State FT PT

Total FT PT

Total

ChE & PetE

344

11

107

1

451

12

463

7

9

95

6

102

15

117

351

20

202

7

553

27

580

CEE

214

3

59

0

273

3

276

15

34

72

8

87

42

129

229

37

131

8

360

45

405

COE

178

8

53

0

231

8

239

1

0

2

0

3

0

3

179

8

55

0

234

8

242

0

0

5

0

5

0

5

0

0

5

0

5

0

5

CMS EE

157

5

37

0

194

5

199

18

41

101

8

119

49

168

175

46

138

8

313

54

367

IE

173

3

61

0

234

3

237

3

7

59

4

62

11

73

176

10

120

4

296

14

310

ME

402

14

104

0

506

14

520

21

75

92

6

113

81

194

423

89

196

6

619

95

714

MSE

36

2

16

0

52

2

54

3

16

40

2

43

18

61

39

18

56

2

95

20

115

1

8

1

0

2

8

10

1

8

1

0

2

8

10

53

11

124

8

177

19

196

209

13

233

9

442

22

464

Nuclear Bioeng

156

2

109

1

EngrPh

3

268

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

22

1

23

0

0

0

12

1

10

0

22

1

23

25

1

26

0

12

12

1

12

24

1

25

13

38

0

0

0

440

3

225

0

665

3

668

713

255

968

2235

265

1396

45

3631

310

3941

EngrSC

12

1

10

Special

1

1

24

440

3

225

0

665

3

668

2113

53

805

2

2918

55

2973

Fresh.

TOTAL

0

265

0

122

11

212

0

591

1

43

Graduate Engr. Tech. Mgmt. Cert. (PT) = 0 (inc. in IE) Graduate Safety Engineering Cert. 1 (PT) in-state= 1 (inc. in IE) Graduate Electric Power Engr. Cert. 6 (PT) in-state; 1 FT out-of-state; 6 PT out-of-state = 13 (inc. in EE) Graduate Mining Engr. Cert. = 3 (PT) in-state 1 (PT) out-of-state (inc. in CE) Graduate Medical Product Innovation Cert. (PT) = 0 (inc. in Bioeng) Graduate Nuclear Engr. Cert. (PT) = 0 (inc. in ME)

SWANSON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING HEADCOUNT ENROLLMENT BY SEX FALL TERM 2015

UNDERGRADUATE

28.1%

71.9%

Female

Male

Female

Male

GRADUATE

23.8%

76.2%

SWANSON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING HEADCOUNT ENROLLMENT BY RACE FALL TERM 2015

UNDERGRADUATE 0.07% 2.4%

3.3% 7.0%

0.03%

3.5%

83.7% Caucasian & International African American Hispanic Asian/Pacific Islander American Indian/Alaskan Hawaiian Multi-racial

GRADUATE

2.1% 2.8%

4.3%

0.1%

0.0% 1.7%

89.0% Caucasian & International African American Hispanic Asian/Pacific Islander American Indian/Alaskan Hawaiian Multi-racial

Engineering Cooperative Education Program Participating Companies 2015-2016

4 Moms/Pittsburgh, PA ABB Inc/Cleveland, OH Accenture, Inc./Greentree, PA ACell, Inc.* Acutronic USA Inc/Blawnox, PA AECOM* Aerotech/Blawnox, PA AIG Advanced Integration Group/McKees Rocks, PA Air Products & Chemicals/Allentown, PA Air Force Research Lab/Rome, NY* AK Steel/Butler, PA AKJ Industries/Ft. Myers, FL Alcoa AllClad Metalcrafters/Canonsburg, PA Allegheny Coatings/St. Marys, PA Allegheny County Public Works* AL Neyer, LLC ALung/Pittsburgh, PA Amazon/Seattle, WA American Airlines American Bridge Corporation American Contracting & Environmental Services/ Laurel, MD Ansaldo STS* ANSYS, Inc./Canonsburg, PA Aquion Energy/Pittsburgh, PA* Arcadis/Seven Fields, PA Areva/Cranberry Twp., PA* Army Corps of Engineers* Ashland Chemicals/Boston, MA ATI/Allegheny Ludlum/Brackenridge, PA ATI Industrial Automation/Apex, NC* AUMA Actuators* Baker DC* BASF* Baxter Healthcare/Round Lake, IL Bayer Consumer Healthcare/Indianola, PA BD Life Sciences/Franklin Lakes, NJ Bechtel Plant Machinery, Inc.* Bettcher Industries/Vermilion, OH Bimbo Bakeries/Horsham, PA* Black Box/Lawrence, PA Blue Coat/Boxborough, MA BMW/Spartanburg, SC BNY Mellon/Pittsburgh, PA; NYC Bombardier/West Mifflin, PA

BoozAllenHamilton/Washington, D.C.* Boston Scientific/Boston, MA Braude College/Israel* BridgeFusion/Murrysville, PA Bristol Myers/Devens, MA Buckman Labs/Honey Brook, PA Bunting Architectural Metals/Verona, PA C3 Controls/Beaver, PA Caliber Contracting Services/Pittsburgh PA Cardno ChemRisk/Pittsburgh, PA Cervis/Cranberry Twp, PA ChemAdvisor Chemours City Brewing Company/Latrobe, PA Civil & Environmental Consultants Cleveland/ Price/Irwin, PA Cohera Medical/Homestead, PA Columbia Gas/Canonsburg, PA Compunetix/Monroeville, PA Connors Group/Greensburg, PA Cooper Tire/Findlay, OH* Covestro LLC formerly Bayer Material Science LLC/Pittsburgh, PA Crane Company/TX, CA, IL, OH Crane Pharma/Nashua, NH* Crown Castle/Canonsburg, PA CSE/Pittsburgh, PA* Curtiss-Wright EMD Dana Corporation* Diebold/Canton, OH DiGioia Gray & Associates/Monroeville, PA Disney World/Orlando, FL Dow Chemical/Midland, MI DSM Medical/Valley Forge, PA DTE Energy E.I. Dupont/Newark, DE E.I. Dupont/Bell, WV Eastman Chemical Company* Eaton Electric/PA, WI, NY, NC, IL ElectroMechanical Engineering Associates/Pittsburgh, PA Elford, Inc/Canonsburg, PA Ellwood Group, Inc. Emerson Process Management/Pittsburgh, PA Emerson Climate Technologies/Sidney, OH Encentiv/Pittsburgh, PA Energy Management Consultants/Carlisle, PA

Epic Metals/Rankin, PA EQT Corp/Pittsburgh, PA EverPower Wind Holdings/Pittsburgh, PA Extrude Hone/Export, PA* ExxonMobil/Fairfax, VA Federated Investors/Pittsburgh, PA FedEx Ground Corporate FedEx Ground Facilities Fenetech/Aurora, OH First Energy Corporation/Akron, OH First Energy Nuclear Corporation Fisher Associates/Canonsburg, PA* Fox IV Technologies/Export, PA* Franjo Construction Corp* GAI Consultants Gardner Denver* Genco Supply Chain Solutions G.E. CATA/Imperial, PA* G.E. Industrial Solutions/CT. G.E. Power G.E. Transportation/Erie, PA GGB France, EURL* Giant Eagle, Inc. GlaxoSmithKline/Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, PA; Rockville, MD GORE/Newark, DE* Great Lakes Construction/Hinckley, OH Grid Solution/G.E. Alstom* Grunley Construction/MD Gulfstream Aerospace/Savannah, GA Harley-Davidson/York, PA Hendrickson Intl/Canton, OH Hershey Chocolates USA/Hershey, PA Hiperos (Opur Global)/Bridgeville, PA* Honda of America/Marysville, OH Honeywell Vocollect Human Engineering Research Lab i+icon/Pittsburgh, PA IBACOS, Inc/Pittsburgh, PA Immunetrics/Pittsburgh, PA Independent Can/Belcamp/MD Independence Excavating/Independence, OH IngMar Medical/Pittsburgh, PA* Innovative Systems* Inteligistics/Pittsburgh, PA Invacare Corp/Elyria, OH* Invensys/Siemens/Pittsburgh, PA IQ Inc. James Construction/Carnegie, PA Johnson & Johnson/NJ J & J/DePuy/Westchester, PA J & J/McNeil Consumer Healthcare/Ft. Washington, PA J & J/Ethicon Endo- Surgery/Cincinnati, OH J & J/Ethicon/Somerville, NJ

J & J/McNeil Consumer Healthcare/Lititz, PA K & M Wireless Kennametal Inc./Latrobe, PA KB Systems/Philadelphia, PA Kiewit Construction Company/NJ Kinsley Construction, Inc.* Kokosing Construction/Fredericktown, OH Kolmar Laboratories/Milford, PA Koppers/Pittsburgh, PA Kurt J. Lesker* L & S Machine Company/Latrobe, PA* Langan Engineering/Elmwood Park, NJ Lanxess/ Pittsburgh, PA Lockheed Martin/Rockville, MD* Lockheed Martin Aeronautics/Fort Worth, TX* Logistics Management Institute/McLean, VA Lord Corporation/Erie, PA Lubrizol Corporation/Wyckliffe, OH Lutron M*Modal/Pittsburgh, PA* Magna International/Troy, MI* Marathon Oil/Findlay, OH Margegaglia* Mascaro Construction Massaro Construction Matthews International/Pittsburgh, PA McConway/ Torley Metso Minerals/Canonsburg, PA Micro-Coax/Pottstown, PA Mine Safety Appliances / Cranberry and Murrysville, PA Mitsubishi Electric* Morris Knowles & Associates/Delmont, PA Mosebach/Pittsburgh, PA MS Consultants/Pittsburgh, PA MSP Technology* NASA/Johnson Space Center/Houston, TX NASIC/ Dayton, OH National Security Agency/MD Naval Surface Warfare Center/Philadelphia, PA/ Bethesda, MD NetApp/Cranberry Twp., PA Net Health/Pittsburgh, PA* Nevada Automotive Test Center/Carson City, NV* Nicholson Construction/Bridgeville, PA NIOSH/Pittsburgh, PA Nissan Automotive/Famington Hills, MI* Norfolk Southern/Norfolk, VA North American Forgemasters/New Castle, PA Nova Chemicals/Monaca, PA Nucor Corporation* OmNova Solutions/Akron, OH Omnyx/Pittsburgh, PA Parker Hannifin/Irwin, PA PA Dept. of Transportation/Bridgeville

PA Turnpike Commission/Harrisburg PCC Airfoils/Minerva, OH PCC Special Metals/New Hartford, NY PCL Civil Constructors/Issaquah, WA Penske Truck Leasing/Reading, PA Pepco Holdings/ Newark, DE Philips Healthcare/Reedsville, PA* Philips Medical/Cleveland, OH Philips Respironics/Murrysville, PA Pinnacle Heath/Reading, PA* Pittsburgh Water & Sewer Authority P.J. Dick Corporation/Pittsburgh, PA PPG/ Pittsburgh, PA* Polyone/Avon Lake, OH Powercast* PPG Industries* QinetiQ-NA RDC Inc./Bridgeville, PA Redzone Robotics* Reliability First/Cleveland, OH* Rhodes Group/Pittsburgh, PA Rich Products/Buffalo, NY* Richard Goettle, Inc./Pittsburgh, PA Robinson Fans/Zelienople, PA Rockwell Automation/Cleveland, OH RollsRoyce Nuclear/Pittsburgh, PA Rolls-Royce Aircraft/Indianapolis, IN* RPA Associates/ Wyomissing, PA Sabra Wang/NJ Salem Tube, Inc.* Sam’s Club Innovations/Fayetteville, AK Savvior Technology Solutions SCA Technologies/Greentree, PA Schroeder Industries LLC/Leetsdale, PA Select International/Pittsburgh, PA Senior Feelin Fit, LLC* Sherwin Williams/Cleveland, OH Siemens Power Generation/PennHall, PA Sonneborn/ Petrolia, PA Stevens Capital Management/Radnor, PA* Sunoco/Philadelphia, PA Tait Towers TE Connectivity/Eatontown, NJ Tetratech NUS ThermoAnalytics, Inc./Calumet, MI The Walsh Group/Canonsburg, PA ThreeRivers 3D, Inc./Pittsburgh, PA* Timesys Corporation/Pittsburgh, PA Tindall/ Spartanburg, SC Toyota/Ann Arbor, MI Trumbull Corporation/Pittsburgh, PA Turner Construction/Pittsburgh, PA Ulliman Schutte/ Miamisburg, OH United Airlines/Houston, TX Universal Electric/Canonsburg, PA

Universal Stainless/Bridgeville, PA United Parcel Service/New Stanton PA University of Maryland* University of Pittsburgh US Department of Labor/Pittsburgh, PA UTC Aerospace Valspar /Rochester, PA Venture Engineering/Pittsburgh, PA Veolia North America/Pittsburgh, PA Verizon Wireless/Bridgeville, PA Veterans Engineering Resource Center Virtual Officeware/Pittsburgh, PA Vista Metals/McKeesport, PA* Volvo Construction Equipment/Shippensburg, PA Volvo/Haeger, MD Walgreen’s/Carnegie, PA Wal-Mart/Bentleyville, AK West Pharmaceutical Services* Westinghouse Electric Co./Cranberry Twp., PA Whiting Turner/Baltimore, MD Wombat Securities* World Kitchen/Charleroi, PA Working Buildings/Atlanta, GA Yuba Specialized Bikes/California* ZimmerBiomet/ Warsaw, IN* Zoll Lifecor/Blawnox, PA

Graduate Level Employers Advanced Micro Devices/Ft. Collins, CO Alcoa Technology/Pittsburgh, PA Ansys/Canonsburg, PA Bristol Myers/Danvers, MA Broadcom/San Diego, CA Century Link/Monroe, LA Eaton/Southfield, MI EnerNex/Knoxville, TN* Ericsson/Plano, TX* FedEx Ground/Moon Twp., PA Futurewei Technologies* G.E. Transportation/Hanover Park, IL Geisinger Health Systems* HCA Healthcare/Houston, TX* Hewlett Packard/Palo Alto, CA Hospital Corporation of America Ingmar Medical/Pittsburgh, PA* TTS/Dallas, TX HUF North America/Greenville, TN JSW Steel/Baytown, TX Lucas Systems/Wexford, PA Mathworks/Natick, MA Micron Technology Mylan Labs/Canonsburg, PA

Procter & Gamble/Cincinnati, OH* Samsung/Richardson, TX Siemens Energy/Penn Hall, PA Simio/ Sewickley, PA SJ Consulting/Sewickley, PA Source Fire/Cranberry, Twp., PA

*Denotes new employer for 2015-2016

Tech Team Uber/Pittsburgh, PA Uniscite/Greenville, SC Virtela Technology/Denver, CO* Walgreenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s/Carnegie, PA

Co-op Participants by Discipline Department- Undergraduate BioEngineering

2014-2015 49

2015-2016 45

Chemical Engineering

160

168

Civil Engineering

127

117

Computer Engineering

108

122

Computer Engineering Technology

1

1

Computer Science

45

50

Electrical Engineering

80

93

Engineering Physics/Science

7

5

Industrial Engineering

151

154

Materials Science & Engineering

13

13

Mechanical Engineering

234

260

Mechanical Engineering Technology

10

11

985

1039

2014-2015

2015-2016

Total Undergraduate Participants Department- Graduate MS – Bio Engineering

0

2

MS – Civil Engineering

1

2

MS –Computer & Electrical Engineering

2

7

MS – Industrial Engineering

16

15

MS – Information Science

5

3

MS – ME/MS

7

5

PhD – Computer & Electrical Engineering

5

1

PhD-Chemical Engineering Total Graduate Participants

Total Participants

1

1

40

36

1025

1075

Participant Demographics 2014-2015

2015-2016

1025 Participants

1075 Participants

281 Female = 27.4% 744 Male = 72.6% 55 Asian = 5.3% 45 Black = 4.4% 868 White = 84.7% 17 Hispanic = 1.6%

299 Female = 27.8% 776 Male = 72.2% 95 Asian = 8.8% 35 Black = 3.3% 922 White = 85.8% 23 Hispanic = 2.1%

Graduate Level Co-op: 40 Asian = 100%

Graduate Level Co-op 97.2% Asian 2.8% White

Co-op Undergraduate Students 2015-16 300 250 200 150 100 50 0

2010-2011

2011-2012

2012-2013

2010-2011

2011-2012

2013-2014

2012-2013

2014-2015

2013-2014

2015- 2016

2015-2016

2014-2015

2010-2011

2011-2012

2012-2013

2013-2014

2014-2015

2015- 2016

Mechanical Engineering

184

201

217

222

234

260

Industrial Engineering

104

127

128

138

151

154

Civil Engineering

133

134

142

140

127

117

85

86

86

94

80

93

Electrical Engineering Chemical Engineering

105

110

118

142

160

168

Computer Engineering

78

81

86

93

108

122

Materials Science

5

4

6

13

13

13

Computer Science

23

23

28

41

45

50

4

4

6

9

7

5

14

22

23

34

49

45

Chemistry

2

0

0

0

0

0

CE Technology

0

0

1

1

1

1

EE Technology

0

1

1

0

0

0

ME Technology

3

3

3

8

10

11

Information Technology

0

1

2

1

0

0

0 740

0 740

0 797

0 936

0 985

1039

Engr Physics/Science Bioengineering

Physics

0

Co-op Graduate Students 2015-2016

MS - Industrial Engineering MS-Computer & Electrical Engineering MS - Bioengineering MS - Chemical Engineering MS - Civil Engineering MS - Information Science MS-MEMS PhD - Civil Engineering PhD - Computer & Electrical Engineering PhD - Bioengineering PhD - Chemical Engineering PhD - Industrial Engineering PhD - Materials Science & Engineering PhD - Mechanical Engineering TOTAL

2010-2011 20102011 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2

2010-2012 20112012 5 0 0 0 1 1 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 11

2012-2013 20122013 9 0 0 0 2 7 0 3 1 6 0 0 0 0 28

20132014 20132014

20142015 20142015 9 1 0 0 1 5 6 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 26

16 2 0 0 1 5 7 1 5 0 1 0 1 1 40

20152016 20152016 15 7 2 1 2 3 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 36

2015-2016 GRADUATING COOPERATIVE EDUCATION STUDENTS EMPLOYMENT SURVEY RESULTS 245/261 students (94%) responded to a post-graduate survey that asked: where did they complete their co-op rotations, if their co-op employer offered them a full-time position and if so, did they accept the position. If students did not accept a position with their co-op employer, the survey asked for information about their current employer, and all students were asked to provide their salary. Finally, students were asked if and where they were attending graduate school.

91% (224/245 students) are employed in engineering and/or attending graduate school.

FULL-TIME JOB OFFERS FROM CO-OP EMPLOYERS 2014-2015 Graduates (155**) 45% 70 offers 2015-2016 Graduates (171**) 48% 83 offers

FULL-TIME JOB OFFERS ACCEPTED BY STUDENTS 2014-2015 Graduates 83% 58/70 offers accepted 2015-2016 Graduates 85% 71/83 offers accepted

ATTENDING GRADUATE SCHOOL 2014-2015 Graduates Total .07%(16 students) 2015-2016 Graduates Total .04%(10 students)

Full Time Full Time

100%(16 students) 100%(9 students)

Part Time N/A Part Time N/A

SALARY INFORMATION

Total Responses to Survey Total Responses to Salary 2015-2016 Average Salary 2014-2015 Average Salary 2015-2016 Average Engr. Coop GPA 2014-2015 Average Engr. Coop GPA

Chemical Engr.

Civil Engr.

Computer Engr.

Computer Science

Electrical Engr.

Chemistry

Engr.

Science

Industrial Engr.

Mechanical Engr.

Material Sci

Bioengr.

ALL MAJORS

39

26

25

10

27

0

2

36

62

5

13

245

7

3

4

3

2

0

0

6

11

1

2

39

69,571 61,400

72,500

63,066

76,500

N/A

N/A

61,816

65,633

66,000

56,000

65,835

70,662 60,966

68,862

58,000

63,200

N/A

N/A

62,227

72,320

N/A

55,125

63,920

3.462

3.312

3.12

3.52

3.233

N/A

3.404

3.312

3.355

3.253

3.651

3.362

3.482

3.343

3.301

3.354

3.424

N/A

N/A

3.314

3.351

N/A

3.474

3.428

* *Numbers in parenthesis represent total student responses to survey item, 74 students out of the 245 did not answer if they received an offer from their co-op employer. For 2014-2015, 57 students out of 212 did not answer if they received an offer from their co-op employer.

This report does not include 25 additional graduates who only completed one rotation through the program.

SWANSON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING 2015 Student Placement Department Bioengineering

94%

Chemical and Petroleum Engineering

93%

Civil and Environmental Engineering

97%

Computer Engineering

100%

Electrical Engineering

95%

Engineering Science

100%

Industrial Engineering

100%

Materials Science and Engineering Mechanical Engineering

100% 96%

2015-16 Tuition Rates Term

Credit

$9,223

$768

Out-of-State Undergraduate

$15,330

$1,277

In-State Graduate

$12,201

$1,158

Out-of-State Graduate

$20,060

$1,898

Full Time

Part Time

Wellness Fee

$105

$0

Computing & Network Service Fee

$175

$100

Security, Safety & Transportation Fee:

$90

$90

Student Activity Fee: Undergraduate Graduate

$80 $30

$24 $15

In-State Undergraduate

Fees and Expenses

Degrees and Certificates Conferred (School year ending April) Department/Program BACCALAUREATE Bioengineering Chemical Engineering Civil Engineering Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering Engineering Physics Engineering Science Industrial Engineering Materials Science and Engineering Mechanical Engineering TOTAL CERTIFICATE Civil Engineering and Architectural Studies Energy Resource Utilization Engineering for Humanity Fessenden Honors in Engineering Health Systems Engineering International Engineering Studies Mining Engineering Nuclear Engineering Product Realization Supply Chain Management Sustainable Engineering MASTER OF SCIENCE Bioengineering Chemical Engineering Civil Engineering Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering Industrial Engineering Materials Science and Engineering Mechanical Engineering Nuclear Engineering Petroleum Engineering TOTAL CERTIFICATE Clinical Cardiovascular Electric Power Engineering Engineering and Technology Management Health Systems Engineering Medical Product Innovation Mining Engineering Nuclear Engineering Safety Engineering DOCTORATE Bioengineering Chemical Engineering Civil Engineering Computer Engineering Computational Modeling & Simulation Electrical Engineering Industrial Engineering Materials Science and Engineering Mechanical Engineering TOTAL

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

42 51 90 49 75 6 0 43 14 105 475

51 50 72 40 42 6 0 45 3 93 402

38 50 75 40 50 0 0 54 8 81 396

39 54 95 32 55 2 0 44 4 109 434

48 75 77 41 57 3 0 47 7 111 466

54 74 85 40 52 6 1 51 8 101 472

60 99 89 32 55 2 4 64 6 127 538

74 97 65 54 53 0 7 67 12 128 557

65 108 73 54 57 0 6 70 19 139 591

2 0 0 1 0 3 0 11 0 0 0

2 0 0 6 0 0 1 25 1 0 0

0 0 0 4 0 2 0 38 1 0 0

0 0 0 2 0 3 4 61 0 0 5

0 0 1 5 0 3 5 70 1 0 1

1 0 0 4 0 3 6 64 1 2 2

1 0 2 0 0 1 10 66 1 2 0

0 2 0 0 0 0 4 36 1 2 0

0 0 0 0 1 2 5 32 1 1 0

16 2 26 2 18 24 6 23 0 0 117

18 1 18 0 15 20 3 18 0 0 93

11 2 17 0 30 36 8 28 0 0 132

17 4 42 1 27 33 5 35 0 1 165

9 1 39 0 50 35 6 43 0 6 189

9 15 26 0 31 24 9 53 2 7 176

9 3 52 0 45 54 6 60 6 6 241

13 5 68 0 42 52 12 62 4 12 270

22 6 37 0 35 40 16 65 4 19 244

0 0 1 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0 0 0 2

0 0 0 0 0 0 2

0 0 0 0 0 4 15

0 0 2 0 0 3 21

0 0 0 0 0 1 18

0 0 0 4 1 2 14

0 2 0 1 7 1 9

0 6 0 0 9 1 22 1

13 10 2 0

20 5 0 0

21 5 1 0

23 5 10 0

15 7 6 1

10 9 9 1

19 5 15 3

28 4 5 1

4 7 0 1 37

8 7 3 5 48

11 2 3 9 52

8 5 1 5 57

7 6 4 4 50

9 6 7 7 58

7 4 8 8 69

12 3 6 9 68

24 10 7 1 1 13 5 3 14 78

Graduate Roster: 2015-16 August - 2015

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE

James R. Arneson Shemaine Efuntayo Benson Alex W. Dapper Ryan James Dolan Gregory R. Frick Marcus Gregory Jordan

BIOENGINEERING Robert David Mercier Kristofer Jan Pomiecko Tyler E. West CHEMICAL ENGINEERING Joseph Louis Andros Jacob C. Chrastina James Alexander Doody Mackenzie L. Johnson Bronson Wakefield Lockwood Molly Jeanine McKain Joseph Nero Stephen M. Smith CIVIL ENGINEERING Ivan W. Chauca Salas Joshua A. Grimm Brianna Raylyn Pinckney Benjamin Jeffrey Tyke Ran Wang COMPUTER ENGINEERING Collin Patrick Barth Kevin Michael Brough Michael James Heirendt Michael B. Kudlaty Mark Christopher Logan Yiming L. Song ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING Benjamin J. Booher Derek J. Byers Barbara Teresa Delgado Patrick J. Devlin Darren J. Hall Gregory Donald Hannah Thomas E. Pearce Brendan Patrick Rodgers Andrew Dennis Wolfe Ziqun Zhou

CERTIFICATE NUCLEAR ENGINEERING Samantha Lee Barszowski Jason Patrick Carney Paige Elizabeth Fernald Mackenzie L. Johnson MASTER OF SCIENCE

MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

BIOENGINEERING

Abdulrahman Abdulalim Mohammed

Tamanna Sultana

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Daniel Albamonte Samantha Lee Barszowski Samuel Thomas Bucior Bradley Michael Campbell Jason Patrick Carney Andrew Douglas Carto John Christopher Claudy Patrick Reginald Coval Luis Diaz Dustin J. Dombrowski Paige Elizabeth Fernald Kevin Joseph Halpin Sean T. Hart Nadiya Yvonne Jordan Zachary Scott Kauffman Shane Patrick Kelleher Cameron Paul Kraisinger Joshua Thomas Loebig Peter Cameron Lunsford John Claiborn Marcanio Ryan Michael Matthews Michael Alan McNinch III Nathaniel Harrison Mentzer Andrew John Milloy Daniel W. Reese Thomas Alexander Reuss Cassandra Grace Rzomp Edward Jason Silcox Mark William Stratton Michelle Nalene Underwood Kevin P. Williams

Yaqun Zhu

CERTIFICATE INTERNATIONAL ENGINEERING

CIVIL ENGINEERING Zhen Chen Anthony Morrison Kirstin Noel Neidich Guanyu Zhang Jie Zhang ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING Leonard C. Briggs II Antoine Dumortier Arthur Gatouillat Andrew Christian Snyder INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING Abdullah Abdulrahman A. Alomair Sultan Abdulrahman Althunayan Ashley Nicole Anhalt Ryan Sulaman Bhagratti Brandon J. Edmonds Michael J. Kandrack III Sergey Kuznetsov William Nicholas Lauer Michael Cleland Oyler Hamdy Ghassan Salman Aloys Timmermann Sandrock MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING Heath Brickner

ENGINEERING SCIENCE Nadiya Yvonne Jordan Roland Keith Beard II Martin Christopher Witt, Jr.

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Raed Bandar S. Aldhafeeri William C. Brinzer Andrew J. Feikls

Eliot Z. George Matthew R. Kaminski Zafer Karadayi Aaron Joseph Kunkel Dylan J. McNany Megan R. O'Keefe Sarwesh Narayan Parbat Andrew H. Starr James Eldridge Stumbaugh III Jason M. Toth Jared Joseph Wright Yiqi Yu

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING Brandon Michael Hamschin Shimeng Huang Wujie Wen Haifeng Xu INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING Sepideh Abolghasem Ghazvini Amin Dehghanian

NUCLEAR ENGINEERING

MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

None

None

PETROLEUM ENGINEERING

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Abdulrahman Husni M. K. AbuNada

Michael M. Whiston

Joseph Louis Kuhn Brett C. Lacey Benjamin Foster Longstreet Margaret Elizabeth Lucas Christopher R. Merz Dylan Thomas Nestor Amy Lynne Neuburger Robert Michael O'Dea Jill Christine Palski Zane C. Spiering Nicholas A. Sumoski Christopher Ryan Trevoy Melanie Ann Turner Kathryn A. Vasinko Kevin William Vose Amanda Jane Ward Anna E. Williams Amanda Elaine Windbeck Tyler Wlazelek Kyle S. Wolfe Levi S. Wolfe

December â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2015 CERTIFICATE MEDICAL PRODUCT INNOVATION

CIVIL ENGINEERING BACHELOR OF SCIENCE BIOENGINEERING

Sultana Tamanna

Aaron Joseph Kunkel Megan R. O'Keefe James Eldridge Stumbaugh III

Nathalia A. Both Brandon David D'Aloiso Eric Haljasmaa Evan Jongmin Lee Santhiya Mahilkanthan Ian Patrick McIntyre Rebecca Lynne Miller

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

BIOENGINEERING

Ian Abrahamsen Daniel Curtis Adams Tyler Ray Alan Mohammed Nasser Alawad Rebecca Marie Arnold Andrew W. Beck Maura Anne Beck Christopher Mark Bellini Noureddine Boureghda Kirsten L. Carlson Steven James Case Megan Marie Cider Temika Charell Coley Domenic Del Nano Alexandra Elizabeth Ellis Anna G. Fazzini Payton Noelle Forrest Shealyn Elizabeth Forshee Michael James Hartz Penny Katherine Hausher Alexander Horn Collin Kanavy Ouiam Koubaa

CERTIFICATE NUCLEAR ENGINEERING

Robert A. Allen William Robert Barone Kathryn Frances Farraro Kristin M. Quick CHEMICAL ENGINEERING Christopher Ewing Melissa Lash CIVIL ENGINEERING Abdollah Bagheri Shauhrat Chopra Zichang Li COMPUTER ENGINEERING None

Joseph Allen DeFrancesco Nicole Dejean Justin Joseph Delmaster Robert Sinclaire Gehris Adrian Dhamawongse Goldberg Meghan Allyce Greenawalt Mark Edward Greer Mary Boylan Hassan Joseph Ruth Hastings IV Nicholas Marco Hoffmaster Emily Ann Holmes Matthew John Kambic Jiangmin Lin Le Lu Jordan Panek Alexandra Rose Paul Charles R. Raffensberger Renato Pietro Ruzzini Nathan Charles Schaeffer Timothy Edward Sismour Chad H. Smedley Grant Tyler Stahl Kai Sun Samantha J. Susich Garrett Scott Swarm Christopher E. Urtz John Howard Walker COMPUTER ENGINEERING Jonathan M. Albert Muneeb Rehman Alvi Leonard Aronson Reggie Deon Barnett Brittany Nicole Barry Jason A. Cole-O'Leary

Andrew William Croul Jessica Egler Jacqueline Harnish Kyle Gregg Hearty Jeffrey H. Josephs Benjamin A. Kerestan Jacob Alan Kring Jeffrey Osborne Mitchell II Shalin P. Modi Kurt A. Mohler Zachary Oscar Ovington Brendan A. Quay Nicholas Anthony Reiter Matthew Philip Schnur Benjamin J. Werner Tyler Dalton Wolf ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING Paige M. Bitler Sean Michael Brady Mark D. Bressler Keith Richard Conti Daniel Vincent Cornelius Robert Joseph Dumont Nathan L. Glotzbach Scott Reed Hally Colin Maxwell Kennedy Haroon Khalid Rafid Lateef Damian M. Link Robert Stacy Lois II William Dennis Lorenchick Matthew D. Mayrosh Taylor A. Merkosky Philip Robert Null James Charles Phillips IV Nicholas D. Reynolds Bacil M. Shaqqo Matthew James Sybeldon Robert Timmons Daniel Joseph Turner Eric Peter Walker Troy Daniel Weber Parastou Yaghmai ENGINEERING SCIENCE Michael R. Garver Lisa Marie Stabryla INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING Sydney A. Biggins Zachary Robert Birney James Richard Brucker Emily Ann Burger Mary Elizabeth Cook Jocelyn Anielia Dansey Soumar F. Daoud

Anthony Joseph Dinardo Brent R. Grove Trent A. Hess Zoe K. Horvath Kelsey Ann Knox Christopher M. Kuchera Danielle M. Lichty Harrison Alexander Lynch Sean Michael Mack Sean Maguire Brian A. Nelson Ryan T. Orlando Roman Peter Perdziola Michael Ryan Quake Thomas Luke Randall John E. Riddle Tyler John Rybarczyk Colin James Stephens Dominic Thomas Stokes Nicolas Evan Sunderland Kevin A. Thornton James M. Toomey Andrew John Treloar Michael Samuel Trentadue Brett A. Vuxta Seth Arthur Young MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING Victoria Elizabeth Campbell Daniel S. Chilutti Morgan Andrew Skapik Nicholas J. Thimons MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Matthew Anthony Adams Theodore Adam Beyene Nathan D. Budny Michael A. Calabro Adam J. Chervenak Alex David Cikovic Chad Corapi Nicholas Allen Cox Elizabeth Mary Craig Bhim Dahal Thomas E. Damarodis Robert Wesley Decker IV Matthew A. Egan Arthur Ford Eichelberger Julian D. Ferrante Kyle Fragassi Juan Menandro D. Gonzales Nathan James Harlow Nathan Ryan Hess Matthew James Hilger Eric Alan Hilliard Ian M. Jones Nathan R. Jones

Evan Hancock Kane Andrew J. Kearns Andrew Joseph Lawniczak Stephanie F. Lee Douglas Joseph Maronde Samuel T. Marousek Sean Patrick McHale John S. Miller Ellen Marguerite Moe Steven David Myers Evan Mogul Opall Cory A. Owens Ashley Alexis Pruitt Mitchel Refosco Yevgeniy Riftin Rachel Ann Rohr Alexandra C. Schroer Joshua Bernard Benjamin Selling Nasir Sharaf Daniel Gabriel Silk Thomas J. Smyth Patrick James Solomon Thomas Alexander Stimmel Zachary Allen Stuck Garret T. Sultzbach Steven C. Terrana John Richard Tritschler Shawn Patrick Walls CERTIFICATE HEALTH SYSTEMS ENGINEERING Seth Arthur Young CERTIFICATE MINING ENGINEERING Mark Edward Greer Emily Ann Holmes Renato Pietro Ruzzini Garrett Scott Swarm CERTIFICATE NUCLEAR ENGINEERING Andrew W. Beck Maura Anne Beck Bhim Dahal Nathan Ryan Hess Robert Stacy Lois II Samuel T. Marousek Sean Patrick McHale Bacil M. Shaqqo Daniel Gabriel Silk Amanda Jane Ward

CERTIFICATE SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT Brian A. Nelson MASTER OF SCIENCE BIOENGINEERING Janele Margaret Archibald Josh Barman Jeffrey Crandell Margaret C. Evans Kimberly Joan Fogel Brian Alexander Lupish Nicole Taylor McClain Krystal A. Pynn Terrill D. Richardson Heidi Catherine Rupprecht Matthew Charles Salig Timothy B. Sanchez Joshua A. Singer Abhilasha Singh Scott William Thompson CHEMICAL ENGINEERING Aman Kishorji Dhuwe Siying Zhang CIVIL ENGINEERING Halima Jamil Bariyeh Joseph M. Bianco Mengzhe Cai Peter Gordon Chambers Olivia Lee Colangelo An Deng Yuan Gao Conghui Ge Jeffrey Salvatore Giuggio William Kent Grinstead Christian John Hasel Russell Huffmyer Yang Li Chang Liu Darshit Ashwin Meghani Shawn Leroy Platt Xin Quan Paul E. Sartory Erik Rudolph Schuller Mohammed Shubaili Zakary Joel Sobotka Elyse Nicole Stachler Wey Jian Tan Alexander Salvatore Vuotto III Yuyang Wu

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING David P. Bobish Gregory Elliott Bossart Ken Cheng Michael Ross Fehr Cody Alan Koontz Siyang Liu Pinank Paresh Nagda Jordan Y. Ott Yu Shi Zachary A. Splain Brennan Joseph Vazquez Xue Wang Stephen Michael Whaite INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING Anish Ananthasamy Deepashree ChickmagalurNagabhushana Parian Haghighat Saurabh Jha Md Imrul Kayes Shen Liu Kenneth Norris Swathy Sreekumar Aniket Samir Surati Han Tian Xing Wu Jason Yablinsky Linyun Yang Yunjie Zhang MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING Matthew J. Kravec Brian Adam Krulik Joseph Kevin Liptak Fangda Yu MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Ryan L. Avril Xuefeng Bao Elliott Lord Burdwood Kevin Michael Butler Lauren Elizabeth Cuan Tyler M. Ferris Janet Jael Garcia Brian Sean Gordon Ashley Marie Hamstra Daniel Joshua Hauser Yanbo He Amelia Catherine House Francis Joseph Kreke Paul Jeffrey Kristo Kevin C. Laux Jacob John Leithner

Ying Liu Daniel P. McCormick Zheng Min Adam Michael Seelman Stephen Daniel Smith Brandon Robert Staudt Hongyu Wu NUCLEAR ENGINEERING Daniel B. Billings PETROLEUM ENGINEERING Paul Antony Christopher Michael Cadez Xiaocheng Lei Zhiyu Li Lian Liu Shaowen Liu Ziwei Liu Alimzhan Sepetov Efosa Christopher Uwaifo Jun Wang Meng Zhao CERTIFICATE MEDICAL PRODUCT INNOVATION Janele Margaret Archibald Jeffrey Crandell Saik Kia Goh Heidi Catherine Rupprecht Timothy B. Sanchez CERTIFICATE NUCLEAR ENGINEERING Joseph M. Bianco Elliott Lord Burdwood Lauren Elizabeth Cuan Daniel Joshua Hauser Amelia Catherine House Matthew J. Kravec Brian Adam Krulik Jacob John Leithner Joseph Kevin Liptak Daniel P. McCormick Adam Michael Seelman Brandon Robert Staudt DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY BIOENGINEERING Berook Alemayehu Christopher Albert Ayers Da-Tren Chou Zhanhong Du

Denver Michael Faulk Saik Kia Goh Daeho Hong Megan Ann Jamiolkowski Chang Jiang Jeffrey T. Krawiec Nicole Jean Ostrowski Sudhir Kumar Pathak Robert Gregory Rasmussen Noah R. Snyder Guang Yang CHEMICAL ENGINEERING Andrew Jason Glowacki Yung-Chieh Lai CIVIL ENGINEERING Sami G. Al Ghamdi Can He COMPUTER ENGINEERING None ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING Joshua M. Dudik David Glenn Loucks Quan Tao Vikram Thiruneermalai Gomatam INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING Sina Modaresi MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING Po-Shun Huang Yinkai Lei Marzyeh Moradi MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Emre Biyikli Yu Gong Douglas Tyler Landfried Sasan Salkhordeh Yangzhan Yang Pu Zhang Li Zhong

April â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2016

Zachary R. Wool Tatyana A. Yatsenko

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE CHEMICAL ENGINEERING BIOENGINEERING Jacob M. Bartee Laura Elaine Bechard Angela Marie Beck Kelley Autrey Brown Eileen Louise Burke Conor F. Calnan Mitchell A. Clough Michael Robert Coury Aaron David Dees Luke J. Drnach Alyson Marie Egan Paul Nathan Enick Rochelle M. Foley Joshua K. George Trenton Allen Gilstrap Shannon L. Gorman Victor Dang Hoang Amy Marie Howell Michael P. Jacus Alexander Danels Josowitz Molly E. Knewtson Hailee Rae Kulich Michael Linehan Jonathan Matthew Mahoney Lindsey Jeanne Marra Johnathan Allen Maynard Emma Louise McBride Daniel Louis Mercader Emily Pauline Mihalko Leonid Mirson Saundria Michelle Moed Ryan James O'Malley Matthew Preston Pesce Dominic Joseph Pezzone Tyler B. Pirkle Sandesh Raj Bryan Vaughn Romell Natalie Frances Rutkowski Stephanie Nicole Marie Schlebusch Alyson Marie Schlieper Stephanie L. Sexton Jaclyn Kristine Shields Sarah Joy Smelko Nathan S. Smialek David Michael Starkman Joseph M. Takahashi Jeremy John Teichmann Yuta Umeda Abraham Etu Umo Benjamin J. Wallace Daniel A. Whitehurst Corey Mulqueen Williams Kevin Michael Woeppel

Harry Elias Adamson Umer J. Akhtar Micky H. Binner William M. Bongiorni Madelyn C. Buntin Erin Elizabeth Carlson Jeffrey Mcfarland Carr Sarah Ann Casne Cara Ann Champion Dylan J. Dufour Michael J. Dukovic Faith N. Enz Vincent Paul Fagerstrom Christian Ference Alex Finkel Peter Flavin Sarah Anne Foran Samantha Heidlebaugh Suzanna Timm Hinkle Katelyn Holtz Emily Sara Howard Bon Chinaka Ikwuagwu, Jr. Justin J. Jacobsky Shuixin Jiang Bryce Aden Kampfe Elizabeth Hope Kerchner Bradley H. Kopp Jenna Kimberly Lazar Nicholas William Lotz Mark Evan Machi William Charles Maier Matthew J. McCarroll Ashley Sioux McCray Alana Elyse Monastra Ian J. Moy Cameron D. Myers Oleg Michael Mykhayliv Cara M. Ocampo Adam T. Payonk James Andrew Peperak Grzegorz Piszczek Adam Edward Renz Mackenzie Ross Rice David Z. Ritter Jordan Miles Rothchild Kirk James Russell Sara Suffrana Saidman Veenal Vivek Sample Jeffrey A. Schallick Brad Alec Shrum Adam Keith Torrance Arinzechukwu Uchenna Ufondu Elliott Michael Weiss Ryan A. Winner

Christopher S. You Yi Zhang CIVIL ENGINEERING Amanda Jean Albano Sean Edward Deleon Arayata Kwaku Boampong Veronica Alexandra Boyce Janna I. Brown Roberto A. Cintron Renée Marie Corbett Eric Ryan Danko Brian Stephen DeRuschi John Robert Doyle, Jr. Catalina Escobar Hal Theclo Hamilton, Jr. Joshua J. Hammaker Sean David Heiden Thomas Katelhon William Theodore Kelleher Burton Warren Leslie Kevin P. Link Derrick J. Lubomski Paige Elizabeth Lumley Jayne Ann Marks Jeremy Charles Marshall Rachel Irene McCune Salvatore Steven Monteverde Jack Palmer Ozaroff Corey R. Potetz Joshua T. Prines Alexander Raymond Prunchak Vaidas Antanas Razgaitis Trevor Charles Ridilla Rebecca Roskopf Bernadette Rossmiller Jamie Lee Roth Scott William Sachs Ryan Robert Shaffer Chase Alexander Smethurst Sarah Elizabeth Stephenson Nisarg H. Thakkar Rachel Asit Upadhyay Carl Dale Whispell, Jr. Malie Kim Yoon

Timothy J. Glorioso Nicholas Steven Hills Danchen Huang Logan Matthew Kausch Richard Kotermanski Michael Harry Colson Kuhn Trevor Robert Leong Kai Roland Manuel Joseph D. McClain Kanis Ahern Nealon Alexandru Pascal Brian J. Rhindress Phillip John Soerens Benjamin Joseph Tomasulo Matthew A. Vater Justin Ying ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING Alise Michelle Anzelone Mark D. Babjak Nicholas James Beardsley Stephanie Paola Cortes Josh Thomas Counihan Joseph S. Daubert Joshua A. Gluzman Dennis Albert Grabiak Jacob O. Hoffman Thomas James Jageman Natalie Suzanne Janosik Alexander Bruce Kline Abdelssamad Laaouaouda Hanlu Li Michael H. Milli Joseph J. Petti William T. Portser Anthony Edward Stimmell Mingzhi Tian Raghu Ram Vaddempudi Yilun Xu ENGINEERING SCIENCE Christian Gerald Bottenfield Giordano Michele Pugliese INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

COMPUTER ENGINEERING John Phillip Abraham James Daniel Arnold Ademusoyo Igbagbopemi AwosikaOlumo Zachary Austin Barnes Christian James Boni Donald B. Bullock Alexander Kirk Burval Emily June Crabb Nathan Andrew Dorman Joshua Leonard Fisher

Nina Linda Anater Brooke C. Bane-Herzog Allison Paige Bundy Alexandra G. Connor Brendan D. Demich Alyssa Marie Ferdetta Alex W. Fetterman Matthew M. Grachen Joshua Franklin Haupt Diana Bich Tram Hoang Jordan T. Houck Mary Adele Louise Keenan

Charles F. Kelly Daniel E. Knopfmacher Sean Reed Phillip Kurtz Matthew Peter Lasensky Taraneh Manesh Zachary Margolies Andrew Franklin Meier Lauren N. Morlacci Bryan J. Natto Jamie Leigh Nickl Courtney Marie Pepper John Anderson Pidgeon III Stephen Gregory Rose Nicholas John Shea Jaclyn Kristine Shields Stephen T. Teacher Thomas Karl Zacher III Mengyao Zhu Benjamin McCall Zimmerman MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING Shannon Davis Biery Corinne Jessica Charlton Chujia Chen Louis Byron Kish Yuval Krimer Nicholas J. Spalick Emma Katherine Sullivan Luke A. Thimons Zeyu Tong Yi Wei Yihui Wei Jingxian Zhao Chuyuan Zheng Yongchao Zheng MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Christopher Michael Averona John Walter Babiak Jon Bellows Jennifer Elaine Bracken Jusong Cai Clark R. Candee Elizabeth I. Cherry Star L. Cherry Patrick Ryan Corelli Trent Maxwell Dillon Colin J. Dingley Benjamin S. Dobies Calvin Flederbach Chuan Gao Daniel Andrew Gordish III Cameron Darius Gray Beau Ryan Gribbin Joseph P. Hancovsky William Simione Harlam Oghogho Monique Igbineweka

Avery Renard Jackson Spenser A. Jenkins Nathaniel Aaron Kissel Kyle Michael Kozar Daniel Sartorato Kueffner Pavlo Lebedyev Mason Scott Lester Colton James Loos Lee Tylor Maccarone Alexander Louis Mace Daniel Joseph Macfarland, Jr. Christopher S. Marciesky Matthew P. Markow Shane J. Martin Michael Eric Masley II Trevor Shane McCauley Jonathan Merti Zachary Lawrence Mester Amanda Catherine Murau Andrew Charles Neil Zinoun S. Obaid Adedoyin Bukola Ojo Bradley Dylan Pafchek Danielle Perdue Alexander W. Pieniadz Christian Alexander Pitts Daniel Timothy Rens Zachary John Scarton Luke McKenney Schuster Holly Frances Schutte Gregory Carl Steuer Maxwell E. Thorne Nino J. Tommarello Richard A. Tommarello Christopher J. Weise Arch William Wilson Victoria Zitzka

Jenna Kimberly Lazar Pavlo Lebedyev Mason Scott Lester Alexander Louis Mace Cameron D. Myers Bradley Dylan Pafchek Grzegorz Piszczek Holly Frances Schutte Brad Alec Shrum Nicholas J. Spalick CERTIFICATE PRODUCT REALIZATION Christopher J. Weise MASTER OF SCIENCE BIOENGINEERING Sowmya Aggarwal Anisha Butala Lisa Eleanor Carey Hana Christine Casalnova Timothy James Folts Ryan James Rightmer CHEMICAL ENGINEERING Roger Daniel Boff Tianyi Feng Dharmik Sai Mikkilineni CIVIL ENGINEERING

CERTIFICATE INTERNATIONAL ENGINEERING

Julia Cavalcanti Fadul Adam Lee Helffrich Zulqarnain Habib Khattak Samantha Lynn Mielo Nathan Neltner Shuangshuo Wang Bin Wu

Zachary Margolies

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

CERTIFICATE MINING ENGINEERING

Xiaocong Du Steven Grant Forrest Jiafei Gao Qiming Guo John Andrew Kaiser, Jr. Joseph Peter Kozak Xixi Li Boming Liu Kent Windsor Nixon Banock Cedric Ghislain Ofakem Xiong Qin Jiwei Shan Di Sun Fulei Wang Yue Wang Yuxu Wu

Joseph L. McFarland CERTIFICATE NUCLEAR ENGINEERING Jeffrey Mcfarland Carr Colin J. Dingley Calvin Flederbach Suzanna Timm Hinkle Jacob O. Hoffman Avery Renard Jackson Kyle Michael Kozar Abdelssamad Laaouaouda

Haokai Xu Zhenyu Zhang INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING Zhaohui Geng Matthew P. Hamilton Srinidhi Jagannath Ziyi Kang Michael Kravitz Kannop Mitsantisuk Zachary Kenneth Ramsey Joseph Cyril Sharan Suresh Kaiyang Tang Shi Tang Daniel James Vargas Tanvi Mukund Wable Tianli Yu Yi Yu Fan Zhang MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING Junyu Duan Evan James Fennell Petch Janbanjong Shijing Luo Muslim Mukhtarkhanov George Matthew Niezgoda Jiapeng Qi Fen Qin Hanju Sun Wenfu Wang Menghan Zhou MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Ibrahem Alshybani William David Anderton Jeffrey Louis Arndt Brandon Hays Bruner Benjamin R. Erne Michael W. Frewin Dongji Gao Qingyuan Guo Cong Huang Zhaokai Huang Lindsay Johannes Xianwei Li Tianjiao Lin Danijel Lolic Kevin Ronald May He Mei Tianyi Qiu Jonathan A. Schermaier Kurt D. Schultz Yen Jung Tu David James Uber Danial W. Utley

Timothy John Wallace Jau-Feng Yeh Qiang Zhong Qifeng Zhu Xinran Zhuang

CERTIFICATE SAFETY ENGINEERING Zachary Kenneth Ramsey DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

NUCLEAR ENGINEERING BIOENGINEERING Tair Askar Colleen T. Konsavage Leonard Cameo Rowe, Jr. PETROLEUM ENGINEERING Aishatu Abdullahi Mengru Guo Xuefei Liu Victor Hugo Meireles Gomes Robert William Noll Pedro Henrique Casa Grande Rosa Shervin Sammak CERTIFICATE ELECTRIC POWER ENGINEERING Lidong Cai Roger Anthony Giles John Andrew Kaiser, Jr. Mathew Pagliassotti Robert Gabriel Pfender Yu Tang CERTIFICATE MEDICAL PRODUCT INNOVATION

Hassan Kassem Awada Andrew J. Brown Amy Elizabeth Chaya Dariush Mohammdyani Bo Wang CHEMICAL ENGINEERING Sameer Satish Damle Andrew J. Kozbial Diana M. Lievano Ortegon Shibin Mathew Ari Anthony Pritchard-Bell Yongjin Wang CIVIL ENGINEERING Yuan Hu Kaiyuan Li COMPUTER ENGINEERING Mengjie Mao COMPUTATIONAL MODELING AND SIMULATION Mohammad Ahmadpoor

Anisha Butala Hana Christine Casalnova Ryan James Rightmer CERTIFICATE MINING ENGINEERING Aaron Keith Jose CERTIFICATE NUCLEAR ENGINEERING William David Anderton Jeffrey Louis Arndt Benjamin R. Erne Jian Feng Kevin Ronald May Gregory Raymond Stehle Timothy John Wallace

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING Jie Guo Iva Jestrovic Beiye Liu Hao Wang Qinhao Zhang INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING Maryam Hasanzadeh Mofrad Baomin Wang MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING None

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Matthew Michael Barry Xinjie Duan Jian Feng Nicholas Andrew Kirsch Giusy Mazzone Konstantin N. Tourkov

Swanson School of Engineering Faculty Headcount* Fall 2015 Tenured

Tenure Stream

Bio

21

4

25

ChE

16

6

22

CEE

11

7

18

EE

17

4

21

IE

9

5

14

MEMS

23

5

28

97

31

128

TOTAL

*Excludes Research, Visiting and Part-Time Faculty

Total

Faculty Profiles BIOENGINEERING Steven Abramowitch Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering (Primary), Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences (Secondary). PhD (Bioengineering), University of Pittsburgh (2004). Dr. Abramowitch serves as the Co-Director of the Tissue Mechanics laboratory in the Musculoskeletal Research Center. His research aims to elucidate the mechanisms of pelvic floor failure in women with pelvic organ prolapse and enhance maternal tissue healing following obstetric injury utilizing functional tissue engineering approaches.

Howard Aizenstein Professor of Psychiatry (Primary), and Bioengineering (Secondary); Director of the Geriatric Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory. PhD (Computer Science), 1993, and MD, 1995, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Aizensteinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s research interests focus on structural and functional brain MRI in elderly individuals with cognitive impairment and mood disorders. His research projects integrate the fields of neuroscience, computer science, software engineering and clinical aspects of neuroimaging and brain mapping. Recent projects in the lab include developing automated neuroimage registration and segmentation routines, surface modeling of brain structures, and time-series of functional MRI data. In more clinically-oriented projects, imaging approaches are being used to investigate therapeutic response to antidepressive drugs in late-life depression.

Alejandro Almarza Associate Professor, Department of Oral Biology and Bioengineering; Director of the TMJ laboratories. PhD (Bioengineering), Rice University, 2005. Research interests include: (1) Novel tissue engineering techniques, such as extracellular matrix scaffolds and progenitor cells, for fibrocartilage tissue engineering applications; (2) Quantification of the normal biomechanical properties and joint mechanics/motion of the Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) for determining diseased states.

Fabrisia Ambrosio Associate Professor, Departments of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Physical Therapy, Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, Orthopaedic Surgery, and Bioengineering. PhD Rehabilitation Science & Technology, University of Pittsburgh, 2005. Research interests include: (1) Mechanical stimulation as a tool to promote muscle stem cell regenerative potential; (2) The role of age-related extracellular matrix remodeling on stem cell lineage specification; (3) The impact of environmental exposures on stem cell function and skeletal muscle regeneration; (4) The synergistic effect of clinical rehabilitation approaches with regenerative medicine interventions to enhance functional outcomes.

Carolyn J. Anderson Professor, Department of Medicine (primary), Radiology (secondary), Bioengineering (secondary), Pharmacology and Chemical Biology (secondary). PhD (Inorganic Chemistry), Florida State University (1990). Dr. Anderson is the Director of the Nuclear Molecular Imaging Laboratory. Her research aims to develop radiopharmaceuticals for PET imaging of various diseases and conditions, including cancer, inflammation and tuberculosis.

Mohammad H. Ataai William Kepler Whiteford Professor, Chemical & Petroleum Engineering and Bioengineering. PhD (Chemical Engineering), Cornell University, 1986. Dr. Ataai's research interests include bioprocess engineering, large-scale cell culture and fermentation, production and purification of viral vectors for gene therapy applications, protein purification, metabolic engineering, cellular metabolism, and physiology.

Stephen F. Badylak Professor in the Department of Surgery, and Deputy Director of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Badylak has practiced both veterinary and human medicine, and is now fully engaged in research. Dr. Badylak began his academic career at Purdue University in 1983, and subsequently held a variety of positions including service as the Director of the Hillenbrand Biomedical Engineering Center from 1995-1998. Dr. Badylak holds over 60 U.S. patents, 300 patents worldwide, has authored more than 325 scientific publications and 40 book chapters, and has edited a textbook entitled “Host Response to Biomaterials”. He has served as the Chair of several study sections at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and is currently a member of the College of Scientific Reviewers for NIH. Dr. Badylak has either chaired or been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board to several major medical device companies. More than eight million patients have been treated with bioscaffolds developed in Dr. Badylak’s laboratory. Dr. Badylak is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, a member of the Society for Biomaterials, a charter member of the Tissue Engineering Society International, past president of the Tissue Engineering Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS) and a Founding Fellow of the International Fellows of TERMIS. Dr. Badylak’s major research interests include: Naturally Occurring Biomaterials, including Extracellular Matrix, and Biomaterial/Tissue interactions; Developmental Biology and its Relationship to Regenerative Medicine; Relationship of the Innate Immune Response to Tissue Regeneration; Clinical Translation of Regenerative Medicine; Whole Organ and Tissue Reconstruction and Regeneration.

Kyong Tae Bae Professor and Chairman of Radiology, Professor of Bioengineering. MD, University of Chicago; PhD (Bioengineering), University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Bae is a radiologist and imaging scientist and has extensive experience and publications in computer-aided diagnosis, image segmentation and quantification from radiologic images. He is also the Director of the Imaging Biomarker Lab in the Department of Radiology. In addition to clinical radiology practice in CT and MRI, Dr. Bae has an interest in applying computer and image processing technology to advance clinical translational and imaging biomarker research in a wide range of diseases including polycystic kidney disease, pulmonary embolism, emphysema, osteoarthritis, lung cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer, Parkinson’s disease, brain tumor perfusion, multiple sclerosis, spine, eye, and liver. Dr. Bae’s lab specializes in developing and analyzing morphological and functional imaging biomarkers from CT, clinical and high-field MR images. Dr. Bae joined the University of Pittsburgh in 2006 as a professor from the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University in St Louis, where he was a tenured associate professor of radiology and bioengineering.

Mingfeng Bai Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine (Primary) and Department of Bioengineering (Secondary).

PhD (Chemistry), Vanderbilt University (2007). His research is focused on the development and in vivo evaluation of targeted molecular imaging probes and photodynamic therapy agents.

Carey Balaban Professor, Otolaryngology, Neurobiology, Communication Sciences & Disorders and Bioengineering.

Director, Center for National Preparedness. PhD (Anatomy), University of Chicago, 1979. Anatomy, neurophysiology and neurochemistry of vestibular function in normal and pathological conditions (e.g., disease and mild traumatic brain injury) are primary focus areas of Dr. Balabanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s research. A collaborative thrust with Dr. Bill Yates is elucidating vestibular and visceral networks that contribute to development of nausea. He also works on the psychophysics of pain and participates in translational applications of our basic research to nascent neurotechnologies in cyber security, homeland security and national defense. Recent efforts have included development of mass spectrometric histological imaging methods with colleagues at NIDA and the corporate sector.

Ipsita Banerjee Associate Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering and Bioengineering, PhD (Chemical Engineering) Rutgers University, 2005. She completed her postdoctoral research in biomedical engineering from Harvard Medical School in 2008. Dr. Banerjee's research interests include stem cell differentiation, tissue and organ engineering, systems biology, signaling pathway modeling. She is interested in determining the signaling pathway interactions controlling the directed differentiation of embryonic stem cells to pancreatic lineage. She is also working towards biomanufacturing of stem cells and engineering vascularized organoids from pluripotent stem cells.

Aaron Batista Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering. PhD (Computation and Neural Systems), California Institute of Technology, 1999. Postdoctoral research, Stanford University 1999 - 2007, Dr. Batista studies the neural circuits that underlie sensory-motor control and learning. One application of this research is to improve brain-computer interfaces: technologies that can restore motor function to paralyzed individuals by extracting movement command signals from the cerebral cortex.

Kevin Bell Research Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, CTSI and Bioengineering. PhD (Bioengineering), University of Pittsburgh, 2013. Research interests include: (1) In-vitro biomechanics of the spine (2) Development of clinically translatable methods and devices for assessment and restoration of musculoskeletal joint function.

Elia Beniash Associate Professor, Oral Biology and Bioengineering. PhD (Structural Biology and Chemistry), The Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, 1998. Scientific interests of Dr. Beniash include biomineralization, the structure/function relationships in supramolecular assemblies, bioinspired materials, and tissue engineering. Specifically, Dr. Beniashâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s research focuses on understanding basic mechanisms of mineralization in biological systems and applying these strategies to the design of new, nanostructured composite materials.

Kurt Beschorner Research Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering. PhD (Bioengineering), University of Pittsburgh (2008). Dr. Beschorner is a member of the Human Movement and Balance Laboratory. His research focuses core competencies in whole-body biomechanics, ergonomics and biotribology to prevent occupational and clinical falling accidents.

Michael L. Boninger Professor and UPMC Endowed Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine. He has joint appointments in the Departments of Bioengineering, Rehabilitation Science and Technology, and the McGowan Institute of Regenerative Medicine. He is also a physician researcher for the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. He is Senior Medical Director for Post-Acute Care for the Health Services Division of UPMC and Vice President for Medical Affairs for UPMC Community Provider Services (CPS). CPS is the umbrella organization that oversees and manages all of UPMC’s clinical programs in community-based and post-acute settings. These programs include Home Health, Senior Communities and eldercare, speech, occupational and physical therapy, UPMC’s specialty, retail, infusion, and institutional pharmacy businesses; and Community Supportive Services programs. Dr. Boninger earned an MD at Ohio State University. He completed his residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan Medical Center. His central research focus is on enabling increased function and participation for individuals with disabilities through development and application of assistive, rehabilitative, and regenerative technologies. His team’s work has been featured on 60 Minutes and recognized by Popular Mechanics. Dr. Boninger also has extensive experience and publications related to training researchers and served as Associate Dean for Medical Student Research in the School of Medicine for a number of years. Dr. Boninger’s students have won over 50 national awards. Dr. Boninger holds 4 United States patents and has received numerous honors, including being inducted into the National Academy of Medicine.

Harvey Borovetz Distinguished Professor and Former Chairman, Bioengineering, Robert L. Hardesty Professor of Surgery, Professor Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Professor, Clinical Translation and Scientific Institute, and University Honors College Faculty Fellow. PhD (Bioengineering), Carnegie Mellon University, 1976. Dr. Borovetz' current research interests are focused on the design and clinical utilization of cardiovascular organ replacements for both adult and pediatric patients. Since 1985, he has served as the academic adviser to the University's clinical bioengineering program in mechanical circulatory support. In 1999 and 2000, Dr. Borovetz was on half-time sabbatical at NIH, working in the Bioengineering Research Group of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. In 2015 (spring term), Dr. Borovetz was on sabbatical at Ort Braude College, Karmiel, Israel as a Visiting Lecturer, where he taught a course entitled, “Artificial Organs – Cardiac Assist Devices. In 2016 (spring term) Dr. Borovetz taught a second course at Ort Braude College entitled, “Cardiac Care in Israel and the United States.”

David M. Brienza Professor, Rehabilitation Science and Technology, Bioengineering and the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine; Associate Dean for Research, School of Health and Rehabilitation sciences; Director of the Tissue Integrity Management Laboratory. PhD (Electrical Engineering), University of Virginia, 1991. Dr. Brienza's areas of expertise are soft issue injury, wheelchair seating, pressure ulcer prevention, support surface technology, and wheelchairs.

Bryan Brown Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and a core faculty member of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine. PhD (Bioengineering), University of Pittsburgh, 2011. Dr. Brown completed postdoctoral training in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Clinical Sciences at Cornell University prior to joining the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Bryan is currently a Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH K12) Scholar at Magee

Women’s Research Institute and holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. Additionally, Bryan is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Clinical Sciences at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine. The focus of the Brown Laboratory is upon clinical applications where few effective solutions currently exist, with increasing emphasis upon unmet clinical needs in women’s health. Recent areas of significant interest are temporomandibular joint disease and pelvic organ prolapse. These efforts are currently funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institute on Aging, National Institute of General Medical Science, Office of Research on Women’s Health, and the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation.

Souvik Chakraborty Visiting Lecturer, Cell Migration Laboratory, Department of Bioengineering. PhD (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), University of Nebraska Medical Center, 2008. Research interests include: Breast cancer progression, cell-signaling, protein-protein interactions, protein quality control, cellular architecture, actin binding proteins, and actin dynamics.

Rakié Cham Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering. PhD (Bioengineering), University of Pittsburgh, 2000. Dr. Cham’s research interests include the postural and biomechanical analysis of human movement and occupational tasks towards the prevention of musculoskeletal injuries. She is particularly interested in understanding the human factors (biomechanical, postural control and neurological) that precipitate falls in healthy older adults and clinical populations (with low vision, neurological conditions and more).

April Chambers Research Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering. PhD (Bioengineering), University of Pittsburgh, 2011/2005. Dr. Chambers’ research expertise is in the field of human movement biomechanics and injury prevention. Her research areas of interest include occupational biomechanics; gait; postural control; slips, trips and falls; ergonomics; injury prevention in special populations; medical device design.

Kevin P. Chen Paul E Lego Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. PhD (Electrical Engineering) University of Toronto, 2002. Chen and his students engage in wide spectra of interdisciplinary photonics research. The group is developing specialty optical fibers and optical fiber devices for biomedical, energy, sustainability, and robotics applications. Distributed fiber pressure sensors and nano-materials enabled fiber bio-chemical sensors (SERS-based, fluorescent-based, and label-free) have been developed by Chen’s group for biomedical applications. Dr. Chen’s group also engaged in advanced manufacturing research from nano-scale to macroscale by studying laser matter interaction. Through spatial engineering and temporal engineering laser pulses at –nm spatial resolution and –fs temporal resolution, Dr. Chen’s group are developing innovation scalable nano-manufacturing scheme, femtosecond laser processing, adaptive optical laser manufacturing, and laser-remoted sensing.

Using femtosecond laser processing, Dr. Chen’s group is developing 3D micro-fluidic devices integrated with photonic circuits for lab-on-chip applications. Using adaptive optics technology, Dr. Chen and his UPMC collaborators are working on adaptive laser beam steering and sensing for endoscope surgical applications. Through research of ultrafast laser processing techniques and through collaboration with Corning Inc., Dr. Chen’s group is exploring new glass-based point-to-care devices using Cellular phone as a platform. Dr. Chen’s group is also exploring additive manufacturing technology, together with his collaborated, Dr. Chen’s group develops a new way to build advanced photonic systems such as

miniaturized and ultra-lightweight (<200 g) solid-state lasers at 100-mJ/pulse level in near IR and at 100micronJ/pulse level in DUV wavelength (213-nm). Working with industrial partners and national lab, Dr. Chen’s group is developing sensor-fused additive manufacturing technique.

Youngjae Chun Assistant Professor in Industrial Engineering (secondary appointment in Bioengineering). PhD (Mechanical Engineering), University of California, Los Angeles, 2009. Dr. Chun’s primary research focus is on designing, manufacturing, and testing of various medical devices to treat vascular diseases injuries using smart materials through minimally invasive surgery. He also has an interest in the development of hybrid biomaterials, implantable microsystems, and in-vitro experimental apparatus for developing more diverse biomedical applications with a focus on novel materials and manufacturing concepts.

Jennifer L. Collinger Assistant Professor in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Bioengineering, Research Biomedical Engineer at the VA R&D Center of Excellence on Wheelchairs and Related Technology. PhD (Bioengineering), University of Pittsburgh, 2009. Dr. Collinger’s doctoral work focused on the prevention of upper limb injuries in manual wheelchair users. Her current research interests are related to neurorehabilitation and brain-computer interface technology for individuals with motor impairments. Her brain-computer interface research projects involve using neural signals recorded with implanted microelectrodes to control assistive devices for people with paralysis. This technology has enabled people to perform reaching and grasping tasks with prosthetic limb using their brain activity. She is also using MRI to investigate how sensorimotor-related activity changes in the brain after spinal cord injury.

Gregory Cooper Research Assistant Professor, Surgery, Oral Biology, and Bioengineering. PhD (Bioengineering), University of Pittsburgh, 2006. Dr. Cooper has been involved in translational-related research based on tissue engineering for the Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery. Currently he serves as Director of the Pediatric Craniofacial Biology Laboratory at Children’s Hospital.

Rory A. Cooper Distinguished Professor and Chairman (RST), Rehabilitation Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Bioengineering. PhD (Electrical and Computer Engineering), UC Santa Barbara, 1989. Dr. Cooper's areas of interest are the design and testing of assistive devices for mobility impairment, and the influence of disability of neuromotor control and biomechanics. He is also interested in the development of the smart sensor and instrumentation for those applications.

Timothy E. Corcoran Associate Professor, Medicine and Bioengineering. PhD (Bioengineering) Carnegie Mellon University, 2000. Dr. Corcoran's research interests include aerosol drug delivery and functional imaging of the lungs. This includes the development of nuclear imaging methods for measuring mucociliary clearance and liquid transport in the lungs. These techniques are used in the development of novel therapies for cystic fibrosis. Dr. Corcoran has also been involved in the development of therapies for lung transplant recipients and in the design and testing of inhaled drug delivery devices.

Xinyan (Tracy) Cui Professor, Bioengineering. PhD (Macromolecular Science and Engineering), University of Michigan (2002); Research Scientist at Unilever Research US (2002-2003). Dr. Cui directs the Laboratory of Neural Tissue Electrode Interface and Neural Tissue Engineering (NTE Lab). In the field of Neural Interface, her interest lies in the characterization and improvement of the chronic neural electrode-tissue interface from the biomaterials and biocompatibility perspective. In Neural Tissue Engineering, her lab is interested in manipulating stem cell growth and differentiation with electrically conductive and active materials. In addition, Dr. Cui is also interested in developing various biosensors and drug delivery systems. Dr. Cui is the member of McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine and Center for Neural Basis of Cognition.

Moni Kanchan Datta Research Assistant Professor Department of Bioengineering. PhD (Metallurgical and Materials Engineering), Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India (2003). Current research interests focus on bone tissue engineering, biodegradable biomaterials, electrochemical science, and basic and applied energy science. The main focus of research in bioengineering and energy science is to develop novel low temperature synthesis approaches of biomaterials and energy related materials, and study the interrelationship between structure-properties and structure-process parameters. In the field of bone tissue engineering, research is focused on alloy design of biodegradable metallic biomaterials as well as synthesis of the desired alloy using different equilibrium and non-equilibrium processing techniques with novel microstructure for orthopedic and craniofacial applications. On the other hand, Dr. Datta's research on electrochemical science is devoted on electrochemical biosensor, and energy generation and storage for application in portable electronic devices as well as electric and hybrid electric vehicles. Research regarding the energy generation and storage is currently directed towards understanding the theory of solid materials using theoretical approaches while developing new low temperature, mechanochemical and thin film approaches to synthesize nanostructured particulate, nanotubes, nanostructured composites and nano-layered thin film architectures for hydrogen economy, fuel cell, water electrolysis, Li-ion, Naion and Mg-ion battery applications.

Lance Davidson Associate Professor. Department of Bioengineering. Secondary appointments at the University of Pittsburgh in the Departments of Developmental Biology and Computational and Systems Biology; secondary appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.

PhD (Biophysics) University of California at Berkeley; Postdoctoral fellowship in Biology and Cell Biology at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville (1996-2004); American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow (1999-2002); Research Assistant Professor in Biology at University of Virginia in Charlottesville (2005). American Heart Association Beginning Grant-in-Aid (2008). National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2009). Appointed Wellington C. Carl Faculty Fellow (2012). Awarded University of Pittsburgh Provost's Innovation in Education Award (2013). Dr. Davidsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s research seeks to understand the role of mechanics in development. His group integrates cell biology of adhesion and cell motility with tissue architecture and mechanics in order to understand how forces are patterned, generated, and transmitted to bring about formation of tissues and organs in the early developing embryo. Dr. Davidson has pioneered techniques using microsurgery, high resolution time-lapse confocal microscopy, and a variety of biomechanical test apparatus to observe and measure mechanical processes operating in cells and tissues during morphogenesis in the frog embryo. Ongoing projects in the lab involve: 1) understanding how defects in mechanical processes produce birth defects, 2) resolving the molecular mechanisms responsible for mechano-chemical feedback during development and tissue self-

assembly, 3) investigating the role of cell- and tissue-mechanics in heart formation, wound healing, and cancer, and 4) applying principles of developmental biology to control the production of engineered tissues.

Richard E. Debski Associate Professor, Bioengineering. PhD (Mechanical Engineering), University of Pittsburgh, 1997. Dr. Debski's research interests include the experimental and computational examination of shoulder and knee biomechanics. His current research projects include improving treatment for rotator cuff tears, developing technology for assessment of rotatory knee instability; assessing function of knee capsule; and determining patellofemoral contact pressures to prevent patellofemoral joint pain and development of osteoarthritis. Robotic technology and finite element models are used to address these issues. The goal of this research is to improve injury prevention equipment/criteria, surgical procedures and rehabilitation protocols for injuries to the soft tissues at the shoulder and knee.

Dan Ding Associate Professor, Rehabilitation Science & Technology and Bioengineering. PhD (Mechanical and Automation Engineering), the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001. Dr. Ding performs her research in the Human Engineering Research Laboratories (HERL) and is interested in assistive device instrumentation and monitoring; wheelchair modeling; rehabilitation robotics; and virtual reality.

Andrew Duncan Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Division of Experimental Pathology, and as a Core Faculty member at the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Research in the Duncan lab focuses on liver development, homeostasis and regeneration. One of the defining features of the liver is polyploidy.

Hepatocytes are either mononucleated or binucleated, and ploidy is determined by the number of nuclei per cell as well as the ploidy of each nucleus. The functional role of hepatic polyploidization is unclear.

Dr. Duncan recently showed that regenerating polyploid hepatocytes undergo specialized cell divisions to form aneuploid daughter cells, generating a high degree of genetic diversity within the liver. Active studies in the lab involve elucidating mechanisms that control hepatic polyploidy and aneuploidy, as well as how these processes affect human disease. Dr. Duncan graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel with a B.S. in Biology in 1996. PhD (Duke University), 2005.

Louis D. Falo, Jr. Professor and Chairman of the Department of Dermatology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Dr. Falo is a graduate of Harvard Medical School, where he earned both his MD and PhD degrees with a research interest in skin immunology. He completed an internship in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, a dermatology residency through the Harvard Dermatology Program and a fellowship in cancer research at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Before coming to the University of Pittsburgh and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, he was a member of the Harvard faculty in the Department of Dermatology and at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. In addition to Dermatology, Dr. Falo has faculty appointments in the School of Engineering, Department of Bioengineering, the Pittsburgh Clinical and Translational Science Institute, the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, and the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Clinically, Dr. Falo is the Director of the Occupational and Contact Dermatitis Program, and maintains an avid interest in the development of therapies for melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers. He is currently participating in clinical trials of novel immune therapies for skin cancers, and leads a very active research program that has been continuously funded by the NIH for over 20 years. Dr. Falo is a two-time winner of the Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

Innovator Award, inventor of several patented discoveries, and Co-Founder of SkinJect, Inc, a company focusing on the development of novel therapies for skin cancer.

Shawn Farrokhi Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering and Senior Scientist for the DoD-VA Extremity Trauma and Amputation Center of Excellence (EACE) at Naval Medical Center San Diego. Dr. Farrokhi's research interests include: 1) understanding of the mechanisms behind development of secondary musculoskeletal condition after lower extremity trauma and amputation; 2) rehabilitation of altered gait and movement biomechanics after lower extremity trauma and amputation.

William J. Federspiel William K. Whiteford Professor, Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, and Critical Care Medicine. PhD (Chemical Engineering), University of Rochester, 1983. Dr. Federspiel directs research in the Medical Devices Laboratory, which is a core laboratory of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine. The goal of work within the laboratory is the design, development and modeling of novel biotransport, pulmonary and cardiovascular medical devices including respiratory assist lungs, and membrane and particle based blood purification/modification devices. Ultimately, the devices and therapies developed in the laboratory will be translated for near term clinical use to solve important unmet clinical needs in critical care medicine.

Lee Fisher Assistant Professor, Departments of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Bioengineering. PhD (Biomedical Engineering), Case Western Reserve University, 2012. Research interests include (1) Development of novel neuroprosthetic devices to restore sensory and motor function after injury. (2) Study of the behavior of primary afferent neurons and during standing and walking and their contribution to balance control.

Thomas R. Friberg Professor, Ophthalmology and Bioengineering; Director of Retina Service. MS Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University; MD University of Minnesota; Residency Stanford University, Fellowships from Harvard and Duke University, ARVO Gold Fellow. Research interests are in the areas of diabetic retinopathy, macular degeneration, retinal detachment, laser delivery, retinal vein occlusions, drug delivery systems, and finite element analysis.

Joseph M. Furman Professor, Otolaryngology, Neurology, Bioengineering, and Physical Therapy. PhD (Bioengineering), University of Pennsylvania, 1979; MD, University of Pennsylvania, 1977. Director, Division of Balance Disorders, The Eye & Ear Institute. As a member of the Graduate Faculty and former Assistant Dean for the MD/PhD Program at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine/Carnegie Mellon University, Dr. Furman has a long history of mentoring developing physician scientists. Dr. Furmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s primary research areas are vestibular processing and vestibulo-ocular function in the elderly.

John Galeotti Adjunct Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), directing the Biomedical Image Guidance Laboratory and teaching an internationally recognized graduate course on medical image analysis algorithms. PhD (Robotics), Carnegie Mellon University. Research interests involve improving patient outcomes by improving the tools of science and medicine, with a research emphasis on applying

novel, real-time computer-controlled optics, image analysis, and visualization approaches to develop systems for image-guided interventions, diagnosis, and biomedical research.

Neeraj J. Gandhi Associate Professor, Bioengineering. Affiliations with Department of Neuroscience, and Center for Neural Basis of Cognition. PhD (Bioengineering), joint between University of California, San Francisco and the University of California, Berkeley, 1997. He completed his postdoctoral research in neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine and, in 2002, started his faculty position at Pitt in 2002. Dr. Gandhi’s research uses systems-level neurophysiology, brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, and computational tools to investigate the neural control of movement with emphases on eye, eye-head, and eye-hand movements.

Jin Gao Research Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering; PhD Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2000; Postdoctoral fellows at University of California at Berkeley and Georgia Institute of Technology/Emory University. Before joining the Department of Bioengineering, Dr. Gao was a research scientist in Department of Biomedical Engineering, GT/Emory. His research focuses on vascularized tissue engineering of vital organs, biomaterial fabrication, and biologically-derived vehicle for controlled release and delivery of proteins.

Omar Gharbawie Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology and Bioengineering. PhD (Neuroscience), University of Lethbridge, 2007. Research interests include: (1) use of optical imaging methods to determine the organization of brain structures that control hand movements; and (2) recording electrophysiological signals to understand communication between brain structures during hand movements.

Mark Gartner Adjunct Instructor, Department of Bioengineering. PhD (Bioengineering), Carnegie Mellon, 2006. MBA (Finance and Entrepreneurship), University of Pittsburgh, 2001. Research interests include: (1) Pediatric medical product design; (2) Assistive technologies for degenerative disease patients; (3) Engineering education; (4) Engineered surfaces for improved blood and tissue compatibility.

Robert Gaunt Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (Primary), Department of Bioengineering (Secondary). PhD (Biomedical Engineering), University of Alberta (2008). Dr. Gaunt is a member of the Rehabilitation Neural Engineering Laboratories and his research focuses on 1) neuroprostheses to restore sensations of touch and movement to people with limb loss or paralysis, 2) advanced prosthesis control for amputees, 3) neural interfaces with the peripheral nervous system, and 4) restoration of bladder function through electrical stimulation of the nervous system.

Jörg Gerlach Professor, Departments of Surgery and Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Gerlach’s biomedical research projects focused on artificial organs (e.g. trachea replacement), hybrid organs (e.g. endothelial cell seeded vascular prostheses), and on bio-artificial systems (liver support systems for extracorporeal organ regeneration. He obtained his MD/PhD for work on trachea replacement 1987 in Berlin, Germany; in 2000 a PHD on the development of a bio-artificial liver support system in Berlin; and in 2002 a PhD on 3D liver cell culture model development in Glasgow, UK. Dr. Gerlach developed an

extracorporeal liver support system, and the Modular Liver Support (MLS) concept that integrates dialysis and detoxification into hybrid liver devices. A project that enabled clinical work in Pittsburgh is the skin cell spray-deposition system and autologous skin cell grafting. His primary research interests include maintenance and differentiation of cells in vitro for extracorporeal, temporary clinical use as a hybrid organ; production of cells for transplantation in cell-based therapy; production of regenerative mediators by cells in bioreactors for drug therapy and regenerative medicine applications. His primary focus has been the use of liver cells, but he and members of his research group are also working with bone marrow-, embryonic, mesenchymal and fetal stem cells.

Thomas G. Gleason MD (Rush Medical College); MS in Surgery/Immunology from the University of Virginia. He is certified with the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Thoracic Surgery. Dr. Thomas Gleason is the Ronald V. Pelligrini Endowed Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Chief of the Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Bioengineering, Swanson School of Engineering. In addition, he is a member of the Center for Vascular Remodeling and Regeneration at Pitt. He is also the Director of the Center for Thoracic Aortic Disease and the Co-Director of the Center for Heart Valve Disease at the Heart and Vascular Institute, both at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Dr. Gleasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s current clinical and research interests include ascending aortic (vascular) biology, bicuspid valve associated aortopathy, and other syndromic and non-syndromic thoracic aortic and valvular diseases.

Elena Goncharova Associate Professor, Department of Medicine and Bioengineering. PhD (biology), Cardiology Research Center, Russian Academy of Science, 2000. Biomedical postdoctoral training, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 2001-2005. Research interests include: 1. Molecular and cellular mechanisms of pulmonary hypertension; 2. Role of HIPPO and mTOR signaling networks in vascular smooth muscle cell metabolism, proliferation and survival; 3. Establishing human primary cells-based in vitro models for mechanistic and pre-clinical pulmonary hypertension studies.

Angela M. Gronenborn UPMC Rosalind Franklin Professor and Chair, Department of Structural Biology, Distinguished Professor of Structural Biology and Professor of Bioengineering; PhD (Organic Chemistry), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, 1978. Areas of interest: Structural biology of proteins and nucleic acids: structure, dynamics, recognition, binding, and function. Her laboratory combines NMR spectroscopy and other structural methods with Biophysics, Biochemistry, and Chemistry to investigate cellular processes at the molecular and atomic levels in relation to human disease.

Kilichan Gurleyik Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering (Primary). DSc (Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Imaging Science & Engineering), Washington University (2003). Dr. Gurleyik serves as the Education Director of the Center for Medical Innovation (CMI). He specializes in Medical Device/Product Design and Development, Systems Design and Engineering incorporating MixedTechnology, Signal and Image Processing, Electronic Systems & Devices, Imaging Science & Technology, and Biomedical Engineering.

Alan Hirschman Professor of Bioengineering; Executive Director, Center for Medical Innovation, Swanson School of Engineering. PhD (Electrical Engineering/Biomedical Engineering) 1978, Carnegie Mellon University. Fellow of the AIMBE. Life Member IEEE. Before coming to the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Hirschman retired from a career of 31 years in engineering, management, and business development at MEDRAD, Inc., a developer of medical devices within the Bayer family of companies. He is an inventor of many of MEDRAD’s core technologies, with 50+ US patents issued. Dr. Hirschman’s current interest is in medical product development and educating new product development professionals and entrepreneurs.

MaCalus V. Hogan Assistant Professor and Vice Chair of Education in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Bioengineering. MD, Howard University, 2006. Research interests include: (1) Musculoskeletal regeneration, with a focus on tendon, ligament, and cartilage bioengineering. Tissue engineering techniques, such as matrix scaffolds and progenitor cells, for fibrocartilage tissue engineering applications; (2) Quantification of the normal ankle biomechanical properties using robotics and in vivo kinematics (3) Platelet-rich plasma analysis and optimization for musculoskeletal applications Tin-Kan Hung Professor of Bioengineering and Civil & Environmental Engineering. PhD (Mechanics and Hydraulics), University of Iowa, 1966; M.S. (Civil Engineering), University of Illinois, 1962; B.S. (Hydraulic Engineering), National Cheng Kung University, 1959. Dr. Hung’s research activities have been focused on computational fluid mechanics, flow separation and vortices, nonlinear peristaltic flows, particle transport by peristalsis, fluid mechanics of heart valves and ventricular pumping, pulsating blood flows in stenotic arteries and curved arteries, fluid mechanics of intra-aortic/intra-vena-cava balloon pumping, three-dimensional spiral flows, microcirculation, biomechanics of spinal cord injury, membrane oxygenation, unsteady flow with moving boundaries, earthquake hydrodynamics in reservoir, and sloshing waves in oscillating tank.

Theodore Huppert Associate Professor, Radiology and Bioengineering. PhD (Biophysics), Harvard University, 2007. Dr. Huppert develops his research in the Magnetic Resonance Research Center in the Physiology of the BOLD Effect. His research focuses on improving the understanding of the underlying physiology and biomechanical principles that govern the cerebral hemodynamic response to neuronal signals.

Tamer S. Ibrahim Associate Professor, Bioengineering and Radiology; Director of the RF Research Facility. PhD (Electrical Engineering), the Ohio State University, 2003. Dr. Ibrahim’s research activities have mainly focused on ultrahigh field human magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and wireless biological sensor applications. Using computational electromagnetics and electromagnetic field theory, Dr. Ibrahim’s research group designs/constructs/implements radiofrequency (RF) coils/antenna arrays and techniques for 7 tesla human/animal MRI applications, brain-machine interfaces, stimulation of magnetic Nano particles and several other applications. His imaging developments (both hardware and software) are currently used for studying several diseases and patients population such as Alzheimer's, Dementia, Sickle Cell, schizophrenia and arm-transplanted patients.

Jeffrey S. Isenberg Department of Medicine (Primary), Department of Pharmacology Chemical Biology (Secondary), Department of Bioengineering (Secondary). Tulane University School of Medicine, MD (1986). Dr. Isenberg is a Principal Investigator in the Vascular Medicine Institute within the Department of Medicine.

His research focuses on ligand receptor mechanisms that control blood flow and pressure and cellular stress responses.

Tao Jin Research Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology and Bioengineering. PhD (Physics), Kent State University, 2003. Research interests include: (1) Development of chemical exchange sensitive MRI for applications in stroke, cancer, and other diseases; (2) Development of functional MRI technique to study brain function.

Pawel Kalinski Professor of Surgery, Immunology, Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, and Bioengineering. Director of Research of the Division of Surgical Oncology and the Director of Immunotransplantation Center of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. MD: Medical University of Warsaw, Poland, 1990. PhD (Immunology): University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1998. Dr. Kalinski aims to develop effective immune therapies of cancer and chronic infections. The research his group focuses on: 1) Development of therapeutic vaccines with selectively-enhanced Th1-, CTL-, and NK cell-activating properties; 2) Modulation of chemokine receptor expression on immune cells; 3) Tumor-selective modulation of local chemokine environments to enhance local homing of immune effector cells and reduce the accumulation of regulatory/suppressive cells in tumor tissues; 4) counteracting tumor-associated (or chronic infectionassociated) immune dysfunction; and 5) enhancing the antitumor effects of chemo- and radiotherapy, by reducing their suppressive impact and enhancing the immune-activating aspects of their activity. Dr. Kalinskiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work led to several current clinical trials of new cancer immunotherapies developed in collaboration with other members of the UPCI (colorectal-, prostate- and ovarian cancers, melanoma, glioma and lymphoma). Dr. Kalinski currently serves as an IND sponsor of six clinical trials.

Marina V. Kameneva Research Professor of Surgery and Bioengineering, Director, Hemorheology, Hemodynamics and Artificial Blood Research Laboratory, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh. PhD (Mechanical Engineering), School of Mathematics and Mechanics, Moscow State University, Moscow (former Soviet Union). After emigration to the United States, Dr. Kameneva joined the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh as a visiting scientist of the Artificial Heart and Lung Program and was appointed as a Research Assistant Professor of Surgery in 1996, as a Research Associate Professor of Surgery in 2000 and as Research Professor of Surgery and Bioengineering in 2006. Dr. Kameneva's areas of expertise are biorheology, hemorheology, macro and microhemodynamics, dragreducing polymers and their biomedical applications, and mechanical blood trauma in blood contacting artificial organs. She is the author and co-author of over 150 peer reviewed papers as well as several book chapters in the areas of Fluid Mechanics, Biomechanics and Biorheology. Currently, Dr. Kameneva is working with her research team and collaborators on a variety of projects ranging from the evaluation of new medical devices to performing theoretical and experimental research and development of novel treatments of acute and chronic ischemic conditions caused by disease or trauma, and development of next generations of artificial organs.

Karl Kandler UPMC Professor for Auditory Development and Plasticity, Department of Otolaryngology (Primary), Neurobiology (secondary), Bioengineering (secondary). PhD University of Tübingen, Germany (1993).

Dr. Kandler is the Director of the Auditory Research Group in the Department of Otolaryngology. His research uses live cell imaging and laser scanning photo stimulation to elucidate the cellular and synaptic mechanisms by which auditory neuronal circuits become reorganized during development and under pathological conditions (hearing loss, tinnitus).

John A. Kellum Professor of Critical Care Medicine, Medicine, Bioengineering and Clinical and Translational Science, and Vice Chair for Research within the Department of Critical Care Medicine and Director of the Center for Critical Care Nephrology at the University of Pittsburgh. MD (Medical College of Ohio), 1984. His postgraduate training includes an internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Rochester, NY, and a Fellowship in Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Dr. Kellum is actively involved in education, research and administration. Dr. Kellum’s research interests span various aspects of Critical Care Medicine, but center in critical care nephrology, sepsis and multi-organ failure, and clinical epidemiology, including consensus development and research methodology. He has authored more than 250 publications and has won several awards for teaching. He lectures widely and has given more than 300 seminars and invited lectures worldwide related to his research.

Kang Kim Associate Professor, Medicine and Bioengineering. PhD (Acoustics), Pennsylvania State University, 2002. Dr. Kim’s research involves the development of multi-modality functional imaging technologies in Multi-modality Biomedical Ultrasound Imaging Lab at the Center for Ultrasound Molecular Imaging and Therapeutics; linear/nonlinear ultrasound elasticity imaging; ultrasound-induced thermal strain imaging; photoacoustic molecular imaging.

Tae Kim Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology and Bioengineering. PhD (Biophysical science and Medical physics), University of Minnesota, 2004. Research interest include: (1) development of magnetic resonance imaging technique for quantification of cerebrovascular metabolism; (2) neurovascular regulation mechanism for neurodegenerative diseases.

Jeremy D. Kimmel Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering. PhD (Bioengineering) University of Pittsburgh, 2011. Research interests include: (1) Artificial organs, (2) Extracorporeal blood purification, (3) Computational modeling of cardiopulmonary medical devices Patrick M. Kochanek Patrick M. Kochanek, MD, MCCM is Director of the Safar Center for Resuscitation Research and the Ake N. Grenvik Professor and Vice Chairman of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Professor of Anesthesiology, Pediatrics, Bioengineering and Clinical and Translational Science. He has a long track-record of investigation in traumatic and ischemic brain injury and neurointensive care and is funded by the US Army, NINDS/NIH, NICHD/NIH, and Laerdal Foundation. His research has focused on targeting the secondary brain injury response in traumatic brain injury and cardiac arrest and the development of novel therapies. He is PI of a T-32 titled “Pediatric

Neurointensive Care and Resuscitation Researchâ&#x20AC;? and has mentored numerous trainees. He is Editor-inChief of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine..

Alicia Koontz Associate Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology and Bioengineering. PhD (Rehabilitation Science), University of Pittsburgh, 2001. Research interests include: (1) rehabilitation biomechanics, (2) development of clinical assessment tools and training approaches, and (3) assistive technology product development, evaluation, and research.

Robert L Kormos Professor, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Bioengineering. MD, University of Western Ontario, 1976. Research interests include: (1) Design a clinical testing of Mechanical Circulatory Devices for Heart Failure; (2) Therapeutic and Diagnostic applications for implantable Biosensor technology.

Takashi D.Y. Kozai Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering. PhD (Biomedical Engineering) University of Michigan (2011), BA (Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology & Biochemistry) University of Colorado at Boulder (2005). Dr. Kozai's research interests are to understand brain injury and disease in new ways using tools that push the limits of scientific research by developing research tools and medical devices with more intimate biological interfaces. In particular, his focus is understanding the microscale neural implant-tissue interface and the blood-brain barrier using in vivo electrophysiology, in vivo twophoton imaging, and biomaterials based device design.

Prashant Kumta Edward R. Weidlein Chair Professor of Engineering. PhD (Materials Science and Engineering), University of Arizona, 1990. Dr. Kumtaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s research interests cover the two broad areas of energy: storage, generation, and conversion; and biomaterials: science and technology. The main focus of research in both these areas is to develop novel innovative approaches to generation of indigenous materials and study the relationships of the process parameters, the ensuing surface and bulk microstructure and crystallographic structure to the fundamental aspects of electrochemical response and activity in the case of the former and the biological response including correlation between the surface composition and structure to cellular response as well as cell-materials interface and in-vivo tissue-materials in the latter. An important aspect of understanding the interface is engineering the substrate and developing novel encapsulation platforms for understanding embryonic stem cell interaction, viability, and more importantly, inducing embryonic stem cell proliferation and differentiation. He has also recently made strides in the arena of additive manufacturing of degradable metal, polymer and ceramic materials and engineered degradable metalpolymer-ceramic composite structures for biomedical applications such as implants and tissue engineering.

Kira L. Lathrop Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Bioengineering. MAMS (Master of Associated Medical Sciences â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Biomedical Visualization), University of Illinois at Chicago, 1997. Research interests include: 1) Microscopic and OCT imaging and analysis, 2) Investigating the structure and function of the palisades of Vogt in normal and pathological conditions, 3) Imaging ethics.

Charles Laymon Research Assistant Professor, Radiology and Bioengineering. PhD (Physics) University of Pennsylvania, 1989. Research interests include imaging instrumentation for clinical and research applications, algorithm and methods development, and basic science research. A current project is to develop image reconstruction methods and image manipulation and visualization tools for the emerging field of dual modality PET/MR. Dr. Laymon is a member of the Quantitative Imaging Network of the National Cancer Institute and serves on its image analysis, data acquisition, and bioinformatics working groups.

Sanford Leuba Associate Professor, Cell Biology and Physiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. PhD (Biochemistry and Biophysics), Oregon State University, 1993. Dr. Leubaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s current research interests are the study of fundamental mechanisms of transcription, DNA repair, and replication in the context of chromatin as revealed by home-built singlemolecule approaches. Dr. Leuba was a National Cancer Institute (NCI) Scholar in residence at the NCI in Bethesda, MD, from 1998 to 2002 and joined the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine in 2002.

Lehong Li Visiting Faculty, Department of Bioengineering. M.D. Medical School, Beijing University, 1983.

Research interests include: (1) Neural interfaces and brain function, such as probe insertion and tissue reaction, BBB injury and its mechanism (2) Immunohistochemical and pathological changes during the process of brain bioengineering.

Jeen-Shang Lin Associate Professor, Departments of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Bioengineering. ScD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982. Research includes computational mechanics and nonlinear system identification.

Steven Little Chairman, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Professor, Departments of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Immunology, Ophthalmology and the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, PhD (Chemical Engineering) MIT, 2005. Dr. Littleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s group consists of students with a wide variety of backgrounds including Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Pharmaceutical Science, Chemistry, Immunology, and Physics. Dr. Little's research interests include controlled drug delivery, biomaterial design, and biomimetics. Specifically, Dr. Little has active research programs in biomimetic delivery (mimicking living systems using synthetic formulations) for regenerative medicine as well as immunotherapeutics.

Yang Liu Associate Professor, Medicine, Bioengineering and Biomedical Informatics. PhD (Biomedical Engineering) from Northwestern University, 2006; Senior Scientist in Models and Methods, Johnson & Johnson, 2006-2008. Dr. Liu is currently directing Biomedical Optical Imaging Laboratory in the University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine. The laboratory of Dr. Liu integrates multi-disciplinary approaches spanning engineering, optics, physics, chemistry and biology and medicine, and develops optical imaging microscopy technologies to address a highly unmet clinical need of personalized cancer risk prediction. Our group currently focuses on: (1) super-resolution fluorescence imaging of chromatin organization and epigenetics in cancer development; (2) development of high-throughput and 3D super-

resolution fluorescence imaging system (e.g., instrumentation, high-speed image reconstruction algorithms, quantitative image analysis tools) for nanoscale tissue analysis; (3) development of clinically applicable imaging technology based on optical coherence microscopy and digital holographic imaging for high-throughput nanoscale nuclear architecture mapping of clinical samples; (4) its clinical applications to predict early-cancer progression and improve cancer diagnosis in multiple diseases, such as inflammatory bowel disease and breast pre-cancerous lesions.

Michael T. Lotze Professor, Departments of Surgery, Immunology, and Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; Vice Chair of Research, Department of Surgery; Senior Investigator, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute; Assistant Vice Chancellor, UPSHS. Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences and MD, Northwestern University (Evanston, Chicago), 1973, 1974. Dr. Lotze's primary area of research is in tumor immunology, particularly the role of cellular therapy using T-cells (tumor infiltrating lymphocytes), dendritic cells and NK cells. His current research interests include the further identification of clinical biomarkers and surrogates in the setting of chronic inflammatory disease, the analysis and application of biomedical instrumentation including multicolor flow cytometry, high content imaging of intracellular signaling in response to cytokines, and the role of autophagy, the nuclear protein high molecular group B1 [HMGB1] and other Damage Associated Molecular Pattern Molecules [DAMPs] in tissue injury, repair, and cancer.

Patrick J. Loughlin Associate Chair and Professor of Bioengineering, and Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering.

PhD (Electrical Engineering), University of Washington (Seattle), 1992. Dr. Loughlin has expertise in time-varying signals and systems and non-stationary signal processing, with applications in biomedical engineering and acoustics. His current research interests include sensorimotor control; multisensory integration; haptics and vibrotactile feedback; brain-machine interfaces; neural signal processing; frequency tracking; and pulse propagation in dispersive media. Dr. Loughlin is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Laura Lund Adjunct Professor, Department of Bioengineering. PhD (Bioengineering), University of Pittsburgh, 2000. Research interests include: (1) blood gas exchange techniques for artificial lungs and blood purification; (2) human factors engineering for cardiopulmonary devices.

Arash Mahboobin Research Assistant Professor, Bioengineering. PhD (Electrical Engineering), University of Pittsburgh, 2007. Research interests include computational and experimental human movement biomechanics, biosignal processing, and engineering education. Specific areas of biomechanics and bio-signal processing research include developing muscle-actuated forward dynamic simulations of gait (normal and pathological), analysis and modeling of human postural control, and time-varying signals and systems.

Engineering education research includes curriculum and laboratory development of biomechanics and bio-signal processing concepts.

Spandan Maiti Assistant Professor, Bioengineering. PhD (Aerospace Engineering), University of Illinois, 2002. Research interests include computational biomechanics and materials science, deformation and

failure response of soft tissues and biomaterials, multiscale and multiphysics techniques applied to physical and biological systems.

Rama Mallampalli Professor, Department of Medicine (Primary), Department of Bioengineering (Secondary). MD (Medicine), University of Wisconsin (1984). Dr. Mallampalli serves as Division Chief, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine in the department of Medicine and the Director of the Acute Lung Injury Center of Excellence in the Department of Medicine. His research focuses on pulmonary epithelial molecular and cell biology as it relates to inflammation. His laboratory is internationally recognized in the area of lipid metabolism and proteolysis as it relates to acute lung injury.

Zhi-Hong Mao Associate Professor of Electrical/Computer Engineering and Bioengineering. PhD (Electrical and Medical Engineering), Harvard University-Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Division of Health Sciences and Technology, 2005. Dr. Maoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s research interests include neural control and learning, humanin-the-loop control systems, and networked control systems.

Kacey Marra Associate Professor, Departments of Plastic Surgery and Bioengineering. PhD (Organic Chemistry), University of Pittsburgh, 1996. Dr. Marra's current research interests include biomaterials and tissue engineering. Dr. Marra is Co-Director of the Adipose Stem Cell Center, and as such, much of her research is focused on adipose-derived stem cell behavior. Her research has a strong focus in nerve regeneration, and many in her group both design novel polymeric nerve conduits as well as differentiate adult stem cells to neural and glial progenitor cells. Of specific interest is the use of both polymer microspheres and hydrogels for controlled drug and growth factor delivery.

Patrick J. McMahon Adjunct Associate Professor, Temple University, 1987. Research interests include detailed analysis of joint anatomy, experimental and clinical analysis of ligaments and tendons involved in joint stability and techniques for improved treatments of musculoskeletal injuries such as anterior cruciate ligament rupture, shoulder osteoarthritis and rotator cuff tears. A major research focus has been on the function of the shoulder capsule in joint stability. My coworkers and I developed a cadaveric model of shoulder dislocation that simulates lesions found in vivo. We have analyzed the structure and function of both the normal and injured glenohumeral capsule with the aim of precisely localizing its injuries. This has resulted in better techniques for repair after shoulder dislocation. These studies are a result of a successful record of funding through grants and have resulted in over 90 refereed journal articles, 2 edited books, over 20 book chapters and numerous articles on the Internet.

James Menegazzi Research Professor of Emergency Medicine and Bioengineering. PhD (Exercise Physiology), University of Pittsburgh, 1987. Dr. Menegazzi is a Department of Emergency Medicine Endowed Professor of Resuscitation Research with tenure. Editor-in-Chief of Prehospital Emergency Care. His pioneering basic science work involves the development of protocols for improving cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Other research interests include emergency medical services, heart arrest, induced hypothermia, reperfusion injury, resuscitation, and ventricular fibrillation waveform analyses. He has had extramural funding from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for thirteen consecutive years. Dr. Menegazzi holds three patents, with a fourth pending.

Prahlad G. Menon Assistant Professor (Adjunct), Department of Bioengineering (Primary). PhD (Biomedical Engineering), Carnegie Mellon University (2013). Dr. Menon is the Director of The Medical Diagnostics & CardioVascular Engineering lab - The MeDCaVE (see: www.justcallharry.com) - a multidisciplinary research program, innovating at the confluence of radiology, surgical practice, informatics and high performance computing. The MeDCaVE is dedicated to healthcare advancement using robust algorithmic analysis of biomedical imaging data augmented with physics-based numerical modeling of biomechanics, which is invaluable for early technical feasibility assessment studies of novel medical device technologies. Dr. Menon's research has seen primary application in the development of quantitative metrics to support timecritical decisions relating to pediatric or adult cardiovascular pathologies, which has in-turn begun to see extended application in optimization of innovative image-guided device deployment strategies for improved outcomes and quality of life after complex surgical procedures.

Mark Carl Miller Associate Research Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science and Bioengineering. PhD (Applied Mechanics), University of Michigan, 1990. Director, Orthopaedic Biomechanics Laboratory, Allegheny General Hospital. The Biomechanics Laboratory broadly supports all subspecialties on orthopaedic surgery. Current topics include investigations of soft tissue injuries to the elbow, the mechanical behavior of elbow replacements and fracture fixation.

Natasa Miskov-Zivanov Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bioengineering, and Computational and Systems Biology. PhD (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Carnegie Mellon University, 2009. Dr. Miskov-Zivanov’s research areas are design automation, systems and synthetic biology. Her interests include automation of learning, modeling and reasoning about complicated systems, especially biological systems such as the interplay between immune system and diseases.

Pamela Moalli Associate Professor; Director of Fellowship in Urogynecology and Female Pelvic Medicine; Division of Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, Magee-Womens Hospital and University of Pittsburgh; Investigator, MageeWomen’s Research Institute. Dr. Moalli graduated from the NIH sponsored Medical Scientist Training Program at Northwestern University in 1994. She had earned a PhD (molecular and cellular biology) and a medical degree over a period of 8 years. Residency: Obstetrics and Gynecology at Magee-Women’s Hospital of the University of Pittsburgh (1994-1998). From 1998 to 2000 she completed a fellowship in Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery at the same institution. Dr. Moalli’s NIH-supported research focuses on the effect of menopause on connective tissue remodeling in the vagina and supportive tissues. In addition, Dr. Moalli studies mechanisms of maternal birth injury using both rodent and nonhuman primate models. Finally, she is involved in several projects focusing on the development of improved graft materials for use in reconstructive pelvic surgeries. Her research team is highly interdisciplinary involving members of the Center for Biological Imaging, the Department of Engineering, the Department of Regenerative Medicine and the Division of Urogynecology.

Michael Modo Associate Professor in Radiology, Bioengineering, the Centre for Cellular Basis of Behavior and the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine. PhD (Neuroscience), King's College London (United Kingdom) in 2001 and moved to the University of Pittsburgh in 2011. The main research interests of the

Regenerative Imaging Laboratory consist of four areas. We aim to understand the neuroanatomical basis of behavior and are especially interested in how damage to the brain causes changes in behaviors. For analysis, we use batteries of behavioral tests, as well as non-invasive imaging, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Secondly, we intend to repair brain damage by implantation of neural stem cells and are also developing in situ tissue engineering strategies (i.e. combining multiple types of cells with biomaterials). Thirdly, we are developing non-invasive imaging strategies that allow us to visualize the location and survival of implanted cells, but will also afford the in vivo monitoring of the replacement of brain tissue. Lastly, we plan to integrate the analysis of the cytoarchitectural organization of the brain by histology with post-mortem MRI. The hope is that these research directions will eventually lead to better therapies for patients with stroke, Huntington's, and Parkinson's disease.

Brian E. Moyer Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering (Pitt-Johnstown) and Bioengineering. PhD (Bioengineering), University of Pittsburgh, 2006. Research interests include: (1) Biomechanics especially as related to human gait and responses to perturbations; (2) Quantifying both the required coefficient of friction for gait without slipping and the available coefficient of friction for various shoe and flooring types and environmental conditions measured using biomechanically relevant test parameters; and (3) data acquisition and signal processing computer programming for research and prototype devices.

Volker Musahl Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Program Director of the Sports Medicine Fellowship (primary), Bioengineering (secondary), and Medical Director at the UPMC Center for Sports Medicine. After earning his medical degree at Albert-Ludwigâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;sUniversität Freiburg in Germany, Dr. Musahl moved to the United States, where he completed his residency at the University of Pittsburgh, and a fellowship at the Hospital for Special Surgery Sports Medicine and Shoulder in New York City. Dr. Musahl is also co-head team physician for the University of Pittsburgh football team, and team physician for Carlow University and Mt. Lebanon High School.

His research interests include knee and shoulder biomechanics. Dr. Musahl specializes in Sports Medicine; provides comprehensive care of injuries to the knee, shoulder, elbow, hip and ankle.

Robert Parker Professor, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering. PhD (Chemical Engineering), University of Delaware (1999). The Parker lab is primarily focused in the area of systems medicine, the translational science counterpart to systems biology, at the interface between systems analysis and clinical medicine. We employ engineering tools, including mathematical modeling, dynamical systems analysis, control theory and optimization, to address clinically-relevant problems in the areas of inflammation, cancer, cystic fibrosis, and diabetes/glucose control, and critical care. These advanced computational techniques help clinicians visualize, assimilate, analyze, and formulate decisions using the complex interplay of the measurements and data available to them. Close collaboration and communication with clinical scientists at the University of Pittsburgh provide the rapid feedback that facilitates the translation of engineering tools to the clinic. Prof. Parker also has appointments or affiliations with the Department of Bioengineering, the Department of Critical Care Medicine, the CRISMA Laboratories, and the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute.

John F. Patzer II Associate Professor, Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering. PhD (Chemical Engineering, Fluid Mechanics), Stanford University, 1980. Dr. Patzer's research interests are the application of transport

phenomena and reaction engineering in support of biomedical bioartificial organ development and replacement. Particular applications include development of both artificial (non-cell-based detoxification) and bioartificial (hepatocyte-based) liver support systems for patients with acute liver failure, boundsolute dialysis for patients with acute renal failure, and dialysate regeneration for portable dialysis systems. Other interests include renal failure therapies and artificial pancreas.

Julie A. Phillippi Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery (primary appointment) and Bioengineering (secondary appointment). PhD (Biological Sciences), Carnegie Mellon University, 2005. Dr. Phillippi’s research scope broadly encompasses cell-extracellular matrix (ECM) dynamics in cardiovascular diseases. One focus of her work is the role of oxidative stress on ECM homeostasis in bicuspid aortic valve-associated aortopathy. Of particular interest to Dr. Phillippi is the presence of local progenitor cells within distinct microenvironments of the aorta and their contribution to the development and progression of cardiovascular pathologies. Dr. Phillippi’s projects are carried out using human aortic tissue specimens and cell populations isolated from surgical patients of the Center for Thoracic Aortic Disease at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Dr. Phillippi and her colleagues within the Thoracic Aortic Disease Research Laboratory are using tissue-engineering models of synthetic and natural biomaterials to characterize the influence of distinct cell populations within the ascending aorta and the role of oxidative stress pathways on aortic wall architecture, strength and propensity for aortic disease. Dr. Phillippi is affiliated faculty of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine and the Center for Vascular Remodeling and Regeneration.

Rosa Lynn Pinkus Professor of Medicine/Neurosurgery; Associate Director, Center for Bioethics and Health Law and Director, Consortium Ethics Program University of Pittsburgh, Rosa Lynn retired from the University of Pittsburgh in December, 2013. At that time, she accepted an Adjunct Professorship in the Department of Bioengineering. Dr. Pinkus earned her PhD (1975) from the State University of New York at Buffalo and joined the faculty of the University Of Pittsburgh School Of Medicine in 1980. She taught applied ethics for over thirty years in both the Schools of Medicine and Engineering. Supported by funds from the Whitaker Foundation, she developed both the required graduate and undergraduate courses in Bioethics in the Department. Rosa Lynn is lead author of the book, Engineering Ethics: Balancing Cost, Risk and Schedules: Lessons Learned from the Space Shuttle (Cambridge University Press, 1997) an co-author with Mark Kuczewski, of An Ethics Casebook for Hospitals: Practical Approaches to Everyday Ethics (Georgetown University Press, 1999). This book is currently undergoing revisions for a 2nd edition.

Currently she teaches the required graduate bioengineering bioethics course and works with the department on other ethics related initiatives. Rosa Lynn was selected as one of 25 NAE (National Academy of Engineering) Exemplars in Engineering Ethics in February, 2016. The recognition was for “Using Student-Authored Case Studies to Teach Bioengineering Ethics” a technique developed by Pinkus in her class. Her most recent publications are: Pinkus RL, Claire Gloeckner & Angela Fortunato. The Role of Professional Knowledge in Case-Based Reasoning in Practical Ethics. Science and Engineering Ethics 21 (3):767-787 (2015) and Goldin, I., Pinkus, RL, & Ashley, K. D. (2015). Validity and reliability of an instrument for assessing case analysis in bioengineering ethics education. Science and Engineering Ethics 21 (3): 788-809 (2015).

Michael R. Pinsky Professor of Critical Care Medicine, Bioengineering, Cardiovascular Disease, Anesthesiology and Clinical & Translational Science. Program Director, NRSA Training Program. MD (Critical Care

Medicine), McGill University, Montreal, 1974. Current research interests: heart-lung interactions, hemodynamic monitoring, left and right ventricular function, blood flow distribution, molecular mechanisms in sepsis, complexity modeling of disease, management of shock, medical education, and health services research.

Bruce R. Pitt Professor and Chairman, Department of Environmental & Occupational Health, The Graduate School of Public Health; Professor of Pharmacology and Bioengineering. PhD (Environmental Physiology), The Johns Hopkins University, 1977. Dr. Pittâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s laboratory efforts are directed towards original studies on the molecular and cellular biology of lung. To date, this work has focused primarily on the role of oxidants, metals (zinc) and nitric oxide in affecting pulmonary endothelial and vascular smooth muscle cell function. Isolated primary cell cultures, genetically modified murine models and somatic gene transfer to lung have been used as model systems to identify the role of partially reduced oxygen and nitrogen species, oxidized phospholipids (cardiolipin) and matricellular proteins (WISP-1) in the response of the lung to stress and injury including ventilator induced lung injury, combined viral and bacterial pneumonia or hyperoxia.

Jianto Pu Associate Professor, Departments of Radiology and Bioengineering. PhD (Computer Science), Peking University, 2002. Dr. Pu's research interests lie at the interface between computer science and biomedicine with a special focus on biomedical image analysis, integrative informatics (imagenomics), computer-aided detection/diagnosis, computer graphics and vision, machine learning, and humancomputer interaction. His research goal is to develop innovative techniques that may lead to profound discoveries in both the computing and biomedical fields and advance the understanding of underlying mechanism of various biomedical problems through imaging.

Mark S. Redfern Professor, Bioengineering, Otolaryngology, and Rehabilitation Science. Vice Provost for Research, University of Pittsburgh. PhD (Bioengineering), University of Michigan, 1988. Dr. Redfern's research is focused in: human movement biomechanics, postural control, and ergonomics. The major goal of his postural research is the prevention of falling injuries by investigating the factors that influence balance, particularly in the elderly. He also studies vestibular disorders, their impact on postural control, and methods of vestibular rehabilitation. His research approach is to develop an understanding of the postural control system towards better identification of balance problems, and then to use this knowledge to develop new interventions or rehabilitation methods. Dr. Redfern also does applied research in fall prevention through design of the home and work environment. He consults with industry on ergonomics and workplace design for the prevention of musculoskeletal injuries.

Anne Robertson William Kepler Whiteford Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, and Department of Bioengineering, and founder and director of the Center for Faculty Excellence. PhD, University of California Berkeley, 1992. Dr. Robertsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s research is focused on vascular disease and mechanobiology with particular emphasis on cerebral aneurysms, in vivo tissue engineering and constitutive modeling of soft biological tissues. She is also active in studies of bladder pathobiology.

Abhijit Roy Research Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering. PhD (Chemistry), Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, 1999. Research interests: 1. Resorbable, bioactive, multifunctional bioceramics, metals, and polymers for regenerative tissue engineering. 2. Surface functionalized microporous and mesoporous bio-composites for tunable delivery of biologics and drugs. 3. Additive manufacturing of biomedical devices.

Partha Roy Associate Professor, Bioengineering, Cell Biology and Pathology. PhD (Biomedical Engineering) University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; Postdoctoral fellowships in Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Royâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s laboratory studies cell migration, tumor metastasis, angiogenesis and phosphoinositide signaling using various cell biology, biochemistry, live cell imaging and in vivo techniques.

J. Peter Rubin Chief of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Associate Professor, Bioengineering.

MD, Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Rubin is a noted expert on adult stem cells derived from fat tissue and body contouring surgery. He leads a program that is devising innovative strategies for the use of adipose (fat)-derived stem cells to not only address problems of tissue regeneration but also other diseases that benefit from stem cell-based therapies. In addition, Dr. Rubin is Director of the UPMC Life after Weight Loss Program, a leading center for plastic surgery after weight loss. He is co-director of the Adipose Stem Cell Center and co-director of the UPMC Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Center. His laboratory research focuses on applications of adult adipose-derived stem cells for restoring damaged tissues after trauma and cancer therapy. He currently is the lead investigator for clinical trials using technologies designed to improve the lives of wounded military personnel.

Srivatsun Sadagopan Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology and Bioengineering. PhD (Neuroscience), The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 2008. Research interests include: 1) The perception of complex sounds in realistic listening conditions. 2) Computational modeling of higher auditory perception.

Joseph T. Samosky Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering. PhD (Medical Engineering), The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (2002) with clinical education at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Samosky is the director of the Simulation and Medical Technology R&D Center, an interdisciplinary research group whose primary mission is to invent nextgeneration enabling technologies for simulation-based healthcare training and new medical devices. His research focuses on the user-centric design and engineering of real-time interactive systems that enhance learning, improve patient care and enhance patient safety. He has a strong interest in simulation-based learning, human-computer interfaces, sensor systems, advanced perceptual display technologies (including augmented reality display), biomimetic materials, 3D fabrication techniques, and robotic systems, including actuators and embedded control systems. He is the principal investigator of the BodyExplorer medical simulator project and co-developer of the Combat Medic Training System (COMETS), an autonomous, tetherless, humanoid robotic trauma patient that supports field training in casualty care. Dr. Samosky is an enthusiastic advocate of experiential learning, design thinking and project-based, hands-on engineering education. He has mentored over 100 bioengineering students in senior design projects and is currently developing school-wide resources to promote design thinking and

innovation, including the courses ENGR 0716 (for first-year students) and ENGR 1716 (for more senior students of all departments): “The Art of Making: An Introduction to Hands-On System Design and Engineering.”

Shilpa Sant Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy (Primary), Department of Bioengineering (Secondary), McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine (Faculty Member), PhD (Pharmaceutical Technology, University of Montreal, 2008). The main research interest in the Sant Laboratory is to develop biomimetic three-dimensional (3D) in vitro models that can be applied to study processes involved in tissue regeneration as well as disease pathophysiology. We build biomimetic microenvironment using interdisciplinary approaches in materials science, drug/gene delivery and cellular/molecular biology. Eventually, we envision using these models as biomimetic in vitro 3D tissue surrogates for testing drug safety and efficacy.

Gerald Schatten Professor, Obstetrics, Gynecology, & Reproductive Sciences; Cell Biology; Physiology; and Bioengineering; Director, Pittsburgh Development Center (PDC). PhD (Cell & Developmental Biology), University of California, Berkeley, 1975. Dr. Schatten explores the biophysics and molecular biology of cell function in gametes, embryos, stem cells, as well as the mechanisms of cell division, the origins of developmental diseases, and the potential of stem cells.

Karen Schmidt Adjunct Professor, Department of Bioengineering and Research Facilitator, CTSI. PhD (Physical Anthropology), University of California, Berkeley, 1997. Research interests include: (1) research ethics and responsible conduct of clinical and translational research; (2) Impact of variation in facial movement on social behavior and adaptation.

Walter Schneider Professor, University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychology, Executive Committee Member, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Senior Scientist, Learning Research and Development Center. PhD (Psychology), Indiana University, Post-Doc., Neurophysiology, University of California, Berkeley.

Research interests include advanced MRI brain imaging of Traumatic Brain Imaging and connectome mapping. He develops hardware and software solutions for improving MRI diffusion imaging quality, quantitative precision, and machine calibration for longitudinal analysis of development, aging, and disease progression.

Joel S. Schuman Distinguished Professor and Chairman of Ophthalmology, Eye and Ear Foundation Endowed Chair in Ophthalmology, Professor of Bioengineering; Director, UPMC Eye Center; Founder and Director Emeritus, Louis J. Fox Center for Vision Restoration. MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1984. Ophthalmology Residency, Medical College of Virginia, 1988; Glaucoma Fellowship, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, 1990. Dr. Schuman is an inventor of optical coherence tomography, the most rapidly adopted technology in ophthalmology. Dr. Schuman’s research interests include technology development, imaging of the eye, regenerative medicine, laser-tissue interactions, aqueous outflow, and clinical pharmacology.

Andrew B. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Neurobiology; Director of the Motorlab in the School of Medicine. PhD (Physiology), University of Minnesota, 1984. Dr. Schwartzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; research is centered on cerebral mechanisms of volitional arm movement and cortical control of neural prosthetics. He uses electrode arrays to record action potentials from populations of individual neurons in motor cortical areas while monkeys perform tasks related to reaching and drawing. A number of signal-processing and statistical analyses are performed on these data to extract movement-related information from the recorded activity. This basic research has been translated to neural prosthetics and shown to help paralyzed individuals regain arm and hand movements.

Ervin Sejdic Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Primary), Department of Bioengineering (Secondary), Department of Biomedical Informatics (Secondary), Intelligent Systems Program (Secondary). PhD (Electrical Engineering), University of Western Ontario (2008). Dr. Sejdic directs the iMED Laboratory (www.imedlab.org) and serves as the associate director of the RFID Center of Excellence at the University of Pittsburgh. His research aims to develop computational biomarkers indicative of age- and disease-related changes and their contributions to functional decline under normal and pathological conditions. This aim will be achieved through the development of clinically relevant solutions by fostering innovation in computational approaches and instrumentation that can be translated to bedside care.

Timothy C. Sell Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Duke University and Adjunct Professor Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh. PhD (Rehabilitation Science), University of Pittsburgh (2004). Dr. Sell serves as the Director of the Michael W. Krzyzewski Human Performance Laboratory in the James R. Urbaniak, MD Sports Sciences Institute at Duke University. His research aims to examine risk factors for musculoskeletal injury and interventions to reduce the risk of injury.

Charles Sfeir Assistant Professor, Departments of Oral Medicine, Pathology, and Bioengineering. DDS (Dental Surgery) The UniversitĂŠ Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg France, 1990. PhD (Molecular Biology/Biochemistry) Northwestern University, 1996. Dr. Sfeir is actively involved in research focusing on two major topics: (1) Role of extracellular matrix in tissue engineering and biomineralization (2) The use of bioceramic nanoparticles in non-viral DNA gene delivery. Additionally, Dr. Sfeir and his research team in collaboration with Dr. Kumta, are focused on molecular biology and are concentrating on the development of ceramic nano-particles for non-viral gene therapy vectors mainly to be utilized in bone regeneration and other tissues.

Sanjeev G. Shroff Distinguished Professor of and Gerald McGinnis Chair in Bioengineering, Professor of Medicine, and Core Faculty, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine. PhD (Bioengineering), University of Pennsylvania, 1981. Dr. Shroff's research interests include three main areas: (1) Relationships between left ventricular mechano-energetic function and underlying cellular processes, with a special emphasis on contractile and regulatory proteins and post-translational regulation of cardiac contraction (e.g., via phosphorylation or acetylation). Whole heart, isolated muscle, and single cell experiments are performed using various animal models, including transgenic mice. This basic information regarding structurefunction relationships is currently being used to develop novel inotropic therapies that are based on

altering cellular composition using genetic means and to optimize the fabrication protocol for engineered cardiac tissue such that it possesses the desired contractile and energetic properties. (2) The role of pulsatile arterial load (vascular stiffness in particular) in cardiovascular function and potential therapeutic applications of vascular stiffness-modifying drugs and/or hormones (e.g., relaxin). One of the hypotheses being investigated is that aberrant vascular stiffness changes are involved in the genesis of certain cardiovascular pathologies (e.g., preeclampsia, isolated systolic hypertension in elderly). Novel noninvasive measurement techniques are used to conduct longitudinal human studies, which are complimented by in vivo and in vitro vascular and cardiac studies with animal models. (3) The role of regional contraction dyssynchrony in global ventricular mechanics and energetics. In addition to basic research, Dr. Shroff and colleagues have developed and continue to develop novel, simulation-based material (i.e., mathematical models of biological systems and associated "virtual experiments") for education and engineering design.

Ian A. Sigal Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology and Bioengineering. PhD (Mechanical Engineering in Biomedical Engineering Collaborative Program), 2006, University of Toronto; MASc (Aerospace Engineering), 2001, University of Toronto; BSc (Physics), 1999, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. Dr. Sigal joined the University of Pittsburgh on October 2010 and started the Laboratory of Ocular Biomechanics (www.ocularbiomechanics.org). The main goal of the lab is to help understand the causes and consequences of the differences in biomechanics between individuals. Current efforts are focused on understanding glaucoma and, more specifically, why some people lose vision due to glaucoma while others do not. This involves projects to predict and measure the short and long-term effects of altered intraocular pressure and the ability of an eye to adapt to changing conditions.

Marc Simon Associate Professor of Medicine, Bioengineering, and Clinical Translational Science. Heart Failure & Transplantation Cardiology - Director, Heart Failure Research. UPMC Comprehensive Pulmonary Hypertension Program - Head of translational research. Director, Montefiore Clinical & Translational Research Center and Vascular CTRC. University of Pittsburgh Dept. of Medicine/Div. of Cardiology, Vascular Medicine Institute, UPMC Heart & Vascular Institute.

Matthew A. Smith Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Bioengineering. PhD (Neural Science), New York University, 2003. Between 2003 and 2010, Dr. Smith conducted postdoctoral research at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Smith's research is aimed at understanding how our visual perception of the world is constructed from the activity of populations of neurons. His laboratory employs neurophysiological and computational approaches to this problem. He is also interested in applications of his research to the problems of vision restoration and neural prosthetics.

Stephen H. Smith Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Bioengineering. PhD (Cell Biology and Physiology), University of Pittsburgh, 2000. Research interests include: cardiac muscle contraction, acetylation of myofilaments as a post-translational modification, length-dependent activation (Starlingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s law of the heart), calcium handling, and calcium sensitivity.

Thomas Smithgall William S. McEllroy Professor of Biochemistry and Chair, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine. Ph.D. (Pharmacology), University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (1986). Dr. Smithgall’s research is focused on the structure, function, and regulation of non-receptor protein-tyrosine kinases, as well as drug discovery campaigns targeting these key signaling molecules. Selective inhibitors of these kinases and their signaling partners have promise as therapeutic leads for cancer and infectious diseases.

Gwendolyn Sowa Professor and Chair, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, with secondary appointments in Orthopaedics, and Bioengineering. PhD (Biochemistry), University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1997; MD University of Wisconsin at Madison, 2000. Dr. Sowa is currently conducting molecular level research on disc and spine degeneration and the mechanisms of back pain. She is Co-Director of the Ferguson Laboratory for Orthopedic Research, and has an active research program investigating the role of mechanical forces in disc degeneration, and biomarker discovery for low back pain. Dr. Sowa is an award winning researcher and has presented her findings at international conferences and symposia.

Patrick J. Sparto Associate Professor, Physical Therapy, Bioengineering, and Otolaryngology. PhD (Biomedical Engineering), Ohio State University, 1998. Dr. Sparto’s primary research interests include the combined effects of aging and vestibular disease on postural control in an effort to reduce the risk of falling in older adults. He is currently investigating how neuroimaging markers of brain decline affect mobility performance in older adults.

Alexander Star Professor, Department of Bioengineering (Secondary), Department of Chemistry (Primary). PhD (Chemistry), Tel Aviv University (2000). Dr. Star serves as Editor-in-Chief of the topical section on Biosensors for the journal Sensors. His research interests include chemistry of carbon nanomaterials and nanotechnology-enabled chemical and biological sensing.

George D. Stetten Professor of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh and Research Professor, Robotics Institute, CMU. MD, State University of New York, Health Science Center at Syracuse, 1991; PhD (Biomedical Engineering), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1999. Dr. Stetten’s current research interests include image-guided surgery using an ultrasound device he invented called the Sonic Flashlight, and various adaptations of the underlying principle of in-situ image guidance, including one based on Optical Coherence Tomography for microsurgery. In addition, he is developing image analysis techniques for automated identification and measurement of anatomical structures. He has invented a technology called FingerSight for the vision impaired, which involves fingertip video cameras linked to vibratory stimulators. He is also developing a new surgical tool that magnifies the sense of touch, enabling the surgeon to feel forces during delicate procedures. His teaching efforts include the development of a new open-standard testing format, enabling instructors to create and score their own multiple choice exams, called LaTeX Open-Format Testing (LOFT) and a student-built electronics instrumentation package called the PittKit. He is the founding director of the Music Engineering Laboratory in the School of Engineering and teaches a new honors course in the Engineering Foundations of Music.

Walter Storkus Professor, Department of Dermatology (Primary), Departments of Immunology, Bioengineering and Pathology (Secondary). PhD (Microbiology and Immunology), Duke University (1986). Dr. Storkusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; laboratory studies the immunobiology of tumors and designs immunotherapies for cancer, leading to the development and performance of pilot phase I/II clinical trials for the treatment of patients with solid forms of cancer, including melanoma.

Mingui Sun Professor, Departments of Neurological Surgery, Bioengineering, and Electrical & Computer Engineering. PhD (Electrical Engineering), University of Pittsburgh, 1989. Dr. Sun's research interests include biomedical sensors and instruments, implantable devices, image and video processing, neuroengineering, and electrophysiological signals such as EEG and MEG. His is currently investigating implantable devices for the brain, telemedicine, brain-computer interface, and development of electronic systems for overweight and obesity evaluation.

Prithu Sundd Assistant Professor of Medicine (Primary), Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Principal Investigator-Heart, Lung, Blood and Vascular Medicine Institute, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering (secondary), University of Pittsburgh. PhD (Chemical Engineering), Ohio University, 2008. The research in Dr. Sunddâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lab is focused on understanding the molecular and cellular mechanism of vaso-occlusive pathophysiology in Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) and how it leads to Acute Chest Syndrome. The research goals are achieved using an integrative physiologic approach, which involves use of in vivo imaging in transgenic humanized SCD mice and blood samples from SCD patients in in vitro microfluidic platforms.

Juan Taboas Assistant professor in Oral Biology at the School of Dental Medicine and the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, secondary appointment in Bioengineering. PhD (Biomedical Engineering), University of Michigan, 2004. Dr. Taboas works to bring novel skeletal and craniofacial tissue regeneration therapies to patients with the aim of minimizing morbidity and treatment cost, and improving their quality of life. His primary focus is regeneration of the epiphyseal growth plate, the cartilaginous interfacial tissue at the ends of long bones that drives appendicular skeletal growth, to treat growth plate injury, skeletal dysplasia and complex bone loss. His laboratory is located in the McGowan Center for Craniofacial Regeneration at the School of Dental Medicine. The laboratory applies principles of stem cell biology, scaffold microenvironment design, and molecular drug delivery to control progenitor cell differentiation and formation of proper tissue architecture. Dr. Taboas is interested in the role of growth factor gradients, matrix molecules, and G protein-coupled receptor signaling on chondrogenesis, cartilage cell function, and formation of cartilaginous interfacial tissues such as the growth plate, mandible condylar cartilage, and enthesis. Dr. Taboas has a record of multi-disciplinary research, collaboration, and training, including mentoring of bioengineering graduate students and residents. He teaches courses in craniofacial skeletal regeneration and in laboratory methods for regenerative medicine.

Changfeng Tai Associate Professor, Department of Urology and Bioengineering. Research interests include: (a). Develop new strategies to treat overactive bladder symptoms by combining electrical neuromodulation and pharmacological treatment. The goal of this project is to find new treatments for overactive bladder symptoms that are less invasive and highly effective with minimal side effect. (b). Design and develop novel neural prosthetic devices to restore urinary functions after spinal cord injury. Research interests are

focused on the control of bladder and sphincter using electrical nerve stimulation. One of the goals for this research project is to restore the functions for urine storage and elimination after spinal cord injury.

Two urological problems need to be solved for people with spinal cord injury: 1. how to inhibit the bladder over activity during urine storage to prevent frequent incontinence; 2. how to inhibit tonic contraction of urethral sphincter during voiding to completely eliminate urine; (c). Computer simulation and modeling analysis of electrical nerve stimulation. This project is aimed at understanding the mechanisms and biophysics of nerve response to extracellular electrical stimulation. It is focused on how to design the stimulation electrodes and stimulation waveforms to either excite or block the nerve using electrical current. The results from this project could significantly improve the design of neural prosthetic devices for restoring functions after neurological disorders.

Tobias Teichert Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in the Translational Neuroscience Program (TNP). After completing his PhD in Psychology at Philipps-University Marburg in Germany, Dr. Teichert held a Postdoctoral Research Scientist position in the Department of Neuroscience at Columbia University. His primary research interests include the neural mechanisms of decision-making and auditory cognition, as well as the development of an ultra-sound technique for non-invasive localized brain drug-delivery.

Gelsy Torres-Oviedo Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering. She is also Faculty at the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition. PhD (Biomedical Engineering), 2007 at The Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University. She trained as a postdoctoral fellow at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine until December 2011. Dr. Torres-Oviedo's group investigates the human ability to adapt walking patterns and learn new movements through interactions with the world. To this end we combine psychophysical experiments and computational tools to investigate locomotor learning in unimpaired subjects and patients with cortical lesions. Current studies specifically study 1) the adaptability of muscle coordination in patients and healthy subjects when they experience novel walking conditions, 2) the prediction error driving locomotor learning to sustained environmental perturbations, and 3) the generalization of adaptation effects from treadmill walking to over ground locomotor movements and 4) cognitive factors mediating locomotor learning and its generalization.

Fuchiang (Rich) Tsui Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Bioengineering and Intelligent Systems Program. PhD (Electrical and Computer Engineering), University of Pittsburgh. Research interests include Clinical informatics, Public health informatics, Machine learning, (big) Data mining, Artificial intelligence, Natural language processing, Mobile healthcare, Precision medicine, Data warehouse, Time series analysis, Signal processing, and large real-time learning production systems. Dr. Tsui has produced over 100 peer-reviewed publications and his publications have been actively cited (Google h-index: 39). He is Director of the Tsui Lab (http://www.tsuilab.com).

Rocky S. Tuan Distinguished Professor, Orthopedic Surgery and Bioengineering. PhD (1977) from Rockefeller University, NY. Rocky Tuan, PhD, a world-renowned expert in stem cell biology and tissue engineering, is the founding director of the University of Pittsburghâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s School of Medicineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Center for Cellular and Molecular Engineering in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, as well as the director of the Center for Military Medicine Research, and associate director of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine. For more than 30 years, Dr. Tuan has studied the workings of the musculoskeletal system and

its diseases, including cartilage development and repair, cell signaling and matrix biochemistry, stem cell biology, nanotechnology, biomaterials, and many other orthopedically relevant topics.

Robert Turner Professor, Neurobiology and Bioengineering. PhD (Cellular and Molecular Biology), University of Washington, 1991. Dr. Turner earned his PhD at the University of Washington and worked as a Post Doc at Emory University under the direction of Dr. Mahlon R. DeLong (Neurology and Movement Disorders).

Dr. Turner’s research focuses on the basal ganglia, thalamus and cortex in health and disease and neural interfaces (e.g., deep brain stimulation) for the treatment of movement disorders. He studies the spiking activity of multiple single neurons in monkeys trained to perform operant movement tasks in order to examine changes in the relationship between neuronal activity and behavior across the induction of disease states and their manipulation by deep brain stimulation therapy. Using this approach, Dr. Turner’s research seeks to understand the neuronal mechanisms that produce symptoms in diseases such as Parkinson’s disease and to improve the efficacy of neural interface therapies for those diseases.

Elizabeth Tyler-Kabara Associate Professor, Neurological Surgery, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and Bioengineering.

MD/PhD (Molecular Physiology and Biophysics) Vanderbilt University, 1997. Specialized areas of interest: Cerebral palsy; spasticity; dystonia; movement disorders; pediatric spinal disorders. Dr. TylerKabara directs the Neural Enhancement Laboratory in the Department of Neurological Surgery. Current collaborations with the department of Bioengineering include exploring various techniques for improving neuronal electrode interfaces and work in the Rehabilitation Neural Engineering Laboratory on brain computer interfaces.

Ken Urish Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Bioengineering. MD University of Pittsburgh 2008. PhD (Bioengineering) University of Pittsburgh 2006. Residency (Orthopaedic Surgery) Penn State University 2013. Fellowship Adult Reconstruction Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital 2014. Research interests include: 1. Biofilm antibiotic tolerance, 2. Biofilm dynamics on medical implants and devices, 3. Health services research in arthroplasty.

Jonathan P. Vande Geest Professor, Department of Bioengineering. PhD (Bioengineering), University of Pittsburgh, 2005.

Research interests include: (1) extracellular matrix remodeling; (2) ocular, nerve, and vascular biomechanics; (3) tissue engineering; (4) computational simulation.

Gregory Vásquez Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering; Senior Scientist, GeNO, LLC. PhD (Chemistry), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1992). Research interests include the designing and developing inhaled nitric oxide delivery systems for the treatment of cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases related to pulmonary arterial hypertension and idiopathic pulmonary hypertension. The high reactivity of nitric oxide, particularly in the presence of oxygen, makes the design and analysis of these systems challenging, and requires utilization of a variety of biochemical and analytical chemistry techniques. His research is also focused on biochemical mechanisms related to profibrotic disorders.

Alberto Vazquez Research Assistant Professor, Radiology and Bioengineering, Member of the CNBC. PhD (Biomedical Engineering), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2005. Research interests of Dr. Vazquez include in vivo imaging of brain function and dysfunction, especially of Alzheimer's disease, at cellular and systems levels. He uses an array of computational and experimental methodologies, such as linear/non-linear modeling and characterization of biological systems, optical/fluorescence imaging, two-photon microscopy, calcium imaging, optogenetics and magnetic resonance imaging, to assess and quantify nervous system function and dysfunction.

Oleg I. Velikokhantnyi Research Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering. PhD (Physics and Mathematics), Institute of Strength Physics and Materials Science, Tomsk, Russia (1994). Dr. Velikokhatnyiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s primary research interests are focused on developing and applying modern first-principles quantum mechanical and semiempirical approaches to design of biodegradable materials with controllable corrosion rate for orthopedic and craniofacial applications. His secondary research interests lie in a field of computational modeling and design of the materials for alternative energy sources (Li-ion rechargeable batteries, fuel cells, water electrolysis).

John A. Viator Professor, Department of Bioengineering (adjunct). PhD (Electrical Engineering), Oregon Health & Science University (2001). Dr. Viator is the inaugural Director of the Biomedical Engineering Program at Duquesne University. His research area is in biomedical optics, particularly in photoacoustics. His primary work concerns detection and capture of circulating tumor cells using photoacoustic flow cytometry. He also applies optical technologies to clinical problems in surgery, dermatology, radiology, and other areas of medicine.

Jeffrey Vipperman Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering. PhD (Mechanical Engineering), Duke University, 1997. Dr. Vipperman's research interests include adaptive structures and materials, acoustics, vibrations, controls, signal processing, control of biological systems, and medical device development.

He is the founder and director of the Sound, Systems, and Structures Laboratory, which is well-equipped to conduct both experimental and numerical studies.

Yoram Vodovotz Professor of Surgery, Immunology, Clinical and Translational Science, and Communication Science and Disorders; Visiting Professor of Computational Biology. Research interests include the biology of acute inflammation in shock states, chronic inflammatory diseases, wound healing, malaria, and restenosis. His work utilizes mathematical modeling to unify and gain insight into the biological interactions that characterize these inflammatory conditions. As the Director of the Center for Inflammation and Regenerative Modeling (CIRM; www.mirm.pitt.edu/cirm) at the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Dr. Vodovotz has been involved in the mathematical modeling of acute inflammatory states (e.g. septic or hemorrhagic shock, wound healing), including cellular and physiological elements, as part of a large, interdisciplinary collaborative team. He is also a co-founder of Immunetrics, Inc., a company that is commercializing this mathematical modeling work.

David A. Vorp Associate Dean for Research, Swanson School of Engineering; Professor of Bioengineering, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Surgery, and The Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, and Core Faculty, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine. PhD (Mechanical Engineering), University of Pittsburgh, 1992. Dr. Vorp's research interests are in the area of vascular and urethral biomechanics and vascular tissue engineering. His current work focuses on the assessment of mechanical and microstructural factors in the genesis and progression of cerebral and aortic aneurysms and in the development of tissueengineered blood vessels. As part of the latter, Dr. Vorp's laboratory has focused on the role of stem cells in vascular tissue engineering, including the effect of in-vitro stimulation on stem cell differentiation. His group also has begun investigating an experimental stem cell treatment for aneurysm disease.

William R. Wagner Director, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine; Professor, Surgery, Chemical Engineering, and Bioengineering. PhD (Chemical Engineering), University of Texas at Austin, 1991. The research interests of Dr. Wagnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s group are in the area of cardiovascular engineering with projects that address medical device biocompatibility and design, tissue engineering, and imaging. The research group is comprised of graduate students in bioengineering as well as post-doctoral fellows and junior faculty with backgrounds in surgery, engineering, and polymer chemistry. Projects span from in vitro to studies.

James H-C. Wang Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery, Bioengineering, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Sciences, and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. PhD (Bioengineering) University of Cincinnati, 1996. Postdoctoral Fellow in Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 1997, and Washington University at St. Louis, 1998. Dr. Wang is now the Director of the MechanoBiology Laboratory (MBL, http://www.pitt.edu/~mechbio/) in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. One of his research focuses in the MBL is the cellular and molecular mechanisms of tendinopathy, a prevalent tendon disorder that affects millions of Americans in the United States alone.

Another research focus is the mechanobiology of tendon stem cells (TSCs) and the pathogenic role of TSCs in the development of degenerative tendinopathy due to mechanical overuse/overloading. Still another is the use of autologous platelet-rich plasma (PRP), in combination with engineered tendon matrix (ETM) and stem cells, to repair injured tendons. In the MBL, interdisciplinary approaches, including cell biology, molecular biology, tissue engineering, and engineering mechanics, are applied to the investigations. New technologies such as cell traction force microscopy (CTFM) and micropost force sensor array are currently used in determining cellular function in terms of cell contractility and motility.

Yadong Wang William Kepler Whiteford Professor of Bioengineering with secondary appointments in Chemical Engineering and Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh. PhD (Chemistry), Stanford University in 1999, and performed his postdoctoral studies in biomaterials at MIT. He joined the Bioengineering Department at University of Pittsburgh in 2008 after serving as an assistant professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology for 5 years. Research focuses on creating biomaterials that present controlled chemical, physical, and mechanical signals to cells, tissues and organs. The ultimate goal is to control how the human body interacts with these materials. He is especially interested in applications of biomaterials in the cardiovascular, nervous and musculoskeletal systems. His team enjoys collaborating with other scientists and clinicians who share the same passion in translational research. Current projects include vascular grafts, controlled release of proteins and microfabrication of biomaterials.

Jonathan Waters Vice Chair for Clinical Research, Department of Anesthesiology; Professor, Anesthesiology and Bioengineering; Chief of Anesthesia Services at Magee Women’s Hospital, UPMC; Medical Director, Patient Blood Management Program at UPMC; Medical Director, Acute Interventional Pain Program of UPMC; Program Director, Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Fellowship; and, Medical Director in the Blood Management Division of Procirca, Inc. MD, George Washington University; residency at New York University/Bellevue Hospital Center. Dr. Waters’ research interests include: improving obstetrical outcomes by minimizing transfusion; red cell rheologic changes associated with anesthesia; quality improvement research associated with patient blood management. He is a Founding Member of the Society for the Advancement of Blood Management, for which he has also served as president (20072009). Dr. Waters is also Chair of the Transfusion Review Committee at Magee Women’s Hospital.

Douglas Weber Associate Professor, Bioengineering and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. PhD (Bioengineering), Arizona State University, 2001. Dr. Weber completed two years of postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Dr. Richard Stein at the University of Alberta in Edmonton Alberta, Canada. In 2005, he joined the University of Pittsburgh, where he and his staff conduct fundamental research into the role and nature of sensory feedback in motor control. Their mission is to advance rehabilitation science and practice through scientific discovery and the development of neuroprosthetics for assisting and restoring motor function after nervous system injury and limb loss. Current research projects include: 1) the use of functional electrical stimulation (FES) to improve upper extremity function during stroke rehab, and 2) the development of motor and sensory nerve interfaces to restore natural movement and sensation for prosthetic limbs. Dr. Weber is currently on leave from the University working as a Program Manager in the Biological Technology Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency where he is leading three programs aimed at developing advanced neurotechnologies for fundamental research and clinical applications.

Justin Weinbaum Research Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering (Primary) and Member, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine (Secondary). PhD (Molecular Cell Biology) Washington University in St. Louis (2007). Dr. Weinbaum’s Vascular ECM Dynamics Laboratory focuses on extracellular matrix remodeling in the context of vascular tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. He is also the Associate Director of the Vascular Bioengineering Laboratory, which is developing a stem-cell based tissue-engineered vascular graft and a new therapy to prevent pathologic ECM remodeling during aortic aneurysm progression Alan Wells Thomas J Gill III Professor of Pathology, Professor of Bioengineering. MD, Brown University (1988); DMSc, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden (1982). Wells directs a large research endeavor with numerous close collaborators investigating how cells interact with and respond to their microenvironment during cancer dissemination and wound healing, with an eye towards biologically engineered and stem cell therapeutics in these arenas. Within his laboratory, Dr. Wells and his research team are aiming to gain a better understanding of how cells respond to their local environment. Due to the widespread implications of such research, Dr. Wells has been featured in several publications. Ultimately, the importance of his research flows from the provision of reinforcing insights and novel avenues for exploration into the basic signaling pathways, as well as functioning of entire organisms leading to applied therapeutic approaches. Currently, Dr. Wells is concentrating his research efforts towards gaining

further knowledge of the conditions of dysregulated (tumor dissemination and chemoresistance of tumors) and orchestrated (wound healing and organogenesis) responses. To accomplish this, Dr. Wells and his colleagues are at the forefront of developing all human microphyisological systems for both investigation and therapeutic testing.

Peter Wipf Distinguished University Professor, Department of Chemistry (Primary), Department of Bioengineering (Secondary), Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences (Secondary). PhD (Chemistry), University of Zürich (1987). Dr. Wipf serves as the Co-Leader of the Cancer Therapeutics Program in the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. His research applies the design of new synthetic methods for the total synthesis of natural products and the discovery of novel pharmaceuticals and biological probe molecules.

Savio L-Y. Woo Distinguished University Professor and Founder and Director of the Musculoskeletal Research Center (MSRC) in the Department of Bioengineering. PhD, University of Washington at Seattle, 1971; DSc (Honorary), California State University at Chico, 1998; DEng (Honorary), Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2008. Dr. Woo has established interdisciplinary programs to provide educational and research opportunities on the mechanical properties of soft tissues (tendons, ligaments and cartilage) and the effects of growth, aging and healing on these properties. Dr. Woo’s research interests include the effects of stress and motion on healing and repair of soft tissues; theoretical and experimental studies of the nonlinear viscoelastic and mechanical properties of biological tissues; kinematics of synovial joints, including the knee and shoulder, by developing a novel robotic universal force-moment sensor testing system to assess the roles of various soft tissues; functional tissue engineering approaches involving the use of gene therapy and bioscaffolds, i.e., porcine extracellular matrix (ECM), to improve the healing of injured ligaments and tendons. In more recent years, Dr. Woo’s research has focused on the development of biodegradable metallic materials to assist the healing of ligaments and tendons as well as for implantable devices for orthopaedic applications.

Shandong Wu Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology and Bioengineering. PhD (Computer Science), City University of Hong Kong, 2009. Research interests include: (1) Biomedical image analysis and clinical applications; 2) Quantitative imaging-based biomarker for breast cancer risk assessment; 3) Computer vision.

Lei Yang Associate Professor, Department of Developmental Biology and Bioengineering. PhD (Cell Biology), Chinese Academy of Sciences. 2003. Research interests include: (1) Cardiac tissue engineering techniques, (2) Human ES and iPS cells, heart progenitor cells.

Zhaochun Yang Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering. PhD (Mechanical Engineering), University of Pittsburgh 2004. Research interests include: (1) Application of finite element method in biomechanics; (2) Application of Tribology in biomechanics.

Joanne Yeh Associate Professor, Structural Biology and Bioengineering. PhD Chemistry, University of California @ Berkeley, 1994. Professor Yeh’s multidisciplinary research program is at the junction of chemistry,

physics, and biology, centering on the three dimensional, atomic resolution, structure determination of proteins, nucleic acids, and their complexes by crystallographic X-ray diffraction methods. Structures elucidated by Professor Yehâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s group include monotopic- and trans-membrane proteins, damaged DNA detection assemblies, and redox enzyme-substrate complexes. These macromolecular proteins and their assemblies function in vital biological processes, such as cellular regulation, signal transduction, damaged DNA detection, aerobic/anaerobic respiration, and energy metabolism. In addition to her structurefunction studies, Professor Yeh has developed novel methods related to macromolecular crystallography and biochemical/biophysical characterization of membrane proteins and assemblies. In the area of bioengineering, the Yeh laboratory has developed a biodetection approach to produce highly specific and ultra-sensitive biosensors/nanobiosensors, exploiting unique structure-function relationships of enzymes and other proteins to detect biomarkers of diseases. The Yeh lab is further optimizing these biosensors for additional biomedical and environmental applications. Professor Yeh has patented coordinated biosensors for early detection of cancer biomarkers and is exploring commercialization possibilities with industrial colleagues, in order for these clinically needed biosensors to have a broader and timlier impact.

Minhee Yun Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Bioengineering. PhD, Arizona State University, 1998. Dr. Yun's major research interests include biomedical sensors and devices, biodevice materials, and nanoelectronics. Dr. Yun is currently working on development of biomarker detections based on nanomaterials such as 1-d (nanowires and carbon-based materials) and 2-d (graphene and conducting polymer layers) materials; in particular, his is focused on cardiovascular disease (CVD) and other biomarker detections.

Xudong Zhang Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Orthopaedic Surgery, and Bioengineering. PhD, University of Michigan, 1997. Dr. Zhang is the Director of Musculoskeletal Modeling Lab and Co-director of Sports Orthopaedic Research Lab. His primary research field is musculoskeletal biomechanics, wherein his work spans theory, experiment, and computational modeling. His focus has been on developing and validating biomechanical models and simulations for clinical and industrial applications. Such applications include, but are not limited to, treatment efficacy and prevention strategy evaluation, computer-assisted orthopaedics and rehabilitation, digital modeling for ergonomics and human-centric system design, prosthetics and robotics.

Leming Zhou Assistant Professor, Health Information Management in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and Bioengineering in the Swanson School of Engineering. PhD (Physics and Computer Science), George Washington University. Dr. Zhouâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s research interests include information integration, data analytics, computational modeling and simulation, algorithm and software development, high performance computing, machine learning, and data mining.

Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Mohammad M. Ataai Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering and Bioengineering, Ph.D. (Chemical Engineering), Cornell University, 1986 - Dr. Ataaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s research interests include bioprocess engineering, large-scale cell

culture and fermentation, immobilized enzyme, protein purification, metabolic engineering, cellular metabolism and physiology.

Anna C. Balazs Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and Robert von der Luft Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981 - Dr. Balazs’ research involves using statistical mechanics and computer simulations to model polymeric systems. Her current research is focused on modeling the properties of polymer blends, the aggregation of associating polymers, and polymer-surface interactions. She is also interested in the role of polymers in biophysics and has investigated micelle formation, the controlled release of drugs through porous polymers, and the binding of ligands to biopolymers.

Ipsita Banerjee Associate Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Ph.D., Rutgers University, 2005 - Dr. Banerjee’s research interests focus on the area of process systems engineering and optimization and their applications in different chemical and bio-engineering problems. She is currently developing novel methods for differentiating embryonic stem cells to the pancreatic lineage and applying systems engineering principles in analyzing the regulatory network of the differentiating cell population. She is also interested in reaction network modeling energy efficient combustion processes.

Taryn Bayles Non Tenure Stream (NTS) Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Bayles has spent part of her career working in industry with Exxon, Westinghouse and Phillips Petroleum. Her industrial experience has included process engineering, computer modeling and control, process design and testing, and engineering management. She has also spent over 20 years teaching Chemical Engineering at the University of Nevada Reno, University of Pittsburgh, University of Maryland College Park and University of Maryland Baltimore County. In her courses she incorporates her industrial experience by bringing practical examples and interactive learning to help students understand fundamental engineering principles. Her research focuses on Engineering Education and Outreach. The goal of this research is to increase awareness of and interest in pursuing engineering as a career, as well as to understand what factors help students be successful once they have chosen engineering as a major.

Eric J. Beckman George M. Bevier Professor of Engineering, Distinguished Service Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering and Co-Director, Mascaro Sustainability Initiative, Ph.D. (Polymer Science and Engineering), University of Massachusetts, 1988 - Dr. Beckman’s research focuses on molecular design to support (a) creation of greener chemical products and (b) synthesis of materials to support biomedical research.

Harvey S. Borovetz Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering; Distinguished Professor and Former Chairman, Department of Bioengineering; Robert L. Hardesty Professor of Surgery; Ph.D. (Bioengineering), Carnegie Mellon University, 1976 - Dr. Borovetz's current research interests are focused on the design and clinical utilization of cardiovascular organ replacements for both adult and pediatric patients. Since 1986 Dr. Borovetz has provided academic leadership to the University's clinical bioengineering program in mechanical circulatory support.

Ioannis Bourmpakis (Giannis Mpourmpakis) Assistant Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Ph.D. (Theoretical and Computational Chemistry), University of Crete. 2006 - Dr. Mpourmakis’s research focuses on first-principles-based

multiscale modeling of nanomaterials, with applications in the nanotechnology and energy arenas. He is leading the Computer-Aided Nano & Energy Lab (CANELA) at Pitt with research thrusts in nanocatalysis, nanoparticle growth and biomass conversion.

Andrew Bunger Assistant Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering and Civil & Environmental Engineering, Ph.D. (Geological Engineering), University of Minnesota, 2005 - Dr. Bunger’s research interests include the mechanics of hydraulic fractures, coupled fluid-shale interaction, and the emplacement dynamics of magma-driven dykes and sills. His research has been applied in a wide range of subsurface applications including underground mining methods, oil and gas extraction, enhancing recovery from geothermal energy resources, and CO2 geosequestration.

Shiao-Hung Chiang Professor Emeritus, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Ph.D. (Chemical Engineering), Carnegie Mellon University, 1958 - Dr. Chiang’s research covers a wide spectrum of topics ranging from the study of basic mass transfer mechanisms to the development of a novel coal beneficiation process.

Robert M. Enick Covestro Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Ph.D. (Chemical Engineering), University of Pittsburgh, 1985 – Dr. Enick's research focuses on experimental investigations of carbon dioxide-based supercritical fluid technology. Examples include: direct carbonation of metal-containing hazardous waste; generation of microcellular foams using CO2; application of fluorinated thiols to metal surfaces using liquid carbon dioxide; and increasing the viscosity of liquid carbon dioxide.

William J. Federspiel Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Bioengineering, and Critical Care Medicine, Ph.D. (Chemical Engineering), University of Rochester, 1983 - Dr. Federspiel’s research areas and interests include biomedical fluid mechanics and mass transfer, cardiopulmonary bioengineering, artificial organs, and tissue engineering.

Di Gao Associate Professor and W.K. Whiteford Faculty Fellow, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Ph.D. (Chemical Engineering) 2004, University of California at Berkeley – Dr. Gao’s research interests include synthesis, assembly and characterization of novel nanostructures, and the integration of these nanostructures into functional devices and systems for technological applications such as biomedical and environmental sensors.

Gerald D. Holder Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, and U.S. Steel Dean, Swanson School of Engineering and Distinguished Service Professor, Ph.D. (Chemical Engineering), University of Michigan, 1976 - Dr. Holder’s research interests include high pressure phase behavior, and thermodynamic properties of gas hydrates and supercritical fluids.

J. Karl Johnson W.K. Whiteford Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Ph.D. (Chemical Engineering), Cornell University, 1992 - Dr. Johnson’s current research interests are focused on molecular thermodynamics, atomistic computer simulations, and theories of complex systems. The ultimate goal of this work is to develop engineering models for industrially important materials and processes.

John A. Keith Assistant Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Ph.D. (Chemistry), California Institute of Technology, 2007 - Dr. Keith’s research group uses computational quantum chemistry modeling to study, predict, and design chemical reaction mechanisms, materials, and catalysts.

George E. Klinzing W.K. Whiteford Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Ph.D. (Chemical Engineering), Carnegie Mellon University, 1963 - Dr. Klinzing’s current research covers the fields of pneumatic conveying, particulate systems and solids processing. Research has been concentrating on dense phase pneumatic conveying probing the fundamental phenomena both experimentally with novel instrumentation and theoretically with new models based on experimental findings.

Prashant Kumta Edward R. Weidlein Chair Professor, Swanson School of Engineering and School of Dental Medicine, Department of Bioengineering, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Department of Oral Biology, Ph.D. (Materials Science and Engineering), University of Arizona, 1990 – Dr. Kumta’s research interests cover the two broad areas of Energy storage and Biomaterials. The main focus of research in both these areas is to develop novel low temperature approaches and study the relationships of the process parameters, the ensuing microstructure and crystallographic structure to the electrochemical activity in the former and biological response in the latter.

Lei Li Assistant Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD Macromolecular Science and Engineering Center, University of Michigan, 2001. Professor Li’s current research interest focuses on polymer thin and ultrathin films at surfaces and interfaces. The key is to understand the polymer/polymer and polymer/substrate interactions governing the various properties, e.g. mechanical, optical, electrical and tribological properties, of polymer thin films. Based on this understanding, novel materials are developed for applications in nanotechnology and bio-systems. Examples are: Relaxation and dynamics of polymer thin films on various substrates; Mechanical properties of polymer thin films; Ultrathin perfluorinated polymer films for anti-friction and anti-corrosion application in micro and nano devices; Novel composite polymer thin films with low friction and wear for biomedical implants; Fabrication of polymer thin films with low surface energy and enhanced anti-adhesion properties via photochemistry approach.

J. Thomas Lindt Professor Emeritus, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Ph.D., University of Delft, 1971 - Dr. Lindt is internationally recognized as a leader in mathematical modeling of polymer processing operations and supervises research programs associated with polymer processing. His research interests include reactive processing of polymers, isolation of polymers from dilute solutions and emulsions, formation of polymeric composites containing oriented graphitic particles/fibers, morphology development in polymer blends, and rheology of polymer solutions in supercritical fluids associated with structure development in microcellular foams.

Steven R. Little Chairman and W.K. Whiteford Professor , Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Bioengineering, Immunology and Medicine, Ph.D. 2005, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005 – Dr. Little’s research interests are focused on biomaterial design and controlled drug delivery in the areas of smart immunotherapeutics and regenerative medicine.

Joseph J. McCarthy W.K. Whiteford Professor and Vice Chair for Education, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Ph.D., 1998, Northwestern University. Dr. McCarthy’s research interests lie in the area of solids flow and transport phenomena in particulate systems. Immediate concerns include flow and mixing of cohesive particles, breakup and fracture of particle aggregates, and heat transfer in discrete and particulate media.

One of the long range goals of his work is the development of a more unified fundamental understanding of transport phenomena in particle systems.

James McKone Assistant Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Ph.D. in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology in 2013. Dr. McKone’s research interests lie in electrochemistry, catalysis, energy, and sustainability Institute of Technology in 2013. Dr. McKone’s research interests lie in electrochemistry, catalysis, energy, and sustainability materials.

Badie I. Morsi Professor and Director of Petroleum Engineering Program, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Sc.D., Institut National Polytecnique de Lorraine, 1982 - Dr. Morsi’s current research involves different aspects of Chemical, Environmental, and Petroleum Engineering. In Chemical Engineering, he is leading an extensive research effort in order to design and scale-up various multiphase reactors, such as bubble columns, slurry bubble-columns, high-pressure/temperature stirred vessels, and trickle-bed reactors. His research group is currently measuring the hydrodynamics and mass transfer characteristics in a number of important chemical processes, including methanol synthesis, cyclohexane oxidation, propylene polymerization, benzoic acid oxidation, and Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. In Environmental Engineering, he is primarily concerned with kinetic studies, modeling, and optimization of the regeneration step in a two-step advanced dry-sorbent process for simultaneous removal of NOx and SOx from flue gas. In Petroleum Engineering, he supervised a research on enhanced oil recovery using carbon dioxide.

Robert S. Parker Professor and B.P. America Faculty Fellow, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Ph.D., University of Delaware, 1999. The research focus of Professor Parker's group is process modeling and control, with an interest in biomedical systems. Advanced controllers typically use, either explicitly or implicitly, in response to setpoint changes and/or disturbances. Hence, the development of accurate, potentially nonlinear, models of process behavior plays an important role in controller design. Specific research interests include: cancer modeling and therapy; blood glucose control in diabetic patients; analytical solutions to model-based optimal control problems; and empirical model identification and validation.

John F. Patzer II Associate Professor, Bioengineering and Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Ph.D. (Chemical Engineering). Stanford University, 1980. Dr. Patzer’s research interests are in the application of reaction engineering and transport phenomena in support of biomedical bioartificial organ development and replacement. Dr. Patzer is collaborating with physicians at the Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute in clinical evaluation of bound solute dialysis (artificial liver) to support patients with acute renal failure post-transplant. His other research interests include renal failure therapies, artificial pancreas and skin regeneration.

John W. Tierney Professor Emeritus, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Ph.D. (Chemical Engineering), Northwestern University, 1951 - Dr. Tierney’s research interests are reactor engineering, process modeling and simulation, and equilibrium staged separations. Much of Dr. Tierney’s research is related to developing sources other than petroleum for liquid transportation fuels.

Sachin Velankar Associate Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Ph.D. (Chemical Engineering), University of Delaware, 1999 Dr. Velankar’s research deals with polymer science and engineering, and is especially focused on studying the rheological properties of complex polymeric fluids. The overall goal is to gain insight into the interplay between processing, structure, and properties of polymeric materials, and to exploit this insight to design better materials.

Götz Veser Nickolas A. DeCecco Professor Chemical and Petroleum Engineering and Associate Director, Swanson School of Engineering Center for Energy, Dr. rer. nat. (Physical Chemistry) Fritz-Haber-Institute of the Max-Planck-Society, 1993 - Dr. Veser's research is in the field of catalytic reaction engineering, where his interests range from the detailed modeling of catalytic reactions and reactors, to the synthesis of novel catalysts, the development of catalytic microreactors, and the design of integrated reactor concepts. His research thus attempts to integrate engineering aspects on all length scales through welldesigned experiments and numerical simulations. A current focus of his research is on the catalytic partial oxidation of hydrocarbons at high-temperature millisecond contact-time conditions.

William R. Wagner Professor, Surgery, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering and Bioengineering, Director of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Ph.D. (Chemical Engineering), University of Texas at Austin, 1991 - Dr. Wagner's research addresses a variety of issues in artificial organ development ranging from clinical studies to theoretical design work. Cardiovascular devices are of primary interest, particularly the complications that result from blood interactions with artificial surfaces (e.g. thrombosis). Current projects also fall into the area of cardiovascular tissue engineering, with a focus on material design to orchestrate cellular growth or function.

Christopher Wilmer Assistant Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Ph.D. (Chemical & Biological Engineering), Northwestern University, 2013. Dr. Wilmer’s research focuses on the use of large-scale molecular simulations to help find promising materials for energy and environmental applications. His research group computationally investigates millions of hypothetical materials on large supercomputers, and then works with experimental collaborators to synthesize the best ones. Specific research efforts will be aimed at designing porous materials for natural gas storage and separations, carbon capture, and gas sensors. Dr. Wilmer’s group is also interested in fundamental insights into structure-property relationships of porous materials, which can be discovered by “mining” the mountains of data generated during the large-scale computational screening process.

Judy Yang Nickolas A. DeCecco Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Ph.D., Physics (minor: materials science and engineering), Cornell, 1993. Professor Yang's research interests include gas-metal reactions, oxidation, high temperature corrosion, surface chemistry and physics, interfaces, catalysis, nanoparticles and nanostructured materials, as well as the use and development of advanced electron microscopy techniques, such as in situ, Z-contrast, and EELS. Her current focused research topic is the fundamental kinetics of surface oxidation reactions of metallic systems by in situ high vacuum controlled environment electron microscopy. Another area of interest is the determination of the supported structure of nanoparticles that are used in heterogeneous catalysis, by Z-contrast, EDS and HREM.

Civil and Environmental Engineering Jorge Abad Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ph.D., University of Illionis, 2007 – Dr. Abad’s research interests are a combination of fundamental and applied topics. Fundamental topics include the mechanics of sediment transport, the high-resolution description of hydrodynamics and morphodynamics in subaerial and submarine meandering channels, the long-term prediction of river morphodynamics, the development of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models for environmental flows, environmental hydrodynamics, and transport and mixing processes. Applied topics include river restoration, bank protection using in-stream structures, development of geographic information systems (GIS) tools for river management, and the development of CFD models for hydraulic structures (e.g., drop shafts and fish passage/canoe chutes).

Kyle Bibby Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ph.D., Yale University, 2012 - Dr. Bibby’s interests center around understanding the presence, ecology, and diversity of microorganisms, such as viruses and bacteria, in an environmental engineering context. Microorganisms are by far the most abundant and genetically diverse biological entities on our planet and are at the core of many of society’s environmental challenges, including sustainable energy production, waste treatment, and environmentally transmitted disease. In the Bibby Lab, emerging molecular biology techniques such as proteomics, genomics, metagenomics and transcriptomics are integrated with fundamental, quantitative environmental engineering practice to develop new insights and solutions to these problems.

Melissa Bilec Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 2007 - Dr. Bilec is an associate professor in the Swanson School of Engineering’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; she is the Deputy Director of the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation.

Dr. Bilec’s research program focuses on the built environment, life cycle assessment, sustainable healthcare, and indoor air impacts. She is interested in improving system-level environmental performance of buildings, while developing a deeper understanding of indoor environmental quality, occupant impacts, and energy use. She is the Principal Investigator of a multi-disciplinary and multiinstitutional research project, NSF EFRI-Barriers, Understanding, Integration – Life cycle Development (BUILD). Dr. Bilec has over 40 journal publications and has secured over $6 million in funding, including 8 National Science Foundation grants. She has received four education excellence awards. Dr. Bilec’s work prior to academia included tenure at the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh where she worked on green infrastructure projects, including the conversion of a 100-year bridge into a pedestrian bridge. Dr. Bilec serves on the Green Building Alliance board.

John Brigham Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ph.D., Cornell University, 2008 – Dr. Brigham is interested in fundamental concepts in mechanics and computation which span a broad

range of applications, from assessing service life of civil, marine, or aircraft structures to diagnosing physiological changes in biological structures. In particular, he is interested in the development of efficient computational methods for the representation of multiphysics and multiscale systems, solution strategies for inverse problems associated with nondestructive and noninvasive testing, and numerical modeling of biological systems

Daniel Budny Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Academic Director, Freshman Programs, Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1988 - Dr. Budny’s research has focused on the development of programs that assist entering freshman and academically disadvantaged engineering students, to succeed during their first year. Dr. Budny has also been awarded the 1996 ASEE Dow Young Educator Award, 1998 ASEE Ronald Schmitz Outstanding Service Award and the 1992 FIE Ben Dasher Award. He serves on the ASEE board of directors. He also served as the 1999 Frontiers in Education Conference General Chair and proceedings editor for the 1995 and 1997-99 FIE Conferences.

Andrew Bunger Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2005 - Dr. Bunger’s research has focused primarily on the basic mechanisms which determine how hydraulic fractures grow through rocks by using experimental, analytical, and numerical methods. His study of hydraulic fracturing application areas has included stimulation of unconventional gas and geothermal reservoirs, preconditioning ore bodies to improve the effectiveness of caving‐type mining methods, and modeling intrusion of magma in the Earth’s crust. His secondary research interest is the interaction between shale formations and drilling fluids with the main application in wellbore stability during the development of oil and gas wells.

Leonard W. Casson Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ph.D., University of Texas, 1987 - Dr. Casson's research interests include adsorption, fate, transport and transformation of chemicals, particles and environmental pathogens in unit operations and the natural environment. These fundamentals are applied to the design and operation of safe, secure, sustainable, reliable and resilient infrastructure systems (i.e., drinking water treatment, storage and distribution systems and wastewater collection and treatment systems). Current focus areas include: disinfection methodologies, resilience, vulnerability assessments, emergency response plans and analytical techniques and operational methodologies to ensure the security, sustainability and reliability of drinking water and wastewater infrastructure systems.

Leanne Gilbertson Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ph.D., Yale University 2014 – Dr. Gilbertson’s research focuses on sustainable design of emerging materials and products. Specifically, her work aims to i) identify specific (nano)material properties that can be manipulated to control functional performance maximization and minimize inherent hazard, and ii) use life cycle impact assessment as a tool to inform emerging product design in a way that maximizes the net environmental or human health benefit across the entire life cycle. Ongoing research projects in the Gilbertson group include, i) elucidating fundamental underlying mechanisms of interactions at the material-bio interface to inform material design for dual function and hazard objectives, and ii) determining ways in which nanotechnology can be leveraged to maximize net life cycle environmental benefit in a range of industry sectors. Her group’s cross-disciplinary research incorporates aspects of materials chemistry, biology, and engineering, and includes both experimental and life cycle modeling thrusts.

Kent A. Harries Associate Professor and Bicentennial Board of Visitors Faculty Fellow, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ph.D., McGill University, Montreal Canada, 1995. - Dr. Harries’ research interests include the use of non-traditional (FRP) and non-conventional (bamboo) materials in civil infrastructure, the seismic design and retrofit of building structures, the design and behavior of high-rise structures, and applications of full-scale structural testing.

Anthony Iannacchione Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1997 – Anthony Iannacchione is an associate professor and the director of the mining engineering program at the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to this appointment in 2008, he worked for the U.S. Bureau of Mines and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health for approximately 34 years. His educational background is split between civil engineering, mining engineering and geology and is a registered professional engineering and geologist in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Dr. Iannacchione’s research interest include mitigating the impacts caused by coal mine subsidence, designing coal mine’s with minimal risk of unplanned water discharges, investigating and solving strata control problems in underground mines, and evaluating underground mine ventilation systems.

Vikas Khanna Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ph.D., University of Ohio, 2009 - Dr. Khanna's research and teaching interests are in the general areas of sustainability science and engineering, industrial ecology, and role of environmental policy in engineering decision-making. The primary goal of his research is to develop and apply tools and techniques for understanding the sustainability of engineered products and processes. Current focus is on studying the life cycle environmental impacts of advanced biofuels that can act as drop in replacements for fossil fuels, environmental evaluation of nanotechnology, including life cycle energy impacts of carbon nanofibers and polymer nanocomposite materials. He is also developing integrated multiscale economic-environmental models for evaluating the role of environmental policies such as carbon tax and assessing risks to complex industrial systems.

Xu Liang William Kepler Whiteford Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ph.D., University of Washington, 1994 - Dr. Liang's primary research interests include: (1) to discover and reveal fundamental laws that govern water and energy cycles, and (2) to investigate how the water and energy cycles affect the health of our environment and ecological systems, and how they influence the transport and cycling of nutrients and pollutants at different scales, such as at local, regional, continental, and global scales. She is also very interested in research topics leading to improving accuracies on weather forecasts, droughts and floods, and on climate studies; scaling and data assimilation using in situ and remotely sensed measurements; impacts of climate change on diseases re-occurrences and re-distributions, and on sustainable water resources and environment; data and model system development through building the cyberinfrastructure, sensors and wireless sensor network (WSN) for hydrological sciences, and applications of emerging information technology for sustainable ecological system and water resources management.

Jeen-Shang Lin Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Sc.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982 - Dr. Lin’s expertise lies in the areas of geomechanics and numerical methods. He has conducted research on nonlinear system identification of soil, cell traction force microscopy, discrete/continuum methods, and numerical modeling of rock cutting. He is currently working on the constitutive modeling and stability assessment of methane hydrate bearing sediments.

Mark Magalotti Senior Lecturer, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ph.D. Civil Engineering University of Pittsburgh 2013. Dr. Magalotti is the Co-Director of the University of Pittsburgh’s Center For Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure. Research interests include multi-modal transportation planning and traffic control systems including ramp management and adaptive traffic signal systems.

Carla Ng Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ph. D., Northwestern University, 2008 – Dr. Ng’s research interests lie at the intersection of biology, chemistry and engineering. She is broadly interested in the fate of industrial chemicals in the environment, with a particular focus on bioaccumulation in wildlife and humans. Her recent work includes the development of mechanistic models to understand the accumulation of per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) in organisms by understanding their interactions with key biological macromolecules, and tracking the transport of chemicals in food via international food trade. Dr. Ng’s lab at Pitt combines multi-scale modeling (at the molecular, tissue and ecosystem levels) with in vitro assessment of chemical disposition and global mass flow analysis.

John F. Oyler Adjunct Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 1972 - Dr. Oyler's professional interests are specialized in Civil Engineering Materials, Solid Mechanics, and Structural Engineering. He worked for Dravo Corporation from 1953 to 1987, Daxus Corporation from 1988 to 1991, and formed Oyler Consulting Services in 1991 as a sole proprietorship.

Piervincenzo Rizzo Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ph.D., University of California San Diego, 2004 - Dr. Rizzo's academic and professional interests are in the fields of nondestructive testing/evaluation (NDT/E), structural health monitoring (NDE), signal processing and automatic pattern recognition for real-time prognosis of structures, and implementation of embedded sensor network for health monitoring of civil, mechanical and aerospace structures. His most recent works focused on the application of highly nonlinear solitary waves for the NDE of civil structures and materials and on the development of an integrated SHM system for lightweight structures. He has published nearly 85 referred papers and over 140 proceeding papers and technical report. Dr. Rizzo also holds two patents. He is the only individual worldwide to receive both the Achenbach Medal (in 2010) and the SHM Person of the Year Award (2015). Both awards recognize outstanding contribution to the advancement of SHM and are selected by the editors of Structural Health monitoring: An International Journal, one of the top journals on the subject. In 2016 the PI received the University of Pittsburgh Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Junior Scholar Award. This is a most esteemed award given to faculty at the University of Pittsburgh.

David Sanchez Assistant professor, Civil and environmental Engineering, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 2013 - Dr. Sanchez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and the Assistant Director for the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation. He directs the Sustainable Design Labs and they are currently focused on using sustainable design concepts to address Energy and Water grand challenges. Current projects include: Renewable electrode materials for Microbial Fuel Cells and the Electro-Fenton process, Improving the energy efficiency of Recirculating Aquaponic Systems, Exploring the use of Rapid prototyping for Environmental sensors, and incorporating Sustainable Design/Innovation into engineering curriculums. He serves as a director for Pitt’s Design EXPO and a variety of the Mascaro Center’s Sustainability programs including the Manchester Academic Charter School “Green week” and the Teach the Teacher program. Dr. Sanchez teaches Introduction to Sustainable Water Technology and Design, and classes in the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department and the Swanson School of Engineering Freshmen program. He works closely with various K-12 teaching and outreach programs including Investing Now, Energy Ties, and the ALCOSAN outreach program.

Janet E. Stout Research Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1992 - Dr. Stout's major interest is in the environmental microbiology of Legionnaires' disease and

Legionella pneumophila. Research in these areas includes the study of this and other waterborne bacterial pathogens in building water distribution systems. Specific study involves molecular typing techniques, biofilm formation, intracellular antimicrobial susceptibility testing and susceptibility to new disinfection methods.

Morteza A.M. Torkamani Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1975 - Dr. Torkamani has been active in the following research projects: application of the finite element method and component mode synthesis in response calculation of high rise buildings to wind and earthquake loadings; measurements and interpretation of full-scale building response during and after construction period; elastoplastic analysis of the plane stress and plain strain problems using a linear yield surface and mixed hardening rule; dynamic analysis of tied arch bridges; and simulation of wind flow patterns around bridge deck sections.

Luis E. Vallejo Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1977 - Dr. Vallejo's research interests are in the area of geotechnical engineering specifically on the shear strength of soft soils (muds) and stiff clays, the shear strength of soil-rock mixtures, the mechanics of crack propagation and interaction in clays, the influence of rigid inclusions and cracks on the permeability of clays, the mechanisms involved with the crushing of granular materials using laboratory and numerical analyses, the liquefaction of sands, the mobilization mechanics of mudflows and debris flows, the freezing and thawing of soils, the stability of natural slopes, the evolution mechanics of coastal slopes, and the use of fracture mechanics and fractals in geotechnical engineering.

Julie M. Vandenbossche Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2003- Dr. Vandenbosscheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s research interests include the characterization of the material properties and performance of Portland cement concrete and transportation infrastructure systems with particular interests in the design, analysis and rehabilitation of concrete pavements, pavement instrumentation and pavement modeling. Research interests also include wellbore integrity as it pertains to insuring durable and impermeable protective cement sheaths within the wellbore throughout the life of the well.

Radisav D. Vidic William Kepler Whiteford Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ph.D., University of Cincinnati, 1992 - Dr. Vidic's professional expertise is in the area of physical/chemical unit processes for water, wastewater and air treatment and his research is focused on advancing the applications of surface science by providing fundamental understanding of molecular-level interactions at interfaces. His current research efforts focus on developing new water treatment technologies and optimizing water management for sustainable development of unconventional (shale) gas resource, reuse of impaired waters for cooling systems in power plants and water quality in premise plumbing.

Qiang Yu Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2007.

Dr. Yuâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s research is focused on developing novel analysis and design methodologies with the aim of improving structural safety, reliability and sustainability. His research interests include: mechanical properties of concrete, composite materials, smart materials and hybrid structures; safety, reliability and life-long performance of critical structures; fracture characteristics of energy-efficient and crash-worthy materials; risk analysis of advanced structural materials under extreme conditions, and structural capabilities of bio-inspired materials and sustainable materials

Computer Engineering Yiran Chen Associate Professor, Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Bicentennial Alumni Faculty Fellow, Ph.D., Purdue University 2005. Dr. Chen’s research interests include: Nanoelectronic devices (Silicon and non-Silicon), Nano-scale reconfigurable computing systems and sensor systems, Emerging memory and sensing technologies, and Low- power circuit design and computer architecture.

Donald Chiarulli Emeritus Professor, Computer Science, Computer Engineering. Dr. Chiarulli's current research falls into three areas; optoelectronic cache memory interface design, where the objective is to design, fabricate and test a prototype cache memory which allows efficient digital data transfer between a three dimensional optical memory and a general purpose computing system, computer aided design of free space optoelectronic systems, where the goal is to produce a design and analysis prototyping tool for mixed technology free space optoelectronic information processing systems, and optically integrated super scalar processor design, where the aim is to provide a demonstration of the first optically integrated super scalar processor, which uses optical buses between the functional units, to execute programs with subinstruction parallelism.

Bruce R. Childers Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Virginia, 2000. Dr. Childers’ research includes a novel system for the automatic design of applicationspecific processors, and custom VLIW/systolic architectures and low power embedded processors. His general research interests include computer architecture, compilers and software development tools, and embedded systems.

Samuel J. Dickerson Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 2012. Dr. Dickerson’s research areas focus on mixed-signal integrated circuits. Current interests include embedded systems for biomedical applications, lab-on-chip microsystems and engineering education research.

Steven P. Jacobs Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering, D.Sc. Electrical Engineering, Washington University, 1996. Dr. Jacobs is primarily interested in undergraduate and graduate education. His research interests include model-based estimation of signal parameters.

Hai (Helen) Li Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering, PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, 2004. Her research interests include architecture/circuit/device co-optimization for green computing systems, emerging memory design, neuromorphic hardware, and 3D integration technology and design.

Rami Melhem Professor, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh, 1983. Dr. Melham’s research interests include: parallel and distributed high-performance computing, faulttolerant computing, multiprocessor interconnection networks, real-time systems and optical computing.

Natasa Miskov-Zivanov Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bioengineering, Computational and Systems Biology, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 2009. Dr. Miskov-Zivanov’s research areas are design automation, systems and synthetic biology. Her interests include automation of learning, modeling and reasoning about complicated systems, especially biological systems such as the interplay between immune system and diseases.

Daniel Mossé Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science, also Computer Engineering faculty, Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Maryland, 1993. Dr. Mosse's research interests include computer operating systems in general. The focus of the research is on green and real-time computing, including power management, wireless and sensor networks, and scheduling resource allocation in distributed realtime systems.

John C. Ramirez Senior Lecturer, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh, 1995. Dr. Ramirez received his B.S. in Mathematics and Biochemistry from Duquesne University in 1986. He received his M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh in 1989, and completed his Ph.D., also in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh, in 1995. His dissertation is titled Flexible Fault-Tolerance Using Redundancy in Mesh Connected Processor Arrays.

His research interests include parallel processing and fault-tolerance in parallel systems. Dr. Ramirez is also the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Computer Science Department.

Jun Yang Associate Professor, Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D., University of Arizona, 2002. Dr. Yang’s research interests include but are not limited to: microarchitecture, memory systems, emerging memory technologies, interconnection networks, low-power, thermal-aware computing; chip multiprocessors and 3D processor architectures.

Youtao Zhang Associate Professor, Computer Science, Ph.D., University of Arizona, 2002. Dr. Zhang’s research interests include program analysis, code transformation and optimization, memory systems, emerging technologies, 3D stacking, and GPU designs. . In addition, Dr. Zhang also has expertise in software and hardware support for computer security, power/energy management, reliability improvement, sensor and embedded systems.

Taieb Znati Professor, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Ph.D., Computer Science, Michigan State University, 1988. Dr. Znati's current research interests focus on the design of network protocols for realtime communications to support multimedia environments, the design and analysis of medium access control protocols to support distributed real-time systems, and the investigation of fundamental design issues related to distributed applications. He teaches courses in networking, distributed operating systems and performance analysis.

Electrical and Computer Engineering Kevin P. Chen Paul E. Lego Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D., University of Toronto, 2002. Dr. Chen’s current research interests focus on photonic components and application in communication and sensing, and 3-D nanofabrication using deep UV laser.

Yiran Chen Associate Professor, Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Bicentennial Alumni Faculty Fellow,Ph.D., Purdue University 2005. Dr. Chen’s research interests include: Nanoelectronic devices (Silicon and non-Silicon), Nano-scale reconfigurable computing systems and sensor systems, Emerging memory and sensing technologies, and Low-power circuit design and computer architecture.

Samuel J. Dickerson Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 2012. Dr. Dickerson’s research areas focus on mixed-signal integrated circuits. Current interests include embedded systems for biomedical applications, lab-on-chip microsystems and engineering education research Amro El-Jaroudi Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D., Northeastern University, 1988. Dr. EIJaroudi’s research areas focus on signal processing. Interests include speech processing, time-varying spectral analysis, signal processing applications.

Mahmoud El Nokali Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D., McGill University, 1980. Dr. El Nokali's current research interests focus on power electronics and semiconductor device modeling, with specialemphasis on short-channel MOSFET, high electron mobility transistor (HEMT), HBT and BiCMOS modeling.

Brandon M. Grainger Research Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Affiliate of Electrical Power Systems Laboratory and Energy Grid Institute, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 2014. Dr. Grainger’s research concentrations and interests are in all classes of power electronic technology including topology design, semiconductor evaluation (Gallium Nitride or Silicon Carbide based), advanced controller design, and utility scale power electronic systems (HVDC and FACTS). Other related interests include electric ship equipment design and microgrids for defense applications, medium voltage DC applications, and circuit reliability.

Steven P. Jacobs Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering, D.Sc. Electrical Engineering, Washington University, 1996. Dr. Jacobs is primarily interested in undergraduate and graduate education. His research interests include model-based estimation of signal parameters.

Alex K. Jones Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D., Northwestern University 2002. Dr. Jones’ interests focus on the area of electronic design automation. Specific interests include designing and compiling hardware descriptions from high-level languages, automated System-on-a-Chip design, hardware and software co-design methodologies, and hardware design automation for low-power.

Irvin R. Jones, Jr. Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D. Computer Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1998. Prof. Jones is the EE Program Undergraduate Coordinator. His recent research has been in power systems and in systems engineering tools and also in intelligent systems, autonomous navigation and control.

Robert Kerestes Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 2014. Dr. Kerestesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; interests are in applications of electric machinery, power generation, transmission and distribution, power systems optimization applications and applications of electromagnetics in electric power systems.

Hong Koo Kim Bell of PA/Bell Atlantic Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D. (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Carnegie Mellon University 1989. Dr. Kim's research interests are in developing photonic, integrated optoelectronic, and microelectronic devices based on novel functional materials (mostly in micro or nanoscale thin-film form) such as erbium-doped oxides, wide bandgap semiconductors, ferroelectric films, and self-organized nanostructures. The scope of his research covers design, fabrication and characterization of materials and devices, and study of device physics. His current research includes development of photonic chips that show zero insertion-loss in transmission of optical signals, highsensitivity UV detectors based on wide bandgap semiconductors,ferroelectric-based nonvolatile memories and guided-optic modulators, and ultra-compact systems-on-a-chip (SoC) based on self-organized nanochannel arrays of logic devices, memories, sensors and transducers.

George L. Kusic (P.E.) Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 1967. Dr. Kusic's research is in real time analog and digital control of power systems. He specializes in the application of integrated circuit designs for controlling large electromechanical machinery such as synchronous generators of earth-based utilities, as well as space power systems which share load between batteries, solar panels and solar dynamic machinery.

Alexis Kwasinski Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering and R. K. Mellon Faculty Fellow, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007. His research interests are in the broad areas of power electronics systems, energy security, energy conversion, and electromechanical systems, with emphasis on distributed generation, microgrids, local area power and energy systems control, renewable and alternative energy, smart grid technologies, electric power resiliency, ultra-reliable and fault-tolerant power systems, and motor drives. He is also interested in analyzing the effects of natural disasters on critical power infrastructure, such as communication networks power supply, and studying ways of reducing the vulnerability of these critical power infrastructures to such extreme events.

Ching-Chung Li Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1961.

Dr. Li's current research is focused on applications of multiwavelet transforms, multiridgelets and curvelets to biomedical image processing and pattern recognition, super-resolution and multi-resolution image fusion, as well as secure transmission of confidential images.

Guangyong Li Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering, PhD, Michigan State University (2006). Dr. Liâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s current research interests include nanorobotics for deterministic fabrication of nanodevices; molecular

recognition for nanorobotics-enabled patch-clamping; modeling, simulation, and characterization of nanostructured organic, inorganic, and hybrid solar cells.

Hai (Helen) Li Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering, PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, 2004. Her research interests include architecture/circuit/device co-optimization for green computing systems, emerging memory design, neuromorphic hardware, and 3D integration technology and design.

Zhi-Hong Mao Associate Professor and William Kepler Whiteford Faculty Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2005). Dr. Mao’s areas of research include networked control systems and human-centered control systems.

Rami Melhem Professor, Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1983. Dr. Melhem's research includes parallel, fault-tolerant, real time and optical systems.

Natasa Miskov-Zivanov Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bioengineering, Computational and Systems Biology, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 2009. Dr. Miskov-Zivanov’s research areas are design automation, systems and synthetic biology. Her interests include automation of learning, modeling and reasoning about complicated systems, especially biological systems such as the interplay between immune system and diseases.

Kartik Mohanram Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, University of Texas, Austin, 2003. Dr. Mohanram received the B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT, Bombay in 1998, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas, Austin in 2000 and 2003, respectively. His research interests span computer engineering and systems, nano-electronics, and computational biology. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the ACM/SIGDA Technical Leadership Award, and the A. Richard Newton Graduate Scholarship.

Gregory F. Reed Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director, Center for Energy, PhD, University of Pittsburgh, 1997. Dr. Reed’s research interests include power transmission and distribution and energy systems; smart grid technologies; power electronics and control technologies and applications; storage technologies; and power generation and renewable energy resources. He joined the Swanson School of Engineering faculty after 23 years of electric power industry experience.

Ervin Sejdić Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, The University of Western Ontario (2008). Dr. Sejdić’s areas of research include biomedical and theoretical signal processing, assistive and medical devices, and modeling of age- and disease-related declines of swallowing, gait and cognitive functions.

William Stanchina Professor and Chairman, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD. University of Southern California (1978). Dr. Stanchina’s research interests include high-frequency compound semiconductor devices and integrated circuits, and optoelectronic and quantum devices, novel sensors, and fabrication technologies.

Mingui Sun Associate Professor, Neurological Surgery, Bioengineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 1989. Dr. Sun’s research interests include neurophysiological signal and systems, biosensor design, brain-computer interface, bioelectronics, and bioinformatics.

Susheng Tan Research Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D., Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1999. Dr. Tan's interests include teaching, developing, and applying advanced characterization techniques in studies of high-performance nano-structured materials and devices.

Feng Xiong Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D., University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, 2014. Dr. Xiong’s research interests include: energy-efficient nanoelectronics device, novel resistive and phase change memory device, electrical transport and electro-thermal interactions in lowdimensional materials, wearable and flexible electronics, neuromorphic computing.

Jun Yang Associate Professor, Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D., University of Arizona, 2002. Dr. Yang’s research interests include but are not limited to: microarchitecture, memory systems, emerging memory technologies, interconnection networks, low-power, thermal-aware computing; chip multiprocessors and 3D processor architectures.

Minhee Yun Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D. Arizona State University (1998). Dr. Yun’s areas of interest include nano-structured materials such as nanowires and nanoparticles with an emphasis on biosensor applications, nanoscale low-dimensional materials including electrical phenomena and biocompatibility.

Youtao Zhang Associate Professor, Computer Science, Ph.D., University of Arizona, 2002. Dr. Zhang’s research interests include program analysis, code transformation and optimization, memory systems, emerging technologies, 3D stacking, and GPU designs. . In addition, Dr. Zhang also has expertise in software and hardware support for computer security, power/energy management, reliability improvement, sensor and embedded systems.

Industrial Engineering Mary Besterfield-Sacre Associate Professor in Industrial Engineering and Fulton C. Noss Faculty Fellow, Ph.D. (Industrial Engineering), University of Pittsburgh, 1996 – Dr. Besterfield-Sacre’s principal research interests are of engineering assessment to include engineering education, product realization and entrepreneurship. Dr. Sacre has worked on developing new methods to assess how students learn engineering. Dr. Sacre is the Director of the Engineering Education Research Center.

Bopaya Bidanda Professor and Ernest E. Roth Professor and Chairman in Industrial Engineering, Ph.D. (Industrial and Management Systems Engineering), Pennsylvania State University, 1987 - Dr. Bidanda's research focus

includes Global Supply Networks, Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems and the New Product Development, Time Compression Technologies such as Rapid Prototyping, Reverse Engineering, and Rapid Manufacturing. He works closely with manufacturing industries in the area of re-engineering cellular manufacturing, work measurement, automatic data collection, shop floor information systems and, product development.

Hoda Bidkhori Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering, Ph.D. (Applied Mathematics), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008 – Dr. Bidkhori research interests include: Applications in revenue management, supply chain management and health care, Data-driven decision making, Dynamic optimization under uncertainty Karen M. Bursic Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering, Ph.D. (Industrial Engineering), University of Pittsburgh, 1990 - Dr. Bursic currently teaches courses in probability and statistics, engineering economics, engineering computing, and engineering management. Her research interests include improving engineering education, engineering economics, and project team management.

Youngjae Chun Assistant Professor in Industrial Engineering, Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering), University of California, Los Angeles, 2009 – Dr. Chun’s primary research focus is on designing, manufacturing, and testing of medical devices to treat vascular diseases using smart materials through minimally invasive surgery. He also has an interest in the development of bio-hybrid composite biomaterials, implantable microsystems, and in-vitro experimental apparatus for developing more diverse biomedical applications with a focus on novel materials and manufacturing concepts.

David I. Cleland Professor Emeritus, Ph.D. (Management), Ohio State University, 1962 - Dr. Cleland has had extensive experience as a lecturer on Project Management and Strategic Management throughout the United States and in foreign countries. He has authored or edited over 34 books and has served as a management consultant, and as an expert witness on several major court cases. His primary research interests are in the field of project management, and strategic management.

Joel M. Haight Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, Ph.D. (Industrial and Systems Engineering), Auburn University, 1999. Dr. Haight is the director of the new safety engineering graduate certificate program and teaches human factors engineering, productivity analysis and graduate level courses in safety engineering. His principle research interests and activities are in human factors engineering and ergonomics associated with improving the design health care and industrial applications and process intervention effectiveness measures related to safety and loss prevention. He also develops optimization models to determine safety-related resource allocation in the oil and gas and mining industries. He will begin coordinating the professional master’s degree for the department.

Jeffrey P. Kharoufeh Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering, Ph.D. (Industrial Engineering and Operations Research), Pennsylvania State University, 2001 – Dr. Kharoufeh specializes in applied probability, stochastic processes and queueing theory. His application areas include reliability theory and maintenance optimization with a particular emphasis on energy and telecommunications systems.

Paul W. Leu Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering, Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering), Stanford University, 2008 – Dr. Leu’s research focuses on the computational and experimental characterization of advanced materials.

His primary areas of application include photovoltaics and superstrong materials. His methodological interests are in electrodynamic simulations, combining optimization methods with physical simulations, and nanomaterial synthesis and characterization.

K. Louis Luangkesorn Research Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering, Ph.D. (Industrial Engineering and Management Science), Northwestern University, 2004. Dr. Luangkesorn's research focuses on the use of simulation for making a choice between policy options. His primary areas of application are in emergency response and health care. He also works in supply chain and logistics. His methodological interests include ranking and selection, optimization via simulation, and experimental design.

Lisa M. Maillart Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering, Ph.D. (Industrial and Operations Engineering), University of Michigan, 2001 – Dr. Maillart’s research focuses on sequential decision making under uncertainty. Her primary areas of application include medical decision making and maintenance optimization. Her methodological interests include Markov decision processes (MDPs), in particular partially observed MDPs. Mohammad Mousavi Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering, Ph.D. (Industrial Engineering), Stanford University, 2013 – Dr. Mousavi’s research focuses on on the formulation and analysis of stochastic models of complex systems. Particularly, I am focus in the areas of stochastic modeling and statistics, and their synergistic application to problems arising in financial services, energy market, service operations and revenue management.

Mainak Mazumdar Professor Emeritus, Industrial Engineering, Ph.D. (Applied Statistics and Probability), Cornell University, 1966 – Dr. Mazumdar’s principal area of research is in the development of stochastic models for the evaluation of reliability and production costs of electric power systems. These models have much potential for application in the deregulated electric power industry. In collaboration with Professor J. Rajgopal he has also been developing the system-based component rest plans for evaluating the reliability of complex systems. This work requires amalgamation of ideas from statistics and probability theory as well as linear and nonlinear programming Bryan A. Norman Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering, Ph.D. (Industrial and Operations Engineering), University of Michigan, 1995 - Dr. Norman's primary research interests include logistics and the application of operations research models to production and logistics systems in manufacturing, healthcare and public health settings. His research focuses primarily on three aspects of logistics. The first concerns the development of mathematical models for scheduling resources (e.g., machines and equipment) and personnel (e.g., equipment operators and medical staff) in both manufacturing and service organizations.

Second, he investigates process design and redesign and methods for achieving efficient facility design and effective people, material, and information flows in a myriad of environments including manufacturing facilities and hospitals. Third, he models manufacturing, retail, healthcare, and vaccine supply chains to optimize their design and to enhance their operational effectiveness.

Oleg A. Prokopyev Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering, Ph.D. (Industrial and Systems Engineering), University of Florida, 2006 – Dr. Prokopyev’s primary research interests are currently focused in the areas of combinatorial optimization, integer programming, stochastic optimization, computational complexity, applications of operations research in healthcare, bioinformatics and defense. Dr. Prokopyev is a member of editorial boards of “Journal of Global Optimization” and journal “Optimization Letters.”

Jayant Rajgopal Professor, Industrial Engineering, Ph.D. (Industrial & Management Engineering), University of Iowa, 1985 - Dr. Rajgopal's primary focus area is operations research. His theoretical and methodological interests are mostly in deterministic and continuous optimization (especially geometric programming). His primary application areas of interest are (1) production and operations analysis (including such topics as supply chain design & analysis, logistics, inventory control, scheduling, and lean manufacturing), and (2) hospital, medical and healthcare delivery systems. He also has an interest in data mining and applied statistics.

M. Ravi Shankar Associate Professor and William Kepler Whiteford Faculty Fellow in Industrial Engineering, Ph.D. (Industrial Engineering), Purdue University, 2006 – Dr. Shankar’s principal research interests are in the development of high-performance nanomaterials, elucidation of deformation behavior at the nanometerscale and characterization of the mechanics of manufacturing processes. Dr. Shankar has secondary interests in the design and manufacture of multifunctional biomaterials.

Larry J. Shuman Professor, Industrial Engineering and Senior Associate Dean, School of Engineering, Ph.D. (Operations Research), The Johns Hopkins University, 1969 - Dr. Shuman's research interests include operations research with applications to improving engineering education and the planning of disaster response systems. Recent studies funded by the NSF have focused on the development of methodologies and models to assess engineering education outcomes, including the ability to predict student retention, firstterm probation, and measure the level of moral problem solving.

Natasa S. Vidic Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering, PhD. (Industrial Engineering), University of Pittsburgh, 2008.

Dr. Vidic’s research focuses on applying operations research models to production, especially scheduling personnel in manufacturing as well as simulation modeling. Her research interests are also in the area of engineering education. She teaches undergraduate courses in probability and statistics, simulation modeling and engineering computing. She also teaches graduate statistics and data analysis.

Harvey Wolfe Professor Emeritus, Industrial Engineering, Ph.D. (Operations Research), The Johns Hopkins University, 1964 - Dr. Wolfe’s primary area of interest is operations research, with particular specialization in the services industries including health applications and the engineering education system. His primary interest is in measurement and assessment. He has been working on flow and evaluation models for the Undergraduate Engineering Education Process and is currently developing a work sampling approach to behavioral assessment; in particular, teamwork. He has previously been active in the development of simulation and control models for the evaluation and on-line control of hospital emergency rooms. As a secondary interest, he teaches and conducts research in engineering ethics and entrepreneurship for engineers.

Bo Zeng Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering, PhD. (Industrial Engineering), Purdue University, 2007 – Dr. Zeng research interest includes: Cutting plane methods, Mixed Integer Programming, Multilevel optimization, Robust optimization

Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science John A. Barnard Professor and Engineering Science Undergraduate Program Director, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 1987 – Dr. Barnard’s research interests include processing/structure/property (magnetic, electronic, mechanical) relations in thin films, materials for ultra-high density data storage, nano-tribology, adhesion, phase transformations, surface/interface characterization, nanostructured and self-assembled materials, and hybrid (organic/inorganic) materials.

Markus Chmielus Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Ph.D. from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany, and postdoc at Cornell University from 2010-2013. Dr. Chmielus’s areas of research are the influence of production and processing parameters on the properties and microstructure of crystalline materials. Of particular interest are the production-microstructure-property relationships of metals produced via additive manufacturing (also known as 3D printing) especially Ti64 and Inconel718, as well as deposited ultra-high purity metal thin films. Another research area is the basic research and applications of smart materials like Ni-Mn-Ga magnetic shape-memory alloys. The focus is in general on the characterization of microstructure, defects, mechanical, electrical, magnetic and thermal properties on different length scales using local, national and international facilities.

Sun Kwon Cho Associate Professor, Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea, 1998. Dr. Cho has been working on designing and fabricating micro-sensors/actuators using MEMS technologies for biomedical applications, such as droplet-based lab-on-a-chip using an electrical control of surface tension (electrowetting) and micro shear stress sensors to link real-time shear stress with cellular and molecular responses of endothelial cells. Currently, his research direction is to develop micro/nano devices that enable us to efficiently manipulate biomolecules (DNA and proteins), cells, functional particles and micro/nano fluids, and to investigate underlying scientific/engineering phenomena in these systems.

Minking K. Chyu Associate Dean for International Initiatives, Leighton E. and Mary N. Orr Chair Professor, Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 1986. Dr. Chyu's primary research area lies in thermal issues relating to power generation, propulsion and manufacturing systems. Major projects conducted to date include convective cooling of gas turbine airfoils, fuel cells, thermoelectric energy conversion, additive manufacturing and developments of thermal and fluid measurement techniques.

William W. Clark Professor, Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1991.

Dr. Clark's area of interest is in "smart structures", a field devoted to enabling structures and machines to interact with and adapt to their environments. Dr. Clark's current research projects are in morphing materials and systems for structural control, smart insulation for buildings, and inertial measurement of motion in sports and other applications.

Daniel G. Cole Director of Nuclear Engineering, Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and the Department of Bioengineering in the Swanson School of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. He received his B.S. (1991), M.S. (1992), and Ph.D. (1998) in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech. His research interests are in the area of dynamic systems, measurement and control. His current research supervisory control of small modular nuclear reactors is studying control system architectures for managing plant operations, automating decision making, and the fault tolerance of such systems.

Anthony J. DeArdo Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 1970 – Dr. DeArdo's research involves composition-processing-microstructure-property relations in structural materials, especially engineering alloys such as microalloyed steels, interstitial-free steels, dual-phase steels, and stainless steels. Of particular interest in his work are thermomechanical processing for microstructural control, texture development for improved formability, mechanical property optimization, the machineability of bar steels and ameliorating embrittlement in a variety of materials. These programs involve the use of hot deformation machines, computer interfacing, a broad spectrum of metallographic techniques, and extensive mechanical testing. Professor DeArdo and his colleagues in the Basic Metal Processing Research Institute (BAMPRI) have received international acclaim for the discovery of “green steel” which will influence the course of machineable steel technology for years to come. They are also pioneering new electron metallographic techniques to better define the meso-scale and nano-scale microstructure of advanced high strength steels.

Giovanni P. Galid Leighton E. and Mary N. Orr Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics, Laurea in Fisica, University of Naples, Italy, 1971. Dr. Galdi's areas of interest are theoretical fluid dynamics, with special regards to the Navier-Stokes equations and flow stability.

C. Isaac Garcia Research Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1982 - Dr. Garcia’s research interests and areas of expertise include Physical Metallurgy, Steels (HSLA, Microalloyed, Interstitial Free, TRIP, Dual-Phase, Complex-Phase, TWIP, Martensitic, Ferritic and Austenitic Stainless) and Superalloys; Thin Slab Casting processing and hot ductility performance of modern steels . Development of high strength linepipe steels (plate, strip and seamless processingproducts). Grain refinement of heavy section steels through Particle Stimulated Mechanisms (PSN).

Microstructural optimization through alloy design and thermomechanical processing of engineering materials. Optimization of the recrystallization behavior through alloy design, TMP and grain boundary engineering of HSLA steels during continuous and/or batch annealing processes. Use of NDT/NDE systems to evaluate overall microstructure, temper embrittlement, and predict mechanical behavior performance. Alloy design and property optimization of components using Additive Manufacturing or 3D printing techniques for the power generation, oil and gas, automotive and medical industries.

Machinability studies of engineering steels for automotive applications. Development of HSS rolls for the steel industry. Rapid solidification studies and development of amorphous metallic materials. Dr. Garcia is also Director of the Ferrous Physical Metallurgy Group. Dr. Garcia also directs the Undergraduate Ferrous Physical Metallurgy Research Program fully sponsored by 10 steel companies.

Peyman Givi James T. MacLeod Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 1984. Dr. Givi’s areas of research interest include turbulence, combustion, thermalfluids, computational methods and stochastic processes. He is currently the Deputy Editor of AIAA Journal and a member of the editorial boards of Computers & Fluids, Journal of Applied Fluid

Mechanics, and Open Aerospace Engineering Journal. He is also the Book Review Editor of AIAA Journal, an Associate Editor of Journal of Combustion, and a past advisory board member of Progress in Energy and Combustion Science. Professor Givi is Fellow of AIAA, APS and ASME. Brian M. Gleeson Chairman of the Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Department and Harry S. Tack Chaired Professor of Materials Science. Dr. Gleeson received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1989. His primary research focus is on the thermodynamics and kinetics of gas/solid and solid/solid reactions. Particular emphasis is on the high-temperature degradation of metallic alloys and coatings. Related to this, current research interests include: (a) active and passive high-temperature oxidation of alloys and coatings; (b) depositinduced hot corrosion; (c) deposition and characterization of metallic coatings; (d) diffusion and thermodynamic treatments of both gas/solid and solid/solid interactions; and (e) structure/property relationships of materials. Dr. Gleeson serves as Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Oxidation of Metals.

Mingjian Hua Research Associate Professor, PhD, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 1994.

Hua's research interests are in the areas of phase transformations and physical metallurgy. His research activities have involved extensive application of advanced microscopy techniques, such as transmission electron microscopy, STEM, quantitative metallography, and atom probe field ion microscopy. Hua has worked on the precipitation, grain boundary segregation and properties of steels, aluminum alloys, super alloys, and intermetallics.

Tevis Jacobs Assistant Professor, Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, where he also did his post-doctoral work. He received M.Sc. and M.Phil. degrees from Stanford University and Cambridge University, respectively. Dr. Jacobs’ primary expertise lies in conducting mechanical testing using in situ electron microscopy to directly quantify behavior under ultra-low loads.

His research focuses on uncovering the atomic-scale processes governing the mechanics of materials and interfaces at the nanoscale, with application to nanoscale devices and nanomanufacturing. His current and developing research programs involve nanoscale contact mechanics, nanomechanics in extreme environments, and nanomechanics in disordered systems. He is a recipient of a Gold Medal from the Materials Research Society’s Graduate Student Award competition, and also received the Dorothy M. and Earl S. Hoffman Scholarship Award from the American Vacuum Society.

Jung-Kun Lee Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director, B.P. America Fellow, Dr. Lee is a materials scientist and his major research topics include sophisticated processing and characterization of nanostructured materials and electronic materials for energy and environmental applications. Specific emphasis is placed on 1) photovoltaic application of wide band-gap nanoparticles, 2) surface plasmons for solar cells and photoelectrochemical cells, 3) material processing of electronic materials in forms of nanoparticles and thin films, 4) optical and magnetic properties of nanoparticles, and 5) the surface modification using ion implantation and chemical methods.

Sangyeop Lee Assistant Professor, PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. His research interests include transport phenomena of heat, charge, and mass – simulation and experimental characterization of nanoscale transport; thermal transport in novel materials including 2D layered materials, phase change materials, ferroelectric materials, and soft matters; transport phenomena at interface; multi-scale simulation from nano to macroscale. He also researches solid-state energy conversion – thermoelectrics; electrochemistry; electrocalorics.

Scott X. Mao William Kepler Whiteford Professor, Ph.D. in mechanical behavior of materials, Tohuku University, 1988 - Professor Mao's research interests are in the areas of nanomechanical behavior and deformation mechanism of materials, materials structure evolution under stress or deformation, materials science, nanomechanics, and in-situ transmission electron microscope.

Gerald H. Meier William Kepler Whiteford Professor in Materials Science and Engineering, Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1968 - His areas of research are high-temperature oxidation of metals and alloys, hot corrosion, environmental effects on the mechanical properties of alloys, and metallic and ceramic coatings. Much of his current research is focused on materials for advanced gas turbines and solid oxide fuel cells. Dr. Meier is the author of more than 170 publications and is the author of the book, Thermodynamics of Surfaces and Interfaces and co-author of the book, Introduction to the High Temperature Oxidation of Metals and Alloys. His teaching areas include thermodynamics, transport phenomena, materials science, and gasmetal reactions.

Mark Miller Research Associate Professor, PhD, Applied Mechanics, University of Michigan, 1990r. Dr. Miller's research interests focus on human motion and related health problems. These interests include all mechanical aspects of orthopaedic surgery, with an emphasis on problems of the elbow, especially those related to overhand throwing. The kinematics of the elbow and the behavior of the soft tissue connections at the elbow are topics of current research. Laboratory studies also include fixation with fracture repair, mechanical analysis of foot pathologies and repair of transected digital nerves.

Ian Nettleship Associate Professor and Materials Science Engineering Undergraduate Program Director, Materials Science and Engineering, Ph.D., Leeds University, UK, 1987 - Dr. Nettleship's research activities involve two areas of ceramic processing science. The first is microstructure-property relationships for highly porous ceramics. At present he is particularly interested in the quantitative description of microstructure and how it affects the performance of these materials in biomedical applications including perfusion bioreactors for human cell culturing and tissue formation. His other area of research involves functionalization of both ceramic surfaces and porous ceramics with antibacterial nanoparticles to protect against mycobacteria biofilm formation and associated infections. Teaching interests include: ceramic materials, materials processing, thermal and mechanical properties of materials.

Thomas Piccone Assistant Professor, Sc.D., Metallurgy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990. Research interests include Solidification and casting, Steelmaking reactions, Diffusion in polycrystalline metals, High temperature phase transformations, High temperature mechanical properties of metals and alloys.

Anne M. Robertson William Kepler Whiteford Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Professor of Bioengineering, Director of Center for Faculty Excellence, Research Faculty in the McGowan Center for Regenerative Medicine, Associate Director for Research Program in the Center for Medical Innovation (CMI). Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 1992, President's Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley, Department of Chemical Engineering 1992-1994. Dr. Robertson's research interests are (i) cerebral vascular disease (ii) constitutive modeling of soft biological tissues and (iii) Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluid dynamics.

Wissam Saidi Assistant Professor, NTS, Materials Science Engineering, Ph.D in Physics from The Ohio State University. The Saidi Research group is focused on material's design from the nanoscale using quantum mechanical and multiscale simulations. Dr. Saidi's expertise is in atomistic modeling using approaches that span different accuracies and different length scales including quantum chemistry, quantum Monte Carlo, density-functional theory and force-field methods. Current research interests and applications of the group include solar cells, electrochemistry, photocatalysis, corrosion, nanoparticles growth and morphology, ferroelectric oxides, and Raman spectroscopy.

David A. Schmidt Associate Professor, NTS, David Schmidt received his Ph.D. in 2009 from Carnegie Mellon University.

His dissertation developed computational-based methods tailored to soft tissue mechanics and tissue engineered cardiovascular systems. Prior to his doctoral studies, Dr. Schmidt held several positions in aerospace, defense and manufacturing industries. His early career concentrated on simulation technologies at ANSYS. Throughout his career, Dr. Schmidtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s primary interest has focused on the integration of engineering design, manufacturing and computational methods. His recent research experience has been in the areas of middle ear gas exchange mechanisms, multi-scale tissue biomechanics, robotic assisted surgery and trachea stenting devices based on an emerging class of biodegradable magnesium alloys. Other research areas include predictive modeling for near-net hot isostatic processing and material characterization for biodegradable alloys.

Nitin Sharma Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D from University of Florida. Dr. Sharmaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s areas of expertise is in robust control design of uncertain nonlinear systems. His current research projects include intelligent and robust control of neuromuscular electrical stimulation; control of functional electrical stimulation for walking and arm/hand function restoration; and modeling, optimization, and control of a hybrid walking system. He is a recipient of 2009 O. Hugo Schuck Award and Best Student Paper Award in Robotics at the 2009 ASME Dynamic Systems and Controls Conference. He was also a finalist for the Best Student Paper Award at the 2008 IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control.

William S. Slaughter Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director, Ph.D. in Engineering Science, Harvard University, 1991. Dr. Slaughter has varied interests in the area of theoretical solid mechanics. These include the development of models to characterize sintering processes of powdered materials, the study of enhanced strain-hardening associated with plastic deformation at very high strain gradients, fatigue and failure in bioprosthetic heart valves, and lifetime prediction models for power generation applications.

Patrick Smolinski Associate Professor, Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Northwestern University 1985. Dr. Smolinski's research interest is in computational and experimental methods for problems in biomechanics.

This includes the study of tissue properties, surgical procedures, injury mechanics and medical devices with particular emphasis on orthopaedic medicine.

Albert Chi Fu To Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Ph.D from University of California, Berkeley, 2005 and postdoc at Northwestern University from 2005-2008. Dr. Toâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s areas of research include mechanics of 3D printed, bio-inspired, and nanoscale materials, multiscale mechanics theory and computational methods, nonequilibrium thermomechanical processes, multifunctional materials, wave propagation, dynamic fracture, inverse problems, and acoustic emission. His current research projects include several additive manufacturing projects and development of atomistic-continuum coupling method.

Jeffrey S. Vipperman Professor, Director of Sound, Systems, and Structures Laboratory, Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Duke University, 1997. Dr. Vipperman's research is in the area of active systems at the micro (MEMS) and macro scales. In his research, the various related fields of acoustics, structural acoustics, dynamics, vibrations, control theory, and analog and digital signal processing are unified in order to achieve specific goals such as active control of noise, vibration, and biologic systems or signal classification.

Guofeng Wang Associate Professor, Materials Science Engineering, Ph.D Major in Materials Science and Minor in Computer Science from California Institute of Technology in 2002. Dr. Wang’s expertise is with developing multiscale simulation methods which range from electronic structure calculation, atomistic modeling, and finite element analysis, and further applying these simulation methods to design, characterize, and optimize a broad range of materials (such as, metals, semiconductors, polymers, and nanostructures). His current research projects include (a) searching novel electro-catalysts for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells, (b) simulating surface segregation phenomena in various alloy systems, (c) modeling mechanical deformation process in nanomaterials,(d) developing computational tools for advanced manufacturing, and (e) studying the structure/property relation of magnetic nanomaterials.

Qing-Ming Wang William Kepler Whiteford Faculty Fellow, Professor and Graduate Program Director, Ph.D., Materials, Pennsylvania State University, 1998. Dr. Wang’s primary research interests are in microelectromechanical sensors and actuators; smart materials and structures; piezoelectric/electrostrictive ceramics, thin films, polymers, and composites for electromechanical transducers; bulk acoustic wave (BAW) devices and surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices; semiconductor materials and active nanocomposites; biosensors. His recent research on biosensors, nanomaterials and devices, sensors for harsh environments, and acoustic wave devices are funded by National Science Foundation (NSF), Army Research Office (ARO), DOE, and industries.

Xiong Wei Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Department of Materials Science and Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, 2008-2012. Dr. Wei’s research interests include Physical Metallurgy, Advanced Materials Design, Additive Manufacturing, High Throughput Experiments, Data Mining and Materials Genome, Integrated Computational Materials Design and Applications, Calorimetry, Phase Transformation, and Thermodynamics and Diffusion .

John Whitefoot Assistant Professor, PhD, Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, 2012. Research interests include energy system optimization, transportation design and policy, and transportation/energy integration. Specifically, his research is on design optimization and energy dispatch of combined energy and transportation systems, with a particular focus on the interaction of plug-in vehicles with electrical microgrids, while accounting for inherent stochasticity. Additionally, he is interested in the effects of transportation and land-use planning on vehicle design and use, as well as how federal regulations affect vehicle design.

Jörg M. K. Wiezorek Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Ph.D. in Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, UK, 1994 - Professor Wiezorek's research expertise and interest center on the study of processing-structure-property relationships in advanced materials systems. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) based imaging, quantitative diffraction and analytical spectroscopic methods, and other modern micro-characterization techniques feature prominently in his research. Combining the

principles and practice of physical metallurgy and metal physics with electron microscopy observation and measurements with appropriate computer simulations the research leads to the discovery of novel materials and materials behaviors, explanations of the mechanical, magnetic and other physical properties of modern materials, with an emphasis on intermetallic and metallic systems. Current research thrusts include: (1) Determination of the electronic structure of transition metals and intermetallics by quantitative electron diffraction and DFT; (2) Surface modification and grain-boundary-engineering for enhanced performance of structural materials for harsh environments; (3) Ultrafast (nano-scale spatiotemporal resolution) in-situ TEM pulsed laser induced transformations (e.g. rapid solidification) in metals and alloys; (4) Exploiting innovative manufacturing processes for the improved preparation of sustainable high performance permanent magnet materials.

Sylvanus Wosu Associate Professor, Associate Dean for Diversity Affairs, Ph.D. in Engineering Physics, University of Oklahoma, OK, 1988 with specialty in experimental nuclear medical physics. Professor Wosu’s current research interests are in the areas of impact physics and engineering of new advanced bio-inspired nano composite materials, nano-nuclear composite materials, and dynamic failure responses of composite materials. Other current research focus is the development of a new generation TaC/CNTs/SiC cermic matrix composites (CMCs) for high temperature applications. Dr. Wosu is nationally and internationally known for his work in penetration mechanics of composite materials. He established the dynamic impact and high speed imaging system at the University of Pittsburgh Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science that is capable of simulating low and high strain rate penetration loading and capturing the dynamic event at 2 million frames per second. Special sample fixtures he developed are used to study perforation impact and single and multi-mode fracture tests and general characterization of materials failure. Professor Wosu is also interested in the experimental investigation of the dynamic failures and crack propagation of cylindrical composite storage tank with particular interests in the development of hydrogen storage tank, failure behaviors of hydrogen-diffused porous composite materials, and the containment of the associated hydrogen embrittlement. His other research interests include experimental nuclear medical physics, laser-based medical physics research in Cerebral Metabolic Pathways of Oxygen, petrophysics and petroleum fluid characterization of reservoirs. His engineering education and leadership research focuses on the Framework of Effective Diversity Programs in Higher Education. His most recent published work was on a “Model for Diversity and Equity: Diversity in Graduate Engineering Education” is the culmination of his over 20-year experience as an advocate for diversity and inclusion in higher education. His recent work in research and service areas include four books centered on a new paradigm on Leader as Servant Leadership Model.

Xudong Zhang Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D. from University of Michigan. The theme of Dr. Zhang’s research program is modeling, analysis, and simulation of the human musculoskeletal system and its multi-scale components during functional, particularly dynamic movement acts, for advancement of fundamental knowledge, and improvement of injury prevention and treatment, human performance, and human-machine interactions and system design. His research has been supported by the NSF, NIH, NIOSH/CDC, ONR, and a number of foundations and industrial sponsors. His honors and recognitions included being a 2014 World Congress of Biomechanics keynote lecturer, a Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation (MTF) Established Investigator Grant awardee, a UIUC College of Engineering Xerox Award for Faculty Research Excellence recipient, and a co-author and co-recipient of several societal best paper awards.

FACULTY RESEARCH INTERESTS Fiscal Year 2016 Active Sponsored Research Bioengineering Steven Abramowitch Collaborative Research: Impact of Pregnancy on the Mechanics of Vaginal Tissue - National Science Foundation Macrophage Phenotype as a Determinant of Outcome in Pelvic Organ Prolapse Repair - National Institutes of Health Porosity and Tensioning: Critical factors to consider when choosing prolapse mesh - Magee-Womens Research Institute & Foundation Howard Aizenstein Pharmacologic MRI Procedures of Treatment Response in Late-Life Depression - National Institutes of Health Carolyn Anderson PET Probes Targeting Immune Cells for Imaging Tuberculosis - National Institutes of Health Aaron Batista Differential Contributions of Frontal Lobe Areas - National Institutes of Health Collaborative Research: Dissecting Brain Computer Interfaces - Carnegie Mellon University Differential Contributions of Frontal Lobe Areas to Eye/Hand Coordination - National Institutes of Health Collaborative Research: dissecting brain-computer interfaces: A manifold and feed-back control approach - Carnegie Mellon The Structure of Neural Variablility During Motor Learning - Carnegie Mellon University A self-calibrating brain-computer interface - Carnegie Mellon University Andrea Beals Naval Special Warfare Injury Prevention and Human Performance Research Initiative - U.S. Navy Kurt Beschorner Impact of Worn Shoes on Slipping - Centers for Disease Control & Prevention Quantifying the Recovery Response and Role of Hand Strength During Ladder Falls - University of Wisconsin Capacity Building- Safety and Ergonomics for Small Business Utility Employees and Contractors - University of Wisconsin Coefficient of Friction (COF) of SR Max Shoes and Other Common Work Shoes - Saf-Gard Safety Shoe Company Michael Boninger Revolutionizing Prosthetics Program, Phase 3 - Johns Hopkins University Harvey Borovetz University of Pittsburgh Clinical and Translational Science Institute - National Institutes of Health NSF Engineering Research Center for Revolutionizing Metallic Biomaterials - North Carolina A & T State University Bryan Brown Macrophage Polarization and Aging in the Context of Regenerative Medicine - National Institutes of Health Macrophage Phenotype as a Determinant of Outcome in Pelvic Organ Prolapse Repair - National Institutes of Health A Regenerative Medicine Approach for TMJ Meniscus Restoration - National Institutes of Health Macrophage Phenotype as a Determinant of Outcome in Pelvic Organ Prolapse Repair - National Institutes of Health Manipulating Macrophage Phenotype in Laryngeal Nerve Repair - Cornell University Modulating the Host response: An Opportunity for Improving Outcomes in Prolapse Repair - Magee-Womens Research Institute & Foundation Porosity and tensioning: Critical factors to consider when choosing a prolapse mesh - Magee-Womens Research Institute & Foundation Technology Commercialization Consortium under Discovered and Developed in PA Program (D2PA) - Innovation Works Assessment of Host Response to Decellularized Scaffolds in Primate - United Therapeutics Corporation Rakie Cham Effects of visual fields on standing balance - National Institutes of Health Obesity and Body segment parameters in working adults - Centers for Disease Control & Prevention Reaching, Posture, Object Exploration, and Language in High and Low-risk Infants - National Institutes of Health

FACULTY RESEARCH INTERESTS Fiscal Year 2016 Active Sponsored Research Bioengineering Pittsburgh Older Americans Independence Center - National Institutes of Health Task Specific Timing and Coordination Exercises to Improve Mobility in Older Adults - National Institutes of Health April Chambers Postural Control in the Elderly: The Role of Attention - National Institutes of Health In Vivo Changes in the Lower Extremity Joints and Muscles during Prolonged Standing - Centers for Disease Control & Prevention Impact Force Reduction - Biosport Athletechs, LLC Jennifer Collinger Research support services - U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Rory Cooper Research Support Services - U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Timothy Corcoran Imaging Airway Liquid Absorption in Cystic Fibrosis - National Institutes of Health Xinyan Cui Interphase Materials (SurfMatters) - National Science Foundation Biomimetic Surface for Neural Implants - National Institutes of Health Inhibition of Neural Electrode-mediated Inflammation and Neuronal Cell Death - National Institutes of Health Mechanisms behind Electrode Induced BBB damages impact on neural recording - National Institutes of Health Neural probe for high spatial and temporal resolution detection of cocaine and GABA - Diagnostic Biochips, Inc. Neural probe for high spatial and temporal resolution detection of cocaine and substance p - Diagnostic Biochips, Inc. A Microfabricated Neural Probe for the Rapid Detection of Multiple Neurochemicals - Diagnostic Biochips, Inc. NSF Engineering Researach Center for Revolutionizing Metallic Biomaterials - North Carolina A & T State University Soft and Elastomeric intramuscular Electrode with Therapeutic Delivery Capability - TDA Research, Inc. Orthogonal Parameterization of Bioinspired Peripheral Nerve Interface Materials - Carnegie Mellon University Lance Davidson EAGER: Collaborative research: Biomanufacturing: Developing a Harvesting Approach for Spatially Targeted Cells from 3D Organoids and Tissues - National Science Foundation The Biomechanics of Morphogenesis in the Frog - National Institutes of Health William Federspiel Paracorporeal Ambulatory Assist Lung - National Institutes of Health Testing of the HemoLung Respiratory Assist Device in the Adult and Juvenile Ovine Model 7-day Study - Alung Technology Neeraj Gandhi Neural Basis of Saccade Preparation - National Institutes of Health Neural mechanisms of saccade initiation - National Institutes of Health Robert Gaunt Spinal Root Sensory Feedback for Intramuscular Myoelectric Protheses - U.S. Army Robert Hartman Mechanobiology in CAM: Differential Effects of Amplitude - National Institutes of Health Tamer Ibrahim Subject Insensitive and SNR Enhancing RF-Arrays for High Field Parallel Human MRI - National Institutes of Health Neuroinflammation in Schizophrenia: An Integrated PET and High-Field Susceptibility Weighted Imaging Study - National Institutes of Health Advancing the Detection of Human Disease at 7 Tesla MRI - National Institutes of Health Neuro-Vascular Determinants of Cognition in Adults with Sickle Cell Disease - National Institutes of Health

FACULTY RESEARCH INTERESTS Fiscal Year 2016 Active Sponsored Research Bioengineering

Kang Kim Noninvasive fat quantification of liver using ultrasound thermal strain imaging - National Institutes of Health Takashi Kozai Mechanisms behind Electrode Induced BBB damages impact on neural recording - National Institutes of Health Biomimetic Surface for Neural Implants - National Institutes of Health Inhibition of Neural Electrode-mediated Inflammation and Neuronal Cell Death - National Institutes of Health Prashant Kumta Effect of Metal Oxide Interactions on Oxygen Evolution Reaction for Water Electrolysis - National Science Foundation EAGER: Biomanufacturing: Engineered hydrogel capsules for controlled scalable cultures of pluriopotent stem cells - National Science Foundation Additive Manufacturing of Biomedial Devices from Bioresorbable Metallic Alloys for Medical Applications - National Center for Defense Manufacturing & Machining New Lamination and Doping Concepts for Enhanced Li-S Battery Performance - U.S. Department of Energy Investigation of Electrochemically Active-Inactive Nanocomposites GEnerated via Direct In-Situ - Battelle Memorial Institute NSF Engineering Research Center for Revolutionizing Metallic Biomaterials - North Carolina A & T State University Pilot for the Pennsylvania Manufacturing Innovation Program (PMIP) - Carnegie Mellon University Patrick Loughlin Subject-specific vibrotactile feedback for improving balance in older adults - National Institutes of Health Sonar Signal Processing and Feature Extraction for Automatic Target Recognition in Clutter - U.S. Navy Spandan Maiti Collaborative Research: Impact of Pregnancy on the Mechanics of Vaginal Tissue - National Science Foundation Michel Modo Non-invasive Imaging of the In Situ Restoration of Brain Tissue - National Institutes of Health Improving Neural Stem Cell Survival Using Exosomes - ReNeuron Development/Refinement of Preclinical Models and Ex-Vivo Test Methods - C R Bard Inc. Mark Redfern Postural Control in the Elderly: The Role of Attention - National Institutes of Health Partha Roy Profilin as a Target to Suppress Invasive Breast Cancer - National Institutes of Health Spatial Segregation of Cell Functioning during Cell Motility - National Institutes of Health Joseph Rubin Autologous Fat Grafting for Treating Pain at Amputation Sites: A Prospective Randomized Trial - GSR SUB - U.S. Army Joseph Samosky NSF PittVentures 1st Gear gap award - Joseph Samosky - Myringo - National Science Foundation NSF PittVentures 1st Gear gap award - Joseph Samosky Body Explorer - National Science Foundation Walter Schneider TBI Biological Diagnosis via High Definition Tractography Asymmetry Screening - U.S. Army Joel Schuman Novel Glaucoma Diagnostics for Structure and Function - National Institutes of Health

FACULTY RESEARCH INTERESTS Fiscal Year 2016 Active Sponsored Research Bioengineering Andrew Schwartz Biomimetic Surface for Neural Implants - National Institutes of Health Brain Control Optical Stimulation of Muscles - U.S. Army Sanjeev Shroff Novel Glaucoma Diagnostics for Structure & Function - National Institutes of Health Repair of Tendinopathic Tendons - National Institutes of Health Carbon Nanotube Biodegradation by Neutrophil Myeloperoxidase - Centers for Disease Control & Prevention Mitochondrial Target of Radiation Mitigation - National Institutes of Health Interdisciplinary Visual Sciences (IVS) Training Program - National Institutes of Health Training in Auditory and Vestibular Neuroscience - National Institutes of Health Observer Studies Involving Search: Modeling and analysis - National Institutes of Health Interdisciplinary Training in Transplantation Biology - National Institutes of Health Cardiovascular Bioengineering Training Program - National Institutes of Health University of Pittsburgh Clinical and Translational Science Institute - National Institutes of Health Dysfunctional Muscle Remodeling and Regeneration in Environmental Disease - National Institutes of Health Role of erythroid DAMP molecules in the pathogenesis of vascular injury in sepsis - National Institutes of Health Photoacoustic Detection, Capture and Analysis of Circulating Melanoma Cells - Duquesne University Lipids and Myeloid Cell Function in Cancer - Wistar Institute Customized Fabrication of Osteochondral Tissue for Articular Joint Surface Repair - U.S. Army The Translational Research Partnership Program in Biomedical Engineering - Wallace H. Coulter Foundation Cortical processing of communication sounds in realistic listening conditions - Pennsylvania Lions Hearing Research Foundation Ian Sigal Optic nerve head microstructure, biomechanics and susceptibility to glaucoma - National Institutes of Health George Stetten Microsurgical In-Situ Image Guidance with Optical Coherence Tomography - National Institutes of Health 3D Augmented High Resolution Ultrasound Imaging for Monitoring Nerve Regeneration and Chronic Rejection after Composite Tissue Allotransplantation - U.S. Army Mingui Sun Wearable eButton for Evaluation of Energy Balance with Environmental Context and Behavior - National Institutes of Health Fatima Syed-Picard Scaffold-free Tissue Engineering: Using Principles from Developmental Biology to Support Craniofacial Regeneration - National Institutes of Health Donald Taylor Establishing a Resource Center for Tissue Engineered Craniofacial Technologies - National Institutes of Health Gelsy Torres-Oviedo BRIGE: Understanding the generalization of treadmill-assisted motor learning for the rehabilitation of gait after stroke - National Science Foundation The Role of Naturalistic Movements on the Generalization of Locomotor Learning - National Science Foundation A Computational Approach for Understanding Locomotor Learning Post-stroke - National Institutes of Health Understanding Patient-specific Deficits Causing Step Asymmetry Post-stroke: A Step Towards Personalizing Gait Rehabilitation American Heart Association David Vorp ROS Mechanisms in BAV Aortopathy - National Institutes of Health Outside-In Regenerative Therapy for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm - National Institutes of Health An Autologous, Culture-Free, Adipose Cell-Based Tissue Engineered Vascular Graft - National Institutes of Health ROS Mechanisms in BAV aortopathy - National Institutes of Health Non-Invasive Treatment of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Clinical Trial - University of Maryland

FACULTY RESEARCH INTERESTS Fiscal Year 2016 Active Sponsored Research Bioengineering Phase Resolved ARF Optical Coherence Elastography for Intravascular Imaging - University of California at Irvine William Wagner Biodegradable, thermoresponsive hydrogels to treat ischemic cardiomyopathy - National Institutes of Health ROS Mechanisms in BAV Aortopathy - National Institutes of Health Applying Extracellular Matrix Technology to Neuroprotect and to Repair Injured Retina and Optic Nerve - U.S. Army A Small Pump for Small Patients - Vadovations, Inc Yadong Wang Biomimetic design of peripheral nerve guides - National Science Foundation Accelerate wound healing via biomimetic protein therapy - National Science Foundation PFI: AIR - TT: Accelerate wound healing via biomimetic protein therapy - National Science Foundation Bioderadable Synthetic Vascular Graft - National Institutes of Health Bone Abnormalities & Healing Defect in Muscular Dystrophy - National Institutes of Health In Host Remodeling of Grafts to Functional Arteries - Translation to Mature Animals - National Institutes of Health University of Pittsburgh Clinical and Translational Science - National Institutes of Health Computational Model Driven Design of Tissue Engineered Vascular Grafts - Yale University Bone Abnormalities & Healing Defect in Muscular Dystrophy - University of Texas The Use of Coacervate Technology as a New Drug Delivery System for Musculoskeleta - University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Direct transformation of cell-free synthetic vascular grafts into arteries in situ - American Heart Association Orbital Bone Defect Repair by Tissue Engineering Bone Based on Local Microenvironment and the Regulatory Mechanism Study Shanghai Jiao Tong University Wang Yadong-Increase cell migration in vascular grafts - Burroughs Wellcome Fund Biometric Coacervates for cardiac repair and regeneration - American Heart Association Chemical Analysis of Hemostatic Agents - Davol Inc. Peter Wearden Small Blood Pumps for Small Patients - Vadovations, Inc Douglas Weber Multichannel Microstimulation of Primary Afferent Neurons to Restore Proprioceptive Feedback - National Institutes of Health Douglas Weber IPA Agreement - Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Savio Woo Training in Biomechanics in Regenerative Medicine - National Institutes of Health NSF Engineering Research Center for Revolutionizning Metallic Biomaterials - North Carolina A & T State University The Development of a Magnesium-Based Suture Anchor for Soft Tissue Repair in Orthopaedics - Asian-American Institute for Research and Education

FACULTY RESEARCH INTERESTS Fiscal Year 2016 Active Sponsored Research Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Anna Balazs Collaborative Research: CDI-Typel: Developing Computational Models to Guide the Design of Chemomechanically Responsive, Reconfigurable Surfaces - National Science Foundation INSPIRE Track 1: Sensing and Computing with Oscillating Chemical Reactions - National Science Foundation Design and Synthesis of Structurally Tailored and Engineered Macromolecular (STEM) Gels - U.S. Department of Energy Designing Dual-Functionalized Gels that Move, Morph and Self-Organize in Light - U.S. Department of Energy Four-Dimensional Printing: Design, Assembly, and Modeling of Responsive Temporally Programmable Materials - U.S. Army Harnessing Chemo-mechanical Energy Transduction to Create Systems that Selectively "Catch and Release" Biomolecules - Harvard University Center for Bio-Inspired Energy Science (CBES) - Northwestern University Designing Composite coatings that Provide a "Dual-defense" Against Fouling - U.S. Navy Designing Sensory and Adaptive Composite Materials - U.S. Air Force Harnessing CHemo-mechanical Energy Transduction to Create Systems that Selectively Catch and Release Biomolecules - Harvard University Autonomous Interacting Microrobotic Systems - Pennsylvania State University Ipsita Banerjee Systems Analysis of Signaling Pathway towards Robust Differentiation - National Science Foundation EAGER: Biomanufacturing: Engineered hydrogel capsules for controlled scalable cultures of pluripotent stem cells - National Science Foundation Eric Beckman Collaborative Research: SusChem: Enabling the Biorefinery: Isolation, Fractionation, and Transformation of Biobased Feedstocks into Fuels and Chemical Products - National Science Foundation Cheryl Bodnar Collaborative Research: Research Initiation Grants in Engineering Education: Development of InnovationCapacity in Engineering Students through Virtual Internships - National Science Foundation Collaborative Research: Ideas at Play: Inspiring Innovation and Creativity through Games and Moving Analogies - National Science Foundation Ioannis Bourmpakis Understanding Viscosity Creep Using Quantum Mechanical Calculations - Lubrizol Corporation Aminic Antioxidant 0406.4 Kinetic Modeling - Phase IIb - Lubrizol Corporation Robert Enick CO2 Thickeners to Improve the Performance of CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery and Co2 Fracturing - U.S. Department of Energy Small Molecule Associative CO2 Thickeners for Improved Mobility Control - U.S. Department of Energy Expert Technical Reviewers for DOE/NETL Carbon Capture FOAs Conducted via PEI Activity 300.01.02 - KeyLogic Systems, Inc. Polymerization of Acrylic Acid in Supercritical CO2 - Lubrizol Corporation DDP Extraction with Supercritical CO2 - Lubrizol Corporation Supercritical CO2 extraction of tert-butylated phenols from alkylated phenols - Lubrizol Corporation Susan Fullerton Shirey GOALI: A low-voltage nonvolatile single transistor flash memory device based on ion transport in 2D electrolytes - National Science Foundation Holographic Assembly of Reconfigurable Nanoscale Plasmonic and Photonic Elements - University of Notre Dame Center for low energy systems technology - University of Notre Dame Di Gao Multistage Separation of Cells using Hydrophobic Interactions Enabled by Temperature-Responsive Polymers - National Science Foundation

FACULTY RESEARCH INTERESTS Fiscal Year 2016 Active Sponsored Research Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Rapid Tests for Chlamydia and Other Tropical Diseases - National Institutes of Health Biomimetic Self-Adhesive Dry EEG Electrodes - National Institutes of Health Enabling techonologies for rabid and low cost molecular diagnostics - Atharva, LLC Anti-stick Polymer Liner for Sub-Zero Applications - Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation J Karl Johnson Design of Stratified Funcitonal Nanoporous Materials for CO2 Capture and Conversion - U.S. Department of Energy Design, Synthesis and Characterization of Hybrid Stratified MOF-Plasmonic Nanoparticle Materials for Detection and Destruction of Chemical Agents - Defense Threat Reduction Agency John Keith Preventing Corrosion by Controlling Cathodic Reaction Kinetics - U.S. Navy Unraveling HEterocycle-Promoted Dydride Transfer Mechanisms for Energetically Efficient Fuel and Petrochemical Production American Chemical Society Lei Li Understanding the Mechanism of Simultaneous Oleophobic/Hydrophilic Behavior: When a Nanometer-Thick Polymer Coating meets a solid Surface - National Science Foundation A study on nanometer-thick comb-like polymers - Seagate Technology LLC Understanding the Solid-Confined Nanometer-Thick Ionic Liquids - American Chemical Society Steven Little Treatment of Periodontitis via Recruitment of Regulatory Lymphocytes - National Institutes of Health Regeneration of periodontal structures through the recruitment of regulatory lymphocytes - National Institutes of Health Combined Hydrogel/Microparticle Eye Drops for Sustained Delivery of Glaucoma Medication - National Institutes of Health A Biorelevant Dissolution Methods for Particulate Dosage Forms in the Periodontal Pocket - Magee-Womens Research Institute & Foundation Regulatory T Cell Enriching Microparticles for Promoting Vascularized Composite Allotransplant Survival - U.S. Army Treatments for Periodontitis that Restore Immunological Homeostasis - Wallace H. Coulter Foundation Treating the root cause of gum disease: PerioCellTM - Innovation Works Joseph McCarthy REU Site: Enhancing Knowledge Integration Through Undergraduate Research - Particle-based Functional Materials for Energy, Sustainability, and Biomedicine - National Science Foundation Particulate Composite Mixing Processes - Triton Systems, Inc. Fundamental Filtration Project - Lubrizol Corporation Badie Morsi Development of Slurry Bubble Column Reactors for Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis - National Institute of Clean-and-Low Carbon Energy Hydrodynamics, Mass Transfer Parameters and Modeling of a Microchannel Reactor for Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis - American Chemical Society Sittichai Natesakhawat Literature Survey Support - URS Corporation Design, synthesis and Characterization for Coal & Coal Biomass to Liquids - URS Corporation Fundamental Research entitled: Atomic-Scale Design, Synthesis, and Characterization of Metal Oxide Based Oxygen Separation Sorbents and Related Processes, Rev 1 dated 4/28/2016 - URS Corporation Fundamental Research Entitled: Design, Synthesis and Characterizations for Coal & Coal Biomass to Liquids, Rev Original dated 4/28/2016 - URS Corporation

FACULTY RESEARCH INTERESTS Fiscal Year 2016 Active Sponsored Research Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Robert Parker REU Site: Engineering Tools for Decision Support in Systmes Medicine - National Science Foundation Engineering Personalized Cancer Chemotherapy Schedules - National Science Foundation EngineeringEducation Systems Medicine: Modeling, Analysis, and Research, and Teaching - U.S. Department of Education Model-based decision support for tight glucose control without hypoglycemia - National Institutes of Health Model-based Decision in Sepsis - National Institutes of Health Foundations of Systems Biology in Engineering (FOSBE) 2015 - U.S. Army Aminic Antioxidant 0416.4 Kinetic Modeling - Lubrizol Corporation Schohn Shannon CORE Grant for Vision Research - Machine Shop BioE Sub - National Institutes of Health Sachin Velankar Structure and flow in solid/fluid systems: Model studies using immiscible polymer blends - National Science Foundation Collaborative Research: Wetting phenomena in particle-filled polymers: Multifunctional composites with easy processability National Science Foundation Collaborative Research: Wrinkling and Folding of Thin Films on Visocoelastic Substrates by Experiments and Modeling - National Science Foundation Acquisition of a shear rheometer for research on tissue scaffold ECM hydrogels and other biomaterials - U.S. Navy Buckling-induced Morphological ransformaions in Block Copolymers - American Chemical Society Experimental quantification of dissolution kinetics of SBR diblock copolymer in oil - Lubrizol Corporation Goetz Veser Chemical Looping Combustion: Syngas Production From Methane in a Periodically Operated Fixed-Bed Reactor - National Science Foundation Towards Assessing and Mitigating the Toxicity of Metal Nanoparticles - National Science Foundation Christopher Wilmer Fundamental study of heat transfer mechanisms in metal-organic frameworks during gas adsorption: With applications to adsorbed natural gas storage systems - American Chemical Society Judith Yang Oxide Evolution Dynamics Stability in Harsh Environments - National Science Foundation MRI: Acquisition of an environment transmission electron microscope for research and education in materials chemistry - National Science Foundation Synthesis, Characterization and Chemistry of Model Gamma Alumina Heterogeneous Catalysts - National Science Foundation Collaborative Research: In Situ Characterization of Methanol Oxidation Catalyzed by Copper-Based Materials - National Science Foundation Collaborative Research: CDS&E: Experimentally verified nano-oxidation simulations of Cu surfaces - National Science Foundation Dynamic Atomic-scale Metal Oxidation to Correlate with Multi-scale Simulations - National Science Foundation DMREF: Collaborative Research: Toolkit to Characterize and Design Bi-functional Nanoparticle Catalysts - National Science Foundation The Reactivity and Structural Dynamics of Supported Metal Nanoclusters using Electron Microscopy, in-situ X-ray Specroscopy, Electronic Structure Theories, and Molecular Dynamics Simulations - University of Illinois

FACULTY RESEARCH INTERESTS Fiscal Year 2016 Active Sponsored Research Civil and Environmental Engineering Jorge Darwin Abad Meandering processes in Telemac Modeling system: implementation and validation - Electricite De France Kyle Bibby EAGER: Engineering Microbial Mats for the On-Site Treatment of Wastewater from Unconventional Gas Production - National Science Foundation RAPID: Collaborative Research: Survival of Ebolavirus in the Water Environment: Surrogate Development and Disinfection Effectiveness - National Science Foundation Developing CrAssphage As a Marker of Human Fecal Pollution in the Environment - National Science Foundation Laboratory and Field Evaluation of Microbes Associated with Shale Gas Production - URS Corporation Risks from Ebola Discharge from Hospitals to Sewage Workers - Drexel University Melissa Bilec EFRI: Barriers, Understanding, Integrating - Life Cycle Development (BUILD) - National Science Foundation Collaborative Research: Integrating Sustainability Grand Challenges and Systems Thinking into Engineering Curriculum - National Science Foundation Collaborative Proposal: RSB: A Sequential Decision Framework to Support Trade Space Exploration of Multi-Hazard Resilient and Sustainable Building Designs - National Science Foundation Collaborative Research: Developing a Framework to better engage students in STEM via Game Design - National Science Foundation John Brigham Collaborative Research: Smart Material, Adaptive, and Reconfigurable Tiles "SMART Tiles" for Environmentally Responsive Building Surfaces - National Science Foundation Experimentally Validated Numerical Models of Non-Isothermal Turbulent Mixing in High Temperature Reactors - UT-Battelle, LLC Andrew Bunger Impact of Mineral Cementation on Hydraulic Fracture Growth in Fractured and Faulted Reservoirs - Shell International Exploration and Production Initiation of Multiple Hydraulic Fractures - Schlumberger Technology Corporation Experimental Investigation of Hydraulic Fracture Containment in Layered Reservoirs - Chevron U.S.A., Inc. Kent Harries 50 KSI Steel H-Pile Capacity - Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Bamboo in the Urban Environment - Institute of International Education Strand De-bonding for Pretensioned Girders - University of Cincinnati Development of Titanium Reinforcing Bars for Concrete and Masonry - Perryman Company Anthony Iannacchione Appalachian Research Initiative for Environmental Sciences (ARIES) - Virginia Tech University Vikas Khanna Developing a life cycle assessment model for evaluating poicy implications of biofuels - Arizona State University Fractionation and Catalytic Upgrading of Bio-Oil - University of Oklahoma Development of Membrane Distillation Technology Utilizing Waste Heat for Treatment of High Salinity Wastewaters - U.S. Department of Energy An optimization-based decision-making framework for economical and environmentally conscious management of water-energy nexus for shale gas - Environmental Defense Fund, Inc. Xu Liang Long-Term Solutions to Acid Producing Coal Mine Spoils Using Industrial Wastes - National Science Foundation Collaborative Research: Compressed Network Tomography and Data Collection in Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Networking - National Science Foundation

FACULTY RESEARCH INTERESTS Fiscal Year 2016 Active Sponsored Research Civil and Environmental Engineering Improving Hydrologic Disaster Forecasting and Response for Transportation by Assimilating and Fusing NASA and other Data Sets U.S. Department of Transportation Improving Spatial Precipitation Distribution Map - Analysis for Bridge Inspections and Emergency Response - Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Jeen-Shang Lin Developing Constitutive Relations for Geomechanical Property and Numerical Study of HBS, Rev 1 - URS Corporation Mark Magalotti SAP#4100066456 SAF1 - Commonwealth of Pennsylvania SAP #4100066456 WalkWorks 2015 - Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Joseph Marriott Developing an Electricity-Specific Mixed-Unit Input-Output Model for Life Cycle Assessment and Energy Policy Evaluation - National Science Foundation Piervincenzo Rizzo Collaborative Research: Highly nonlinear transducer arrays for structural health monitoring - National Science Foundation Indirect Bridge Health Monitoring of Moving Vehicles - Carnegie Mellon University Noninvasive Assessment of Existing Concrete - Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Merging Guided Ultrasonic Waves and Electromechanical Impedance: A Novel NDT Paradigm - American Society for Nondestructive Testing Julie Vandenbossche Interpreting Falling Weight Defectometer (FWD) Data - Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Development of an Improved Design Procedure for Unbounded Concrete Overlays - University of Minnesota Partnered Pavement Reseasrch Center - University of California Radisav Vidic UNS: Collaborative Research: Fate and Control of Naturally Occuring Radioactive Material (NORM) Produced by Unconventional Gas Industry - National Science Foundation RCN-SEES: The Marcellus Shale Water Research Network - Pennsylvania State University Development of Membrane Distillation Technology Utilizing Waste Heat for Treatment of High Salinity Wastewaters - U.S. Department of Energy Identifying Impediments and Solutions to Sidewalk Project Implementation in Pennsylvania - Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Energy "Inventor Labs" - Constellation Pharmaceuticals Technical and Logistical Feasibility of Abandoned Mine Drainage Treatment and Use in Unconventional Shale Gase Well treatments Shale Alliance for Energy Research Pennsylvania Qiang Yu Bridge Waterproofing Details - Phase 2 - Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

FACULTY RESEARCH INTERESTS Fiscal Year 2016 Active Sponsored Research Electrical and Computer Engineering Peng Chen Collaborative Research: Digitally Addressable and Scalable Laser Fabrication of 3D Gradient Index Nanostructures and Nanophotonics Circuits - National Science Foundation Adaptive Laser Shock Micro-Forming Processes - National Science Foundation Collaborative Research: Nonlinear Optics of Photonic Topological Insulators - National Science Foundation Ultrafast Fiber Laser Sampling and Plasma-Enhanced Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy to combat WMD - Defense Threat Reduction Agency Developing Efficient Topology Optimizaion Tools that Enable Design of Additive Manufactured Cellular Structures - National Center for Defense Manufacturing & Machining High Spatial Resolution Distributed Fiber-optic Sensor Networks for Reactors and Fuel Cycle Systems - U.S. Department of Energy Yiran Chen Collaborative Research: Design for Robustness: A New Design Philosophy for the Next-Generation Non-Volatile Memories - National Science Foundation Collaborative Research: Process-Variation Aware Memristor Modeling and Design - National Science Foundation SHF Small: Collaborative Research: STEMS: Statistic emerging Memory - National Science Foundation CAREER: Cantaur: A Bio-inspired Ultra Low-Power Hybrid Embedded Computing Engine: Beyond One TeraFlops/Watt - National Science Foundation CSR: Small: OREO: Tri-layer Optimization for Power Efficient OLED Display - National Science Foundation Novel Capacitor-less DRAM Technology with Energy Efficiency, Manufacturability, and Scalability - Alacrity Semiconductors, Inc. Algorithms and Applications for Cognitive Computing Systems - U.S. Air Force Memristor Crossbar Based Neuromorphic Hardware Systems - Hewlett Packard Invisible Shield: Device Security via Gesture Authentication - Innovation Works Amro El-Jaroudi Speaker independent continuous density HMM research at Vocollect, Inc. - Vocollect Inc Alexander Jones EFRI: Barriers, Understanding, Integrating - Life Cycle Development (BUILD) - National Science Foundation SHF: Medium: Compiler and CHip Multiprocessor Co-design for Scalable Efficient Data Access and Communication - National Science Foundation Hong Koo Kim Electrical Pumping of graphene by 2D electron gas injection - U.S. Navy Characterization of Scaled-up SAVD Cells - SAVD Solar, Inc. Alexis Kwasinski CYBERSEES: Type 1: Integrated Communications and Power Management Architecture for Supporting Cellular Base Stations Operation using Renewable Energy in a Microgrid Configuration - Rochester Institute of Technology Understanding Dynamic Interactions post-WMD attack in Independent Networks - University of Texas at Austin Steven Levitan Collaborative Research: Visual Cortex on Silicon - National Science Foundation INSPIRE Track 1: Sensing and Computing with Oscillating Chemical Reactions - National Science Foundation Collaborative Research: Visual Cortex on Silicon - National Science Foundation Unconventional Processing of Signals for Intelligent Data Exploitation (UPSIDE) - HRL Laboratories, LLC

FACULTY RESEARCH INTERESTS Fiscal Year 2016 Active Sponsored Research Electrical and Computer Engineering Guangyong Li Development of Highly Sensitive and High-Resolution Kelvin Probe Microscopy for in situ Characterization of Organic Photovoltaic Cells - National Science Foundation Collaborative Research: Multiscale Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization for Designing Organic Solar Cells - National Science Foundation Compressive 3D Infrared Imaging - DetectIR Technologies, Inc. Hai Li CAREER STT-RAM based memory Hierarchy and Management in Embedded Systems - National Science Foundation SMURFS: Statistical Modeling, Simulation and Robust Design Techniques for Memristors - National Science Foundation CSR: Small: Collaborative Research:; Cross-Layer Design Techniques for Robustness of the Next-Generation Nonvolatile Memories National Science Foundation XPS: DSD: Collaborative Research: NeoNexus: The Next-generation Information Processing System across Digital and Neuromorphic Computing Domains - National Science Foundation An Adaptive Information Processing System Resilient to Device Variations and Noises - Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Neuromorphic Computing Engine with Resistive Crossbar Architecture - U.S. Air Force The Design of Neuromorphic Controller System Built with Memristor Crossbars - U.S. Air Force Zhi-Hong Mao Career: Evaluating Capabilities of Neural control in Human-Machine Interaction - National Science Foundation CPS: Synergy: Collaborative Research: Design and Control of High-performance Provably-safe Autonomy-enabled Dynamic Transportation Networks - National Science Foundation Wearable eButton for Evaluation of Energy Balance with Environmental Context and Behavior - National Institutes of Health Biomimetic Self-Adhesive Dry EEG Electrodes - National Institutes of Health Thomas McDermott Foundations for Engineering Education for Distributed Energy Resources (FEEDER) - University of Central Florida Smart Inverter Research - Electric Power Research Institute Inverter Testing & Modeling Research - Electric Power Research Institute Kartik Mohanram CAREER: Design Optimization for Robustness to Single-Event Effects - National Science Foundation REU Supplement:CAREER: Design Optimization for Robustness to Single-Event Effects - National Science Foundation SHF: Collaborative Research: Graphene Circuits for Analog, Mixed-signal, and RF Applications - National Science Foundation John Pittner UCF Support - University of Central Florida Gregory Reed Developing an Electricity-Specific Mixed-Unit Input-Output Model for Life Cycle Assessment and Energy Policy Evaluation - National Science Foundation National Offshore Wind Energy Grid Interconnection Study - ABB Inc. High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) Technology Development Program - Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Electric Power Distribution Modeling for Feeder Analytics and Distributed Energy Resource Integration - FirstEnergy Corp.

FACULTY RESEARCH INTERESTS Fiscal Year 2016 Active Sponsored Research Electrical and Computer Engineering Ervin Sejdic The Aspirometer: A noninvasive tool to detect swallowing safety and efficiency - National Institutes of Health University of Pittsburgh Clinical and Translational Science Institute - National Institutes of Health Pittsburgh Older Americans Independence Center - National Institutes of Health Phase 3 - Remote Sensing for Bridge Scour - Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Ortho-Tag Development and Sensor Electronics for pH - Phase II - Ortho-tag Inc. Testing facility for GS1/development of cutting-edge research progrma in 3D bar codes - GS1 AISBL Susheng Tan Study of Microstructure and Residual Stress of CVD and PVD Coatings and Thin Films - Kennametal,Inc. Jun Yang CAREER: thermal-aware task scheduling to embedded planar and 3D chip multiprocessors - National Science Foundation Storage Class Memory Architecture for Energy Efficient Data Centers - National Science Foundation A Brick in the Wall: Achieving Yield and Performance Effective DRAM Beyond 22nm Technology - National Science Foundation Minhee Yun Characterization of Thermal Conductivity of Nanomaterials and Their Hybrid Structures Using SIN Membrane - Sungkyunkwan University

FACULTY RESEARCH INTERESTS Fiscal Year 2016 Active Sponsored Research Industrial Engineering Carey Balaban FY 2012 HS-STEM Career Development Grant - U.S. Department of Homeland Security Mary Besterfield-Sacre Collaborative Research: Assessing the Spectrum of International Undergraduate Engineering Educational Experiences - National Science Foundation Innovation Through Propagation: Determining an Engineering Education Resarch Agenda - National Science Foundation The CIRTL Network: 25 Research Universities Preparing a National Faculty to Advance STEM Undergraduate Learning - University of Wisconsin Improving and Assessing Student Learning in an Inverted STEM Classroom Setting - University of South Florida Target Future Faculty Production - University of Wisconsin Bopaya Bidanda Avoidable Readmissions Reduction Task Order - U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Defibrillator Project - U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Engineering Access to Care - U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs IPA Agreement for Airan Li - U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Young Jae Chun Esophocclude - National Science Foundation A Novel Thin Film Nitinol Covered Carotid Artery Embolic Protection Stent - National Institutes of Health A Novel Ultra-Low Profile Wireless Flow Monitoring Coil to Assess Hemodynamic Quiescence within Intracranial Aneurysms American Heart Association Thrombus Retrieval Device for the Treatment of Acute Pulmonary Embolism - Samuel and Emma Winters Foundation Jeffrey Kharoufeh Effective Management of Operating and Maintenance Activities for Wind Turbines - National Science Foundation Comparative Study of Lung Cancer Risk Models and Impacts on the VHA Screening Process - U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Engineering Access to Care - U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Paul Leu Nanoshpere Coatings on Silicon Thin Film Photovoltaics - National Science Foundation NUE: Flipping Learning Models to Illuminate Nanomanufacturing and Nanomaterials for Photovoltaics - National Science Foundation Nanosphere Coatings on Silicon Thin Film Photovoltaics - National Science Foundation CAREER: Statistical Design of Hierarchical Metals for High Performance, flexible Solar Cells - National Science Foundation STTR Phase I: Liquid Printed Metal Nanomeshes for Transparent Conductors - Liquid X Printed Metals, Inc. Lisa Maillart Optimizing Implanted Cardiac Device Follow-Up Care - National Science Foundation Markov Decision Process Models for Optimizing Vaccine Administration - National Science Foundation REU Supplement - Markov Decision Process Models for Optimizing Vaccine Administration - National Science Foundation Optimal Management of Donor Milk Banks - National Science Foundation Ravi Meenakshisundaram Deformation Mechanics and Microstructure Evolution During Microforming of Metals - National Science Foundation Multifunctional Surface Engineering using Severe Plastic Deformation in Machining-Based Processes - National Science Foundation Polymers for Photomechanical Machines - National Science Foundation GOALI: Manufacturing of Nanostructure-Enhanced Mn-Al-base Maerials via Modulated Machining and Thermomechanical consolidation for High-Performance Permanent Magnets - National Science Foundation Snap-Through in a New Light: Contactless Ultrafast Photoactuation - U.S. Air Force Parametric Design of Functional Support for Metal Alloy Feedstocks - National Center for Defense Manufacturing & Machining

FACULTY RESEARCH INTERESTS Fiscal Year 2016 Active Sponsored Research Industrial Engineering Bryan Norman Surgery Operations Review - U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Engineering Access to Care - U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Oleg Prokopyev Integrating Proactive and Reactive Operating Room Management - National Science Foundation Network Interdiction Problems - U.S. Air Force Multiscale Networks with Stochastic Interactions: Resiliency and Recovery Optimization under Large-Scale Attacks - University of Iowa Nerwork Interdiction Problems - U.S. Air Force Jayant Rajgopal Optimal Design of Vaccine Distribution Networks - National Science Foundation Engineering Access to Care - U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Denis Saure Repetitive Combinatorial Optimization with Learning - National Science Foundation Andrew Schaefer The Optimal Timing of Kidney Exchanges: A Markov Game Approach - National Science Foundation A Multi-Center Group to Study Acute Liver Failure in Children - National Institutes of Health Larry Shuman FIPSE CAPES Project: Sustainable Energy and Aeronautical Engineering Program - Florida State University University of Pittsburgh Undergraduate Scholarship Proposal to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission - U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

FACULTY RESEARCH INTERESTS Fiscal Year 2016 Active Sponsored Research Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Markus Chmielus Developing a Reliable Qualification Method for Additive Manufactured structural Components - National Science Foundation A Database Relating Powder Properties to Fatigue Strength for Binder Jet Printed Inconel - Lehigh University A Database Relating Powder Properties to Fatigue Strength for Binder Jet Printed Inconel - Carnegie Mellon University Sung Kwon Cho Swimming Medbot in Human Body Propelled by Oscilliating Bubbles - National Science Foundation Collaborative Research: Exploration of Near-Field Thermophotovoltaic Energy Conversion for Efficient Thermal Energy Recycling National Science Foundation Ming King Chyu Developing a Reliable Qualification Method for Additive manufactured Structural Components - National Science Foundation Thermoelectric-Driven Sustainable Sensing and Actuation Systems for FAult-Tolerant Nuclear Incidents, SMR-2 - Research Foundation State University of New York Design, Fabrication, and Performance Characterization of Near-Surface Embedded Cooling Channels (NSECC) with an Oxide Dispersion Strengthened (ODS) Coating Layer - U.S. Department of Energy William Clark Fiber Optic Cover - ICorps - National Science Foundation Daniel Cole Fellowship and Scholarship Support - U.S. Department of Energy Advanced I&C for Fault-Tolerant Supervisory Control of Small Modular Reactors - U.S. Department of Energy Curriculum Development in Nuclear Chemistry and Radiochemistry - U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Giovanni Galdi Analytical and Numerical Study of Two Problems Arising in solid-Liquid Interaction - National Science Foundation Calixto Garcia Design and Development of a Continuous Annealing Laboratory Simulator (CAL-VS1) To Study Adavanced High Strength Steels (AHSS) and other Steel Systems - Association for Iron and Steel Technology Foundation Peyman Givi Data Management and Visualization in Petascale Turbulent Combustion Simulation - National Science Foundation Quantum Speedup for Turbulent Combustion Simulations - U.S. Air Force Feasibility Study of Sub-grid Sale Modeling - Los Alamos National Security, LLC Brian Gleeson Oxide Evolution Dynamics and Stability in Harsh Environments - National Science Foundation Controlling Protective Scale Formation Development of Novel PtFree y-Ne-y-NIA1 Based Coatings by Optimizing Minor-Element Effects - U.S. Navy Return of Accountable Property Rev 0 Dated 5/11/12 - URS Corporation Optimization coating Processes and Chemistries for Enhanced Hot Section, Low Cycle Fatigue (LCF) Life - Directed Vapor Technologies International, Inc. EN-MSE Marinized Coating for Mitigation of Mixed Mode Hot Corrosion and Oxidation - University of Virginia EN-MSE Development of Test Protocols and Testing of Marginalized Materials for Mixed Mode Hot Corrosion Oxidation - University of Virginia Computational Design and Discovery of Ni-Based Alloys and Coatings - Pennsylvania State University Advanced Deposition Capability for Oxidation & Corrosion Protection Coatings - Directed Vapor Technologies International, Inc. Advanced Bond Coats for Thermal Barrier Coating Systems Based on High Entropy Alloys - Directed Vapor Technologies International, Inc.

FACULTY RESEARCH INTERESTS Fiscal Year 2016 Active Sponsored Research Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Tevis Jacobs Collaborative Research: Understanding the Formation and Separation of Nanoscale Contacts - National Science Foundation Mark Kimber Experimentally Validated Numerical Models of Non-Isothermal Turbulent Mixing in High Temperature Reactors - UT-Battelle, LLC Jung-Kun Lee Electron Injection in nanostructures materials New paradigm of transparent conducting oxides - National Science Foundation Soild State Dye Sensitized Solar Cells Using Tunable Surface Plasmons of Core-Shell Particles - National Science Foundation NUE: Flipping Learning Models to Illuminate Nanomanufacturing and Nanomaterials for Photovoltaics - National Science Foundation Seedless Growth of Nanowires and Selective Positioning of Quantum Dots for Flexible and Pancromatic Photoelectrochemical Cells National Science Foundation Propagating Surface Plasmon Assisted Light Absorption for Junction-Type Thin Film Solar Cells - National Science Foundation Enhanced Photon-electron Conversion in Thin Film Solar Cells by Propagating Surface Plasmons - National Science Foundation Stability of lead iodide perovskite solar cells using superhydrophobic sealing and surface passivation of TiO2 nanoparticle - Global Frontier Center for Multiscale Energy Systems Scott Mao Atomic-Scale Observation of Deformation Process in Nanoscale BCC Crystals - National Science Foundation Gerald Meier Effect of Deposit Composition and Temperature on the Deposit-Induced Degradation Regimes in Coatings and Structural Alloys for Gas Turbines - U.S. Navy Effect of Surface Reactivity of H2O and CO2 Molecules on the Durability of High temperature Materials - U.S. Navy Mark Miller Coupled Control of Two Independent Axes in an Elbow Joint Simulator - Allegheny Health Network Ian Nettleship Innovative in Vivo-like Model for Vascular Tissue Engineering - National Institutes of Health Anne Robertson The Link between hemodynamics and wall structure in cerebral aneurysms - National Institutes of Health In Host Remodeling of Grafts to Functinal Arteries-Translation to Mature Animals - National Institutes of Health Affect of Aging on Urothelial Function - National Institutes of Health Translational, Multimodality Correlation Between Human and Rabbit Saccular Aneurysms - Mayo Clinic Rochester Laura Schaefer EFRI: Barriers, Understanding, Integrating - Life Cycle Development (BUILD) - National Science Foundation A Deeper Understanding of Small-Scale Phenomena in Heat Pipes through a Higher Order Lattice Boltzmann Method - National Science Foundation Nitin Sharma Muscles Synergy Inspired Low Dimensional Control Method for a Hybrid Neurprosthesis - National Science Foundation Optimal Adaptive Control Methods for a Hybrid Exoskeleton - National Science Foundation Patrick Smolinski Video Anatomy: Visualization of the Double-Bundle ACL During Knee Function - Pittsburgh Foundation The Mechanical Function of the Indirect Fibers of the ACL - Pittsburgh Foundation

FACULTY RESEARCH INTERESTS Fiscal Year 2016 Active Sponsored Research Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Albert To Adaptive Laser Shock Micro-Forming Process and Metrology - National Science Foundation Developing a Reliable Qualification Method for Additive Manufactured Structural Components - National Science Foundation Multiscale Structure-Mechanical Property Investigation of Additive Manufactured Components for Development of a Reliable Qualification Method - National Science Foundation Developing Efficient Topology Optimization Tools that Enable Design of Additive Manufactured Cellular Structures - National Center for Defense Manufacturing & Machining Integrated Design Tool Development for High Potential Additive Manufacturing Applications - National Center for Defense Manufacturing & Machining Cellular Architecture Optimization for Tailored Frequency Response in Missile Componenets and Structure - Materials Sciences Corporation Automation Tools for Modeling AM Process of Complex Geometries in ABAQUS - Lehigh University Automation Tools for Modeling AM Process of Complex Geometries in ABAQUS - Carnegie Mellon University Jeffrey Vipperman Finite Element Modeling of Blast-Induced Traumatic Brain Injury - National Science Foundation Development of Thermoacoustic Sensors for In-Core Monitoring of Sodium-Cooled Reactors - Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC A Modeling Framework for Higher Level Predictive Models for Precision Stages - Aerotech Inc. Guofeng Wang Atomistic Simulation Investigation on Processing-Structure-Property Relation of Magnetic Metal Alloy Nanostructures - National Science Foundation Jorg Wiezorek GOALI: Manufacturing of Nanostructure-Enhanced Mn-Al-base Materials via Modulated Machining and Thermomechanical Consolidation for High-Performance Permanent Magnets - National Science Foundation Sylvanus Wosu Global Engineering Preparedness Scholarship (GEPS) Program - National Science Foundation AGEP-KAT Transition to the Doctorate Adaptation Engagement (TDAE) Program - National Science Foundation Judith Yang The Reactivity and Structural Dynamics of Supported Metal Nanoclusters Using Electron Microscopy, In-Situ X-Ray Spectroscopy Electronic Structure Theories, and Molecular Dynamics Simulations - University of Illinois Xudong Zhang New Biomechanical Knowledge Base and Digital Design Tool for Prevention of Occupational Neck Disorders - Centers for Disease Control & Prevention Integrating Dynamic In Vivo Imaging and Computational Modeling: A New Paradigm to Study Lumbar Spine Biomechanics - EmpaSwiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology Paolo Zunino Multiscale Modeling and Simulation of Multiphase Flow Coupled with Geomechanics - U.S. Department of Energy

Research Expenditures Fiscal Year 2016

Federal Government

Department

State & Local Government

Private/ Non-Profit Organizations

Business & Industry

Total

Bioengineering

8,825,747

-

613,326

356,293

9,795,366

Chemical

7,154,031

23,876

257,503

324,816

7,760,227

Civil & Environmental

1,192,234

613,783

102,218

393,597

2,301,832

Electrical & Computer

3,225,908

76,494

130,240

559,883

3,992,525

Industrial

2,430,995

-

67,560

4,686,581

-

149,890

MEMS

-

2,498,555

297,009

5,133,480

(1,844,074)

Dean's Office Total

(1,844,074)

$25,671,422

$714,153

$1,320,738

$1,931,598

$29,637,912

Research Related

$14,637,608

Research Other

$43,928,261

Total Expenditures

$88,203,781

2%

4%

7%

87%

Federal Government State & Local Governments Private/Non-Profit Organization Business & Industry

Faculty Publications Department of Bioengineering Alba, N.A., Du, Z., Catt, K., Kozai, T.D.Y., Cui, X.T. (2015). In vivo electrochemical analysis of a PEDOT/MWCNT neural electrode. Biosensors. 5(4):618-646. PMID: 26473938.

Angelozzi, M., Miotto, M., Penolazzi, L., Mazzitelli, S., Keane, T.J., Badylak, S.F., Piva, R., Nastruzzi, C. (2015). Composite ECMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;alginate microfibers produced by microfluidics as scaffolds with biomineralization potential. Materials Science and Engineering C. [e-pub ahead of print doi:10.1016/j.msec.2015.06.004] November, 2015. 56(1). (pp. 141-153). PMID: 26249575.

Araki, D., Miller, M., Fujimaki, Y., Hoshino, Y., Musahl, V., Debski, R. (2015). Effect of Tear Location on Propagation of Isolated Supraspinatus Tendon Tears During Increasing Levels of Cyclic Loading. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2015 Feb 18; 97 (4): 273-278. PMID: 25695976.

Arazawa, D.T., Kimmel, J.D., Finn, M.C., Federspiel, W.J. (Oct 2015). Acidic sweep gas with carbonic anhydrase coated hollow fiber membranes synergistically accelerates CO2 removal from blood. Acta Biomaterialia. 25:143-149. PMID: 26159104. doi: 10.1016/j.actbio.2015.07.007.

Arazawa, D.T., Kimmel, J.D., Federspiel, W.J. (2015). Kinetics of CO2 Exchange with Carbonic Anhydrase Immobilized on Fiber Membranes in Artificial Lungs. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine.

26(6):193. PMID: 26032115.

Ardila, D.C., Tamimi, E., Danford, F.L., Haskett, D.G., Kellar, R.S., Doetschman, T., Vande Geest, J.P. (Jan 2015). TGFβ2 differentially modulates smooth muscle cell proliferation and migration in electrospun gelatinfibrinogen constructs. Biomaterials 37:164-173. PMID: 25453947 Arilla, F., Guenther, D., Yacuzzi, C., Rahnemai-Azar, A.A., Lesniak, B., Fu, F.H., Debski, R.E., Musahl, V. (2015). Effects of Anterolateral Capsular Injury and Extra-Articular Tenodesis on Knee Kinematics During Physical Examination. The Pittsburgh Orthopaedic Journal. Volume 26. p. 199. doi: 10.1177/2325967115S00032.

Arilla, F.V., Yeung, M., Bell, K., Rahnemai-Azar, A.A., Rothrauff, B.B., Fu, F.H., Debski, R.E., Ayeni, O.R., Musahl, V. (2015). Experimental execution of the simulated pivot-shift test: A systematic review of techniques. Arthroscopy. 31(12):2445-2454. PMID: 26321110.

Awada, H., Johnson, N., Wang, Y. (2015). Sequential delivery of angiogenic growth factors improves revascularization and heart function after myocardial infarction. J. Control. Release. 207:7-17. PMID: 25836592; PMCID: PMC4430430.

Ayyalasomayajula, A., Park, R.I., Simon, B.R., Vande Geest, J.P. (2015). A porohyperelastic finite element model of the eye: the influence of stiffness and permeability on intraocular pressure and optic nerve head biomechanics. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering.21:1-12. PMID: 26195024.

Babaei, B., Abramowitch, S.D., Elson, E., Thomopoulos, S., and Genin, G. (2015). Discrete Spectral Analysis for Determining the Viscoelastic Properties of Biological Materials. Journal of the Royal Society Interface.12 (113). doi: 10.1098/rsif.2015.0707 Bakshi, N.K., Patel, I., Jacobson, J.A., Debski, R.E., Sekiya, J.K. (2015). Comparison of 3- Dimensional Computed Tomography-Based Measurement of Glenoid Bone Loss With Arthroscopic Defect Size Estimation

in Patients With Anterior Shoulder Instability. Arthroscopy. 31(10):1880-1885. PMID: 25980922. doi: 10.1016/j.arthro.2015.03.024.

Barone, W.R., Amini, R., Moalli, P.A., Maiti, S., Abramowitch, S.D. (2015). The Impact of Boundary Conditions on Surface Curvature of Polypropylene Mesh in Response to Uniaxial Loading. Journal of Biomechanics. 48(9) (pp. 1566-1574) PMID: 25843260 Barry, M., Shayan, M., Jankowitz, B.T., Chen, Y., Duan, X., Robertson, A.M., Chyu, M.K., Chun, Y. (March 2015). Smart Guidewires for Smooth Navigation in Neurovascular Intervention. ASME Journal of Medical Devices. Vol. 9, No. 1. (pp. 011011-1 – 011011-9). doi: 10.1115/1.4029558.

Bayer, E., Fedorchak, M.V., Gottardi, R., Little, S.R. (2015). The Scope and Sequence of Growth Factor Delivery for Vascularized Bone Tissue Regeneration. Journal of Controlled Release. 219: 129-140. PMID: 26264834.

Beaino, W., Nedrow, J., Anderson, C.J. (2015). Evaluation of 68Ga- and 177Lu-DOTA-PEG4- LLP2A for VLA-4 targeted PET imaging and treatment of metastatic melanoma. Molecular Pharmaceutics. 12:19291938. (# These two authors contributed equally). PMID: 25919487.

Bean, A.C., Tuan, R.S. (2015). Fiber diameter and seeding density influence chondrogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells seeded on electrospun poly (ε-caprolactone) scaffolds. Biomed Mater. Jan 29; 10 (1):015018. PMID: 25634427.

Bell, K.M., Arilla, F.V., Rahnemai-Azar, A.A., Fu, F.H., Musahl, V., Debski, R.E. (2015). Novel Technique for Evaluation of Knee Function Continuously Through the Range of Flexion. Journal of Biomechanics.

48(13):3728-3731. PMID: 26342768.

Ben-Benjamin, J.S., Cohen, L., Loughlin, P. (2015). A phase space approach to wave propagation with dispersion. J. Acoust. Soc. Amer.138 (2): 1122-1131. PMID: 26328726.

Bodnar, R.J., Wells, A. (2015). Differential regulation of pericyte function by the CXC receptor 3. Wound Repair and Regeneration 22. 785-796. PMID: 26207932, PMC4662923 Brown, B.N., Mani, D., Nolfi, A.L., Liang, R., Abramowitch, S.D., Moalli, P.A. (Nov 2015).Characterization of the host inflammatory response following implantation of prolapse mesh in rhesus macaque. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 213(5):668.e1-10. PMID: 26259906.

Cai, Z., Li, B.T.Y., Wong, E.H., Weisman, G.R., Anderson, C.J. (2015). Cu (I)-assisted Click Chemistry Strategy for Conjugation of Non-protected Cross-bridged Macrocyclic Chelators to Tumour-targeting Peptides. Dalton Transactions. 44:3945 – 3948. PMID: 25645688.

Carneiro, M.G., Koharudin, L.M., Ban, D., Sabo, T.M., Trigo-Mourino, P., Mazur, A., Griesinger, C., Gronenborn, A.M., Lee, D. (2015). Sampling of glycan-bound conformers by the anti-HIV lectin Oscillatoria agardhii agglutinin in the absence of sugar. Angew Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 54:6462-5. PMC4480366. doi: 10.1002/anie.201500213.

Cecala, A.L., Smalianchuk, I., Khanna, S.B., Smith, M.A., Gandhi, N.J. (2015). Context cue dependent saccadic adaptation in rhesus macaque cannot be passively elicited using color. J Neurophysiol. 114: 570–584.

PMID: 25995353.

Chan, K.C., Kancherla, S., Fan, S.J., Wu, E.X. (2015). Long-term effects of neonatal hypoxia- ischemia on ocular physiology, axonal transport and microstructural integrity in visual system by multimodal MRI. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 56:1-9 (3.404/.). doi: 10.1167/iovs.14-14287.

Chan, R.W., Ho, L.C., Zhou, I.Y., Gao, P.P., Chan, K.C., Wu, E.X. (2015). Structural and functional brain remodeling during pregnancy with diffusion tensor MRI and resting-state functional MRI. PLoS On.10 (12):e0144328. (3.234). PMID: 26658306.

Chang, C-L., Weber, D.J., Munin, M.C. (2015). Changes in Cerebellar Activation After Onabotulinumtoxin A Injections for Spasticity After Chronic Stroke: A Pilot Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 96(11):2007â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2016. PMID: 26239302.

Chaya, A., Yoshizawa, S., Verdelis, K., Myers, N., Costello, B.J., Chou, D.T., Pal, S., Maiti, S., Kumta, P.N., Sfeir, C. (2015). In vivo study of magnesium plate and screw degradation and bone fracture healing. Acta Biomaterialia. 18:262-269. PMID: 25712384.

Chen, C.L., Ishikawa, H., Wollstein, G., Bilonick, R.A., Sigal, I.A., Kagemann, L., Schuman, J.S. (June 2015). Histogram Matching Extends Acceptable Signal Strength Range on Optical Coherence Tomography Images. IOVS. 56(6):3810-9. PMID: 26066749, PMCID: PMC4468911.

Chen, W.C.W., Lee, B.G., Park, D.W., Kim, K., Chu, H., Kim, K., Huard, J., Wang, Y. (2015).

Controlled Dual Delivery of Fibroblast Growth Factor-2 and Interleukin-10 by Heparin-based Coacervate Synergistically Enhances Ischemic Heart Repair. Biomaterials. 72:138-151, PMID: 26370927, PMCID: PMC4617784 Chen, Y., Jankowitz, B.T., Cho, S.K., Yeo, W.H., Chun, Y. (May 2015). A Novel Low-Profile Flow Sensor for Monitoring of Hemodynamics in Cerebral Aneurysm. Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering. Vol. 2, No. 2, pp.71-84. doi:10.1117/12.2084250.

Chen, Y.J., Rosario, B.L., Mowrey, W., Laymon, C.M., Lu, X., Lopez, O.L., Klunk, W.E., Lopresti, B.J., Mathis, C.A., and Price, J.C. (2015). Relative C-11-PiB Delivery as a Proxy of Relative CBF: Quantitative Evaluation Using Single-Session O-15-Water and C-11-PiB PET. Journal of Nuclear Medicine.56, (8), (pp.

1199-1205). PMID: 26045309.

Cove, M.E., Federspiel, W.J. (2015). Veno-venous extracorporeal CO2 removal for the treatment of severe respiratory acidosis. Critical Care.19:176. PMID: 25927222. doi: 10.1186/ s13054-015-0769-0.

Cowap, M.J., Moghaddam, S.R., Menezes, P., Beschorner, K.E. (2015). Contributions of Adhesion and Hysteresis to the Coefficient of Friction Between Shoe and Floor Surfaces: Effects of Floor Roughness and Sliding Speed.

Tribology Materials, Surfaces & Interfaces 9(2) 77-84. doi: 10.1179/1751584X15Y.0000000005.

Ding, X., Dutta, D., Mahmoud, A.M., Tillman, B., Leers, S.A., Kim, K. (2015). An Adaptive Displacement Estimation Algorithm for Improved Reconstruction of Thermal Strain. IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control 2015;62 (1):138-151. NIHMS642546; PMC4295651 PMID: 25585398.

Dombrowski, M.E., Costello, J.M., Ohashi, B., Murawski, C.D., Rothrauff, B.B., Arilla, F., Friel, N.A., Fu, F.H., Debski, R.E., Musahl, V. (Feb 4 2015). Macroscopic Anatomic, Histologic, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Correlation of the Lateral Capsule of the Knee. Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy.

PMID: 25649729.

Du, Z.J., Luo, X., Weaver, C., Cui, X.T. (July 7, 2015). Poly (3, 4-ethylenedioxythiophene)- ionic liquid coating improves neural recording and stimulation functionality of MEAs. Journal of Materials Chemistry. C, Materials For Optical and Electronic Devices.3 (25):6515-6524 PMID: 26491540.

Epur, R., Hanumantha, P.J., Datta, M.K., Hong, D., Gattu, B., Kumta, P.N. (2015). A Simple and Scalable Approach to Hollow Silicon Nanotube (h-SiNT) Anode Architectures of Superior Electrochemical Stability and Reversible Capacity. Journal of Materials Chemistry. A 3, 1117-11129. doi:10.1039/C5TA00961H.

Epur, R., Ramanathan, M., Datta, M.K., Hong, D., Jampani, P.H., Gattu, B., Kumta, P.N. (2015). Scribable Multi-walled Carbon Nanotube â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Silicon Nanocomposite: a Viable Lithium-Ion Battery System. Nanoscale. 7 3504-3510. PMID: 25628146.

Esteban-Vives, R., Young, M., Over, P., Schmelzer, E., Corcos, A., Ziembicki, J., Gerlach, J. (2015). In vitro keratinocyte expansion for cell transplantation therapy is associated with differentiation and loss of basal layer derived progenitor population. Differentiation. 2015 Jun 30. pii:S0301-4681(15)00042-0. doi: 10.1016/j.diff.2015.05.002. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 26142155.

Fang, J., Ye, S.H., Wang, J., Zhao, T., Mo, X., Wagner, W.R. (2015). Thiol click modification of cyclic disulfide containing biodegradable polyurethane urea elastomers. Biomacromolecules 16:1622-33. PMID: 25891476.

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Finley J., Long A., Bastian A.J., and Torres-Oviedo, G. (Sep, 2015). Spatial and Temporal Contributions to Step Length Asymmetry: Applications to Split-Belt Adaptation and Hemiparetic Gait. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair.29 (8):786-95. PMID: 25589580.

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Zaidi, A.H., Saldin, L.T., Kelly, L.A., Bergal, L., Londono, R., Kosovec, J., Komatsu, Y., Kasi, P.M., Shetty, A.A., Keane, T.J., Thakkar, S.J., Landreneau, R.J., Badylak, S.F., Jobe, B.A. (2015). MicroRNA signature characterizes primary tumors that metastasize in an esophageal adenocarcinoma rat model. PLoS One. 10(3): pp1-18. PMID: 25826212. PMCID: PMC4380408.

Zhang, J., Peng, Z., Maberry, D., Volpe, J., Kimmel, J.D., Federspiel, W.J., Kellum, J.A. (2015). Effects of hemoadsorption with a novel adsorbent on sepsis: in vivo and in vitro study. Blood Purification.39:239-45.

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Zhang, S., Shao, P., Ling, X., Yang, L., Hou, W., Thorn, S.H., Beaino, W., Anderson, C.J., Ding, Y., Bai, M.

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Zhao, Y., Zhao, T., Krishnamurthy, N., Zheng, H., Harris, C., Handler, W., Lin, S., Chronik, B., Ibrahim, T.S. (2015). Dual Optimization Method of RF and Quasi-Static Field Simulations for Reduction of Eddy Currents Generated on 7T RF Coil Shielding. Magnetic Resonance In Medicine. Vol 74 (pp 1461-1469). PMID: 25367703.

Zhou, H., Liu, H., Ezzelarab, M., Schmelzer, E., Wang, Y., Gerlach, J., Gridelli, B., Cooper, D.K. (2015).

Experimental hepatocyte xenotransplantation-a comprehensive review of the literature. Xenotransplantation.

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Zhu, Y., Jiang, H., Ye, S.H., Yoshizumi, T., Wagner, W.R. (2015). Tailoring the degradation rates of thermally responsive hydrogels designed for soft tissue injection by varying the autocatalytic potential.

Biomaterials 53:484–93. PMID: 25890745.

Zimnik, A.J., Nora, G.J., Desmurget, M., Turner, R.S. (2015). Movement-related discharge in the macaque globus pallidus during high frequency stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus. J Neurosci. 35:3978-89.

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Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Acharya, A. P., Little, S.R. (2015) Stapled Endosome Disrupting Alginate Particles for Cytosolic Delivery of Cations. (Journal of Drug Targeting, invited manuscript for special edition, 23: 690-697 (2015).

Araujo-Pires, A.C., Vieira, A.E., Francisconi, C.F., Biguetti, C.C., Glowacki, A., Yoshizawa, S., Campanelli, A.P., Trombone, A.P., Sfeir, C.S., Little, S.R., Garlet G. P. IL-4/CCL22/CCR4 Axis Controls Regulatory TCell Migration That Suppresses Inflammatory Bone Loss in Murine Experimental Periodontitis. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, 30(3): 400-410 (2015).

Austin N., Johnson J.K. and Mpourmpakis G. Au13: CO Adsorbs, Nanoparticle Responds. Journal Physical Chemistry C, 119: 18196–18202 (2015).

Austin, N., Johnson, J.K., Mpourmpakis, G. Au13: CO Adsorbs, Nanoparticle Responds. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 119: 18196-18202 (2015).

Babatunde, B.A., Wu, Y. Ward W.A., Tapriyal, D., Gamwo, I., Baled, H., Enick, R.M., McHugh, M. HighTemperature, High-Pressure Volumetric Properties of Propane, Squalane, and Their Mixtures: Measurement and PC-SAFT Modeling. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry, 54(26): 6804-6811 (2015).

Bagusetty, A, Johnson, J.K., Choudhury, P., Gatto, E., Derksen, B. “Investigation of Anhydrous Proton Transport Mechanism on Functionalized Graphene”. AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November 8-13, 2015.

Balazs, A.C. “Designing “Materials that Compute”: Coupling self-oscillating gels and piezoelectric films”.

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, October 15, 2015.

Balazs, A.C. “Designing Dual-functionalized Gels for Self-reconfiguration and Autonomous Motion”. PPC 14, Kauai, Hawaii, December 8-14, 2015.

Balazs, A.C. “Designing Materials that Compute for Squishy Robots”. Program in Polymers and Soft Matter, MIT, Cambridge, MA, September 30, 2015.

Balazs, A.C. “Designing Materials that Compute”. Irvfest, Conference to Celebrate Irving Epstein’s 70th Birthday, Boston, MA, July 17, 2015.

Balazs, A.C. “Designing Mechanically Robust Polymer-grafted Nanoparticle Networks”. PPC14, Kauai, Hawaii, December 8-14, 2015.

Balazs, A.C. “Designing Self-regulating Microcapsules that Harness Chemical Energy to Undergo Bimimetic Collective Motion”. EFRC, Contractors Meeting, Washington, DC, October 25-27, 2015.

Balazs, A.C. “Designing Synthetic Materials that Undergo Autonomous Motion: From Amoeba-like Gels to Ant-like Microcapsules”. International Polymer Colloids Group (IPCG), University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA, June 28–July 3, 2015.

Balazs, A.C. “Designing Synthetic Materials that Undergo Autonomous Motion: From Amoeba-like Gels to Ant-like Microcapsules”. International Conference for Colloids and Interfaces, Amsterdam, June 24, 2015.

Balazs, A.C. “From pendulums to heart beats: inspirations for designing active, responsive materials”. NSF Distinguished Lecture in Mathematical and Physical Sciences, NSF, Arlington, VA, June 22, 2015.

Balazs, A.C. “Harnessing Biomimetic Catch Bonds to Create Mechanically Robust Nanoparticle Networks”.

ISCAN, Richmond, VA, October 27-29, 2015.

Balazs, A.C. “Modeling the entrainment of self-oscillating gels to an applied, periodically varying force”.

PacifiChem 2015, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 14-17, 2015.

Balazs, A.C. “Using Fins Embedded in Stimuli-responsive Gels to “Catch and Release” Targeted Biomolecules”. Polymers in Medicine and Biology, Santa Rosa, CA, September 14-17, 2015.

Balazs, A.C. “Using Mesoscale Modeling to Design Materials That Compute”. Industrial Physics Forum 62nd AVS International Symposium, San Jose, CA, Oct. 18-23, 2015.

Balazs, A.C. Symposium E: “Designing Mechanically Robust Core-Shell Composite Networks by Harnessing Biomimetic Bonding Interactions”. MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, November 29-December 4, 2015.

Balazs, A.C. Symposium J: “Modeling the Complex Dynamics of Oscillating Fins in Particle-filled Binary Fluids: Designing Systems to “Catch and Release” Targeted Nanoparticles in Microfluidic Devices”. MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, November 29-December 4, 2015.

Baled, H., Koronaios, P., Tapriyal, D., Gamwo, I., Bamgbade, B., Mallepally, R., Newkirk, M.S., McHugh, M.A., Enick, R.M. “HTHP Viscosity Measurements for the Binary System Cyclohexane + n-Hexadecane’.

AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November 8-13, 2015.

Balmert, S.C., Carey, C.D., Falo, L.D., Little, S.R. “Sustained Delivery of Treg-Inducing Factors to Skin Draining Lymph Nodes Suppresses Allergic Contact Dermatitis”. US-Japan Symposium on Drug Delivery Systems. Lahaina, HI, December 2015.

Balmert, S.C., Carey, C.D., Falo, L.D., Little, S.R. “Sustained Delivery of Treg-Inducing Factors to Skin Draining Lymph Nodes Suppresses Allergic Contact Dermatitis”. US-Japan Symposium on Drug Delivery Systems. Lahaina, HI, December 2015.

Balmert, S.C., Zmolek, A.C., Glowacki, A.J., Knab, T.D., Rothstein, S.N., Wokpetah, J.M., Fedorchak, M.V., Little, S.R. Positive Charge of “sticky” peptides and proteins impedes release from negatively charged PLGA matrices. Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 3: 4723-4734 (2015).

Bamgbade, B.A., Wu, Y., Burgess, W.A., Tapriyal, D., Gamwo, I.K., Baled, H.O., Enick, R.M., McHugh, M.A. Measurements and modeling of high-temperature, high-pressure density for binary mixtures of propane with n-decane and propane with n-eicosane. The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, 84: 108-117 (2015).

Banerjee, I. “Mechanistic Insights into signaling interactions controlling heterogeneity and fate choice of human embryonic stem cells”. AIChE Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, 2015.

Banerjee, I. “Systems analysis of self-renewal and early differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells”.

Foundations of Systems Biology in Engineering, Boston, MA, August 2015.

Basha, O.M., Weng, L., Men, Z., Li, Y., Zhang, C., Morsi, B.I. “CFD Modeling of the Local Hydrodynamics in a Pilot-Scale SBCR,” Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, October 5-8, 2015.

Basha, O.M., Sehabiague, L., Abdel-Wahab, A., Morsi, B.I. Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis in Slurry Bubble Column Reactors: Experimental Investigations and Modeling - A Review. International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering, 13(3): 201-288 (2015).

Basha, O.M., Weng, L., Men, Z., Li, Y., Zhang, C., Morsi, B.I. “CFD Modeling of the Local Hydrodynamics in a Pilot-Scale SBCR,” The 32nd Annual International PittsburghCoal Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, October 5-8, 2015.

Bayer, E., Fedorchak, M.V., Gottardi, R., Little, S.R. The Scope and Sequence of Growth Factor Delivery for Vascularized Bone Tissue Regeneration. Journal of Controlled Release, 219: 129-140 (2015).

Bayles, T. “Classroom/Laboratory Learning Experiences – Preparing Engineering Education Publications”.

Panelist, AIChE Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, November 10, 2015.

Beckman, E.J. “Building the Business”. Green Chemistry Summer School, Golden, CO, June 2015.

Beckman, E.J. “Eco-Innovation”. Koch Foundation, Arlington, VA, September 2015.

Beckman, E.J. “Eliminating the Need for Problem Chemicals through Innovation”. Six Classes Reduction Retreat, Santa Cruz, CA, June 2015.

Beckman, E.J. “Entrepreneurship and Innovation”. Green Chemistry Summer School, Golden, CO, June 2015.

Beckman, E.J. “The Cohera Medical Story”. ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA; August 2015.

Bhavsar, S., More, A., Veser, G. “FeNi Bimetallic Carriers in Chemical Looping Combustion”, 250th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, Aug. 16, 2015.

Bonifacio, C.S., Carenco, S., Wu, C.H., House, S.D., Bluhm H., Yang, J.C. “Thermal stability study of coreshell nanoparticles: A combined in situ study by XPS and TEM”, Chemistry of Materials 2015, 27(20), 69606968 (2015). [8.354] Bonifacio, C.S., Shan, J., Tao, F., Yang, J.C. “Atomic-scale characterization of Restructured PtCu Nanocubes”. Microscopy and Microanalysis, 21(Suppl 3), 1067-1068, 2015.

Bonifacio, C.S., Xin, H.L., Carenco, S., Salmeron, M., Stach E.A., Yang, J.C. “In situ studies of the reactiondriven restructuring of Ni-Co core-shell nanoparticles”. Microscopy and Microanalysis, 21(Suppl 3), 637-638, 2015.

Bonifacio, C.S., Zhu, Q., Su, D., Vila, F., Ayoola, H., House, S.D., Kas, J., Rehr, J.J., Stach, E.A., Saidi, W.A., Yang, J.C. “Investigation of the structural and electronic properties of Pt/ γ-Al2O3, a model catalyst system”. Microscopy and Microanalysis, 21(Suppl 3), 1655-1656, 2015.

Cai, Z., Kwak, D.H., Punihaole, D., Hong, Z., Velankar, S.S., Liu, X., Asher, S.A. A photonic crystal hydrogel sensor for Candida Albicans. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 53: 13036-13040 (2015).

Chatterjee, S., McDonald, C.L., Niu, J., Velankar, S.S., Wang, P., Huang, R. Wrinkling and folding of thin films by viscous stress. Soft Matter, 11: 1814-1827 (2015).

Chatterjee, S., Velankar, S.S. SMA-elastomer composites for reversibly-morphing surfaces. Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, 26: 324-339 (2015).

Christiansen M.A., Mpourmpakis G. and Vlachos D.G. DFT-driven Multi-Site Microkinetic Modeling of Ethanol Conversion to Ethylene and Diethyl Ether on γ-Al2O3 (111). Journal of Catalysis, 323: 121-131 (2015).

Crooks, A.B., Yih, K.H., Li, L., Yang, J.C., Özkar, S., Finke, R.G. Unintuitive Inverse Dependence of the Apparent Turnover Frequency on Precatalyst Concentration: A Quantitative Explanation in the Case of Ziegler-Type Nanoparticle Catalysts Made from [(1,5-COD)Ir(mu-O2C8H15)](2) and AlEt3. ACS Catalysis, 5(6): 3342-3353 (2015).

Dhuwe, A., Enick, R.M., Lee, J.J., Beckman, E.J., Perry, R.J., Doherty, M., O'Brien, M. “Thickeners for NGLs to Improve Performance of Gas Miscible EOR and Dry Fracking”. AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November 8-13, 2015.

Domenech, T.E., Velankar, S.S. On the rheology of pendular gels and morphological development in pastelike ternary systems based on capillary attraction. Soft Matter, 11:1500-1516 (2015).

Enick, R.M. “CO2 Miscible and Immiscible Displacement in the US, The Problems, the Promise and the Lessons Learned for Others”. OMICS International Conference and Expo on Oil & Gas, Dubai, UAE, November 16-18, 2015.

Enick, R.M. “Novel Surfactants for Mobility and Conformance Control CO2 Foams”. OMICS International Conference and Expo on Oil & Gas, Dubai, UAE, November 16-18, 2015.

Enick, R.M. “Thickeners for CO2 EOR and Hydraulic Fracturing”. IGERT Energy for the 21st Century Seminar, Rochester University, May 1, 2015.

Enick, R.M., Baled, H., Koronaios, P., Miles, R., Gamwo, I., Tapriyal, D., Burgess, W., McHugh, M., Bamgbade, B., Wu, Y., Perry, R., Doherty, M., O’Brien, M. “Viscosity Study of Hydrocarbon Liquids at Extreme Conditions”. 19thSymposium on Thermophysical Properties, sponsored by NIST and the Joint ASMEAIChE Committee on Thermophysical Properties in Boulder Colorado, June 26, 2015.

Ewing, C., Hartmann, M., Lambrecht, D., Veser, G., McCarthy, J., Johnson, J.K. “Catalyst/Support Interactions Between Pt Nanoparticles and Amorphous Silica Using Density Functional Theory”, 24th Meeting of the North American Catalysis Society (NAM24), Pittsburgh, PA, June 14-18 2015 Ewing, C., Johnson, J.K., Veser, G., McCarthy, J.J., Lambrecht, D. “Predicting Stability and Charge of Metal Nanoparticles Supported on Amorphous Silica”, 2015 AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, Nov. 8-13, 2015

Ewing, C.S., Hartmann, M, J., Martin, K.R., Musto, A.M., Padinjarekutt, S.J., Weiss, E.M., Veser, G., McCarthy, J.J., Johnson, J.K., Lambrecht, D.S. Structural and Electronic Properties of Pt13 Nanoclusters on Amorphous Silica Supports. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 119: 2503–2512 (2015).

Ewing, C.S., Hartmann, M.J., Martin, K.R., Musto, A.M., Padinjarekutt, S.J., Weiss, E.M., Veser, G., McCarthy, J.J., Johnson, J.K., Lambrecht, D.S. Structural and Electronic Properties of Pt13 Nanoclusters on Amorphous Silica Supports. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 119: 2503–2512 (2015).

Ewing, C.S., Hartmann, M.K., Martin, K.R., Musto, A.M., Padinjarekutt, S.J., Weiss, E.M., Veser, G., McCarthy, J.J., Johnson, J.K., Lambrecht, D.J. Structural and Electronic Properties of Pt13 Nanoclusters on Amorphous Silica Supports. Journal Physical Chemistry C, 119: 2503–2512 (2015).

Ewing, C.S., Johnson, J.K., Veser, G., McCarthy, J.J., Lambrecht, D.S. “Predicting Stability and Charge of Metal Nanoparticles Supported on Amorphous Silica”. AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November 8-13, 2015.

Ewing, C.S., Johnson, J.K., Veser, G., McCarthy, J.J., Lambrecht, D.S. “Predicting Stability and Charge of Metal Nanoparticles Supported on Amorphous Silica”. AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November 8-13, 2015.

Ewing, C.S., Veser, G., McCarthy, J.J., Johnson, J.K., Lambrecht, D.S. Effect of Support Preparation and Nanoparticle Size on Catalyst-Support Interactions between Pt and Amorphous Silica. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 119: 19935-19940 (2015).

Ewing, C.S., Veser, G., McCarthy, J.J., Johnson, J.K., Lambrecht, D.S. Effect of Support Preparation and Nanoparticle Size on CatalystSupport Inter- actions between Pt and Amorphous Silica. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 150813083753000 (2015).

Ewing, C.S., Veser, G., McCarthy, J.J., Johnson, J.K., Lambrecht, D.S. Effect of Support Preparation and Nanoparticle Size on Catalyst–Support Interactions between Pt and Amorphous Silica. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 119: 19934-19940 (2015).

Ewing, M. Hartmann, D.S. Lambrecht, Veser, G., Johnson, J.K. “Significance of Catalyst/Support Interactions for Pt Nanoparticles on Amorphous Silica Supports Using Density Functional Theory”, Proc.

NAM24 (2015) Fan, Y., Tajima, A., Goh, S.K., Geng, X., Gualtierottu, G., Grpillo, M., Coppola, A., Bertera, S., Rudert, W.A., Banerjee, I., Bottino, R., Trucco, M. Bioengineering thymus organoids to restore thymic function and induce donor-specific immune tolerance to allografts. Molecular Therapy, 23: 262 (2015).

Fisher, J. D., Acharya, A.P., Little, S.R. Micro and nanoparticle drug delivery systems for preventing allotransplant rejections. Clinical Immunology, 160: 24-35 (2015).

Fukuyama, S., Katsura, H., Zhao, D., Ozawa, M., Ando, T., Shoemaker, J. E., Ishikawa, I., Yamada, S., Neumann, G., Watanabe, S., Kitano, H., Kawaoka, Y. Color-flu: multi-spectral fluorescent reporter influenza viruses as powerful tools for in vivo studies. Nature Communications, 6:1–8 (2015).

Fullerton Shirey, S.K. “Field-controlled ion gating of two-dimensional crystals for logic and memory".

University of Pittsburgh - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, November 4, 2015.

Fullerton Shirey, S.K. “Ion gating of 2D materials for logic and memory". Carnegie Mellon University - 2D Materials Center, September 16, 2015.

Fullerton-Shirey, S.K. “Engineering ion-electron transport for low-power, two-dimensional electronics".

University of California Riverside - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 11, 2015.

Fullerton-Shirey, S.K. “Engineering the interplay between ion and electron transport for low-power transistors and memory". Annual AIChE Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November 2015.

Glowacki, A.J., Gottardi, R., Yoshizawa, S. A., Cavalla, F., Garlet, G.P., Sfeir, C.S., Little, S.R., Strategies to direct the enrichment, expansion, and recruitment of regulatory cells for the treatment of disease. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 43(3):593-602 (2015).

Goh, S.K., Bertera, S., Candiello, J., Banerjee, I. “Re-engineering the 3D Pancreatic Niche: Co-culturing differentiating human embryonic stem cells with endothelial cells in decellularized pancreatic scaffold”.

BMES, 2015.

Gong, X., Kozbial, A., Li, L. What causes extended layering of ionic liquids on the mica surface? Chemical Science, 6: 3478-3482 (2015).

Gong, X., Kozbial, A., Rose, F., Li, L. Effect of π–π+ Stacking on the Layering of Ionic Liquids Confined to an Amorphous Carbon Surface. ACS Applied Material Interfaces, 7(13): 7078-7081 (2015).

Gong, X., Li, L. “Understanding the effect of the adsorbed water on the mica surface on extended layering of ionic liquids”. AICHE annual meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, 2015.

Gong, X., Vahdat. V, Frankert, S., Anderson, E.; Chen S., Hsia, Y., Li, L. Study on the interaction between talc and perfluoropolyethers under tribology contact. Tribology Transactions, 58(4), 679-685 (2015).

Gottardi, R., Bianconi, P.A., Manner, P.G. Alexander, R.S. Tuan, R.S., Little, S.R. “Prevention of Articular Cartilage Calcification by Controlled Release of Dorsomorphin”. Penn Orthopaedics 2015 Cartilage Repair Symposium, Philadelphia, PA, May 2015.

Gottardi, R., Bianconi, P.A., Manner, P.G. Alexander, R.S. Tuan, R.S., Little, S.R. “Prevention of Articular Cartilage Calcification by Controlled Release of Dorsomorphin”. Penn Orthopaedics 2015 Cartilage Repair Symposium, Philadelphia, PA, May 2015.

Gottlieb, E., Keith, J. “Nitro- S gen Enriched Nanocarbons as a Metal-Free Water Reducing Catalysts”. 24th North American Catalysis Society Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, June 19, 2015.

Grice, K.A., Groenenboom, M.C., Manuel, J.D.A., Sovereign, M.A., Keith, J.A. Examining the Selectivity of Borohydride for Carbon Dioxide and Bicarbonate Reduction in Protic Conditions. Fuel 150: 139–145 (2015).

Groenenboom, M.C., Keith, J. “Aqueous phase CO2 reduction with sodium borohydride: An ab initio molecular dynamics and nudged-elastic band mechanistic study” Science2015 hosted by the Pittsburgh Quantum Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, October 8, 2015.

Groenenboom, M.C., Keith, J. “Aqueous phase S CO2 reduction with sodium borohydride: An ab initio molecular dynamics and nudged-elastic band mechanistic study”. Catalysis in Energy Group Poster Fair, Pittsburgh, PA, August 11, 2015.

Groenenboom, M.C., Keith, J. “Unraveling the Electrochemical Reactivities of Aromatic N-Heterocycles with Quantum Chemistry”. 24th North American Catalysis Society Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, June 17, 2015.

Guaragno, M., Glowacki, A., Fedorchack, M., Polat, J., Acharaya, A., Little, S.R. “Drug Delivery of a Chemokine to Recruit Endogenous Regulatory T-Cells (Tregs) in a Model of Dry Eye Disease”. US-Japan Symposium on Drug Delivery Systems, Lahaina, HI, December 2015.

Guaragno, M., Glowacki, A., Fedorchack, M., Polat, J., Acharaya, A., Little, S.R. Drug Delivery of a Chemokine to Recruit Endogenous Regulatory T-Cells (Tregs) in a Model of Dry Eye Disease. US-Japan Symposium on Drug Delivery Systems, Lahaina, HI, December 2015.

Guaragno, M., Gottardi, R., Fedorchak, M.V., Roy, A., Kumta, P.N., Little, S.R. One-Step Synthesis of Fluorescently Labeled Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes. Chemical Communications, 51: 17233-17236 (2015).

House, S.D., Li, L., Schamp, C.T., Henry, R., Su, D., Stach, E., Yang, J.C. “Development of Quantitative STEM for a Conventional S/TEM and Real-Time Current Calibration for Performing QSTEM with a Cold Field-Emission Gun”. Microscopy and Microanalysis, 21(Suppl 3), 2127-2128, 2015.

Iyer, B.V.S. Yashin, V.V., Balazs, A.C. Harnessing Biomimetic Catch Bonds to Create Mechanically Robust Nanoparticle Networks. Polymer, 69: 310–320 (2015).

Iyer, B.V.S., Hamer, M.J., Yashin, V.V., Kowalewski, T., Matyjaszewski, K., Balazs, A.C., Ductility, toughness and strain recovery in self-healing dual cross-linked nanoparticle networks studied by computer simulations. Progress in Polymer Science, 40: 121-137 (2015).

Jaramillo, M., Mathew, S., Mamiya, H., Goh, S.K., Banerjee, I. Endothelial Cells mediate Islet-specific Maturation of Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Pancreatic Progenitor Cells. Tissue Engineering, Part A, 21: 14 (2015).

Jaramillo, M., Singh, S.S., Velankar, S., Kumta, P.N., Banerjee, I.; Inducing endoderm differentiation by modulating mechanical properties of soft substrates. Journals of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, 9(1): 1-12 (2015).

Jaramillo, M., Singh, S.S., Velankar, S., Kumta, P.N., Banerjee, I.; Inducing endoderm differentiation by modulating mechanical properties of soft substrates. Journals of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, 9(1): 1-12 (2015).

Johnson, J.K. “First-Principles Modeling of Carbon Dioxide Capture and Conversion in Metal Organic Frameworks”, Adsorption and Ion Exchange Plenary I: Honorary Session for Alexander Neimark, AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT 8-13 November 2015. Invited by Matthias Thommes, Quantachrome Johnson, J.K. “Hybrid Porous Materials for CO2 Reduction”, Keynote lecturer in the 7th International Workshop “Characterization of Porous Materials: from Angstroms to Millimeters” (CPM-7), Delray Beach Florida, May 3-6, 2015. Invited by Alex Neimark, Rutgers University Josowitz, J., Krawiec, M., Fedorchak, M.V., D’Amore, A., Weinbaum, J., Rubin, J., Wagner, W., Little, S.R. Vorp, D.; “Characterizing The Seeding Distribution of Microspheres in Tissue Engineered Vascular Grafts”.

Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting, Tampa, FL, October, 2015.

Josowitz, J., Krawiec, M., Fedorchak, M.V., D’Amore, A., Weinbaum, J., Rubin, J., Wagner, W., Little, S.R., Vorp, D. “Characterizing The Seeding Distribution of Microspheres in Tissue Engineered Vascular Grafts”.

Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting, Tampa, FL, October, 2015.

Keith, J. “Calculating pKas and Redox Potentials”. 250th ACS National Meeting, COMP division session, Boston, MA, August 18, 2015.

Keith, J. “Coincidences and Insights into Molecular Heterocycles That Catalyze CO2 Reduction with Low Over-potentials”. 15th Annual AIChE Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November 8, 2015.

Keith, J. “Liquid Mixtures Freezing at Room Temperature: More Insights into Crystallization and Applications of Poly (trimethylene glycol)/Water Mixtures”. Annual AIChE, Salt Lake City, UT, November 11, 2015.

Keith, J. “New Perspectives on Aqueous Phase Reaction Mechanisms with Ab Initio Molecular dynamics, Nudged-Elastic Band, and Wavefunction Theory-in-DFT Embedding” 15th Annual AIChE Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November 9, 2015.

Keith, J.A., Koronaios, P., Saravanan, K., Morganstein, B., Velankar, S., Enick, R.M. “Liquid Mixtures Freezing at Room Temperature: More Insights into Crystallization and Applications of Poly (trimethylene glycol)/water mixtures”. AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November 8-13, 2015.

Khan, A.A., Fullerton-Shirey, S.K., Howard, S.S. Easily prepared ruthenium-complex nanomicelle probes for two-photon quantitative imaging of oxygen in aqueous media. RCS Advances 5(1): 291-300 (2015).

Klinzing, G. “Workshop on Solids Processing for the Young Professional’s Form (YPF)”. AICHE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November, 2015.

Klinzing, G. Chapter 14, “Solids Transport and Handling,” of Production, Handling and Characterization of Particulate Materials. Editor, Merkus and Meesters, Springer (2015).

Klinzing, G. Invited Presentation, AICHE Session Honoring Professor John Chen, Salt Lake City, UT, November 2015.

Klinzing, G. Keynote address, ChoPS, Tel Aviv, Israel, May 2015.

Knab, T. D., Little, S.R., Parker, R.S. (2015) Mathematical model of accelerated degradation and drug release from polymeric microspheres in the presence of reactive oxygen species. (Journal of Controlled Release, 211: 78-84).

Knab, T.D., Clermont, G., Parker, R.S. “Glucose Control in the Intensive Care Unit: Controller Design and Alarm Layer Performance Evaluation in silico," AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November 2015.

Knab, T.D., Clermont, G., Parker, R.S. “The Importance of Multiple Sensors in Continuous Glucose Monitoring," Diabetes Technology Meeting, Bethesda, MD. October 2015.

Knab, T.D., Clermont, G., Parker, R.S. “Zone Model Predictive Control and Moving Horizon Estimation for the Regulation of Blood Glucose in Critical Care Patients." Proc. ADCHEM 2015, Whistler, BC, June 2015.

Knab, T.D., Little, S.R., Parker, R.S. A Systems Approach to Modeling Drug Release from Polymer Microspheres to Accelerate in vitro to in vivo Translation. Journal of Controlled Release, 211: 74-84 (2015).

Kostetskyy P. and Mpourmpakis G. Structure-activity relationships in the production of olefins from alcohols and ethers: A first-principles theoretical study. Catalysis Science & Technology, 5: 4547 – 4555 (2015).

Kostetskyy P., Maheswari J.P., Mpourmpakis G. Understanding the importance of carbenium ions in the conversion of biomass-derived alcohols with first principles calculations. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 119: 16139–16147 (2015).

Kozbial, A., Gong, X., Liu H., Li, L. Understanding the intrinsic water wettability of molybdenum disulfide (MoS2). Langmuir, 31(30): 8429-8435 (2015).

Kozbial, A., Li, L. “Understanding the surface energy and wettability of HOPG and MoS2”. APS Mid-Atlantic Section meeting, Morgantown, VA, 2015.

Kozbial, A., Li, L. “Understanding the surface energy and wettability of HOPG and MoS2”. 2015 (APS) Graduate Student Physics Conference, Oaxaca, Mexico, 2015.

Kozbial, A., Li, L. “Understanding the surface energy and wettability of graphite and MoS2”. ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium, Pittsburgh, PA, 2015.

Kuksenok, O., Balazs, A.C. Designing Dual-functionalized Gels for Self-reconfiguration and Autonomous Motion. Scientific Reports, 5: 9569 (2015).

Kulkarni, A., Lele, A.K., Sivaram, S., Rajamohan, P.R., Velankar, S.S., Chatterji, A. Star-telechelic poly (llactide) ionomers. Macromolecules, 48: 6580-6588 (2015).

Lai, Y., Rutigliano, M.N., Veser, G. Controlled Embedding of Metal Oxide Nanoparticles in ZSM-5 Zeolites through Pre-encapsulation and Timed Release. Langmuir 31: 10562-10572 (2015).

Lai, Y., Veser, G. “Fe-HZSM5 Catalysts for Methane Upgrading”, Proc. NAM24 (2015) Lai, Y., Veser, G. “Fe-HZSM5 Catalysts for Methane Upgrading”, 24th Meeting of the North American Catalysis Society (NAM24), Pittsburgh, PA, June 14-18 2015 Lash, M.H., Blevins, L., Jordan, J., Fedorchak, M.V., Little, S.R., McCarthy, J.J. Non-Brownian Particlebased Materials with Microscale and Nanoscale Hierarchy. Angewandte Chemie, 54(20): 5854-5858 (2015).

Lash, M.H., Fedorchak, M.V., Little, S.R., McCarthy, J.J. Fabrication and characterization of non-Brownian particle-based crystals. Langmuir, 31(3): 898-905 (2015).

Lash, M.H., Fedorchak, M.V., Little, S.R., McCarthy, J.J. Fabrication and Characterization of NonBrownian Particle-Based Crystals. Langmuir, 31: 898–904 (2015).

Lash, M.H., Fedorchak, M.V., McCarthy, J.J., Little, S.R. Scaling up self-assembly: bottom-up approaches to macroscopic particle organization. Soft Matter, 11: 5597-5609 (2015).

Lash, M.H., Fedorchak, M.V., McCarthy, J.J., Little, S.R. Scaling up self- assembly: Bottom-up approaches to macroscopic particle organization. Soft Matter 11.28: 5597–5609 (2015).

Lash, M.H., Jordan, J.C., Blevins, L.C., Fedorchak, M.V., Little, S.R., McCarthy, J.J. Non-Brownian Particle-Based Materials with Microscale and Nanoscale Hierarchy. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 54: 5854–5858 (2015).

LaSota, N.A., Parker, R.S., Bodnar, C. “Preparing Students for the Complexity of the Systems Medicine Field through a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)." ASEE Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, June 2015.

Lee, J.J., Dhuwe, A., Cummings, S., Doherty, M., O'Brien, M., Beckman, E.J., Perry, R.J., Enick, R.M. “Low Molecular Weight CO2 Thickener Design for EOR”. AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November 8-13, 2015.

Leonhard, A.C., Parker, R.S., Clermont, G. “A Mathematical Model of Heparin-InducedThrombocytopenia."

AIChE Annual Meeting National Student Poster Competition, Salt Lake City, UT, November, 2015.

Li, J., Shklyaev, O., Li, T., Liu, W., Shum, H., Rozen, I., Balazs, A.C., Wang, J. Self-Propelled Nanomotors Autonomously Seek and Repair Cracks. Nano Letters, 15: 7077-7085 (2015).

Li, L. “Understanding the intrinsic water wettability of graphitic surfaces”, Qingdao University of Science & Technology, Qingdao, China, July, 2015

Little, S.R. "Methods for Incentivizing Faculty In Today's Chemical Engineering Department". Council for Chemical Research Annual Meeting, May 4th, 2015. Alexandria, VA. Little, S.R. “Medicine That Imitates Life Through Biomimetic Controlled Release”. Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, October 6, 2015.

Little, S.R. “Medicine That Imitates Life Through Biomimetic Controlled Release”. Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation Young Investigator Award Symposium, National Academies, Irvine, CA, August 8, 2015.

Little, S.R. “Medicine That Imitates Life Through Biomimetic Controlled Release”. Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences Annual Retreat, Ogelbay Resort, Wheeling, WV, June 1, 2015.

Little, S.R. “Recruitment of Regulatory Lymphocytes for Periodontitis”. Penn Periodontal Conference, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, July 1, 2015.

Liu, S., McCarthy, J.J. “Validating Segregation Rate Models”. AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, 2015.

Liu, X., Bonifacio, C., Yang, J.C., Ercius, P., Gleeson, B. Effect of environmental sulfur on the structure of alumina scales formed on Ni-base alloys. Acta Materialia, 97:41-49 (2015).

Liu, Y., McFarlin, G., Yong, X., Kuksenok, O., Balazs, A.C. Designing Composite Coatings That Provide a “Dual-defense” Against Fouling. Langmuir, 31: 7524–7532 (2015).

Liu, Y., Yong, X., McFarlin, G., Kuksenok, O., Aizenberg, J., Balazs, A.C. Designing a Gel-Fiber Composite to Extract Nanoparticles from Solution. Soft Matter, 11: 8692-8700 (2015).

Locke, L.W., Myerburg, M.M., Weiner, D.J., Markovetz, M.R., Parker, R.S., Muthukrishnan, A., Weber, L., Czachowski, M.R., Lacy, R.T., Pilewski, J.M., Corcoran, T.E. “Psuedomonas Infection and Mucociliary and Absorptive Clearance in the Cystic Fibrosis Lung.” European Respiratory J. 47 (5), 1392-1401, 2016. doi: 10.1183/13993003.01880-2015.

Lopes, T. J. S., Shoemaker, J. E., Matsuoka, Y., Kawaoka, Y., Kitano, H. Identifying problematic drugs based on the characteristics of their targets. Frontiers in Pharmacology, 6 (2015).

Lotz, N.W., Markovetz, M.R., Corcoran, T., Parker, R.S. “A Cell-Scale Model of Pulmonary Epithelial Transport Dynamics in Cystic Fibrosis." AIChE Annual Meeting National Student Poster Competition, Salt Lake City, UT, November 2015. (Second Place, Food, Pharmaceuticals, and Biotechnology Category) Lu, H., Kwak, I., Park, J.H., Oneill, K., Furuyama, T., Kobayashi, N., Seabaugh, A., Kummel, A., FullertonShirey, S.K. Soultion-cast monolayers of cobalt crown ether phthaocyanine on highly ordered pyrolytic graphite. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 119(38): 21992-22000 (2015).

Luo, L.L., Kang, Y.H., Yang, J.C., Zhou, G.W. Nucleation and growth of oxide islands during the initialstage oxidation of (100) Cu-Pt alloys. Journal of Applied Physics, 117: 065305 (2015).

Mahoney, S., Najera, M., Bai, Q., Burton, E., Veser, G. “Structure-Toxicity Correlations for Complex Engineered Ni/SiO2 Nanomaterials using High-Throughout Zebrafish Assays”, 29th Annual Meeting of the Allegheny-Erie Society of Toxicology Regional Chapter, Morgantown, WV, June 3-4, 2015 Mahoney, S., Najera, M., Bai, Q., Burton, E., Veser, G. “Structure-Toxicity Correlations for Ni/SiO2 Complex Engineered Nanomaterials Using High-Throughput Zebrafish Assays”, 2015 AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, Nov. 8-13, 2015

Marbella L.E., Chevrier D.M., Tancini P.D., Shobayo O., Smith A.M., Johnston K.A., Andolina C.M., Zhang P., Mpourmpakis, G., Millstone J.E. Description and Role of Bimetallic Pre-nucleation Species in the Formation of Small Nanoparticle Alloys. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 137: 15852–15858 (2015).

Marjolin, A., Keith, J.A. Thermodynamic Descriptors for Molecules That Catalyze Efficient CO2 Electroreductions. ACS Catalysis, 150: 1123–1130 (2015).

Markovetz, M.R., Brown, S. Myerburg, M.M. Pilewski, J.M., Bertrand, C.A., Corcoran, T.E., Parker, R.S., "A Validated Model of Volume Response in Human Bronchial Epithelial (HBE) Cells With and Without Cystic Fibrosis". FOSBE 2015, Boston, MA. August, 2015.

Markovetz, M.R., Brown, S. Myerburg, M.M. Pilewski, J.M., Bertrand, C.A., Corcoran, T.E., Parker, R.S. “A Mechanistic Description of the Di_erence in ASL Volume Regulation Between CF and Non-CF Bronchial Epithelia." Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Research Conference: Pushing the Frontiers, Chantilly, VA. June 2015.

Massensini, A.R., Ghuman, H., Saldin, L.T., Medberry, C.J.,Keane, T.J., F.J. Nicholls, Velankar, S.S., Badylak, S.F., Modo, M.M. Concentration-dependent rheological properties of ECM hydrogel for intracerebral delivery to a stroke cavity. Acta Biomaterialia, 26: 116-130 (2015).

Mathew, S., Mamiya, H., Banerjee, I. “Mechanistic Insights into Early Endoderm Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells”. Summer Q-bio Annual Workshop, Santa-Fe, NM, 2015.

Mathew, S., Sundararaj, S., Banerjee I. Network analysis identifies crosstalk interactions governing TGF-b signaling dynamics during endoderm differentiation of human embryonic stem cells. MDPI Processes, 3: 286308 (2015).

McCarthy, J.J. “Micro-Modeling of Filtration Systems”, Lubrizol Corporation, August 2015 Whittecliff, OH McCarthy, J.J. “Scale-Up of Segregation Processes”, International Fine Particle Research Institute Annual General Meeting, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, June 2015.

Meade, J., Bartlow, P., Trivedi, R.N., Akhtar, P , Ataai, M.M., Khan, S.A., Domach, M.M. Effect of plasmid replication deregulation via inc mutations on E. coli proteome & simple flux model analysis, . Microbial Cell Factories, 14: 31-44 (2015).

More, A., Bhavsar, S., Veser, G. “FeNi Bimetallic Carriers in Chemical Looping Processes”, ACS Fuel Chemistry Preprints 60 (2) (2015).

More, A., Veser, G. “Production of Inherently Separated Syngas Streams Via Chemical Looping”, 2015 AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, Nov. 8-13, 2015 More, A., Veser, G. “Syngas Generation via Chemical Looping Dry Reforming”, Proc. NAM24 (2015) More, A., Veser, G. “Syngas Generation Via Chemical Looping Dry Reforming”, 24th Meeting of the North American Catalysis Society (NAM24), Pittsburgh, PA, June 14-18 2015 More, A., Veser, G. “Syngas Generation Via Chemical Looping Dry Reforming”, 2015 International Pittsburgh Coal Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, October 5 – 8, 2015 Morsi, B.I. “Fischer-Tropsch Slurry Technology at RAPEL,” Presented at the NationalInstitute of Energy Research (NIER), University of Newcastle, Australia, May 14, 2015.

Morsi, B.I. “Producing Environmentally-Benign Liquid Fuels from Coal and Natural Gas,” Presented (Plenary) at the International Energy Raw Materials and Energy Summit (INERMA), Istanbul, Turkey 1-3, October, 2015.

Morsi, B.I., Basha, O.M. "Book Chapter: Mass Transfer in Multiphase Systems," Mass Transfer, ISBN 978953-51-4316-1, InTech Publishing, (2015).

Mpourmpakis, G. "Adsorbate interactions with metal Nanoparticles" NAM24, Pittsburgh PA, USA, June 14 – 19, 2015 Mpourmpakis, G. "Structure-Activity Relationships in Alcohol Dehydration on Metal-Oxides" NAM24, Pittsburgh PA, USA, June 14 – 19, 2015 Mpourmpakis, G. “Advancing Catalyst Design: Adsorption Models Accounting for Nanoparticle Size, Shape, and Chemical Environment” Mpourmpakis, G. “Formation Pathways of Pre-Nucleation Species in AuCu Bimetallic Nanoparticle Growth: A First Principles Study” 2015 Mpourmpakis, G. “Generalized Dehydration Trends: Connecting Brønsted- with Lewis- Acid Catalysis” 2015 Mpourmpakis, G. “Inhibition of Calcium Oxalate Monohydrate Crystallization Using Organic Acids” 2015 Mpourmpakis, G. “Kidney Stone Growth Modification: Insights from First Principles Calculations” 2015 Mpourmpakis, G. “Kidney Stone Growth Modification: Insights from First Principles”. 2015 Pittsburgh Simulators Meeting, Carnegie Mellon University, May 18, 2015 Mpourmpakis, G. “Structure-Activity Relationships in Alcohol Dehydration on Metal-Oxides” Mpourmpakis, G. “Understanding Adsorption at the Nanoscale” 2015 Pittsburgh Simulators Meeting, Carnegie Mellon University, May 18, 2015 Mpourmpakis, G. 2015 Lubrizol University Contacts Meeting, Brecksville OH, USA, August 26, 2015, “Viscosity Creep in Lubrizol Additives: Mechanistic Insights from First Principles Calculations” Mpourmpakis, G. Advancing Research through Computing Symposium, Pittsburgh PA, October 29, 2015 Mpourmpakis, G. AIChE 2015 National Meeting, Salt Lake City UT, USA, Nov.8 – Nov. 13, 2015 Nikbin N., Austin N., Vlachos D.G., Stamatakis M., Mpourmpakis G. “Catalysis at the Sub-Nanoscale: Complex CO Oxidation Chemistry on a Few Au Atoms”. Catalysis Science & Technology, 5: 134–141 (2015).

Ozer, M., Basha, O.M., Morsi, B.I. “Coal Agglomeration Processes for Clean Coal Technology: A Review,” Proceedings of the International Energy Raw Materials and Energy Summit (INERMA), Istanbul, Turkey, October 1-3, 2015.

Ozer, M., Basha, O.M., Morsi, B.I. “Coal Agglomeration Processes for Clean Coal Technology: A Review,” International Energy Raw Materials and Energy Summit (INERMA), Istanbul, Turkey, October 1-3, 2015.

Park, J.H., Kwak, I., Chagarov, E., Sardashti, K., Movva, H.C.P., Chou, H., Banerjee, S.K., Fathipour, S., Fullerton-Shirey, S.K., Seabaugh, A., Vishwanath, S., Xing, H.G., Choudhury, P., Kummel, A.C. “Monolayer Organic Films for Nucleation of ALD on Single Layer Graphene and TMD surfaces". 46th IEEE Semiconductor Interface Specialists Conference (SISC) Arlington, VA, December 2-5, 2015.

Park, J.H., Movva, H.C.P., Chagarov, E., Sardashti, K., Chou, H., Kwak, I., Hu, K.T., Fullerton-Shirey, S.K., Choudhury, P., Banerjee, S.K., Kummel, A.C. In situ observation of initial stage in dielectric growth and deposition of ultrahigh nucleation density dielectric on two-dimensional surfaces. Non Letters, 15(10): 66266633 (2015).

Parmelee, S. R.; Mazzacano, T. J.; Zhu, Y.; Mankad, N. P.; Keith, J. A. A Heterobimetallic Mechanism for CH Borylation Elucidated from Experimental and Computational Data. ACS Catalysis, 150: 3689–3699 (2015).

Pezzone, D., Krawiec, M., Josowitz, A., Fedorchak, M.V., D’Amore, A., Weinbaum, J., Wagner, W., Little, S.R., Vorp, D. “Seeding of Microspheres Into A Porous Tubular Scaffold As A Tissue Engineered Vascular Graft”. Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting, Tampa, FL, October, 2015.

Pezzone, D., Krawiec, M., Josowitz, A., Fedorchak, M.V., D’Amore, A., Weinbaum, J., Wagner, W., Little, S.R., Vorp, D. “Seeding of Microspheres Into A Porous Tubular Scaffold As A Tissue Engineered Vascular Graft”. Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting, Tampa, FL, October 2015.

Pritchard-Bell, A. Clermont, G., Parker, R.S. “Mathematical Modeling of the Counterregulatory Response Following Hypoglycemia". FOSBE 2015, Boston, MA. August, 2015.

Pritchard-Bell, A., Knab, T.D., Clermont, G., Parker, R.S. “A Mechanistic Model of Stress Hyperglycemia Evolution in the Intensive Care Unit". AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November 2015.

Richardson, T., Kumta, P.N., Banerjee, I. “The Effect of Alginate Capsule Composition on Pancreatic Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells”. AIChE Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, 2015 Ross, J.M., Bayles, T.M., Singer, J. E., The INSPIRES Curriculum. C. Sneider (Ed.), The Go-to Guide for Engineering Curricula Grades 9-12, Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, 2015, pp. 19-30 (2015).

Saravanan, K., Keith, J. “Exploring the non innocence of inorganic complex ligands in (photo) electrochemical CO2 reduction” 228th Electro Chemical Society meeting, Phoenix, AZ, October 11, 2015.

Saravanan, K., Keith, J. “Pourbaix Diagrams of Ruthenium Chromophores Under CO2 Reduction Conditions”. 24th North American Catalysis Society Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, June 17, 2015.

Seabaugh, A., Fathipour, S., Li, W., Lu, H., Park, J.-H., Kummel, A.C., Jena, D., Fullerton-Shirey, S.K., Fay, P. “Steep subthreshold swing tunnel FETs: GaN/InN/GaN and transistion metal dichalcogenide channels" International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), 2015.

Sehabiague, L., Basha, O.M., Shi, Z., Jia, H., Hong, Y., Weng, L., Men, Z., Cheng, Y., Liu, K., Morsi, B.I. Assessing the Performance of an Industrial SBCR for Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis: Experimental and Modeling.

AIChE Journal, 61(11): 3838-3857 (2015).

Shastri, A., He, X., McGregor, L., Liu, Y., Mujica, M., Vasquez, Y., Bhattacharya, A., Ma, Y., Aizenberg, M., Kuksenok, O., Balazs, A.C., Aizenberg, J. Chemo-mechanically Modulated Biomolecule "Catch and Release" with Aptamer-functionalized Reconfigurable Systems. Nature Chemistry, 7: 447–454 (2015).

Shoemaker, J. “Advances in Systems Immunology: Characterizing the host response induced by influenza virus infection” Joint CMU-Pitt Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology seminar series, October 2, 2015.

Shoemaker, J. “Detecting emergent properties in genomic data: Consolidating inflammatory response dynamics”, 6th Conference on Systems Biology of Mammalian Cells, Munich, Germany, 2015.

Shoemaker, J. “Detecting emergent properties in genomic data: Consolidating inflammatory response dynamics”. 6th Conference on Systems Biology of Mammalian Cells, Munich, Germany, 2015.

Shoemaker, J. “Sample imbalance and its role in understanding drug network characteristics”, AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, November 2015.

Shoemaker, J. “Sample imbalance and its role in understanding drug network characteristics”, AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015.

Shoemaker, J. E., Fukuyama, S., Eisfeld, A. J., Zhao, D., Kawakami, E., Sakabe, S., Maemura, T., Gorai, T., Katsura, H., Muramoto, Y., Watanabe, S., Watanabe, T., Fuji, K., Matsuoka, Y., Kitano, H., Kawaoka, Y. An Ultrasensitive Mechanism Regulates Influenza Virus-Induced Inflammation. PLoS Pathologens, 11: e1004856 (2015).

Shum, H., Yashin, V.V., Balazs, A.C. Self-assembly of Microcapsules Regulated via the Repressilator Signaling Network. Soft Matter, 11: 3542-3549 (2015).

Singh, S.S., Roy, A., Lee, B.E., Banerjee, I., Kumta, P.N. EC3T3-E1 proliferation and differentiation on biphasic mixtures of Mg substituted β-tricalcium phosphate and amorphous calcium phosphate. Materials Science and Engineering C, 45: 589-598 (2015).

Sullivan, W., Lash, M., McCarthy, J.J., Little, S.R. “Lubrication Collapse: A Novel Mechanism for MicroParticle Self-Assembly”. AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, 2015.

Taylor M.G., Austin N., Gounaris C., Mpourmpakis G. Catalyst Design Based on Morphology- and Environment-Dependent Adsorption on Metal Nanoparticles. ACS Catalysis, 5: 6296–6301 (2015).

Velankar, S. “Mixing and demixing in ternary particle-liquid-liquid mixtures”. 89th ACS Colloids & Surface Science Symposium, Pittsburgh PA, June 2015.

Velankar, S. “Mixing and demixing in ternary particle-liquid-liquid mixtures”. 87th Annual meeting of the Society of Rheology, Baltimore MD, October 2015.

Velankar, S. “Rheology of meniscus-bridged particulate suspensions”. 89th ACS Colloids & Surface Science Symposium, Pittsburgh PA, June 2015.

Velankar, S. “Winkling of thin films by viscous stress”. 87th Annual meeting of the Society of Rheology, Baltimore MD, October 2015.

Velankar, S. “Yield and flow of non-colloidal suspensions in a pendular state”. 87th Annual meeting of the Society of Rheology, Baltimore MD, October 2015.

Velankar, S.S. A non-equilibrium state diagram for liquid/fluid/particle mixtures. Soft Matter, 11: 8393-8403 (2015).

Veser, G. “Bimetallic Carriers in Chemical Looping Processes”, 8th Sino-US Chemical Engineering Congress, Shanghai, China, Oct. 15, 2015. (invited keynote) Wang, H.H., Gong, C., Wang, W., Fullerton-Shirey, S.K., Seabaugh, A., Cho, K. First-principles study of crown ether and crown either-li complex interactions with grapheme. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 119(34): 20016-20022 (2015).

Wang, Y., Dugan, M., Urbaniak B., Li, L. “A photochemical –processed simultaneously oleophobic/Hydrophilic polymer coating”. AICHE annual meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, 2015.

Wang, Y., Knapp, J., Legere, A., Raney, J., Li, L. Effect of end-groups on simultaneous oleophobicity/hydrophilicity and anti-fogging performance of nanometer-thick perfluoropolyethers (PFPEs).

RSC Advances, 5: 30570-30576 (2015).

Wilmer, C.E. “Solving Common Software Problems in Computational Labs”. FOMMS 2015, Portland, OR, July 2015.

Wilmer, C.E. “The Need for New Tools for Molecular Discovery”. SciPy 2015, Austin, Texas, July 2015.

Xu, H., Fathipour, S., Kinder, E.W., Seabaugh, A.C., Fullerton-Shirey, S.K. “Reconfigurable ion gating of 2H-MoTe2 field-effect transistors using poly (ethylene oxide)-CsCI04 soild polymer electrolyte. ACS Nano 9(5): 4900-4910 (2015).

Yang, J.C., Velankar, S. “Yield and flow of non-colloidal suspensions in a pendular state”, 89th ACS Colloids & Surface Science Symposium, Pittsburgh PA, June 2015.

Yang, J.C. “Structural complexity and dynamics of supported nanoparticles”, International workshop on materials behavior at the micro- and nano-scale, Xi’an, China, June 2, 2015.

Yang, J.C. “Overview and recent developments in in situ electron microscopy”. Shanghai University, Shanghai, China, June 8, 2015.

Yang, J.C. “Overview and recent developments in in situ electron microscopy”. Shanghai University, Shanghai, China, June 8, 2015.

Yang, J.C. “Part 1: Structural dynamics of surface reactions: oxidation; Part 2: Pitt-CMU diversity and outreach efforts”. RESOLV, Bochum, Germany, June 16-17, 2015.

Yang, J.C. “Recent developments in environmental transmission electron microscopy”. ICXOM23, Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY, September 16, 2015.

Yang, J.C. “Structural dynamics of surface reactions: oxidation and catalysis”. Laboratoire de Physique de Solides Université Paris Sud, Orsay, France, June 25, 2015.

Yang, J.C. “Structural dynamics of surface reactions: oxidation and heterogeneous catalysis”. Ernst-Ruska Institute, Juelich, Germany, June 22, 2015.

Yang, J.C. “Structural dynamics of surface reactions: oxidation and heterogeneous catalysis”. Max-PlanckInstitut fuer Eissenforschung, Dusseldorf, Germany, June 19, 2015.

Yang, J.C. “Structural dynamics of surface reactions: oxidation and heterogeneous catalysis”. Shanghai University, China, June 5, 2015.

Yang, J.C. “Structural dynamics of surface reactions: oxidation and catalysis”, Laboratoire de Physique de Solides Université Paris Sud, Orsay, France, June 25, 2015.

Yang, J.C. “Structural dynamics of surface reactions: oxidation and heterogeneous catalysis”. Ernst-Ruska Institute, Juelich, Germany, June 22, 2015.

Yang, J.C. “Structural dynamics of surface reactions: oxidation and heterogeneous catalysis”. Max-PlanckInstitut fuer Eissenforschung, Dusseldorf, Germany, June 19, 2015.

Yang, J.C. “Structural dynamics of surface reactions: oxidation and heterogeneous catalysis”. Shanghai University, China, June 5, 2015.

Yang, J.C. “Surface kinetics of the initial stages of Cu oxidation”, MPM1 and KHK8, Hangzhou, China, May 29, 2015.

Yang, J.C. DOE BES Catalysis Science Contractor’s meeting, July 21 2015.

Yashin, V.V., Kolmakov, G.V., Shum, H., Balazs, A.C. Designing Synthetic Microcapsules that Undergo Biomimetic Communication and Autonomous Motion, Langmuir, 31: 11951-11963 (2015).

Yashin, V.V., Levitan, S.P., Balazs, A.C. Achieving synchronization with active hybrid materials: Coupling self-oscillating gels and piezoelectric films. Scientific Reports, 5: 11577 (2015).

Yashin, V.V., Levitan, S.P., Balazs, A.C. Modeling the Entrainment of Self-oscillating Gels to Periodic Mechanical Deformation. Chaos, 25: 064302 (2015).

Ye, J., Johnson, J.K. “Design of Functionalized Metal Organic Frameworks for CO2 Hydrogenation”. AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November 8-13, 2015.

Ye, J., Johnson, J.K. Design of Lewis Pair-Functionalized Metal Organic Frameworks for CO2 Hydrogenation. ACS Catalysis, 5: 2921–2928 (2015).

Ye, J., Johnson, J.K. Screening Lewis Pair Moieties for Catalytic Hydrogenation of CO2 in Functionalized UiO-66. ACS Catalysis, 5: 6219–6229 (2015).

Yong, X., Crabb, E.J., Moellers, N.M., Salib, I., McFarlin IV, G.T., Kuksenok, O., Balazs, A.C. “Harnessing Self-healing Vesicles to Pick up, Transport and Drop off Janus Particles”, Self-Assembly: From Surfactants to Nanoparticles, Ramanathan Nagarajan, Ed., Wiley, (2015).

Yong, X., Kuksenok, O., Balazs, A.C. Modeling Free Radical Polymerization Using Dissipative Particle Dynamics. Polymer, 72: 217-225 (2015).

Yong, X., Simakova, A., Averick, S., Gutierrez, J., Kuksenok, O., Balazs, A.C., Matyjaszewski, K. Stackable, Covalently-Fused Gels: Repair and Composite Formation. Macromolecules, 48: 1169-1178 (2015).

Zhang, L.A., Clermont, G., Banerjee, I., R.S. Parker. “APT-MCMC: Parallel Tempering Markov Chain Monte Carol with A_ne-Invariant Ensemble Samplers for Parameter Fitting." FOSBE 2015, Boston, MA. August, 2015 Zhang, L.A., Parker, R.S. Swigon, D., Banerjee, I., Bahrami, D., Redl, H., Clermont, G. “A One-NearestNeighbor Approach to Identify the Original Time of Infection using Censored Baboon Sepsis Data." Critical Care Medicine 44 (6), e432-442, 2016. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000001623, 2015.

Zhao, D., Fukuyama, S., Sakai-tagawa, Y., Takashita, E., Shoemaker, J. E., Kawaoka, Y. Histone Acetyltransferase, Attenuates Influenza A Virus Infection. Antimicrob Agents Chemother, 60: 1902–1906 (2015).

Zhu, L., Pike, F., Zhang, L.A., Parker, R.S., Mochan-Keef, E.S., Swigon, D., Clermont, G., and the ProCESS Investigators. “Sepsis Endotypes De_ned by Cytokine Trajectory Analysis."28th Annual Congress of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, Berlin, Germany. October 2015.

Zhu, Q., Saidi, W.A., Yang, J.C. Step-Induced Oxygen Upward Diffusion on Stepped Cu (100) Surface.

Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 119(1): 251-2 (2015).

Zhu, Y., Keith, J. “The Mechanism for C-H Borylation By Cu-Fe Heterobimetallic Catalysts”. 24th North American Catalysis Society Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, June 17, 2015.

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Rishu Dheer, Jena Patterson, Mark Dudash, Elyse N. Stachler, Kyle J Bibby, Donna Beer Stolz, Sruti Shiva, W.H. Wilson Tang, Stanley L. Hazen, Aaron Barchowsky, & John F. Stolz. Arsenic induces structural and compositional colonic microbiome change and promotes pathogenic host nitrogen and amino acid metabolism.

Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology. 2015, 289 (3), 397-408.

Kyle Bibby, Robert Fischer, Elyse Stachler, Leonard Casson, Charles Haas, Vincent Munster. Persistence of Ebola Virus in Sterilized Wastewater. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 2015, 2 (9), 245–249.

Benay Akyon, Elyse Stachler, Na Wei, and Kyle Bibby. Microbial Mats as a Biological Treatment Approach for Saline Wastewaters: The Case of Produced Water from Hydraulic Fracturing. Environmental Science & Technology 2015 49 (10), 6172-6180.

Amit Vikram, Jennifer Bomberger, Kyle Bibby. Efflux as a Glutaraldehyde Resistance Mechanism in Pseudomonas fluorescens and Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.

2015 59 (6), 3433-3440.

Xiao Ma, Julianne L. Baron, Amit Vikram, Janet E. Stout, Kyle Bibby. Fungal diversity and presence of potentially pathogenic fungi in a hospital hot water system treated with on-site monochloramine. Water Research. 2015 71 (15), 197-206.

Kyle Bibby, Leonard W. Casson, Elyse Stachler, and Charles N. Haas. Ebola Virus Persistence in the Environment: State of the Knowledge and Research Needs. Environmental Science & Technology Letters.

2015 2 (1), 2-6.

Brent Stephens, Rachel Adams, Seema Bhangar, Kyle Bibby, Michael Waring. From commensalism to mutualism: Integrating the microbial ecology, building science, and indoor air communities to advance research on the indoor microbiome. Indoor Air. 2015.25 (1). 1-3.

Ebola Virus Persistence in Wastewater. Kyle Bibby, Chuck Haas, Elyse Stachler, Leonard Casson. WEFTEC. Chicago. September 2015.

Cross-Assembly Phage as an Improved Indicator of Fecal Pollution. Kyle Bibby, Elyse Stachler, Orin Shanks.

ACS Fall Meeting. Boston. August 2015.

Processes Structuring the Microbiome of Drinking Water Systems and Implications for Opportunistic Pathogen Control. Kyle Bibby. Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors. New Haven. June 2015.

Biocides and Microbial Resistance Mechanisms in Produced Water. Amit Vikram, Daniel Lipus, Kyle Bibby.

ACS Denver. March 2015.

Microbial mats as a biological treatment approach for produced water from hydraulic fracturing. Benay Akyon, Elyse Stachler, Na Wei, Kyle Bibby. ACS Denver. March 2015.

Fungal Ecology and Presence of Potentially Pathogenic Fungi in a Hospital Hot Water System. Xiao Ma*, Julianne Baron, Amit Vikram, Janet Stout, Kyle Bibby. Pittsburgh Bacterial Meeting. March 2015.

Meeks, D.L., Hottle, T.A., Bilec, M.M., Landis, A.E. (2015). “Composted biopolymer use in the real world: Stakeholder interviews to better understand use and disposal in the U.S.” Resources, Conservation & Recycling. 105, Part A, December 2015, 134-142.

Whiston, M., Bilec, M.M., Schaefer, L.A. (2015). “"Influence of the charge double layer on solid oxide fuel cell stack behavior.” Journal of Power Sources. 293, 20 October 2015, 767-777.

Al-Ghamdi, S., Bilec, M.M. (2015). "Life-Cycle Thinking and the LEED Rating System: Global Perspective on Building Energy Use and Environmental Impacts." Environmental Science & Technology. 49(7) 40484056.

Campion, N., Thiel, C.L., Copley-Woods, N., Swanzy, L., Landis, A.E., Bilec, M.M. (2015). “Environmental Life-Cycle Impacts of Surgical Material Supply: A Comparative LCA of Disposable Custom Packs.” Journal of Cleaner Production. 94, 1 May 2015, 46–55.

Hottle, T.A., Bilec, M.M., Brown, N.R., Landis, A.E. (2015). “Toward zero waste: Composting and recycling for sustainable venue based events.” Waste Management. 38, April 2015, 86-94.

Thiel, C.L., Woods, N., Landis, A.E., Eckelman, M.E., Guido, R., Sherman, J., Bilec, M.M. (2015).

“Environmental Impacts of Surgical Procedures: Life Cycle Assessment of Hysterectomy in the US.” Environmental Science & Technology, 49(3) 1779-1786.

Whiston, M., Bilec, M.M., Schaefer, L.A. (2015). “SOFC Stack Model for Integration into a Hybrid System: Stack Response to Control Variables.” Journal of Fuel Cell Science and Technology. 12(3), 031006, 11 pages.

Olinzock, M.A., Saunders, C.L., Collinge, W.O., Landis, A.E., Jones, A.K., Schaefer, L.A., Bilec, M.M. (2015). “Life Cycle Assessment Survey of the Building Community: Summary of Findings from 2011 to 2012.” International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. 20(3) 318-331 DeBlois, J., Collinge, W.O., Bilec, M.M., Schaefer, L.A. (2015). “Calibration and Modeling for a Dashboard that Provides Real-Time Feedback on Energy Saving Strategies.” Proceedings of Building Simulation Conference 2015, December 12-15, 2015, Hyderabad, India.

Campion, N.A., Mokashi, M., Wylie, A., Bilec, M.M. (2015). “Integrating Environmental and Cost Assessments for Data Driven Decision-Making: A Roof Retrofit Case Study.” Proceedings of the International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology, v. 3, May 18-20, 2015, Dearborn, Michigan.

Al-Ghamdi, S., Bilec, M.M. (2015). “Whole-Building LCA and Green Building Rating Systems: Exploratory Review of the Available Tools.” Proceedings of the International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology, v. 3, May 18-20, 2015, Dearborn, Michigan.

Antaya-Dancz, C., Ketchman, K.J., Burke, R., Bilec, M.M., Adams, E.A., Allenby, B., Chester, M., Khanna, V., Parrish, K., Seager, T.S., Landis, A.E. (2015). “Integrating Sustainability Grand Challenges and Experiential Learning into Engineering Curricula: Years 1 and 2.” American Society for Engineering Education, June 14-17, 2015 Seattle, WA. Antaya-Dancz C., Ketchman, K.J., Bilec, M.M., Landis, A.E. (2015). “Redesign of a Sustainability Experiential Learning Module for Transferability and Portability.” Proceedings of American Society of Engineering Educators, June 14-17, 2015, Seattle, Washington.

Xu, H., Bilec, M. M., Collinge, W.O., Schaefer, L.A., Landis, A.E., and Jones, A.K. (2015) “Lynx: A SelfOrganizing Wireless Sensor Network with Commodity Palmtop Computers.” Proceedings of ACM/IEEE System Level Interconnect Prediction 2015, June 7-11, 2015, San Francisco, California.

Collinge, W.O., Thiel, C.L., Al-Ghamdi, S.G., Woloschin, C.L., Soratana, K., Landis, A.E., Bilec, M.M. (2015). “Integrating life cycle assessment with green building and product rating systems: North American perspective.” Procedia Engineering from International Conference on Sustainable Design, Engineering and Construction. May 10-13, 2015, Chicago, Illinois. 10.1016/j.proeng.2015.08.500 B. Notghi and J.C. Brigham (2015), “A Computational Approach for Robust Nondestructive Test Design Maximizing Characterization Capabilities for Solids and Structures Subject to Uncertainty,” International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 104, 4, October, 297-311.

Z. Hao, B. Notghi, J.M. Vandenbossche, and J.C. Brigham (2015), “Optimal wave propagation-based nondestructive test design for quantitative damage characterization,” Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation, 34, 2, June, 1-15.

M. Wang, D. Dutta, K. Kim, and J.C. Brigham (2015), “A Computationally Efficient Approach for Inverse Material Characterization Combining Gappy POD with Direct Inversion,” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 286, April, 373-393.

B. Qiang, J.C. Brigham, S. Aristizabal, J.F. Greenleaf, X. Zhang, and M.W. Urban (2015), “Modeling Transversely Isotropic, Viscoelastic, Incompressible Tissue-Like Materials with Application in Ultrasound Shear Wave Elastography,” Physics in Medicine and Biology, 60, 3, January, 1289-1306.

M.J. Grasinger, Z. Li, A.S. Vuotto, J.C. Brigham, A.T. Iannacchione, and J.M. Vandenbossche (2015), “Simulation of Cement Slurry Flow to Assess the Potential for Voids and Channels in Wellbore Cementing Processes,” SPE Eastern Regional Meeting, Morgantown, WV, October.

M. Wang and J.C. Brigham (2015), “Inverse characterization from partial-field data using direct inversion with Gappy POD initialization and the adjoint method,” Conference of the Engineering Mechanics Institute, Stanford, CA, June.

M. Wang and J.C. Brigham (2015), “Gappy Proper Orthogonal Decomposition combined with Direct Inversion for Highly Efficient Inverse Material Characterization,” ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute International Conference, Hong Kong, China, January.

Dan Budny and Beth Newborg, “Using a Career Conference to Promote Advising in the Freshman Curriculum”, 18th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning and 44nd International Conference on Engineering Pedagogy, Florence, Italy, September 20 – 24, 2015.

Sina Arjmand, Dan Budny, David V.P. Sanchez, “Adding an International Senior Design Component into the Civil Curriculum”, Proceedings American Society for Engineering Education 2015 Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, June 14 – 17, 2015.

Budny, D., Kevin Laux, Michael McClune, Brenden McKinley, Kathryn Saltsman, Allison McCurdy, “Design and Construction of a Full Scale Prototype of a Stove for use by Residents on an Island In Kuna Yala”, Proceedings 2015 North Central Sectional Meeting of the American Society for Engineering Education, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, April 17-18, 2015.

Budny, D.D., Introduction to Engineering, Stipes Publishing Co., Champaign, Ill, Sixteenth edition, 2015, pp.819.

Bunger AP, Lu G. 2015. Time-Dependent Initiation of Multiple Hydraulic Fractures in a Formation with Varying Stresses. SPE Journal, 20(6): 1317-1325.

Jeffrey RG, Chen ZR, Zhang X, Bunger AP, Mills KW. 2015. Measurement and analysis of full-scale hydraulic fracture initiation and orientation. Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, 48(6): 2497-2512.

Bunger AP, Cardella DJ. 2015. Spatial distribution of production in a Marcellus Shale well: Evidence for hydraulic fracture stress interaction. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 113:162-166.

Bunger AP, Kear J, Dyskin AV, Pasternak E. 2015. Sustained Acoustic Emissions Following Tensile Crack Propagation in a Crystalline Rock. International Journal of Fracture, 193:87-98.

Wu Bisheng, Zhang X, Jeffrey RG, Bunger AP, Huddlestone-Holmes C. 2015. Perturbation analysis for predicting the temperatures of water flowing through multiple parallel fractures in a rock mass. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, 76:162-173.

Regenauer Lieb K, Bunger AP, Chua HT, Dyskin A, Fusseis F, Gaede O, Jeffrey RG, Karrech A, Kohl T, Liu J, Lyakhovsky V, Pasternak E, Podgorney R, Rahman S, Schrank C, Trefry M, Veveakis M, Wu B, Yuen D, Wellmann F, Zhang X. 2015. Deep Geothermal: The ‘Moon Landing’ Mission in the Unconventional Energy and Minerals Space, 26(261):2-10.

Kano M, Zolfaghari N, Ames BC, Bunger AP. 2015. Solution for a PKN Hydraulic Fracture Driven by Turbulent Fluid with Large Leakoff. Hydraulic Fracturing Journal, 2(1): 34-38.

Peirce AP, Bunger AP. 2015. Interference Fracturing: Non-Uniform Distributions of Perforation Clusters that Promote Simultaneous Growth of Multiple Hydraulic Fractures. SPE Journal, 20(2): 384-395.

Rivalta E, Taisne B, Bunger AP, Katz R. 2015. A review of mechanical models of dike propagation: schools of thought, results and future directions. Tectonophyics, 638: 1-42.

Fu W, Ames BC, Bunger AP, Savitski AA. 2015. An Experimental Study on Interaction between Hydraulic Fractures and Partially-Cemented Natural Fractures. Proceedings 49th US Rock Mechanics Symposium, San Francisco, CA, USA, 28 June – 1 July 2015. Paper 132.

Lu G, Uwaifo E, Ames BC, Ufondu A, Bunger AP, Prioul R, Aidagulov G. 2015. Experimental Demonstration of Delayed Initiation of Hydraulic Fractures below the Breakdown Pressure in Granite.

Proceedings 49th US Rock Mechanics Symposium, San Francisco, CA, USA, 28 June – 1 July 2015. Paper 190.

Bunger AP, Kear J, Jeffrey RG, Prioul R, Chuprakov D. 2015. Laboratory Investigation of Hydraulic Fracture Growth Through Weak Discontinuities with Active Ultrasound Monitoring. Proceedings 13th International Society for Rock Mechanics (ISRM) Congress, Montreal, Canada, 10-13 May 2015. (Winner of Best Paper Award) Lecampion B, Desroches J, Jeffrey RG, Bunger AP, Burghardt J. 2015. Initiation and Breakdown of Transverse Hydraulic Fracture: Theory and Experiments. Proceedings 13th International Society for Rock Mechanics (ISRM) Congress, Montreal, Canada, 10-13 May 2015.

Ames BC, Bunger AP. 2015. Role of Turbulent Flow in Generating Short Hydraulic Fractures with High Net Pressure in Slickwater Treatments. Proceedings SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference, 3-5 February 2015, The Woodlands, Texas, USA. Bibby, K., Fischer, R.J., Casson, L.W., Stachler, E., Haas, C.N., and Munster, V.J., “Persistence of Ebola Virus Persistence in Sterilized Wastewater”, ES&T Letters, 10.1021/acs.estlett.5b00193, August 17, 2015.

Casson, LW, contributing author, “On-Site Generation of Hypochlorite M65”, Chapter 5, American Waterworks Association, First Edition, 2015. ISBN 978-1-62576-026-5.

Gilbertson, L. M.; Wender, B. A.; Zimmerman, J. B.; Eckelman, M. J. “Coordinating Modeling and Experimental Research of Engineered Nanomaterials to Improve Life Cycle Assessment Studies.” Invited Submission to Environmental Science: Nano, 2, 669-682, 2015.

Hicks, A.; Gilbertson, L. M.; Jamila S. Yamani; Zimmerman, J. B.; Theis, T. “Life Cycle Payback Estimates of Nano-Silver Enabled Textiles Under Different Silver Loading, Release, and Laundering Scenarios Informed

by Literature Review.” Environmental Science and Technology, 49 (13), 7529-7542, 2015.

Azoz, S.; Gilbertson, L. M.; Hashmi, S. M.; Han, P.; Stervinsky, G. E.; Kanaan, S. A.; Zimmerman, J. B.; Pfefferle, L. D. “Enhanced Dispersion and Electronic Performance of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Thin Films without Surfactant: A Comprehensive Study of Various Treatment Processes.” Carbon, 93, 1008-1020, 2015.

Gilbertson, L. M.; Zimmerman. J. B.; Plata, D. L.; Hutchison, J. E.; Anastas, P. T. “Designing Nanomaterials to Maximize Performance and Minimize Implications Guided by the Principles of Green Chemistry.” Invited Submission to Chemical Society Review, 44, 5758-5777, 2015. (**Feature cover article) Azoz, S.; Exarhos, A. L.; Marquez, A.; Gilbertson, L. M.; Nejati, S.; Cha, J. J.; Zimmerman, J. B.; Kikkawa, J. M.; Pfefferle, L. D. “Highly Conductive Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Thin Films Preparation by Direct Alignment on Substrates from Water Dispersions.” Langmuir, 31 (3), 1155-1163, 2015.

Gilbertson, L. M.; Melnikov, F.; Wehmas, L.; Anastas, P. T.; Tanguay R.; Zimmerman, J. B. “Toward Safer Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotube Design: Establishing a Statistical Model that Relates Surface Charge and Embryonic Zebrafish Mortality.” Nanotoxicology, DOI:10.3109/17435390. 2014.996193, 2015.

Gilbertson, L. M. “Engineered Path Towards Innovative and Sustainable Nanotechnology Through the Lens of Manufacturing”, Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization Conference, Portland, OR, November 8–10, 2015.

Gilbertson, L. M.; Plata, D.; Zimmerman, J. B.; Hutchison, J.; Anastas, P. T. “Sustainability by Design: Development of an Engineered Nanomaterials Selection Framework that Includes Property, Function and Hazard Criteria.” Gordon Research Conference in Environmental Nanotechnology, Mount Snow, West Dover, VT, June 21–26, 2015.

Gilbertson, L. M.; Eckelman, M.; Zimmerman, J. B. “Development of a Pre-Screening Tool to Quantify Impact and Benefit Tradeoffs of Emerging Technologies Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) Conference, Yale University, New Haven, CT, June 13–16, 2015.

Mohammadi, T., Wan, B. and Harries, K.A. (2015) Bond-slip Behavior of FRP/Concrete Interface in Single Shear Pull-out and Beam Tests., Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0731684415623088 Zhang, L., Wang, W-W, Harries, K.A. and Tain, J., (2015) Bonding behavior of wet-bonded GFRP-toconcrete interface, ASCE Journal of Composites for Construction Vol. 19, No. 6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)CC.1943-5614.0000550 Xu, Q., Chen, L., Harries, K.A., Zhang, F. and Liu, Q. (2015) Combustion and charring properties of five common constructional wood species from cone calorimeter tests, Journal of Construction and Building Materials, Vol. 96, pp 416-427. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2015.08.062 Eljadei, A.., Harries, K.A. (2015) On the Use of Fixed Point Theory to Design Coupled Core Walls, Engineering Structures. 102(2015), 61-65. http:// dx.doi.org/ 10.1016/ j.engstruct. 2015.07.045 Xi, C., Xu, Q. and Harries, K.A. (2015) Research on Mechanical Properties and Application of Bamboo in Civil Engineering: State-of-the-art. Structural Engineering, in Chinese.

Girao-Coelho, A.M., Mottram, J.T. and Harries, K.A. Connections of Pultruded FRP: Implications of Geometric Characteristics on Net Section Failure, Composite Structures, Vol. 131, pp 878-884. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2015.06.04 Cunningham, D., Harries, K.A. and Bell, A.J., (2015) Open-Hole Tension Capacity of Pultruded GFRP Having Staggered Hole Arrangement Engineering Structures, Vol 95., pp 8-15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2015.03.042 Cardoso, D., Harries, K.A. and Batista, E. (2015) Compressive Local Buckling of Pultruded GFRP ISections: Development and Numerical/Experimental Evaluation of an Explicit Equation, ASCE Journal of Composites for Construction Vol. 19, No. 2 http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)CC.1943-5614.0000501

Girao-Coelho, A.M., Mottram, J.T. and Harries, K.A. (2015) Finite element guidelines for simulation of fibre-tension dominated failures in composite materials validated by case studies, Composite Structures, Vol. 126, pp 299-313. http:// dx.doi.org/ 10.1016/ j.compstruct.2015.02.071 Richard, M.J., Harries, K.A., (2015) On Inherent Bending in Tension Tests of Bamboo, Wood Science and Technology Vol 49, No.1, pp 99-119 Cunningham, D., and Harries, K.A., Open Hole Tension Capacity of Pultruded GFRP Plate Having Staggered Hole Arrangement Proceedings of Advanced Composites in Construction (ACIC2015), Cambridge, UK, September 2015.

Platt, S., and Harries, K.A., Strength of Bolted Bamboo Laminate Connections, Proceedings 15th International Conference Non-conventional Materials and Technologies (NOCMAT 15), Winnipeg, Canada.

August 2015 Glucksman, B., and Harries, K.A., In-the-Field Test Methods for Bamboo – The test-kit-in-a-backpack, Proceedings 15th International Conference Non-conventional Materials and Technologies (NOCMAT 15), Winnipeg, Canada. August 2015.

Girao-Coelho, A.M., Mottram, J.T. and Harries, K.A. 2015, Parametric study of net section failure of pultruded connections with three-dimensional finite element approach, Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Composite Structures, Lisbon, June 2015.

Iannacchione, A. and Tadolini. S. “Occurrence, Prediction, and Control of Coal Burst Events in the U.S.” 34th International Conference on Ground Control in Mining, Lakeview Resort, Morgantown, WV, July 28-30, 2015, pp. 36-46.

Iannacchione, A., VanNess, J., Giacomin, H., Frank, G. “The Role of Barriers Beneath Stream Beds in Preventing Unplanned Discharges from Northern Appalachian Coal Mine Pools” Proceedings of 34th International Conference on Ground Control in Mining (China-2015), Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo, China, October 17-19, 2015, pp. 133-144.

Iannacchione, A., Jose, A., Horn, T., Iannacchione, G., Iannacchione, S. “Modeling the Ventilation Network at NIOSH’s Safety Research Coal Mine” Proceedings of the 15th North American Mine Ventilation Symposium, Paper 15-34, Blacksburg, VA. June 22-24, 2015, 10p.

Grasinger, M., Li, Z., Vuotto, A., Brigham, J., Iannacchione, A. and Vandenbossche, J. University of Pittsburgh “Simulation of Cement Slurry Flow to Assess the Potential for Voids and Channels in Wellbore Cementing Processes,” SPE-177311-MS, Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Eastern Regional Meeting held in Morgantown, West Virginia, USA, 13–15 October 2015, 14 p Chopra, S.S., Bakshi, B.R., and Khanna, V. Economic dependence of U.S. industrial sectors on animalmediated pollination service, Environmental Science & Technology, 49(24): 14441–14451, 2015.

Zaimes, G.G., Vora, N., Chopra, S.S., Landis, A.E., and Khanna, V. Design of sustainable biofuel processes and supply chains: challenges and opportunities, Processes, 3:634-663, 2015.

Zaimes, G.G., Soratana, K., Harden, C.L., Landis, A.E., and Khanna, V. Biofuels via fast pyrolysis of perennial grasses: A life cycle evaluation of energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, Environmental Science & Technology, 49(16): 10007-10018, 2015.

Vendries, J.A., Hawkins, T.R., Marriott, J., Matthews, H.S., and Khanna, V. Disaggregating the power generation sector for input-output life-cycle assessment, Journal of Industrial Ecology, 19(4): 666-675, 2015.

Chopra, S.S. and Khanna, V. Interconnectedness and interdependencies of critical infrastructures in the U.S. economy: Implications for Resilience, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 436 (2015): 865877.

Zaimes, G.G., Hubler, B., Wang, S., and Khanna, V. Environmental life cycle perspective on rare earth oxide production, ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 2015, 3(2), 237-244.

Harris, T.M., Zaimes, G.G., Khanna, V., and Landis, A.E. “Sunflower Cultivation on Coal Mine Refuse Piles in Appalachia for Diesel Biofuel Production from a Life cycle Perspective”, Procedia Engineering, 118, 869878, 2015.

Tavakkoli, S., Vidic, R.D., and Khanna, V. “An Industrial Ecology Approach for Managing Wastewater from Shale Gas Production”, American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November 8-13, 2015.

Zaimes, G.G., Vora, N., Resasco, D.E., Crossley, S.P., and Khanna, V. “Environmental life cycle evaluation of multistage torrefaction and pyrolysis for biofuel production”, American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November 8-13, 2015.

Shah, A., Vora, N, and Khanna, V. “Food-Energy-Water Nexus: Quantifying the Energy and GHG Emissions of Water Embodied in Food Flows within the U.S.”, American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November 8-13, 2015.

Montazeri, M., Zaimes, G.G., Khanna, V., and Eckelman, M.J. “A review on life cycle assessments of prioritized renewable chemicals and their GHG reduction potential”, American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November 8-13, 2015.

Lokare, O., Tavakkoli, S., Khanna, V., and Vidic, R.D. “Membrane Distillation for Treatment of Produced Water from Unconventional Onshore Gas Extraction” Desaltech 2015, San Diego, CA, August 28-29, 2015.

Chopra, S.S., and Khanna, V. “Interconnectedness and Interdependencies of Critical Infrastructures: Implications for Resilience in the U.S. Economy”, International Society for Industrial Ecology Meeting, University of Surrey, Guildford, U.K. July 7-10, 2015.

Chopra, S.S., and Khanna, V. “Understanding Structure of Industrial Symbiosis Networks and its Implications for Resilience and Sustainability”, International Society for Industrial Ecology Meeting, University of Surrey, Guildford, U.K. July 7-10, 2015.

Zaimes, G.G., Resasco, D.E., Crossley, S.P., and Khanna, V. “Environmental Impacts of Multistage Pyrolysis-Derived Biofuels: Connecting Experimental Studies with Systems-Level Analysis”, International Society for Industrial Ecology Meeting, University of Surrey, Guildford, U.K. July 7-10, 2015.

Zaimes, G.G., and Khanna, V. “Assessing the Contribution of Ecological Goods and Services in Microalgal Biofuel Life Cycles”, International Society for Industrial Ecology Meeting, University of Surrey, Guildford, U.K. July 7-10, 2015.

Tavakkoli, S., Vidic, R.D., and Khanna, V. “Exploiting Industrial Ecology for Managing Wastewaters from Shale Gas Operations”, International Society for Industrial Ecology Meeting, University of Surrey, Guildford, U.K. July 7-10, 2015.

Vendries, J.A., Hawkins, T.R., Marriott, J., and Khanna, V. “Developing an electricity-focused MultiRegional Input-Output model for LCA and energy policy evaluation”, International Society for Industrial Ecology Meeting, University of Surrey, Guildford, U.K. July 7-10, 2015.

Zaimes, G.G., Resasco, D.E., Crossley, S.P., and Khanna, V. “Multistage Torrefaction for Biofuel Production: A life cycle inspired assessment of the Climate-Energy Nexus”, Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors Meeting, New Haven, Connecticut, June 14-16, 2015.

Zaimes, G.G., and Khanna, V., “Moving beyond carbon- Accounting for the contribution of ecosystem goods and services for microalgal biofuels”, Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors Meeting, New Haven, Connecticut, June 14-16, 2015.

Montazeri, M., Zaimes, G.G., Khanna, V., and Eckelman, M.J. “A review on life cycle assessments of prioritized renewable chemicals and their GHG reduction potential”, International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology, Dearborn, MI, May 18-20, 2015.

Zaimes, G.G., and Khanna, V. “Life Cycle Environmental Sustainability Aspects of Microalgal Biofuels”, in Assessing and Measuring Environmental Aspects in Engineering, Ed. Jiri Klemes, Elsevier Publishing, Page 255-325, 2015.

Prentice, I.C., X. Liang, B.E. Medlyn, and Y.-P. Wang, Reliable, robust and realistic: the three R’s of nextgeneration land-surface modeling, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15, doi:10.5194/acp-15-5987-2015, 5987–6005, 2015.

Zhou, X, X. Liang, J.S. Lin, and W. Xu, Identify Precipitation Pattern Using Multiscale Sample Entropy, American Geophysical Union Fall meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 14-18, 2015.

Plaza, F., Y. Wen, H. Peronne, Y. Xu, and X. Liang, Acid Mine Drainage Passive Remediation: Potential Use of Alkaline Clay, Optimal Mixing Ratio and Long Term Impacts, American Geophysical Union Fall meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 14-18, 2015.

Navarro, M., X. Zhong, G. Villalba, Y. Li, T.W. Davis, N. Erratt, X. Liang, and Y. Liang (invited), Wireless Sensor Networks for Environmental Monitoring, American Geophysical Union Fall meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 14-18, 2015.

Hernandez, F., and X. Liang, A Multi-Objective Data Assimilation Filtering Method for Distributed HighResolution Hydrologic, American Geophysical Union Fall meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 14-18, 2015.

Liang, X., Improving Hydrologic Disaster Forecasting and Response for Transportation by Assimilating and Fusing NASA and other Data Sets, U.S. Dept. of Transportation (DOT), Quarterly Progress Report to US DOT, pp. 19, Oct. 15, 2015.

Liang, X., Collaborative Research: Compressed Network Tomography and Data Collection in Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Networking, Annual Technical Report to NSF, pp. 30, Sept. 2015.

Liang, X., Long-Term Solutions to Acid Producing Coal Mine Spoils Using Industrial Wastes, Annual Technical Report to NSF, pp. 40, August 2015.

Liang, X., Improving Hydrologic Disaster Forecasting and Response for Transportation by Assimilating and Fusing NASA and other Data Sets, U.S. Dept. of Transportation (DOT), Quarterly Progress Report to US DOT, pp. 18, July 15, 2015.

Liang, X., Improving Hydrologic Disaster Forecasting and Response for Transportation by Assimilating and Fusing NASA and other Data Sets, U.S. Dept. of Transportation (DOT), Quarterly Progress Report to US DOT, pp. 29, April 15, 2015.

Liang, X., Improving Hydrologic Disaster Forecasting and Response for Transportation by Assimilating and Fusing NASA and other Data Sets, U.S. Dept. of Transportation (DOT), Quarterly Progress Report to US DOT, pp. 24, Jan. 15, 2015.

Maria C. Jaimea,, Yaneng Zhou, Jeen-Shang Lin and Isaac K. Gamwo, “Finite element modeling of rock cutting and its fragmentation process,” International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, (80), 137-146, 2015 Jeen‐Shang Lin, Yongkoo Seol, Jeong Hoon Choi, ” An SMP critical state model for methane hydrate‐bearing sands,” International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, (39),9, 969-987, 2015.

Jeen-Shang Lin and Yaneng Zhou“Rebuttal: Shallow wide groove scratch tests do not give fracture toughness,” Engineering Fracture Mechanics 133, 211-222, 2015 Mark Magalotti, “State of the Practice - How Public Transportation is addressed in Traffic Impact Studies”, presented at the Transportation Engineering and Safety Conference December 10, 2015 State College, Pennsylvania Mark Magalotti, “WalkWorks Implementation for Walking in the Built Environment”, presented to the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission Transportation and Operations Committee October 29, 2015 at the Quarterly committee meeting, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Mark Magalotti, “Creating Walkable Communities in Pennsylvania – Local Regional and State Perspectives – The Implementation Process”, presented at the 2015 annual meeting of the American Planning Associations Pennsylvania Chapter October 18, 2015 Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Mendez, A., Ng, C. A., Torres, J.P.M, Bastos, W., Bogdal, C., Dos Reis, G. A. and Hungerbuehler, K. “Modeling the dynamics of DDT in a remote tropical floodplain: indications of post-ban use?” Environmental Science and Pollution Research. DOI: 10.1007/s11356-015-5641-x. Online Oct 27, 2015.

Ng, C. A., and Hungerbuehler, K. “Exploring the use of molecular docking to identify bioaccumulative perfluorinated alkyl acids (PFAAs).” Environmental Science & Technology, 49, 12306-12314, 2015.

Ng, C.A. and von Goetz, N. “Exploring Chemical Exposure via Food Imports: the Hazards of a Globalized Diet.” 36th Annual SETAC North America Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, November 1-5, 2015.

Li, K., Rizzo, P., and Bagheri, A. “A parametric study on the optimization of metamaterial-based energy harvester” Smart Materials and Structures, 24, 115019 (11pp), doi:10.1088/0964-1726/24/11/115019, 2015.

La Malfa Ribolla, E., and Rizzo, P. “Modelling the electromechanical impedance technique for the assessment of dental implant stability,” Journal of Biomechanics, 48(10), 1713–1720, DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2015.05.020, 2015.

Li, K., and Rizzo, P. “Energy harvesting using arrays of granular chains and solid rods” Journal of Applied Physics, 117, 215101, 2015.

Gulizzi V., Rizzo, P., Milazzo, A., and La Malfa Ribolla, E. “An integrated structural health monitoring system based on electromechanical impedance and guided ultrasonic waves,” Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitoring, 5(3), 337-352. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13349-015-0112-0, 2015.

Gulizzi V., Rizzo, P., and Milazzo, A. “On the repeatability of the EMI for the Monitoring of Bonded Joints” AIAA Journal, 53(11), 3479-3483, doi: http:// arc.aiaa.org/ doi/abs/10.2514/ 1.J053682, 2015.

Bagheri A., *Pistone, E., and Rizzo, P. “Outlier Analysis and Artificial Neural Network for the Non-contact Nondestructive Evaluation of Immersed Plates” Research in Nondestructive Evaluation, 26(3), 154-173, 2015.

Li, K., and Rizzo, P. “Energy Harvesting Using an Array of Granules” ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, 137(4), 041002, (Aug 01, 2015) (10 pages), doi: 10.1115/ 1.4029735, 2015.

Pistone, E., and Rizzo, P. “On the Use of an Array of Ultrasonic Immersion Transducers for the Nondestructive Testing of Immersed Plates” Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation, 30(1), 26-38, DOI:10.1080/10589759.2014.979817, 2015.

Bagheri, A., La Malfa Ribolla, E., Rizzo, P., Al-Nazer, L., and Giambanco, G. “On the use of L-shaped granular chains for the assessment of thermal stress in slender structures” Experimental Mechanics, 55(3), 543-558, 2015.

La Malfa Ribolla, E., Rizzo, P., and Gulizzi, V. “On the use of the electromechanical impedance technique for the assessment of dental implant stability: Modeling and Experimentation” Journal of Intelligent Materials and Structures, 26(16), 2266-2280, DOI: 10.1177/1045389X14554129, 2015.

Bagheri, A., Rizzo, P., and Al-Nazer, L. “Determination of the neutral temperature of slender beams by using nonlinear solitary waves” ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 141(6), 04014163 (8 pages), DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)EM.1943-7889.0000886, 2015.

Rizzo, P., Gulizzi, V., and Milazzo, A. (2015). "An integrated SHM system based on electromechanical impedance and guided ultrasonic waves,” Proc. of the 10th Int. Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, Stanford University, California, 1-3 September, to appear.

Li, K., and Rizzo, P. (2015). "Energy harvesting using arrays of granular chains and solid rods,” Proc. of the 10th Int. Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, Stanford University, California, 1-3 September, to appear.

Hosseinzadeh, A.Z., Bagheri, A., Ghodrati Amiri, G., and Rizzo, P. (2015). “Optimization-based damage localization and quantification algorithm in seismic-excited structures”, 11th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Victoria, BC, July 21-24, 2015, to appear.

La Malfa Ribolla, E., Rizzo, P. (2015). "Modelling the electromechanical impedance method for the prediction of the biomechanical behavior of dental implant stability." Procedia Engineering, Proceedings of the XXIII Italian Group of Fracture Meeting, IGFXXIII, 109, pp. 128-134.

Rizzo, P., La Malfa Ribolla, E., and Di Cara, A. (2015). “A noninvasive approach for the assessment of dental implants stability”, Emerging Technologies in Non-Destructive Testing VI: Proc. of the 6th Intl. Conf. on Emerging Technologies in Non-Destructive Testing (Brussels, Belgium, 27-29 May 2015), Editors: D. Aggelis, D. Van Hemelrijck, S. Vanlanduit, A.A. Anastasopoulos, T.P. Philippidis, ISBN 9781315647548, 315-318.

Rizzo, P., Pistone, E., and Bagheri, A. (2015). “Guided ultrasonic waves for the NDT of immersed plates”, Emerging Technologies in Non-Destructive Testing VI: Proc. of the 6th Intl. Conf. on Emerging Technologies in Non-Destructive Testing (Brussels, Belgium, 27-29 May 2015), Editors: D. Aggelis, D. Van Hemelrijck, S. Vanlanduit, A.A. Anastasopoulos, T.P. Philippidis, ISBN 9781315647548, 153-158.

Rizzo, P., Bagheri, A., and La Malfa Ribolla, E. (2015). “Highly nonlinear solitary waves for the NDT of slender beams”, Emerging Technologies in Non-Destructive Testing VI: Proc. of the 6th Intl. Conf. on Emerging Technologies in Non-Destructive Testing (Brussels, Belgium, 27-29 May 2015), Editors: D. Aggelis, D. Van Hemelrijck, S. Vanlanduit, A.A. Anastasopoulos, T.P. Philippidis, ISBN 9781315647548, 173-177.

Bagheri, A., Pistone, E., and Rizzo, P. (2015). “On the combination of outlier analysis and ANN for the inspection of underwater plates”, Proc. of SPIE Smart Structures and Material& NDE and Health Monitoring, San Diego, CA, March 2015, to appear.

Bagheri, A., La Malfa Ribolla, E., Rizzo, P., and Al-Nazer, L. (2015). “Granular chains for the assessment of thermal stress in slender structures”, Proc. of SPIE Smart Structures and Material& NDE and Health Monitoring, San Diego, CA, March 2015, to appear.

Li, K., and Rizzo, P. (2015). “On the use of nonlinear solitary waves for energy harvesting”, Proc. of SPIE Smart Structures and Material& NDE and Health Monitoring, San Diego, CA, March 2015, to appear.

Gulizzi, V., Rizzo, P., and Milazzo, A. (2015). “On the repeatability of the EMI technique for the health monitoring of bonded elements”, Proc. of SPIE Smart Structures and Material& NDE and Health Monitoring, San Diego, CA, March 2015, to appear.

Bagheri, A., Rizzo, P., and Al-Nazer, L. (2015). “Solitary Waves to Infer Axial Stress in Slender Structures: a Numerical Model,” IMAC XXXIII A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, Orlando, Florida USA, February 2-5, 2015, paper #15-3147, Structural Health Monitoring and Damage Detection, Volume 7, Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series 2015, 47-57.

Bagheri, A., La Malfa Ribolla, E., Rizzo, P., and Al-Nazer, L. (2015). “Solitary waves for the assessment of thermal stress and neutral temperature in slender structures,” TRB 94th Annual Meeting, Washington D.C (January 11-15, 2015), paper #15-3147, accepted.

Sanchez, DV.P.., Jacobs, D., Gregory, K., Huang, J., Hu, Y., Vidic, R.D., Yun, M. “Changes in Carbon Electrode Morphology Affect Microbial Fuel Cell Performance with Shewanella oneidensis MR-1” Energies, 8, 1817-1829, 2015.

Kerzmann, T., Sanchez, D.V.P., Bach, J., Walker, J., 2015, “Energy Week: Outreach Events Geared Toward High School and Middle School Students,” ASEE Middle Atlantic Conference 2015. Conference Presentation.

Arjmand, S., Sanchez, D.V.P., Budny, D. Adding an International Senior Design Component into the Civil Curriculum, ASEE Annual Conference, June 2015 Duda S, Baron JL, Wagener MM, Vidic R, Stout JE. Lack of correlation between Legionella colonization and microbial population quantification using heterotrophic plate count and adenosine triphosphate bioluminescence measurement. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 2015:187; 393.

Baron JL, Harris JK, Holinger EP, Duda S, Stevens MJ, Robertson CE, Ross KA, Pace NR, and Stout JE. Effect of Monochloramine Treatment on the Microbial Ecology of Legionella and Associated Bacterial Populations in a Hospital Hot Water System. Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 2015:38; 198-205.

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Czapor MB, Yassin M, Mietzner SM, Rihs JD, Stout JE. Effects of Sample Collection Methods on Legionella Recovery from Hospital Water Systems. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc., Nashville, TN, June 2015.

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He, C. and Vidic, R.D. “Application of AMD for produced water reuse: Equilibrium and kinetics of solid precipitation and solid waste management” 249th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Denver, CO, March 22-26, 2015.

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He, C. and Vidic, R.D. “Insight into anti-scaling mechanisms of phosphonates and organic polymers for the control of barium sulfate scales” 249th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Denver, CO, March 22-26, 2015.

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Zhang, T. and Vidic, R.D. “Fate of NORM in flowback water and waste management strategies during water reuse for hydraulic fracturing in Marcellus Shale” 249th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Denver, CO, March 22-26, 2015.

Li, Y. and Vidic, R.D. “Fate of radium in wastewater produced during unconventional gas extraction during carbonate precipitation reactions” 249th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Denver, CO, March 22-26, 2015.

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Brantley, S.L., Li, Z., Yoxtheimer, D. and Vidic, R.D. “The Pennsylvania Experience with Hydraulic Fracturing for Shale Gas Development: Relatively Infrequent Water Quality Problems with Lots of Public Attention”, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 14-18, 2015.

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Vidic, R.D., He, C. “Colloids in Produced Water and Their Impact on Membrane Filtration”, SPE Produced Water Handling and Management Symposium, Galveston, TX, May 21-22, 2015.

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R. Chen, T. Chen, A. Yan, Z. Poole, K. P. Chen, “Distributed Fiber Optical Sensing Beyond Temperature and Strain Measurements for Nuclear Energy,” Proc. 9th International Conference on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control, and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC-HMIT), 2015, vol. 1, pp. 414422.

R. Chen, A. Yan, M. Zaghloul, G. Lu, A. P. Bunger, G. A. Miller, G. Cranch, K. P. Chen, “Monitoring of Hydraulic Fracturing Using DFB Fiber Laser Acoustic Sensors,” Proc. CLEO: 2015, Optical Society of America (OSA) Technical Digest (online), 2015, paper STh4O.4. DOI: 10.1364/CLEO_SI.2015.STh4O.4 X. Chen, J. Xue, Y. Chen, “DaTuM: Dynamic Tone Mapping Technique for OLED Display Power Saving Based on Video Classification,” Proc. 52th Design Automation Conference (DAC), June 2015, article no. 65.

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D. M. Chiarulli, B. Jennings, Y. Fang, A. J. Seel, S. P. Levitan, “A Computational Primitive for Convolution based on Coupled Oscillator Arrays,” Proc. International Symposium on Very Large Scale Integration (ISVLSI 2015), Montpellier, France, July 8-10, 2015, paper no. 144, pp. 125 -130.

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DOI: 10.1145/2818950.2818963 S. P. Cortes, T. E. McDermott, A. D. Cardoza, M. J. Korytowski, “Case Study for Sustainable Building Modeling on a University Campus,” Proc. Engineering Sustainability 2015, April 19-21, 2015, Pittsburgh, PA, 2 pp.

I. Djurović, E. Sejdić, N. Bulatović, M. Simeunović, “An Analysis of Spectral Transformation Techniques on Graphs,” Proc. SPIE – Compressive Sensing IV, vol. 9484, Baltimore, MD, April 22-24, 2015, pp. 94840G-194840G-9. DOI: 10.1117/12.2177188 S. Duan, Z. Dong, X. Hu, L. Wang, H. Li, “Small-World Hopfield Neural Networks With Weight Salience Priority and Memristor Synapses for Digit Recognition,” Neural Computing and Applications, pp. 1-8, April 2015. DOI: 10.1007/s00521-015-1899-7 J. M. Dudik, J. L. Coyle, E. Sejdić, “Dysphagia Screening: Contributions of Cervical Auscultation Signals and Modern Signal Processing Techniques,” IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, vol. 45, no. 4, pp.

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Y. Fang, T. E. McDermott, “Grid Models and Building Models of Residential Energy Loads,” Engineering Sustainability 2015, April 19-21, 2015, Pittsburgh, PA, 2 pp.

Y. Fang, V. V. Yashin, D. M. Chiarulli, S. P. Levitan, “A Simplified Phase Model for Oscillator Based Computing,” Proc. International Symposium on Very Large Scale Integration (ISVLSI 2015), paper no. 148, pp. 231 - 236, Montpellier, France, July 8-10, 2015. DOI: 10.1109/ISVLSI.2015.44.

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G. L. Kusic, “Detecting Open Supply Conductors in Nuclear Plants by State Estimation,” Proc. Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control &Human-Machine Technologies (npic-hmit) 2015 Conference, Charlotte, NC, Feb 23-26, 2015.

G. L. Kusic, C. Ciocca, M. Yarlett, “Monitoring Nuclear Auxiliaries by State Estimation,” Proc. Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control &Human-Machine Technologies (npic-hmit) Symposium on Emergency Power Systems at Nuclear Plants, Munich, Germany, April 23-24, 2015.

A. Kwasinski, “Numerical Evaluation of Communication Networks Resilience with a Focus on Power Supply Performance during Natural Disasters,” Proc. INTELEC 2015, pp. 1-7.

A. Kwasinski, A. Kwasinski, “Increasing Sustainability and Resiliency of Cellular Networks Infrastructure by Harvesting Renewable Energy,” IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 110-116, April, 2015.

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F. Lan, Q. Tao, M. Jiang, G. Li, “Investigation of Electrical Properties of Contact Between Molybdenum Disulfied and Different Metals,” Proc. 15th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology, Rome, Italy, July 27-30, 2015. DOI: 10.1109/NANO.2015.7388680 B. Li, P. Gu, Y. Shan, Y. Wang, Y. Chen, H. Yang, “RRAM-Based Analog Approximate Computing,” IEEE Transactions on CAD of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 34, no. 12, December 2015, pp. 1905-1917.

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110-119, January 2015. DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2014.2349577 J. Xie, P. K. Meher, Z.-H. Mao, “Low-Latency High-Throughput Systolic Multipliers Over GF(2m) for NIST Recommended Pentanomials,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 62, no. 3, pp. 881-890, March 2015. DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2014.2386782 M. Xie, C. Pan, J. Hu, Y. Chen, C. Yang, “Checkpoint-Aware Instruction Scheduling for Nonvolatile Processor with Multiple Functional Units,” Proc. 20th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), January 2015, pp. 316-321. DOI: 10.1109/ASPDAC.2015.7059024 H. Xu, Y. Li, W. O. Collinge, L.A. Schaefer, M. M. Bilec, A. K. Jones, A.E. Landis, "Improving Efficiency of Wireless Sensor Networks Through Lightweight In-Memory Compression," Proc. 2015 Sixth International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC), pp. 1-8, December 14-16, 2015. DOI: 10.1109/IGCC.2015.7393696 H. Xu, M. M. Bilec, W.O. Collinge, L. A. Schaefer, A. E. Landis, A. K. Jones, "Lynx: A Self-Organizing Wireless Sensor Network with Commodity Palmtop Computers," Proc. 2015 ACM/IEEE International Workshop on System Level Interconnect Prediction (SLIP), June 6, 2015, pp.1-7. DOI: 10.1109/SLIP.2015.7171712 H. Xu, Y. Li, R. Melhem, A. K. Jones, "Multilane Racetrack Caches: Improving Efficiency through Compression and Independent Shifting," Proc. Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), 2015 20th Asia and South Pacific, January 19-22 2015, pp. 417-422. DOI: 10.1109/ASPDAC.2015.7059042 Y. Xu, J. Yang, R. Melhem, “BandArb: Mitigating the Effects of Thermal and Process Variations in SiliconPhotonic Network,” Proc. 12th ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers, May 2015, pp. 30:130:8. DOI: 10.1145/2742854.2742876 Y. Xu, B. Zhao, Y. Zhang, J. Yang, “Simple Virtual Channel Allocation for High-Throughput and HighFrequency On-Chip Routers,” ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing, vol. 2, no. 1, article no. 6, pp. 1-23, May 2015. DOI: 10.1145/2742349 A. Yan, R. Chen, Z. L. Poole, P. R. Ohodnicki, T. Elsmann, T. Habisreuther, M. Rothhardt, H. Bartelt, K. P. Chen, “Fiber Optical Chemical Sensors Rated for 800oC Operation,” Proc. CLEO: 2015, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optical Society of America, 2015), paper STh4O.3. DOI: 10.1364/CLEO_SI.2015.STh4O.3

A. Yan, M. Zaghloul, Z. L. Poole, P. Ohodnicki, M. Buric, K. P. Chen, “Ultra-High Temperature Fiber Optical Chemical Sensors Based on Nano-Porous Metal Oxides,” Proc. SPIE 9461, Sensors for Extreme Harsh Environments II, 2015, paper 9491-54. DOI: 10.1117/12.2178147 B. Yan, Z. Li, Y. Zhang, J. Yang, W. Zhao, P. C.-F. Chia, H. Li, “A High-Speed Robust NVM-TCAM Design Using Body Bias Feedback,” Proc. 25th ACM International Conference on Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), May 2015, pp. 69-74. DOI: 10.1145/2742060.2742077 B. Yan, Y. Zhang, E. Eken, W. Wen, W. Zhao, Y. Chen, “Recent Progresses of STT Memory Design and Applications,” Proc. 11th IEEE International Conference on ASIC (ASICON), November 2015. (Invited) Z. L. Yan, R. Poole, P. W. Chen, P. Leu, P. Ohodnicki, K. P. Chen, “Scalable Fabrication of Metal Oxide Functional Materials and Their Applications in High-Temperature Optical Sensing,” Journal of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, vol. 67, pp. 58-67, 2015. DOI: 10.1007/s11837-014-1235-1 A. Yang, R. Chen, M. Zaghloul, Z. L. Poole, P. Ohodnicki, K. P. Chen, “Sapphire Fiber Optical Hydrogen Sensors for High-Temperature Environments,” IEEE Photonics Technol. Lett., vol. 28, pp. 47-50, 2015. DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2015.2479563 J. Yang, P. Wang, Y. Zhang, Y. Cheng, W. Zhao, Y. Chen, H. Li, “Radiation-Induced Soft Error Analysis of STT-MRAM: A Device to Circuit Approach,” IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), August 2015. DOI: 10.1109/TCAD.2015.2474366 V. V. Yashin, S. P. Levitan, A. C. Balazs, “Achieving Synchronization with Active Hybrid Materials: Coupling Self-Oscillating Gels and Piezoelectric Films,” Scientific Reports, vol. 5, 11577, 2015. DOI: 10.1038/srep11577 V. V. Yashin, S. P. Levitan, A. C. Balazs, “Modeling the Entrainment of Self-Oscillating Gels to Periodic Mechanical Deformation,” Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, vol. 25, no. 064302, 2015. DOI:10.1063/1.4921689 C. Zhang, G. Sun, W. Zhang, F. Mi, H. Li, W. Zhao, “Quantitative Modeling of Racetrack Memory, A Tradeoff among Area, Performance, and Power,” Proc. 19th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC), January 2015, pp. 100-105. (Best Paper Award) DOI: 10.1109/ASPDAC.2015.

7058988 L. Zhang, N. Ge, J. J. Yang, Z. Li, R. S. Williams, Y. Chen, “Low Voltage Two-State-Variable Memristor Model of Vacancy-Drift Resistive Switches,” Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing, vol. 119, no. 1, pp.1-9, April 2015 (invited). DOI: 10.1007/s00339-015-9033-3 X. Zhang, G. Sun, C. Zhang, W. Zhang, Y. Liang, Y. Chen, J. Di, “Fork Path: Improving Efficiency of ORAM by Removing Redundant Memory Accesses,” IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), December 2015, pp. 102-114. DOI: 10.1145/2830772.2830787 X. Zhang, Y. Zhang, B. Childers, J. Yang, “Exploiting DRAM Restore Time Variations in Deep Sub-micron Scaling,” Design, Automation and Test in Europe, 2015, pp. 477-482, ISBN: 978-3-9815370-4-8.

X. Zhang, Y. Zhang, J. Yang, “Adaptive Lane Borrowing of Hybrid Memory Cube,” poster presented at 52nd ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), June 2015.

X. Zhang, Y. Zhang, J. Yang, “DLB: Dynamic Lane Borrowing for Improving Bandwidth and Performance in Hybrid Memory Cube,” Proc. 33rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), New York City, October 2015, 8 pp. DOI: 10.1109/ICCD.2015.7357093 X. Zhang, Y. Zhang, J. Yang, “TriState-SET: Proactive SET for Improved Performance of MLC Phase Change Memories,” Proc. 33rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), New York City, October 2015, 7 pp. DOI: 10.1109/ICCD.2015.7357178

X. Zhang, L. Zhao, Y. Zhang, J. Yang, “Exploit Common Source-Line to Construct Energy Efficient Domain Wall Memory based Caches,” Proc. 33rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), New York City, October 2015, 8 pp. DOI: 10.1109/ICCD.2015.7357097 Y. Zhang, W. Wu, Y. Chen, “Spintronic Logic Gates Based on Giant Spin Hall Effect (GSHE) MTJ Element,” Proc. 18th Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition (DATE), March 2015, pp. 1000-1005. ISBN: 978-3-9815-3704-8, INSPEC Accession no. 15076191 (Invited) Y. Zhang, Y. Li, Z. Sun, H. Li, Y. Chen, A. K. Jones, “Read Performance: The Newest Barrier in Scaled STT-RAM,” IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 1170-1174, June 2015. DOI: 10.1109/TVLSI.2014.2326797 Y. Zhang, B. Yan, W. Wu, H. Li, Y. Chen, “Giant Spin Hall Effect (GSHE) Logic Design for Low Power Application,” Proc. Design, Automation, & Test in Europe, France, March 2015. DOI: 10.7873/DATE.2015.

1118 Y. Zhang, B. N. Yan, W. Kang, Y. Q. Cheng, J.-O. Klein, Y. G. Zhang, Y. Chen, W. S. Zhao, “Compact Model of Subvolume MTJ and Its Design Application at Nanoscale Technology Nodes,” IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 62, no. 6, pp. 2048-2055, June 2015. DOI: 10.1109/TED.2015. 2414721

Department of Industrial Engineering Abolghasem, S., M.R. Shankar, R. Tabatabaei and R. Zarama, “Universal Scaling Behaviour of Sub grain Size Evolution in Face-Centered Cubic Metals with Moderate to High Stacking Fault Energy,” TMS2015 Supplemental Proceedings, pp. 1465-1472, 2015.

An, Y., and B. Zeng. "Exploring the Modeling Capacity of Two-Stage Robust Optimization: Variants of Robust Unit Commitment Model." Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on 30.1 (2015): 109-122.

An, Y., Y. Zhang, and B. Zeng. "The Reliable Hub-and-Spoke Design Problem: Models and Algorithms."

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 77 (2015): 103-122.

Anhalt, A.N. and J.P. Kharoufeh (2015). “Comparative study of lung cancer screening policies and cost impacts,” Proceedings of the 2015 Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference, Nashville, TN, May 30 - June 2, 2015. (Best Paper Award: Operations Research Track.)

Barry, M., M. Shayan, B. T. Jankowitz, Yanfei Chen, X. Duan, A. M. Robertson, M. K. Chyu, and Y. Chun, “Smart Guidewires for Smooth Navigation in Neurovascular Intervention”, ASME Journal of Medical Devices, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 011011-1 – 011011-9, Mar. 2015.

Basu, S. and M. R. Shankar, “Crystallographic Textures Resulting from Severe Shear Deformation in Machining,” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, Vol. 46, pp. 801-812, 2015.

Beheshti, B., O.Y. Ozaltin, M.H. Zare, and O.A. Prokopyev, “Exact Solution Approach for a Class of Nonlinear Bilevel Knapsack Problems,” Journal of Global Optimization, Vol. 61/2 (2015), pp. 291–310.

Besterfield-Sacre, M.E., L.J. Shuman, G. Ragusa and C. Matherly, “Assessing the Spectrum of International Undergraduate Engineering Educational Experiences,” CD Proceedings: 2015 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Seattle, WA, June 13-16, 2015.

Bian, L., Gebraeel, N. and J.P. Kharoufeh (2015). “Degradation Modeling for Real-Time Estimation of Residual Lifetimes in Dynamic Environment,” IIE Transactions, 47 (5), 471-486. (Winner: 2016 Best Paper Award.)

Bodnar, C.A., R.M. Clark, and M. Besterfield-Sacre (2015). “Lessons Learned through Sequential Offerings of an Innovation and Entrepreneurship Boot Camp for Sophomore Engineering Students,” Journal of Entrepreneurship in Engineering, Volume 6, Number 1 – 2015; DOI: 10.7814/jeenv6p5 Braithwaite, R.S. and M.S. Roberts. “Validation is Necessary but Insufficient,” [Letter] Medical Decision Making 2015. Oct; 35 (7):815-6 Camillus, John C., “Wicked Problems,” The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management, (April 2015).

[Online] Available at: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/esm/doifinder/10.1057/9781137294678.0780.

Camillus, John, “Feed-Forward Systems: Managing a Future Filled with Wicked Problems.” Rotman Magazine, (Winter 2015), pp. 52-59.

Chen, S-I., B. A. Norman, J. Rajgopal, and B. Y Lee. “Passive Cold Devices for Vaccine Supply Chains,” Annals of Operations Research, Vol.230, No. 1, pp. 87-105, 2015.

Chen, Y., Brian T. Jankowitz, Sung Kwon Cho and Y. Chun, “A Novel Low Profile Wireless Flow Sensor to Monitor Hemodynamic Changes in Cerebral Aneurysm,” SPIE Smart Structures and Materials and Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, San Diego, CA, Mar. 08-12, 2015.

Chen, Y., Brian T. Jankowitz, Sung Kwon Cho, Woon-Hong Yeo, and Y. Chun, “A Novel Low-Profile Flow Sensor for Monitoring of Hemodynamics in Cerebral Aneurysm,” Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp.71-84, May 2015.

Chen, Y., Matthew M. Barry, Mahdis Shayan, Brian T. Jankowitz, Xinjie Duan, Anne M. Robertson, Minking K. Chyu and Y. Chun, “Smart Guidewires for Smooth Navigation in Neurovascular Intervention,” SPIE Smart Structures and Materials and Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, San Diego, CA, Mar. 08-12, 2015.

Chhatwal J, F. Kanwal, M.S. Roberts and M.A. Dunn. “Cost-Effectiveness and Budget Impact of Hepatitis C Virus Treatment with Sofosbuvir and Ledipasvir in the United States,” Annals of Internal Medicine. 2015 Mar 17; 162(6): 397-406. PMID 25775312 Claypool, E., B. A. Norman and K.L. Needy, “Design for Supply Chain: An Analysis of Key Risk Factors,” Industrial Engineering & Management, Vol. 4, No. 2, doi:10.4172/2169-0316.1000156, May 2015.

Degirmenci, G., J.P. Kharoufeh and O.A. Prokopyev (2015). “On Optimal Clustering in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks Under Uncertainty.” Military Operations Research, 20 (2), 19-33.

Esmaili, N., B.A. Norman, and J. Rajgopal; “A Greedy Primal-Dual Type Heuristics to Select an Inventory Control Policy,” in Engineering Systems and Networks: The Way Ahead for Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, Marlene Amorim, Luis Ferreira (eds.), Springer, 2016 (forthcoming; selected from Proc. of International IIE Conference 2015, Aveiro, Portugal).

Flory, J.A., J.P. Kharoufeh and D.T. Abdul-Malak (2015). “Optimal replacement of continuously degrading systems in partially observed environments,” Naval Research Logistics, 62 (5), 395-415.

Gao, T., P-.S. Huang, J.-K. Lee and P.W. Leu, “Hierarchical metal nanomesh/microgrid structures for ordered and uniform transparent electrodes,” RSC Advances, vol. 5, no. 87, pp. 70 713–70 717, Aug. 2015.

Gao, T., Z. Li, P-.S. Huang, G.J. Shenoy, D. Parobek., S. Tan., J.-K. Lee. , H. Liu and P.W. Leu., “Hierarchical graphene/metal grid structures for stable, flexible transparent conductors,” ACS Nano, vol. 9,

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Haight, J.M., “Safely Managing the Design and Use of Automated Control Systems,” Proceedings of the American Society of Safety Engineers Professional Development Conference, Dallas, TX, 15 June, 2015 Haight, J.M., “The Design and Use of Automated Control Systems; where does the human operator optimally fit in?” State of the Literature and Proposed Research, Proceedings of the 19th Triennial Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA), Melbourne VIC, Australia, 10 August 2015 Haight, J.M., D.G. Cole and E. Sejdic, “The Optimized Design and Use of Automated Control Systems - State of the Literature and Proposed Research,” Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC & HMIT 2015) American Nuclear Society, Charlotte, NC, 25 February 2015 Hanmer J, D. Feeny, B. Fischhoff, R.D. Hays, R. Hess, P. Pilkonis, D. Revicki, M.S. Roberts, J. Tsevat, and L. Yu. “The PROMIS of QALYs.” Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 13(1), 122, August 11, 2015.

He, K., L.M. Maillart and O.A. Prokopyev (2015). “Scheduling Preventive Maintenance as a Function of an Imperfect Inspection Interval,” IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol. 64, No. 3, pp. 983-997.

Karademir, S. and O.A. Prokopyev, “On Speed Scaling via Integer Programming,” Operations Research Letters, Vol. 43/5 (2015), pp. 537-544.

Khademi, A, D.R. Saure, A.J. Schaefer, R.S. Braithwaite and M.S. Roberts. “The Price of Nonabandonment: HIV in Resource-Limited Settings.” Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Published online in Articles in Advance 29 Jun 2015 Lee, B.Y., D.L. Connor, A.R. Wateska, B. A. Norman, J. Rajgopal, B.E. Cakouros, S-.I. Chen, E.G. Claypool, L. A. Haidari, V. Karir, J. Leonard, L.E. Mueller, P. Paul, M.M. Schmitz, J.S. Welling, Y.T. Wang and S.T. Brown; “Landscaping the Structure of GAVI Country Vaccine Supply Chains and Testing the Effects of Radical Redesign,” Vaccine, Vol. 33, No. 36, pp. 4451-4458, 2015.

Levonisova, S.V., R.E. Savage, S.C. Streiner, E.J. McCave, G. Ragusa, C. Matherly, L. Benson, M.E. Besterfield-Sacre, and L.J. Shuman, “Identifying Factors That Enhance Undergraduate Engineering Students’ Global Preparedness,” CD Proceedings: 2015 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Seattle, WA, June 13-16, 2015.

Li, Z., M. Shahidehpour, W. Wu, B. Zeng, B. Zhang and W. Zheng. "Decentralized multiarea robust generation unit and tie-line scheduling under wind power uncertainty." Sustainable Energy, IEEE Transactions on 6 (2015): 1377-1388.

Luangkesorn, K. L., and Z. Eren-Doğu, (2016, online 2015), “Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods for estimating surgery duration,” Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, Vol 86(2), doi:10.1080/00949655.2015.1004065 Luangkesorn, K. L., G. Klein, and B. Bidanda, (Online 2015), “Analysis of Production Systems with potential for severe disruptions.” International Journal of Production Economics, special issue for the 22nd International Conference on Production Research, to be published in 2016, doi:10.1016/j.ijpe.2015.09.014.

Moradi, M., S. Basu and M. R. Shankar, “In situ Measurement of Deformation Mechanics and its Spatiotemporal Scaling Behavior in Equal Channel Angular Pressing,” Journal of Materials Research, Vol. 30, pp.

798-810, 2015.

Moradi, M., S. Basu and M.R. Shankar, “Characterization of deformation mechanics and microstructure evolution during indirect extrusion in small length-scales,” Proceedings of the ASME Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference (MSEC), 2015.

Norman, B. A., J. Rajgopal, J. Lim, K. Gorha, L. Haidari, S.T. Brown and B.Y. Lee, “Modular Vaccine Packaging Increases Packing Efficiency,” Vaccine, Vol. 33, No. 27, pp. 3135-3141, 2015. Özaltin, N.O., M. Besterfield-Sacre, and R. Clark (2015). “An Engineering Educator's Decision Support Tool for Improving Innovation in Student Design Projects,” Advances in Engineering Education, 4, no4 (2015): 120. Özaltin, N.O., M. Besterfield-Sacre, and R. Clark (2015). “Design Team Processes that Contribute to Innovative Outcomes: A Mixed Methods Approach,” International Journal of Engineering Education 31, no6 (A) (2015) pp. 1537-1553. Özaltin, N.O., M.E. Besterfield-Sacre, G.E. Okudan Kremer, and L.J. Shuman (2015). “An Investigation on the Implications of Design Process Phases on Artifact Novelty,” Journal of Mechanical Design, 137, no5 (051001 2015): pp. 12 pages; DOI:10.1115/1.4028530 Ozkan, E. and J.P. Kharoufeh (2015). “Incompleteness of results for the slow-server problem with an unreliable fast server,” Annals of Operations Research, 226 (1), 741-745.

Portnoy, A., S. Ozawa, S. Grewal, B. A. Norman, J. Rajgopal, K.M. Gorham, S.T. Brown and B.Y. Lee. “Costs of Vaccine Programs Across 94 Low- and Middle-Income Countries,” Vaccine, Vol. 33, Suppl. 1, pp.

A99-A108, 2015.

Roberts, M.S., “Dynamic Simulation Comes of Age,” Editorial Value in Health. 2015. Vol 18(2), p143-144.

PMID 25773548 Shayan, M. and Y. Chun, "An overview of thin film nitinol endovascular devices," Acta Biomaterialia, Vol. 21, pp. 20-34, Jul. 2015.

Shayan, M., M. Moradi, M.R. Shankar and Y. Chun, “Enhanced Osteoblast Cell Growth on the Nanograin Surface,” The Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference (ISERC), Nashville, TN, May 30 – Jun. 2, 2015.

Shayan, M., M. Moradi, M.R. Shankar and Y.J. Chun, “Improved MC3T3 cellular growth on nano-grained 316L stainless steel obtained by linear-plane machining severe plastic deformation,” Proceedings of the Society For Biomaterials’ 2015 Annual Meeting, 2015. (Awarded the Honorable Mention STAR (Student Travel Achievement Recognition).

Shayan, M., S. Y. Yang, W. H. Ryu, and Y. Chun, “A Novel Low-Profile Thin Film Nitinol/Silk Endograft for Treating Small Vascular Diseases,” Journal of Biomedical materials research Part B: Applied Biomaterials, doi: 10.1002/jbm.b.33548, pp. 1-10, Dec. 2015.

Streiner, S.C., E. McCave, S.V. Levonisova, R.E. Savage, M.E. Besterfield-Sacre, G. Gagusa, L. Benson, C. Matherly and L.J. Shuman, “An Inductive Qualitative Analysis of Student Interviews on Engineering Global Preparedness,” CD Proceedings: 2015 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Seattle, WA, June 13-16, 2015.

Sullivan, K.M., D.T. Abdul-Malak, J.P. Kharoufeh and R.O. Baldwin (2015). “Optimally locating application virtualization resources on a network,” Military Operations Research, 20 (1), 5-20.

Trapp, A.C., O.A. Prokopyev, “A Note on Constraint Aggregation and Value Functions for Two-Stage Stochastic Integer Programs,” Discrete Optimization, Vol. 15 (2015), pp. 37-45.

Varier, R.U., E. Biltaji, K.J. Smith, M.S. Roberts, M. Kyle Jensen, J. LaFleur and R.E. Nelson. “Costeffectiveness analysis of fecal microbiota transplantation for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection,” Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2015 Apr; 36 (4):438-44. PMID: 25782899

Veremyev, A., O.A. Prokopyev and E.L. Pasiliao, “Critical Nodes for Distance-Based Connectivity and Related Problems in Graphs,” Networks, Vol. 66/3 (2015), pp. 170–195.

Wang, B. and P.W. Leu, “High index of refraction nanosphere coatings for light trapping in crystalline silicon thin film solar cells,” Nano Energy, Apr. 2015. http://www.sciencedirect.com/ science/article/pii/S221128551420108X. Xie, X., B. Zeng, and M. Nachabe. “Sampling design for water distribution network chlorine decay calibration,” Urban Water Journal, 12 (2015), 190-199.

Yan, A., Z.L. Poole, R. Chen, P.W. Leu, P. Ohodnicki and K.P. Chen, “Scalable fabrication of metal oxide functional materials and their applications in high-temperature optical sensing,” Journal of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, vol. 67, no. 1, pp. 53–8, Jan. 2015.

Yuan, W., B. Zeng, E. Litvinov, T., Zheng, and J. Zhao, (2015, July). "Fast computing method for two-stage robust network constrained unit commitment problem." In Power & Energy Society General Meeting, 2015 IEEE (pp. 1-5). IEEE.

Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science C.Witherspoon, P.Zheng, M.Chmielus, D.C.Dunand, P.Mullner, “Effect of porosity on the magnetomechanical behavior of polycrystalline magnetic shape-memory Ni-Mn-Ga foams”, Acta Mater, 92, 64-71 (2015) K.Ullakko, M.Chmielus, P.Müllner, “Stabilizing a fine twin structure in Ni-Mn-Ga samples by coatings and ion implantation”, Scripta Mater, 94, 40 (2015), accepted 2014 P.Zhang, J.Toman, Y.Yu, E.Biyikli, M.Kirca, M.Chmielus, and A.C.To, “Efficient Design-Optimization of Variable-Density Hexagonal Cellular Structure by Additive Manufacturing: Theory and Validation” J Manufacturing Science & Engineering – Trans of the ASME, 137, 2 (2015), accepted Junqi Yuan§, Jian Feng§ and Sung Kwon Cho, 2015, “Cheerios effect controlled by electrowetting,” Langmuir, Vol. 31, No. (30), pp. 8502-8511 Yanfei Chen, Brian Jankowitz, Sung Kwon Cho, Woo-Hong Yeo, and Youngjae Chun, 2015, “A novel lowprofile flow sensor for monitoring of hemodynamics in cerebral aneurysm,” Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 71-84 Junqi Yuan§ and Sung Kwon Cho, “Mechanism of AC electrowetting propulsion on free surface,” USKOREA Conference 2015, Atlanta, GA, July 29-August 1, 2015 Junqi Yuan and Sung Kwon Cho, “Active control of Cheerios effect for dielectric fluid,” IEEE 28th International Conference on MEMS (MicroElectroMechanical Conference), Jan 18-22, 2015, Estoril, Portugal, pp. 496-499 Jian Feng§, Junqi Yuan§ and Sung Kwon Cho, 2015, “Micropropulsion by an acoustic bubble for navigating microfluidics space,” Lab on a Chip, Vol. 15, pp. 1554-1562

Sang Hyun Byun§, Junqi Yuan§, Myung Gon Yoon, and Sung Kwon Cho, 2015, “Wirelessly powered electrowetting-on-dielectric (EWOD) by planar receiver coils,” Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Vol. 25, Paper #035019 (9 pages) Junqi Yuan and Sung Kwon Cho, 2015, “Cheerios effect and its control by contact angle modulation,” Chapter 3 in Advances in Contact Angles, Wettability and Adhesion, K. L. Mittal (ed.), pp. 73-110 Junqi Yuan§ and Sung Kwon Cho, 2015, “Mechanism and flow measurement of AC electrowetting propulsion on free surface,” Experiments in Fluids, Vol. 56, paper # 67 (10 pages) Yu Zhou, Sien Chien Siw, Chris Schade, Minking Chyu, and C. Isaac Garcia, “Development and Optimization for Metallic Parts/Components Using Powder Bed Additive” Manufacturing, Materials Science and Technology (MS&T) 2015. October 4-8, 2015, Columbus, Ohio, USA M. Barry, K. Agbim, M.K. Chyu, “Performance of a Thermoelectric Device with Integrated Heat Exchangers”, Journal of Electronic Materials, Volume 44, June 2015, Pages 1394-1401.

F. Li, M.K. Chyu, J. Wang, B. Tang, “Life grade recognition of rotating machinery based on Supervised Orthogonal Linear Local Tangent Space Alignment and Optimal Supervised Fuzzy C-Means Clustering”, Measurement, Volume 73, September 2015, pp. 384-400 M. Barry, J. Youngsoo, B.V.K. Reddy, J.K. Lee, T.X. Phuoc, M.K. Chyu, “Fluid Filtration Behavior and Rheological Properties of Nanoparticle Additive and Intercalated Clay Hybrid Bentonite Drilling Fluids,” J. Petroleum Science and Engineering, Vol. 127, 338-346, 2015.

M. Barry, M. Shayan, B. T. Jankowitz, Y. Chen, X. Duan, A. Robertson, M.K Chyu, Y. Chun, “Smart Guidewires for Smooth Navigation in Neurovascular Intervention,” J. Medical Devices, Vol. 9, no 1, 011011, 2015.

F. Li, J. Wang, M.K. Chyu, B. Tang, “Weak fault diagnosis of rotating machinery based on feature reduction with Supervised Orthogonal Local Fisher Discriminant Analysis”, Neurocomputing, Volume 168, 30 November 2015, pp. 505-519.

M. Barry, K. Agbim, M.K. Chyu, “Performance of a Thermoelectric Device with Integrated Heat Exchangers”, Journal of Electronic Materials, Volume 44, June 2015, Pages 1394-1401.

F. Li, J. Wang, M.K. Chyu, B. Tang, “Weak fault diagnosis of rotating machinery based on feature reduction with Supervised Orthogonal Local Fisher Discriminant Analysis”, Neurocomputing, Volume 168, 30 November 2015, pp. 505-519.

F. Li, M.K. Chyu, J. Wang, B. Tang, “Life grade recognition of rotating machinery based on Supervised Orthogonal Linear Local Tangent Space Alignment and Optimal Supervised Fuzzy C-Means Clustering”, Measurement, Volume 73, September 2015, pp. 384-400.

M. Barry, J. Youngsoo, B.V.K. Reddy, J.K. Lee, T.X. Phuoc, M.K. Chyu, “Fluid Filtration Behavior and Rheological Properties of Nanoparticle Additive and Intercalated Clay Hybrid Bentonite Drilling Fluids,” J. Petroleum Science and Engineering, Vol. 127, 338-346, 2015.

M. Barry, M. Shayan, B. T. Jankowitz, Y. Chen, X. Duan, A. Robertson, M.K Chyu, Y. Chun, “Smart Guidewires for Smooth Navigation in Neurovascular Intervention,” J. Medical Devices, Vol. 9, no 1, 011011, 2015.

Auletta, J, LeDonne, G, Gronborg, K., Ladd, C., Liu, H., Clark, W., and Meyer, T. , “Stimuli-Responsive Iron-Crosslinked Hydrogels that undergo Redox-Driven Switching between Hard and Soft States,” Macromolecules, 2015, 48 (6), pp. 1736-1747.

Clark, R., M. Besterfield-Sacre, and W.W. Clark, “Experiences with “Flipping” an Introductory Mechanical Design Course,” in Flipping the Classroom: practice and practices (Editor, Neville Smith) Clark, R., Besterfield, M., and WW Clark, accepted April 2015 W. Wang, C. J. D’Angelo, D. G. Cole, and D. Mosse, “Bitvector: Fault tolerant aggregation scheme for monitoring in nuclear power plants”, ICESS, 2015 M. Kristufek and D. G. Cole, “Real-Time Control Systems Simulations for a Molten Salt Nuclear Reactor”, NPIC-HMIT, 2015 C. J. D’Angelo and D. G. Cole, “Using Pattern Recognition for On-line Sensor Prognostics and Diagnostics in Nuclear Power Plants”, NPIC-HMIT, 2015 C. J. D’Angelo and D. G. Cole, “Hot Standby State Observers for Sensor Fault-Tolerance in Small Modular Reactors”, ANS Winter Conference, 2015 P.A. Soloski, N. J. Thimons, A. A. Marks, J. Hartle, Q. Trest, A. Johnston, W. Perisse and A. J. DeArdo, “Sheared-edge ductility / hole-expansion ratio testing of advanced high-strength steels,” Materials Science and Technology (MS&T) 2015, October 4 – 8, 2015, Columbus, Ohio, USA, pp917-926 M. Hua, Y. Gong, M. Gordillo, R. J. Glodowski and A. J. DeArdo, “HRTEM on the Precipitates in V-added DP980 Steels,” ibid, pp947-953 Bing Ma, Hwan-Goo Seong, Yu Gong, and A. J. DeArdo, “The Effect of Hot Rolling Process and Chemical Composition on the Mechanical Performance of API J55 Steel,” ibid, pp693-700 Y. Gong, M. Hua, J. Uusitalo, and A. J. DeArdo, “Effects of Thermomechanical Processing and Vanadium Additions on Microstructures and Properties of High Strength Dual-phase Steels Processed with Continuous Galvanizing Line Simulations,” ibid, pp995-1006 C. Fang, C. I. Garcia, S. Choi, and A. J. DeArdo, “A Study of the Batch Annealing of Cold-Rolled HSLA Steels Containing Niobium or Titanium,” ibid, pp969-980 Y. Gong and A. J. DeArdo, “A Study of the Microstructure and Properties of Dual-Phase Steels Processed Using A Continuous Galvanizing Line Simulation: The Benefits of Optimized Hot and Cold Rolling and the Addition of Vanadium,” Baosteel Academic Conference 2015, Shanghai, October 21- 23, 2015 (Keynote Paper), TMS, pp1-20 A.J. DeArdo, “Microalloyed Steels: Past, Present and Future,” HSLA Steels 2015, Microalloying 2015 & Offshore Engineering Steels 2015 Conference Proceedings, Chinese Society of Metals, Hangzhou, Nov. 2015 (Plenary Paper), Wiley-TMS, pp17-32 Yu Gong, M. Hua, J. Uusitalo and A.J. DeArdo, “Improving Strength-Ductility Balance of High Strength Dual-Phase Steels by Addition of Vanadium,” HSLA Steels 2015, Microalloying 2015 & Offshore Engineering Steels 2015 Conference Proceedings, Chinese Society of Metals, Hangzhou, Nov. 2015 (Keynote Paper), Wiley-TMS, pp621-634 Y. Gong, M. Hua, J. Uusitalo, and A.J. DeArdo, “Improving the Strength-Ductility Balance in High- Strength Dual-Phase Steels Through the Addition of Vanadium”, Galvatech 2015 Proceedings, Toronto, Canada, June 2015, AIST, pp. 197-207 S S Soumya, A. Gupta, A. Cugno, L. Deseri, K.Dayal, D. Das, S. Sen, and M. Inamdar, 2015, “Coherent motion of monolayer sheets under confinement and its pathological implications”, PLOS One- Computational Biology, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004670

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P.H. Pisciuneri, S.L. Yilmaz, P.A. Strakey and P. Givi, ``Massively Parallel FDF Simulation of Turbulent

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A.G. Nouri, P. Givi, M.B. Nik and S.B. Pope, ``Pressure-Velocity-Scalar Filtered Mass Density Function for Large Eddy Simulation of Compressible Turbulent Flow,'' {\it Bulletin of the American Physical Society}, vol.\ {\bf 60}, no.\ 21, p.\ 565, 68th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics of the American Physical Society, Bostona, MA, November 22-24, 2015.

P.H. Pisciuneri, A. Zheng, P. Givi, A. Labrinidis, and P. Chrysanthis, ``Repartitioning Strategies for Massively Parallel Simulation of Reacting Flow,'', {\it Bulletin of the American Physical Society}, vol.\{\bf 60}, no.\ 21, p.\ 503, 68th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics of the American Physical Society, Boston, MA, November 22-24, 2015.

Invited: P. Givi, ``Computational Fluids Modeling and Simulation in the AC Industry,'' 36th International Activated Carbon Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, September 17-18, 2015.

S. Sammak, P. Givi, M.J. Brazell, and D.J. Mavriplis, ``A Coupled DG-MC Method for FDF Simulation,'' International Conference on Model Integration across Disparate Scales in Complex Turbulent Flow Simulation, State College, PA, June 15-17, 2015.

A. Nouri, P. Givi, M.B. Nik and S.B. Pope, ``Pressure-Velocity Filtered Mass Density Function (PV- FMDF) for Large Eddy Simulation of Compressible Turbulent Flow,'' International Conference on Model Integration across Disparate Scales in Complex Turbulent Flow Simulation, State College, PA, June 15-17, 2015.

P.H. Pisciuneri, E. Meneses, A. Zheng, A. Labrinidis, P. Chrysanthis and P. Givi, ``Load Balancing, Dynamic Repartitioning, and Data Migration in Turbulent Reactors' Simulation,'' Proceedings of 15th SIAM International Conference on Numerical Combustion, p.\ 81, Avignon, France, April 19-22, 2015.

Maries, T. Luciani, P.H. Pisciuneri, M.B. Nik, S.L. Yilmaz, P. Givi, and G.E. Marai, ``A Clustering Method for Identifying Regions of Interest in Turbulent Combustion Tensor Fields,'' Chapter 16 in {\it Visualization and Processing of Higher Order Descriptors for Multi-Valued Data}, Series in Mathematics and Visualization, pp.\ 323--338, Editors: Ingrid Hotz and Thomas Schultz, Springer (2015).

Liu, Xuan L.; Gheno, Thomas; Lindahl, Bonnie B.; Lindwall, Greta; Gleeson, Brian; Liu, Zi-Kui, “Firstprinciples calculations, experimental study, and thermodynamic modeling of the Al-Co-Cr system,” PLoS One , 10(4), (2015), e0121386/1-e0121386/24.

Gheno, Thomas; Liu, Xuan L.; Lindwall, Greta; Liu, Zi-Kui; Gleeson, Brian, “Experimental study and thermodynamic modeling of the Al-Co-Cr-Ni system,” Science and Technology of Advanced Materials, 16(5), (2015), 1-12.

Gheno, Thomas; Zahiri Azar, Maryam; Heuer, Arthur H.; Gleeson, Brian, “Reaction morphologies developed by nickel aluminides in type II hot corrosion conditions: The effect of chromium,” Corrosion Science, 101, (2015), 32-46.

Gheno, Thomas; Gleeson, Brian, “On the Hot Corrosion of Nickel at 700 °C,” Oxidation of Metals, 84(5- 6), (2015), 567-584.

By Liu, Xu; Bonifacio, Cecile; Yang, Judith C.; Ercius, Peter; Gleeson, Brian, “Effect of environmental sulfur on the structure of alumina scales formed on Ni-base alloys,” Acta Materialia, 97, (2015), 41- 49.

Gheno, Thomas; Meier, Gerald H.; Gleeson, Brian, “High Temperature Reaction of MCrAlY Coating Compositions with CaO Deposits,” Oxidation of Metals, 84(1-2), (2015), 185-209.

Zhao, Wei; Gleeson, Brian, “Assessment of the Detrimental Effects of Steam on Al2O3-Scale Establishment,” Oxidation of Metals, 83(5-6), (2015), 607-627.

Liu, X.; Gleeson, B., “Effect of environmental sulphur on structure of alumina scales formed on Ni- base alloys,” Materials at High Temperatures, 32(1-2), (2015), 10-15.

Zschau, H.-E.; Zhao, W.; Neve, S.; Gleeson, B.; Schuetze, M., “Promotion of the Al2O3-Scale Formation on Ni-Cr-Al Alloys via the Fluorine Effect,” Oxidation of Metals, 83(3-4), (2015), 335-349.

Alvarado-Orozco, J. M.; Morales-Estrella, R.; Boldrick, M. S.; Trapaga-Martinez, G.; Gleeson, B.; MunozSaldana, J., Kinetic Study of the Competitive Growth Between θ-Al2O3 and α-Al2O3 During the Early Stages of Oxidation of β-(Ni,Pt)Al Bond Coat Systems: Effects of Low Oxygen Partial Pressure and Temperature,” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A: Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science, 46(2), (2015), 726738.

Zhao, Wei; Kang, Yihong; Orozco, Juan Manuel Alvarado; Gleeson, Brian, “Quantitative Approach for Determining the Critical Volume Fraction for the Transition from Internal to External Oxidation,” Oxidation of Metals, 83(3-4), (2015), 187-201.

Griesheimer, D.P., and T.P. Goter, “Estimating the Effective Neutron Generation Time with Monte Carlo Correlated Sampling,” Proceedings of ANS MC2015 – Joint International Conference on Mathematics and Computation (M&C), Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications (SNA) and the Monte Carlo (MC) Method, Nashville, Tennessee, April 19-23, CD-ROM (2015).

Gill, D.F., D.P. Griesheimer, and D.L. Aumiller, “Numerical Methods in Coupled Monte Carlo and ThermalHydraulics Calculations,” Proceedings of ANS MC2015 – Joint International Conference on Mathematics and Computation (M&C), Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications (SNA) and the Monte Carlo (MC) Method, Nashville, Tennessee, April 19-23, CD-ROM (2015).

Griesheimer, D.P., et al., “Strategies and Algorithms for Hybrid Shared-Memory/Message-Passing Parallelism in Monte Carlo Radiation Transport Codes,” Proceedings of ANS MC2015 – Joint International Conference on Mathematics and Computation (M&C), Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications (SNA) and the Monte Carlo (MC) Method, Nashville, Tennessee, April 19-23, CD-ROM (2015).

Willis, C.R., D.P. Griesheimer, and E. Schneider, “Accuracy of the Chord Length Sampling Method Near Boundaries of 1-D Finite Stochastic Materials,” Proceedings of ANS MC2015 – Joint International Conference on Mathematics and Computation (M&C), Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications (SNA) and the Monte Carlo (MC) Method, Nashville, Tennessee, April 19-23, CD-ROM (2015).

Caro, E, P.K. Romano, S.C. Marin, and D.P. Griesheimer, “Relativistic Kinematics for Photoneutron Production in Monte Carlo Transport Calculations,” Proceedings of ANS MC2015 – Joint International Conference on Mathematics and Computation (M&C), Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications (SNA) and the Monte Carlo (MC) Method, Nashville, Tennessee, April 19-23, CD-ROM (2015).

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Jiangwei Wang, Zhi Zeng, Christopher R. Weinberger, Ze Zhang, Ting Zhu and Scott X. Mao, “In Situ AtomicScale Observation of Twinning Dominated Deformation in Nanoscale Body-Centred Cubic Tungsten”, Nature Materials, doi:10.1038/nmat4228 (2015).

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Jiangwei Wang, Frederic Sansoz, Chuang Deng, Gang Xu, Gaorong Han, and Scott X. Mao, “Strong Hall- Petch Type Behavior in the Elastic Strain Limit of Nanotwinned Gold Nanowires”, Nano Letters 15, 3865-3870 (2015).

Pengfei Yan, Liang Xiao, Jianming Zheng, Yungang Zhou, Yang He, Xiaotao Zu, Scott X. Mao, Jie Xiao, Fei Gao, Ji-guang Zhang, and Chongmin Wang. “Probing the degradation mechanism of Li2MnO3 cathode for Liion batteries”. Chemistry of Materials 27, 975-982 (2015).

Weidong Zhou, Chongmin Wang, Qinglin Zhang, Hector D Abruna, Yang He, Jiangwei Wang, Scott X. Mao, and Xingcheng Xiao. “Tailoring pore size of nitrogen-doped hollow carbon nanospheres for confining sulfur in lithium-sulfur batteries”. Advanced Energy Materials 5, 1401752 (2015) T. Gheno, G.H. Meier, B. Gleeson, “High Temperature Reaction of MCrAlY Coating Compositions with CaO Deposits”, Oxidation of Metals, 84, 184 (2015) J.E. García-Herrera, J.M. Alvarado-Orozco, J. Muñoz-Saldaña, L. Garcia-Fresnillo and G. H. Meier, “The Effect of Different SO2/SO3 Catalytic Media on the Low-Temperature Hot Corrosion”, Oxidation of Metals, 84, 233 (2015) L. Niewolek, L. Garcia-Fresnillo. G. H. Meier and W. J. Quadakkers, “Sigma-Phase formation in High Chromium Ferritic Steels at 650°C” Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 638, 405 (2015) B.S. Lutz, G.R. Holcomb, and G.H. Meier, “Determination of the Initiation and Propagation Mechanism of Fireside Corrosion”, Oxidation of Metals, 84, 353 (2015) N. M. Yanar, B. S. Lutz, L. Garcia-Fresnillo, M.P. Brady and G.H. Meier, “The Effects of Water Vapor on the Oxidation Behavior of Alumina Forming Austenitic Stainless Steels”, Oxidation of Metals, 84, 541 (2015) Mena, I. B. (2015). The Science and Engineering Postdoc Experience through the Lens of Liminality. Paper presented at the American Society for Engineering Education Conference & Exposition, Seattle, WA. Zappe S. E., Reeves P. M., Mena I. B., and Litzinger T. A. (2015). A Cross-Sectional Study of Engineering Students’ Creative Self-Concepts: An Exploration of Creative Self- Efficacy, Personal Identity, and Expectations.

Paper presented at the American Society for Engineering Education Conference & Exposition, Seattle, WA. Liu S., Zappe S. E., Mena I. B., Litzinger T. A., Hochstedt K. S., and Bertram Gallant T. (2015). Faculty Perspectives about Incorporating Academic Integrity into Engineering Courses. Paper presented at the American Society for Engineering Education Conference & Exposition, Seattle, WA. Mena I, Schmitz S, and McLaughlin D. (2015). An Evaluation of a Course that Introduces Undergraduate Students to Authentic Aerospace Engineering Research. Advances in Engineering Education. Vol. 4 (No. 4) Litzinger T, Zappe S, Hunter S, and Mena I. (2015). Increasing Integration of the Creative Process across Engineering Curricula. International Journal of Engineering Education. Vol. 31 (No. 1B): 335-342 Schmidt CC, Brown BT, William BG, Rubright JH, Schmidt DL, Pic AC, Nakashian MR, Schimoler PJ and Miller, MC, “The Importance of Preserving the Radial Tuberosity during Distal Biceps Repair”: Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Vol. 97 Issue: No. 24 p2014-2023, 2015 Kim, S and Miller, MC “Validation of a finite element humeroradial joint model of contact pressure using Fuji pressure sensitive film”, J. of Biomechanical Engineering, 138(1), Nov 23, 2015 Schimoler PJ, Braun DT, Miller MC, and Akhavan S; “Quadrupled Hamstring Graft Strength as a Function of Clinical Sizing”; Arthroscopy, 2015 Jun;31(6):1091-6. doi: 10.1016/j.arthro.2015.01.013. Epub 2015 Mar 19.

PMID: 25801045 Campbell BC, Conti SF, and Miller MC. Clinical Measurments with a Device to Enable Weightbearing CT in a Horizontal Gantry; American Society of Biomechanics Conference 2015 Bergman B, Rion D, Lynch T, Maher T, Birdsong E, and Miller MC. Maximal Biceps Contraction During Supination Causes Proximal Radial Head Translation; American Society of Biomechanics Conference 2015 Maher T, Schimoler PJ, Veerubhotal A, Wigton M, DeMeo PJ, and Miller MC. Varus Angle Differences and

Band Lengthening During the Moving Valgus Stress Test; American Society of Biomechanics Conference 2015 Schmidt CC, Brown BT, Qvick LM, Stachowicz R, Latona C, and Miller MC. “Factors That Determine Supination Strength Following Distal Biceps Repair”, Paper #22, Closed Meeting of the American Shoulder and Elbow Society 2015 Kharlamov A, Jordan T, Akhavan S, and Miller MC. “ACL Graft Movement Relative to a Bone Tunnel Differs Due to Tunnel Orientation”; Proceedings of the Orthopaedic Research Society 2015 Campbell BC, Conti SF, Mandel A, Belagaje S, Schimoler P, and Miller MC. “Can Fixation Methods for First MTP Joint Arthrodesis Allow Full Weight-bearing?”; Proceedings of the Orthopaedic Research Society, 2015 Brown BT, Schmidt CC, Latona CR, Nakashian M, Stachowicz RZ, and Miller MC. “Re-attachment Site Anatomy and Supinator Muscle Fatty Infiltration Predict Supination Strength Following Distal Biceps Repair”; Proceedings of the Orthopaedic Research Society, 2015 Miller MC, Kuxhaus L, Cowgill ML, Cook HA, Druschel M, Palmer B, and Baratz ME, “A Unique Model Evokes the Supination/Pronation Deficits Found After Mason II Fractures”, Journal of Orthopaedic Research, 33(3), pp343-348, March 2015, doi: 10.1002/jor.22771 Marbella, L. E., Chevrier, D. M., Tancini, P. D.†, Shobayo, O. †, Smith, A. M., Johnston, K. A., Andolina, C. M., Zhang, P., Mpourmpakis, G., and Millstone, J. E., “Description and Role of Bimetallic Pre- nucleation Species in the Formation of Small Nanoparticle Alloys” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 15852 Crawford, S. E., Andolina, C. M., Smith, A. M., Marbella, L. E., Johnston, K. A., Straney, P. J., Hartmann, M. J., and Millstone, J. E., “Ligand-mediated ‘Turn On,’ High Quantum Yield Near-Infrared Emission in Small Gold Nanoparticles” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 14423 Straney, P. J., Andolina, C. M., and Millstone, J. E., “Copper Deposition on Gold Nanoprism Substrates”Isr. J. Chem. 2015, ASAP E. Schmelzer, A. Finoli, I Nettleship and J.C. Gerlach, “Long-Term Three-Dimensional Perfusion Culture of Human Adult Bone Marrow Mononuclear Cells in Bioreactors,” Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 112 801810 (2015).

C Pekor, JC Gerlach, I Nettleship, E Schmelzer, Long-term Three-Dimensional Perfusion Culture of Human Adult Bone Marrow Mononuclear Cells in Bioreactors,” Tissue Engineering Part C: Methods 21 705- 715 (2015).

C Albert, J Kromer, AM Robertson, and D Bothe. Dynamic behaviour of buoyant high viscosity droplets rising in a quiescent liquid, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 778, 485-533. doi:10.1017/jfm.2015.393, (2015).

JR Cebral, X Duan, BJ Chung, C. Putnam, KM Aziz, and AM Robertson Wall Mechanical Properties and Hemodynamics of Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms, AJNR Am J Neuroradiol, 36(9), 1695-703. doi: 10.3174/ajnr.A4358 (2015).

AM Robertson, X. Duan, KM Aziz, MR Hill, SC Watkins, and JR Cebral. Diversity in the Strength and Structure of Unruptured Cerebral Aneurysms, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 43(7), 1502-1515. Doi: 10.1007/s10439-015-1252-4 (2015) P Tricerri, L Dedè, S. Deparis, A. Quarteroni, AM Robertson, and A Sequeira. Fluid-structure interaction simulations of cerebral arteries modeled by isotropic and anisotropic constitutive laws, Computational Mechanics, DOI 10.1007/s00466-014-1117-y, (2015).

Cebral JR, Chung BJ, Aziz K, Duan X, and Robertson AM. Hemodynamics, wall structure and mechanical strength of intracranial aneurysms, 2nd International Conference on CFD in Medicine and Biology, Algarve, Portugal, Aug 29-Sept 4, 2015 [Invited Talk] C Putman, J Cebral, X Duan, B Chung, K Aziz, and AM Robertson. E-022 Wall mechanical properties and hemodynamics of unruptured intracranial aneurysms, J NeuroIntervent Surg, 2015; 7:A52 doi:10.1136/neurintsurg-2015-011917.97. Presented at the SNIS 12th Annual Meeting July 27-30, 2015 Hilton San Francisco Union Square San Francisco, California.

X Duan, AM Robertson, BJ Chung, K. Aziz, and J Cebral. Variation in Collagen Architecture Remodelling and Wall Mechanics in Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysms, Session: Modelling and Simulation of Aneurysm Mechanics, 9th European Solid Mechanics Conference (ESMC15), Madrid Spain, July 6-10, 2015 A Mandaltsi, AM Robertson, and PN Watton. Modelling the evolution of rabbit elastase aneurysms: An integrative in vivo, in vitro and in silico approach, Aneurysms, Session: Modelling and Simulation of Aneurysm Mechanics, 9th European Solid Mechanics Conference (ESMC15), Madrid Spain, July 6- 10, 2015.

JR Cebral, X Duan, B J Chung, CM Putman, K Aziz, and AM Robertson. Studying Local Hemodynamics and Wall Properties in Intracranial Aneurysms, Aneurysms, Session: Modelling and Simulation of Aneurysm Mechanics, 9th European Solid Mechanics Conference (ESMC15), Madrid Spain, July 6-10, 2015 P Watton, P Evans, D. Rufenacht, and AM Robertson. Aneurysm Mechanobiology: An Interdisciplinary Forum, Aneurysms, Session: Modelling and Simulation of Aneurysm Mechanics, 9th European Solid Mechanics Conference (ESMC15), Madrid Spain, July 6-10, 2015.

F. Cheng, X. Duan, and AM Robertson. An Experimental Approach for the Inclusion of Fiber Structure in Biaxial Loaded Materials, 14th Annual McGowan Retreat, Nemacolin Woodlands Resort, Nemacolin, PA, March 8-10, 2015, (student poster). Speaker: graduate student Fangzhou Cheng.

C Sang, P Gade, M J Durka, and AM Robertson. Dumbbell Shape Testing on Human Cerebral Arteries, 14th Annual McGowan Retreat, Nemacolin Woodlands Resort, Nemacolin, PA, March 8-10, 2015, (student poster).Speaker: graduate student Chao Sang.

X Duan, K. Aziz, J. Cebral, and AM Robertson. Estimate of Structural Integrity in Cerebral Aneurysms: A Case Study, 14th Annual McGowan Retreat, Nemacolin Woodlands Resort, Nemacolin, PA, March 8-10, 2015, (student poster, finalist in poster competition). Speaker: graduate student Xinjie Duan.

Science 2015, Effect of Variations in Blood Velocity Waveforms on Wall Shear Stresses in an Intracranial Aneurysm, Isaac Wong, Michael J. Durka and Anne M. Robertson, October 8, 2015, University of Pittsburgh.

Speaker: undergraduate student Isaac Wong.

Pfaff BN, Gade P, Lee KW, Robertson AM, and Wang Y. Vascular Graft Fabrication, Characterization and Degradation Analysis. Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS), Seattle, WA, 2015 X Duan, B Chung, JR Cebral, K. Aziz, and AM Robertson. Effective Remodeling in Cerebral Aneurysm: A Case Study, 2015 Summer Biomechanics, Session: PhD Competition - Mechanics of Injury and Repair, Bioengineering and Biotransport Conference (SB3C2015), Snowbird, Utah, June 17-20, 2015, SB3C20151159 KJ Blose, A Valentin, JS Weinbaum, AM Robertson, and DA Vorp. Elastin Production slows aneurysm enlargement in a constrained mixture model of aneurysm growth and remodelling. Session: Microstructure of Aneurysms, 2015 Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering and Biotransport Conference (SB3C2015), Snowbird, Utah, June 17-20, 2015.

MM Barry, M Shayan, BT Jankowitz, Y Chen, X Duan, AM Robertson, MK. Chyu, and Y Chun. Smart Guidewires for Smooth Navigation in Neurovascular Intervention, J. Med. Devices 9(1), (9 pages), doi: 10.1115/1.4029558, (2015 Benjamin J. Foley, Daniel L. Marlowe, Keye Sun, Wissam A. Saidi, Louis Scudiero, Joshua J. Choi and Mool C. Gupta, “Temperature Dependent Energy Levels of Methylammonium Lead Iodide Perovskite”, Applied Phys. Lett., 106, 243904 (2015) (Theory-RelatedSenior Author) Y. Qi, J. M. P. Martirez, Wissam A. Saidi, J. J. Urban, W. S. Yun, J. E. Spanier, and A. M. Rappe, “Modiffied Schottky emission to explain thickness dependence and slow depolarization in BaTiO3 nanowires”, Physical Review B, 91, 245431 (2015) Shih-Hsien Liu, Wissam A. Saidi, Y. Zhou and Kristen A. Fichthorn, “Polyol Synthesis of Late 4d and 5d Transition-Metal Nanostructures: Insights from Density Functional Theory”, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 119, 11982 (2015) Wissam A. Saidi, “Trends in the Adsorption and Growth Morphology of Metals on MoS2 (001) Surface”, Crystal Growth and Synthesis, 15, 3190 (2015) (2015) Wissam A. Saidi, “Density-Functional Theory Study of Growth and Nucleation of Pt Nanoparticles on MoS2 (001)”, Crystal Growth and Synthesis, 15, 642–652 (2015) Qing Zhu, Wissam A. Saidi and Judith Yang, “Step-induced oxygen upward diffusion on stepped Cu (100) surface, Journal of Chemical Physical Chemistry”, 119, 251–261 (2015). (Corresponding Author) Alibeji N, Kirsch N., and Sharma N “A Muscle Synergy-inspired Adaptive Control Scheme for a Hybrid Walking Neuroprosthesis.” Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, section Bionics and Biomimetics.

2015; 3 (203) Ravichandar H, Dani A, Khadijah-Hajdu J, Kirsch N, Zhong Q, and Sharma N. Expectation Maximization Method to Identify an Electrically Stimulated Muscuoskeletal Model. ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference; Columbus, Ohio, 2015 Alibeji N, Kirsch N, and Sharma N. Dynamic Surface Control of Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation of a Musculoskeletal System with Activation Dynamics and an Input Delay. American Control Conference; Chicago, IL 2015 Alibeji N, Kirsch N, and Sharma N. An Adaptive Low-Dimensional Control for a Hybrid Neuroprosthesis.

9th IFAC Symposium on Biological and Medical Systems; Berlin, Germany 2015 Kirsch N, Alibeji N, and Sharma N. Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of Functional Electrical Stimulation.

ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference; Columbus, Ohio 2015 Doll B, Kirsch N, and Sharma N. Optimization of a Stimulation Train based on a Predictive Model of Muscle Force and Fatigue. 9th IFAC Symposium on Biological and Medical Systems; Berlin, Germany 2015 Alibeji N, Kirsch N, and Sharma N. “Further Results on Predictor-based Control of Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation.” IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. 2015; 23 (6):1095-1105.

P Lertwanich, A Plakseychuk, S Kramer, M Linde-Rosen, A Maeyama, FH Fu, and P Smolinski, "Biomechanical evaluation contribution of the acetabular labrum to hip stability." Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy (2015): 1-8 L Chen, M Linde-Rosen, SC Hwang, J Zhou, Q Xie, P Smolinski, and FH Fu, “The effect of medial meniscal horn injury on knee stability.” Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy 23, no. 1 (2015): 126-131

Y Sasaki, SS Chang, M Fujii, D Araki, J Zhu, B Marshall, M Linde-Rosen, P Smolinski, and H Fu. "Effect of fixation angle and graft tension in double-bundle anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction on knee biomechanics." Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy (2015) Mar 1:1-7 S Ingham, R. de Carvelo, C Martins, P Lertwanich, R Abdalla, P Smolinski, C. Lovejoy, and F Fu, “Anterolateral Ligament Anatomy: A Comparative Anatomical Study”, Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy, (2015) Dec 28:1-7 P Araujo, S Asai, M Pinto, T Protta, K Middleton, M Linde-Rosen, J Irrgang, P Smolinski, and FH Fu, 2015.

“ACL graft position affects in situ graft force following ACL reconstruction”. J Bone Joint Surg Am, (2015), 97(21), 1767-1773 M Fujii, Y Sasaki, D Araki, T Furumatsu, S Miyazawa, T Ozaki, M Linde-Rosen, P Smolinski, and FH Fu, 2015. “Evaluation of the semitendinosus tendon graft shift in the bone tunnel: an experimental study.” Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy, (2015) pp.1-5 Brown BT, Schmidt CC, Nakashian M, Williams B, Rubright J, Schimoler P, Schmidt D, Pic A, Smolinski P, and Miller MC. “Effect of Radial Tuberosity Preservation on Supination and Flexion Strength following a Distal Biceps Repair”; Proceedings of the Orthopaedic Research Society, 2015 D Kim, S Asai, CW Moon, SC Hwang, S Lee, K Keklikci, M Linde-Rosen, P Smolinski, and FH Fu. "Biomechanical evaluation of anatomic single-and double-bundle anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction techniques using the quadriceps tendon." Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy (2015) 23(3), pp.687-695 D Shi, J Zhou, C Yapici, M Linde-Rosen, P Smolinski, and FH Fu. "Effect of graft fixation sequence on knee joint biomechanics in double-bundle anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction." Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy (2015), 23(3):655-60.

P Araujo, S Asai, M Pinto, M Protta, Middleton, J Irrgang, M Linde-Rosen, P Smolinski, and F Fu, Effect Of Graft Inclination Angle On Knee Kinematics In Single-Bundle Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction, 10th Biennial International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine (ISAKOS), Lyon, France, June 7-11, 2015(presentation).

M Sasaki, Y Fujii, B Marshall Araki, M Linde-Rosen, P Smolinski, and F Fu, Effect of graft size and insertion site area in single-bundle anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: A human cadaver study 10th Biennial International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine (ISAKOS), Lyon, France, June 7-11, 2015(poster).

Y Sasaki, M Fujii, M Linde-Rosen, P Smolinski, and F Fu, Evaluation of the Knee Stability under One Bundle Tear in Anterior Cruciate Ligament: A Human Cadaveric Study, 10th Biennial International.

Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine (ISAKOS), Lyon, France, June 7-11, 2015(presentation) L Surer, M Linde-Rosen, P Smolinski, F Fu, The Effect Of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Graft Rotation On Knee Biomechanics, Fu 10th Biennial International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine (ISAKOS), Lyon, France, June 7-11, 2015(poster) P Araujo, S Asai, M Pinto, M Protta, K Middleton, J Irrgang, M Linde-Rosen, P Smolinski, and F Fu, Effect Of Graft Inclination Angle in Single-Bundle Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction, Orthopaedic Research Society 2015 Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, March 28231, 2015. (Poster)

M Fujii, Y Sasaki, D Araki, T Furumatsu, S Miyazawa, T Ozaki, M Linde-Rosen, P Smolinski, and F Fu, Graft Shift in the Femoral Tunnel In Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: An Experimental Study, Orthopaedic Research Society 2015 Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, March 28231, 2015. (Poster) Y Fujimaki, E Thorhauer , C Murawski, Y Sasaki, S Tashman, P Smolinski, and F Fu, Respective In-Situ Length Change of the Two Functional Bundles of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament Under Various Knee State, Orthopaedic Research Society 2015 Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, March 28231, 2015. (Poster) M Fujii, Y Fujimaki, Y Sasaki, T Furumatsu, S Miyazawa, T Ozaki, M Linde-Rosen, P Smolinski, and F Fu, Changes in Cross-Sectional Area of the Human Posterior Cruciate Ligament During Knee Motion, Orthopaedic Research Society 2015 Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, March 28-31, 2015. (Poster) Y Sasaki, M Fujii, D Araki, M Linde-Rosen, P Smolinski, and F Fu, Effect of Graft Size and Insertion Site Area in Single-Bundle and Double-Bundle Anterior Reconstruction: A Human Cadaver Study, Orthopaedic Research Society 2015 Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, March 28-31, 2015. (Poster) R Aldafeeri, T Friberg, and P Smolinski, The effect of scleral buckling selection and corneal thinning on axial length of the eye: A biomechanical model, 2015 ARVO Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, May 3-7, 2015 (poster) B Brown, M Nakashian, B Williams, J Rubright, P Schimoler, D Schmidt, A Pic, P Smolinski, C Schmidt, and M Miller, Effect of Radial Tuberosity Preservation on Supination and Flexion Strength Following a Distal Biceps Repair, Orthopaedic Research Society 2015 Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, March 28- 31, 2015.(Poster) Y Fujimaki, E Thorhauer, Y Sasaki, P Smolinski, S Tashman, and FH Fu,” Quantitative In Situ Analysis of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament Length, Midsubstance Cross-sectional Area, and Insertion Site Areas.” The American journal of sports medicine. 2015 Nov 12:0363546515611641 P. Zhang♯, M. Heyne┴, and A. C. To, “Biomimetic staggered composites with highly enhanced energy dissipation: design, modeling, and 3D printing,” Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids, vol. 83, 285- 300, 2015 X. Yang, L. Wang, Y. Huang, B. Cui, B. Cao, and A. C. To, “Effects of nanobuds and heat welded nanobuds chains on mechanical behavior of carbon nanotubes,” Computational Materials Science, vol. 109, 49-55, 2015 E. Biyikli ♯ and A. C. To, “Proportional Topology Optimization: A new non-gradient method for solving stress constrained and minimum compliance problems and its implementation in MATLAB,” PLOS ONE, vol.

10, e0145041, 2015 X. Mu, L. Wang^, X. Yang, P. Zhang♯, A. C. To, and T. Luo*, “Ultra-low thermal conductivity in Si/Ge hierarchical superlattice nanowires,” Scientific Reports, vol. 5, 16697, 2015 L. Cheng, P. Zhang, E. Biyikli, J. Bai, S. Pilz, and A. C. To, "Integration of topology optimization with efficient design of additive manufactured cellular structures," Proceedings of the Solid Freeform Fabrication (SFF) Conference, Austin, TX, August 10-12, 2015 P. Zhang ♯and A. C. To, “Point group symmetry and deformation induced symmetry breaking of superlattice materials,” Proceedings A of the Royal Society, 471, 0125, 2015 P. Zhang♯, J. Toman, Y. Yu♯, E. Biyikli♯, M. Kirca, M. Chmielus, and A. C. To, “Efficient designoptimization of variable-density hexagonal cellular structure by additive manufacturing: theory and validation,” Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, vol. 137, 021004, 2015 Z. Ozturk, C. Baykasoglu, A. T. Celebi, M. Kirca, A. Mugan, and A. C. To, "Hydrogen storage in heat welded random CNT network structures," International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, vol. 40, 403-411, 2015

Q. Yang and A. C. To, “Multiresolution molecular mechanics: a unified and consistent framework for general finite element shape functions,” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, vol. 283, 384418, 2015 S. Chatterjee, C.L. McDonald, J. Niu, S.S. Velankar, P. Wang, and R. Huang, “Wrinkling and folding of thin films by viscous stress”, Soft Matter, 11, 1814-1827, 2015 T.E. Domenech, and S.S. Velankar, “On the rheology of pendular gels and morphological development in paste-like ternary systems based on capillary attraction”, Soft Matter, 11, 1500-1516, 2015 S. Chatterjee and S.S. Velankar, “SMA-elastomer composites for reversibly-morphing surfaces”, Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, 26, 324-339, 2015 Z. Cai, D.H. Kwak, D Punihaole, Z. Hong, S.S. Velankar, X. Liu, and S.A. Asher, “A photonic crystal hydrogel sensor for Candida Albicans”, Angew. Chemie. Int. Ed., 53, 13036-13040, 2015 S.S. Velankar, “A non-equilibrium state diagram for liquid/fluid/particle mixtures”, Soft Matter, 11, 83938403, 2015 Kulkarni, A.K. Lele, S. Sivaram, P.R. Rajamohan, S.S. Velankar, and A. Chatterji, “ Star-telechelic poly(llactide) ionomers”, Macromolecules, 48, 6580-6588, 2015 A.R. Massensini, H. Ghuman, L.T. Saldin, C.J. Medberry, T.J. Keane, F.J. Nicholls, S.S. Velankar, S.F. Badylak, and M.M. Modo, “Concentration-dependent rheological properties of ECM hydrogel for intracerebral delivery to a stroke cavity”, Acta Biomaterialia, 26, 116-130, 2015 Li, Qi, (Vipperman) “Two-dimensional arbitrary shape acoustic cloaks composed of homogeneous parts realized by layered structures,” ASME NCAD Paper NCAD20155924, NCAD/Internoise 2015 Conference, San Francisco, CA, August 9-12, 2015 Schimoler PJ, Vipperman JS, and Miller MC. Hierarchical Control Improves Joint Motion Simulator Motion Performance; American Society of Biomechanics Conference 2015 “Surface faceting and elemental diffusion behavior at atomic scale for alloy nanoparticles during in situ annealing,” M.F. Chi, C. Wang, Y. Lei, G. Wang, D.G. Li, K.L. More, A. Lupini, L.F. Allard, N.M. Markovic, and V.R. Stamenkovic, Nature Communications 6 (2015) 8925 “Examination of solid-solution phase formation rules for high entropy alloys form atomistic Monte Carlo simulations,” Z. Liu, Y. Lei, C. Gray, and G. Wang, JOM 67 (2015) 2364-2374 Linking diffusion kinetics to defect electronic structure in metal oxides: Charge-dependent vacancy diffusion in alumina”, Y. Lei and G. Wang, Scripta Materialia 101 (2015) 20-23 “In situ observation of facet-dependent oxidation of graphene on platinum in an environmental TEM,” W. Yuan, Y. Jiang, Y. Wang, S. Kattel, Z. Zhang, L. Y. Chou, C. K. Tsung, X. Wei, J. Li, X. Zhang, G. Wang, S. X. Mao, and Z. Zhang, Chemical Communications, 51 (2015) 350-353.

Hongfei Zu, Huiyan Wu, Quanming Lin, Yanqing Zheng, Qing-Ming Wang, “Characterization of Elastic Properties of Ca3TaGa3Si2O14 at High Temperatures by Antenna Transmission Acoustic Resonance”, 2015 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, Taipei, Taiwan, October 21-24, 2015 Huiyan Wu, Hongfei Zu, Guangyi Zhao, James H-C. Wang, Qing-Ming Wang, “Monitoring the Adhesion Process of Tendon Stem Cells using Shear-Horizontal Surface Acoustic Wave Sensors” The 2015 Joint Conference of the IEEE Int'l Frequency Control Symposium & European Frequency & Time Forum, Denver, Colorado, USA April 12-16, 2015

Hongfei Zu, Quanming Lin, Huiyan Wu, Yanqing Zheng, Qing-Ming Wang, “Characterization and Temperature Sensor Application of Ca3TaGa3Si2O14 Crystal Resonators”, The 2015 Joint Conference of the IEEE Int'l Frequency Control Symposium & European Frequency & Time Forum, Denver, Colorado, USA April 12-16, 2015 Rongjie Liang and Qing-Ming Wang, “High Sensitivity Piezoelectric Sensors Using Flexible PZT Thick- Film for Shock Tube Pressure Testing”, Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, Vol. 235, 2015, Pages 317-327.

Tao Gao, Jianjun Liao, Jianshu Wang, Yingqiang Qiu, Quan Yang, Min Zhang, Yang Zhao, Lifeng Qin, Hao Xue, Zhaoxian Xiong, Lifu Chen and Qing-Ming Wang, “Highly oriented BaTiO3 film self-assembled using an interfacial strategy and its application as a flexible piezoelectric generator for wind energy harvesting”. J. Mater.

Chem. A, 2015,3, 9965-9971 Huiyan Wu, Guangyi Zhao, Hongfei Zu, James H.-C. Wang, Qing-Ming Wang, “Aging-related viscoelasticity variation of tendon stem cells (TSCs) characterized by quartz thickness shear mode (TSM) resonators”, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, Volume 210, April 2015, Pages 369-380.

Steiber, J., Cooper, C., Whitefoot, J., MacIsaac, J., and Reinhart, T., “Analysis Process for Truck Fuel Efficiency Study,” SAE 2015 Commercial Vehicle Engineering Congress, Rosemont, IL, October 6, 2015 Cooper, C., Reinhart, T., MacIsaac, J., and Whitefoot, J., “Medium-Duty Truck Fuel Efficiency Technology Study,” SAE 2015 Commercial Vehicle Engineering Congress, Rosemont, IL, October 6, 2015 Badain, N., Reinhart, T., Cooper, C., MacIsaac, J., and Whitefoot, J., “Class 8 Long Haul Fuel Efficiency Technology Study,” SAE 2015 Commercial Vehicle Engineering Congress, Rosemont, IL, October 6, 2015 S.V. Prikhodko, P.E. Markovsky, S.D. Sitzman, M.A. Gordillo, J.M.K. Wiezorek, and O.M. Ivasishin, “Selectivity of Burgers orientation relationship in β-titanuim alloy VT22 during β=>α transformation under severe hot forging and rolling”, Titanium 2015, International Titanium Conference, San Diego, CA, (August 2015), 1-4.

Y. Idell, and J.M.K. Wiezorek, “Microstructural Evolution of Severely Plastically Deformed Austenitic Stainless Steel using Precession Electron Diffraction”, Proceedings, PTM’ 15, International Conference on Solid-Solid Transformations in Inorganic Materials (2015) Whistler BC, Canada, 1-2.

C. Liu, K. Zweiacker, J.T. McKeown, T. LaGrange, B.W. Reed, G.H. Campbell, and J.M.K. Wiezorek, “Quantitative Determination of Thermal Fields and Transformation Rates in Rapidly Solidifying Aluminum by Numerical Modeling and In-situ TEM”, Microscopy and Microanalysis Vol. 21 S3 (2015) 811-812 Microscopy Society of America 1st Prize, Best Poster Award Winner S.V. Prikhodko, P.E. Markovsky, S. Sitzman, M.A. Gordillo, J.M.K. Wiezorek, and O.M. Ivasishin, “Crystallography via Electron Backscattered Diffraction (EBSD) and Precession-Enhanced Diffraction (PED) of β-Titanium Alloy during βèα Transformation under Severe Hot Plastic Deformation”, Microscopy and Microanalysis Vol. 21 S3 (2015) 1459-1460 K. Zweiacker, M.A. Gordillo, C. Liu, J.T. McKeown, G.H. Campbell, T. LaGrange, B.W. Reed, and J.M.K. Wiezorek, “Quantitative Phase Analysis of Rapid Solidification Products in Al-Cu Alloys by Automated Crystal Orientation Mapping in the TEM”, Microscopy and Microanalysis Vol. 21 S3 (2015) 1465-1466 (accepted).

Microscopy Society of America Presidential Scholar Award Winner.

K. Stan-Glowinska, M.A. Gordillo, and J.M.K. Wiezorek, “Stability and transformation of quasicrystalline phase in transition metal modified Al-(Mn-Fe)-base alloys”, Microscopy and Microanalysis Vol. 21 S3 (2015) 1359-1360Y. Huang, J. Wiezorek, F. Garner, P. Freyer, T. Okita, M. Sagisaka, Y. Isobe, and T.R. Allen, “Microstructural characterization and density change of 304 stainless steel reflector blocks after long-term irradiation in EBR-II”, Journal of Nuclear Materials (2015) Vol. 465, 516-530 Wosu, S, “Transformation Personal Leadership”, KLI Publishing, 2015, ISBN 978-19436090-0-0 Wosu, S, “Relational Mentorship in Higher Education”, KLI Wosu, S, “Academic Coaching in K-14 STEM Systems” S. N. Wosu, and Q. Xie. 2015, “Analysis of Mode II Fracture Surfaces of Graphite/Epoxy Laminates Using SEM and Optical Reflectivity Methods,” Fat. Fract. Eng. Mater. Struct. DOI: 10.1111/ffe.12386.

Q. Xie, and S. N. Wosu. 2015, “Dynamic fracture toughness of TaC/CNTs/SiC CMCs prepared by spark plasma sintering,’’ Adv. Mater. Sci. Eng. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/510356.

Q. Xie, and S. N. Wosu. 2015, “Spark plasma sintering of TaC and/or CNTs reinforced SiC CMCs,” J. Compos.

Mater. DOI: 10.1177/0021998315580832.

Arner, J.W., Irvine, J.N., Zheng, L., Carey, R., Thorhauser, E.D., Tashman, S., Harner, C.D., and Zhang, X., “Cartilage Deformation in ACL Deficient Knees: A Dynamic In Vitro Model,” Proceedings of 2015 Orthopaedic Research Society Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, 2015.

Aiyanger, A. and Zhang, X., “Percent Contribution of Intervertebral Joints to Lumbar Rotational Motion During a Functional Lifting Task: An In Vivo Study,” Proceedings of 21st Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics, Prague, Czech Republic, 2015.

Bryne, R., Anderst, W., Zhang, X., “Lumbar Intervertebral Disc Deformation In Vivo During Lifting Motion,” American Society of Biomechanics Annual Meeting, Columbus, OH, 2015.

Carey, R., Zheng, L., Gale, T., Harner, C., Zhang, X. “Biomechanical Evaluation of Patellar Fracture Risk after Tendon Graft Harvest for Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: A Finite Element Study,” American Society of Biomechanics Annual Meeting, Columbus, OH, 2015.

Aiyangar, A., Zheng, L., Anderst, W., and Zhang, X. “Apportionment of L2-S1 Lumbar Rotation across Individual Motion Segments during a Dynamic Lifting Task,” Journal of Biomechanics, 48, 3709-3715, 2015.

Salem, R., Salzler, M.J., Bergin, M.A., Zheng, L., Carey, R., Kfuri, M., Zhang, X., Harner, C.D., “Fluoroscopic Determination of the Tibial Insertion of the PCL in the Sagittal Plane,” American Journal of Sports Medicine, 43, 1142-1146, 2015.

Nabil, M., Decuzzi, P., and Zunino, P. “Modelling mass and heat transfer in nano-based cancer hyperthermia” (2015) Royal Society Open Science, 2 (10), 17 p.

Bukač, M., Yotov, I., Zakerzadeh, R., and Zunino, P. “Partitioning strategies for the interaction of a fluid with a poroelastic material based on a Nitsche's coupling approach” (2015) Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 292, pp. 138-170.

Cattaneo, L., Formaggia, L., Iori, G.F., Scotti, A., and Zunino, P. “Stabilized extended finite elements for the approximation of saddle point problems with unfitted interfaces” (2015) Calcolo, 52 (2), pp. 123- 152.

Bukač, M., Yotov, I., and Zunino, P. “An operator splitting approach for the interaction between a fluid and a multilayered poroelastic structure” (2015) Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, 31 (4), pp. 10541100.

P Gade, K-W Lee, C Sang, C Komatsu, M Solari, Y Wang, P Zunino, and AM Robertson. Characterization of Healthy Artery and Vascular Graft Material Properties to Promote Rational Design of Cell-free Grafts Capable of Harnessing In-host Remodeling Response, 14th Annual McGowan Retreat, Nemacolin Woodlands Resort, Nemacolin, PA, March 8-10, 2015, (student poster). Speaker: graduate student Piyusha Gade.

Valentin, A., Notaro, D., Zunino, P., Allen, R., Ambrosi, D., Wang, Y., and Robertson, A.M. “Theory and application of arterial tissue in-host remodeling” (2015) Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS, 2015-November, art. no. 7318746, pp. 18691872.

Cattaneo, L., and Zunino, P. “Numerical investigation of convergence rates for the FEM approximation of 3D1D coupled problems” (2015) Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, 103, pp. 727-734.

Bukac, M., Yotov, I., Zakerzadeh, R., and Zunino, P. “Effects of poroelasticity on fluid-structure interaction in arteries: A computational sensitivity study” (2015) Modeling, Simulation and Applications, 14, pp. 197-220.

Ambartsumyan, I., Khattatov, E., Yotov, I., and Zunino, P. “Simulation of flow in fractured poroelastic media: A comparison of different discretization approaches” (2015) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 9045, pp. 3-14.

Faculty Awards and Honors AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY 2016 POLYMER PHYSICS, WINNER, to Anna C. Balazs.

AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION ENGINEERING DEANS COUNCIL EXECUTIVE BOARD, ELECTED CHAIR, to Gerald D. Holder.

AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION ENGINEERING ECONOMY, ELECTED CHAIR, to Karen M. Bursic.

AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MECHANICAL ENGINEERS established the Savio L-Y. Woo Medal for Translational Biomechanics.

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION CURTIS W. McGRAW RESEARCH AWARD, to Steven R. Little.

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS ROBERT E. ABBOTT AWARD, to William W. Clark.

BICENTENNIAL ALUMNI FACULTY FELLOWSHIP, to Yiran Chen.

BICENTENNIAL BOARD OF VISITORS FACULTY FELLOWSHIP, to Kent A. Harries.

CARNEGIE SCIENCE AWARD FOR ADVANCED MATERIALS, to Steven R. Little.

CHANCELLOR’S DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AND MATERIALS SCIENCE AND THE JAMES T. MACLEOD PROFESSOR, to Peyman Givi.

CHANCELLOR’S DISTINGUISHED SERVICE PROFESSOR OF CHEMICAL AND PETROLEUM ENGINEERING AND GEORGE M. BEVIER CHAIR, to Eric J. Beckman.

CONSOLIDATED NATURAL GAS ENDOWED FACULTY FELLOWSHIP, for outstanding productivity as a junior member of the faculty, to Albert Chi Fu To. INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERS 2015 BEST ENGINEERING ECONOMY TEACHER AWARD, to Karen M. Bursic.

INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERS OPERATIONS RESEARCH TRACK BEST PAPER AWARD 2015, to Jeffrey P. Kharoufeh.

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON LIGAMENTS AND TENDONS, established the Savio L-Y. Woo Young Research Awards.

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING 2015 STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING PERSON OF THE YEAR AWARD, to Piervincenzo Rizzo.

NINGBO UNIVERSITY HONORARY PROFESSORSHIP, to Savio L. Y. Woo. ORTHOPAEDIC SUMMIT 2015 EVOLVING TECHNIQUES HONORED PROFESSOR, to Savio L-Y. Woo. OUTSTANDING EDUCATOR AWARD, to George D. Stetten and Goetz Veser.

JAMES M. POMMERSHEIM AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION, to Joseph J. McCarthy.

ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FARADAY DIVISION 2015 S. F. BOYS-A. RAHMAN AWARD, to Anna C. Balazs.

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES 2015 SHETH DISTINGUISHED FACULTY AWARD, to Minking Chyu.

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH HONORS COLLEGE FACULTY FELLOWS, to Harvey S.Borovetz and George D. Stetten.

WORLD ASSOCIATION FOR CHINESE BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERS established the Savio L-Y. Woo Traveling Fellowship Awards and the Savio L-Y. Woo Distinguished Lectureship.

ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY HONORARY PROFESSORSHIP, to Savio L-Y. Woo.

Distinguished Lectureships The Bayer Distinguished Lectureship 2016 Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering “Part 1: Metal Nanocatalysts.

Their Synthesis and Size Dependent Covalent Bond Catalysis. Instrumentation for Characterization under Reaction Conditions 5,” May 5, 2016 Dr. Gabor A. Somorjai, Professor of Chemistry at the University of California-Berkeley and Faculty Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

“Part 2: Oxide-metal Interfaces as Active Sites for Acid-base Catalysis.

Oxidation State of Nanocatalyst Change with Decreasing Size.

Conversion of Heterogeneous to Homogeneous Catalysis.

Hybrid Systems,” May 6, 2016 Dr. Gabor A. Somorjai, Professor of Chemistry at the University of California-Berkeley and Faculty Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

2016 Distinguished Alumni In 1964, the Swanson School of Engineering initiated a program to honor the outstanding professional achievements of its graduates. The annual Distinguished Alumni Awards Program continues to be the highlight of the year in the Swanson School of Engineering, and offers the opportunity for alumni, faculty, and students to come together in recognition of the meritorious activities in professional engineering and the allied fields of science, industry, business, public service, and education. The accomplishments of outstanding Pitt Engineering graduates have brought recognition to the University and its academic departments, to the profession, and to the entire Pitt Engineering community. The Swanson School is pleased to share information on the 2016 Distinguished Awardees.

Swanson School of Engineering Awardee Lester (Les) C. Snyder, III, BSCE `79 President & CEO i+icon USA Mr. Snyder is the President and Chief Executive Officer for Infrastructure and Industrial Constructors USA, LLC, branded as i+icon USA, headquartered in Pittsburgh. i+icon USA is the parent company for a family of diversified heavy/civil and industrial construction companies recognized for innovative solutions.

Upon graduation from the University of Pittsburgh in 1979 with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, Mr. Snyder’s career began an as estimator in pre-construction, then launching him into project operations and business development. From 1995 to 2004, Mr. Snyder served as executive vice president for American Bridge Company, responsible for expanding the company’s operations along the eastern seaboard, from Florida to Virginia and into the Caribbean. From 2004 to 2011, he was President and Chief Operating Officer for Barton Malow Company, a Michigan-based design and construction services company operating throughout the United States, Mexico, and Canada.

Mr. Snyder is a third generation builder. In honor of his father achieving his civil engineering degree from Pitt while completing multiple tours of duty during WWII and the Korean Conflict, Mr. Snyder has endowed the Lester C. Snyder Jr. Scholarship to assist Pitt’s Civil and Environmental Engineering students who have served in the military.

His involvement with the Associated General Contractors of America (AGCA), our country’s largest construction trade association, has earned him a lifetime appointment to its Board of Governors, and he currently serves on the Board of Directors for AGCA and for its Education and Research Foundation. He is a past Chair of the Building Division, the joint AIA-AGC Committee, the Private/Public Industry Advisory Council, and a Committee Chair of the Year awardee.

Mr. Snyder is an active member of the Swanson School’s Board of Visitors and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering’s visiting committee. His passion in community affairs focuses on improving education in America including participation in former Governor Jeb Bush’s Foundation for Excellence in Education.

Les and Denise, his wife of 30 years, have two daughters: Sara (25) acquiring her Masters Degree at NYU’s Steinhardt School; Jenna (23) a recent graduate of Pitt’s Nursing School beginning her career at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

Departmental Awardees Bioengineering Rebecca Gottlieb, BSME `93, PhD BIOE`01 Senior Director of Advanced Research Medtronic Diabetes Dr. Rebecca Gottlieb earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering in 1993 from the University of Pittsburgh, returning for a doctorate in Bioengineering in 2001, and certificate in Cardiovascular Engineering. While earning her PhD, Dr. Gottlieb was also a biomedical engineer at UPMC with the Aritificial Heart Program, monitoring various implanted artificial heart devices in OR and ICU settings, intra-aortic balloon pumps parameters, and assisting with in-hospital and emergency air-transport of patients on these systems.

Dr. Rebecca Gottlieb has spent 20 years working in implantable and minimally-invasive medical device research and development, first focusing on cardiac replacement devices, then specializing in diabetes therapies. Her graduate work centered on experimental flow visualization techniques, and she created a novel liquid crystal-based optical shear stress sensor for full field measurement in opaque fluids.

After completing graduate school, Dr. Gottlieb began working at a startup company, Medical Research Group in Sylmar California, developing a long-term implantable glucose sensor. The company was acquired by Medtronic and the business shifted to short-term subcutaneously implanted glucose sensors.

She steadily moved through the R&D ranks with increasing responsibility until becoming senior director of advanced research. She created a new multi-faceted innovation strategy for the three-business unit Diabetes Group and is responsible for leading exploration of future research opportunities on a five- to ten-year development horizon. Her team is responsible for the innovation of closed-loop automated insulin delivery algorithms, next generation sensing and delivery devices, and data-management applications.

During her time at Medtronic, Dr. Gottlieb has directed multidisciplinary teams of engineers from exploration phase through validation, regulatory submission, and commercial launch. She currently holds 33 issued original patents and has been involved with or led efforts for such products as Sof-Sensor, Enlite, and Sentrino continuous glucose sensors; Guardian and MiniLink transmitters, mySentry remote monitoring system, and the Sentrino system for critical care glucose management.

In 2012, Dr. Gottlieb received a President’s Technical Award for Distinguished Innovator at Medtronic.

In 2012 and 2013, she received several team awards for design of the mySentry Remote Monitor: Spark Awards (Silver, “Product” category), Edison Awards (Bronze, “Assistive Devices” category), and Medical Design Excellence Awards (Silver, “Rehabilitation and Assistive-Technology Product” category). In 2015, Medtronic won “Best of What’s New” from Popular Science for the Hybrid Closed Loop System for people with Diabetes. Dr. Gottlieb’s team was responsible for the revolutionary algorithm that safely and automatically adjusts insulin in this system. Also in 2015, Rebecca was inducted

into the Bakken Society, the highest technical award at Medtronic, exemplifying technical leadership in innovation, integrity, and support of the Medtronic Mission.

Chemical & Petroleum Engineering Robert F. Savinell, MSCHE `74, PhD `77 George S. Dively Professor of Electrochemical Engineering Case Western Reserve University Robert F. Savinell holds a master’s and doctoral degree in chemical and petroleum engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. An internationally-recognized scholar in the field of electrochemistry, he is the George S. Dively Professor of Engineering and a professor of chemical engineering at Case Western Reserve.

Dr. Savinell joined the Case Western Reserve faculty in 1986 as an associate professor of chemical engineering. Prior to this, he worked for several years as a research scientist for the Diamond Shamrock Corporation and sat on the faculty of the University of Akron. These experiences further developed his interest in electrochemical fundamentals and technologies. His research addresses fundamental engineering and mechanistic issues of electrochemical systems/device design, development, and optimization. The technologies he has worked on include fuel cells, flow batteries, electrochemical capacitors, sensors, chemical synthesis and metal recovery, wastewater treatment, and high surface area electrode structures.

Dr. Savinell has been particularly active in developing and integrating new materials into electrochemical systems. He is co-inventor of the first membrane capable of practical proton conductivity at temperatures above 100°C at low relative humidity. This ground-breaking work has provided the inspiration for worldwide activity in developing high temperature polymer electrolytes for fuel cell and hydrogen pumping/purification applications. His recent work involves creating a flow battery primarily using iron and water—designed to improve the efficiency of the power grid and accelerate the addition of solar and wind power supplies. Even some of his early work on flow batteries, hydrogen-bromine rechargeable fuel cells, and shunt current modeling are now again receiving attention because of the intense interest in large-scale energy storage for grid stability/robustness and renewable energy implementation.

Dr. Savinell has served in a number of leadership positions at Case Western Reserve including being the former director of the Yeager Center for Electrochemical Sciences, Associate Dean of Engineering, and Dean of Engineering. During his time as Dean of the Case School of Engineering from 2000 to 2007, Dr. Savinell increased research funding and spearheaded the undergraduate research program “Support of Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavors.”

Dr. Savinell’s leadership in his research professional community includes past-vice president of the International Society of Electrochemistry, past-chair of the Electrolytic and Electrochemical Engineering Division of the Electrochemical Society, and the former North American editor of the Journal of Applied Electrochemistry.

Civil & Environmental Engineering Marcella (Marcy) Johnson, BSCE `77, MSCE `01 President RHEA Engineers and Consultants, Inc. In 1977 Marcy Johnson graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a bachelor’s degree in civil and environmental engineering. She offers more than 35 years of civil, geotechnical, water resources, and environmental experience in investigation, design, operations and construction management.

Ms. Johnson chose to study engineering after her sophomore year when her brother, a Pitt engineering student, convinced her to attend an outreach program the college was conducting in order to attract talented women into the program.

Shortly after her return to her alma mater for a master’s in civil & environmental engineering in 2011, Ms. Johnson launched Rhea Engineers & Consultants, headquartered in Gibsonia, PA. As President, she is responsible for Program and Project Management, Financial Oversight, Marketing & Business Development and Quality Assurance for this 30-person firm with offices in Pennsylvania, Virginia, and North Carolina. One of her initial projects was to work with the University of Pittsburgh personnel and Mascaro Construction to monitor the selection of materials and methods of construction for a high-tech computer classroom at the University of Pittsburgh, utilizing the draft Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) guidelines for building interior renovations. Its “green” features include a flexible flooring system, low volatile organic compound building materials, a construction waste management plan that included recycling, and the use of sustainable forestry products.

Prior to launching Rhea in 2001, Ms. Johnson honed her engineering and managerial skills at diverse private and public organizations including the West Virginia Department of Highways, the Mine Safety and Health Administration, Paul Rizzo Associates, and J. A. Jones Environmental.

Electrical & Computer Engineering Michael J. Pietropola, Jr., BSEE `83 President Pietropola Consulting Since receiving a degree in electrical engineering in 1983 from the University of Pittsburgh, Michael Pietropola has been a leader in telecommunications management. He has served as Director of RF Engineering for BellSouth Cellular, Director of Engineering and Operations for Georgia for BellSouth Mobility, Network Vice President-Georgia Operations for BellSouth Telecommunications, Network Vice President for Technology Planning and Deployment for Bellsouth Science and Technology Department before rising to the corporate executive level for Cingular Wireless in October of 2000.

Mr. Pietropola played an integral role in the start-up of Cingular Wireless—a joint venture between Bellsouth and Southwestern Bell wireless companies. He oversaw the development of standards and policies to ensure consistent practices throughout the nationwide network. He was one of two board members representing Cingular in a joint venture between Cingular and T-Mobile, which combined network operations in California and New York City from 2001 until the deal was absolved in 2004.

Instrumental in the Cingular acquisition, Mr. Pietropola handled the due diligence and post-acquisition integration of AT&T wireless. He again used his extensive knowledge and experience to create a more robust network and develop vital standards and polices network-wide. Mr. Pietropola held the title of Vice President of Network Service until Cingular merged with AT&T after Southwestern Bell acquired Bellsouth in 2007.

After the merger, Mr. Pietropola became the Vice President of the Network Planning and Engineering organization, responsible for core growth that supported the iPhone launches. He was asked to lead the merger integration planning of the anticipated AT&T acquisition of T-Mobile. He and his team were responsible for identification of merger synergies and for planning of the new combined organization for AT&T. At the close of his tenure with AT&T, Mr. Pietropola was the Vice President of Construction and Engineering for the Southeast region, approximately 40 percent of the AT&T nationwide deployment budget.

Today Mr. Pietropola is president of his consulting firm, which specializes in telecommunications network management and offers consolation to investment firms.

Industrial Engineering Russell J. Corsi, II, BSIE `70, MBA `76 President Technical Autoglass Consultants A 1970 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, Russell Corsi earned a degree in industrial engineering, returning to school in 1976 for an MBA. He has worked professionally for more than 33 years in the private sector, 13 of which with PPG Industries as a methods engineer at its glass fabrication plant. His additional assignments spanned systems analyst, production control supervisor-aircraft (included ballistics-bullet resistant glass), and production control supervisor-Automotive.

In 1986 Mr. Corsi advanced at PPG to the position of Manager of Inventory Planning for Automotive Replacement Glass-Branch Distribution. He progressed through two other assignments, first as Marketing Manager and then as Distribution Manager of Automotive and Flat Glass. His next move was in 1991 as Regional Manager, Architectural Metals, where he was responsible for sales and facilities management.

Mr. Corsiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s final assignment with PPG Industries was in 1997 as Manager Technical Services. In addition to supporting PPGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Automotive Replacement Glass products, both from a performance and application perspective, he had sales responsibility for aftermarket glass sold to GM, Chrysler, Ford, and Honda. He retired from a full-time position on January 3, 2005.

Mr. Corsi served on the Board of Directors for Automotive Glass Replacement Safety Standards that oversees the only published ANSI-approved, standard that covers all aftermarket glass replacement.

Currently, Mr. Corsi is the President of Technical Autoglass Consultants, Inc. and serves as an expert witness evaluating the performance of automotive glazing products, evaluated glass products relative to safety performance, and providing general consulting knowledge in various aspects of the glass industry.

Mr. Corsi is active in his church, serving on the church Pastoral Council, singing in the choir, and serving on the St. Vincent DePaul Society. Mr. Corsi also serves as the Board Chair for PPG and Associates, and the Federal Credit Union.

Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science David L. Motley, BSME `80 Senior Managing Director Headwaters SC Life Science In 1980, David Motley received his BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and in 1988, graduated from the Harvard Business School with an MBA. Since then, Mr. Motley has garnered a diverse array of experiences in both corporate and entrepreneurial settings.

Mr. Motleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s early corporate career was spent with PPG Industries, where he advanced to senior-level positions that included: Director of Corporate Investments; Director of Plant Operations and Engineering; Director, Global Sales and Marketing, Specialty Chemicals; and Director of Sales Commercial Glass. Mr.

Motley subsequently held the position of Vice President and General Manager at Respironics (acquired

by Philips) and then completed his corporate career at Covidien, Inc. (acquired by Medtronics).

At Respironics, Inc., Mr. Motley led corporate strategy and venture activity and was part of the 12-person management team that helped grow the company from $800 million to $1.4 billion and achieve its acquisition by Philips for $5 billion in 2008. At Covidien, Mr. Motley was responsible for strategy, portfolio management, and franchise management for the $2B surgical devices business unit.

Currently, Mr. Motley is involved in three companies. He is Co-founder and General Partner in the BlueTree Venture Fund, a Pittsburgh based venture capital firm, investing in med-tech and IT companies at the Series B stage. He is Senior Managing Director for Headwaters SC, a mid-cap investment banking firm that provides sell-side and buy-side transaction support, advisory services, and growth capital to business-owning families. Finally, Mr. Motley is Co-founder and Partner in Acclivity Development, LLC, a real estate development company partnered with Walnut Capital and PJ Dick that focuses on Pittsburgh’s complex urban in-fill opportunities.

Mr. Motley serves as a board member for: First National Bank; ALung, a University of Pittsburghfounded medical device company; Optimal Strategix Group; Forest Devices; and the University of Pittsburgh’s Coulter Foundation Initiative Investment Committee.

Mr. Motley’s civic and community activities include: Executive Director, Inner City Junior Tennis Program (2014 USTA Community Tennis Association of the Year-Mountain District); Board director for Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, Heritage Valley Health Systems, and Pittsburgh Gateway Partners (parent company for the Energy Innovation Center); Founder of the University of Pittsburgh Minority Engineering Endowed Scholarship Fund; and Founding contributor, Thomas A. Motley KAY Endowed Scholarship Fund.

SWANSON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING ENDOWMENTS (Principal Only) End of Fiscal Year (June 30)

140,000,000

Department School

120,000,000

100,000,000

80,000,000

60,000,000

40,000,000

20,000,000

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

0

Book Value

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

SCHOOL

$41,602,595

$49,103,429

$56,409,165

$68,244,024

$88,575,046

$90,557,305

$98,838,436

$99,970,008

DEPARTMENT

$11,524,754

$12,634,827

$12,364,211

$16,316,237

$11,596,480

$11,890,259

$13,899,110

$14,812,071

BOOK VALUE

$53,127,349

$61,738,256

$68,773,376

$84,560,261

$100,171,526

$102,447,564

$112,737,546

$114,782,079

MARKET VALUE

$78,028,549

$92,001,960

$115,212,739

$129,191,347

$152,345,097

$173,506,585

$181,996,270

$171,616,718

ADVISORY GROUPS Chair: Roberta A. Luxbacher Vice Chair: George A. Davidson, Jr. TRUSTEE MEMBERS *Roberta (Robbi) A. Luxbacher (Steve Alaniz) Retired Vice President Wholesale & Specialties – Global Business Unit ExxonMobil Fuels, Lubricants and Specialties Marketing Company 6410 Tulip Lane Dallas, TX 75230 Cell: (214) 601-3038 Email: robbi@txtulip.com *Stephen R. Tritch (Tami) Retired Chairman Westinghouse Electric Company 2016 W. Grove Road Gibsonia, PA 15044 (724)965-4547 (cell) Email: stritch@zoominternet.net *Thomas J. Usher (Sandra) Retired Chairman Marathon Petroleum Corporation 600 Grant Street, Room 610 Pittsburgh, PA 15219-2800 (412) 433-1101 FAX: (412) 433-2017 Email: tom@tjusher.com TRUSTEE EMERITUS MEMBERS #*George A. Davidson, Jr. (Ada) Retired Chairman Dominion 420 Woodland Road Sewickley, PA 15143 (412) 741-5489 FAX: (412) 741-0462 Email : gad@city-net.com #*Paul E. Lego (Ann) 1580 Hollow Tree Drive Pittsburgh, PA 15241 (412) 263-3344 FAX: (412) 263-3350 Email: plego10@aol.com #*Frank E. Mosier Mosier Enterprises, Inc. Frank Mosier 12700 Lake Avenue, Unit 3005 Lakewood, OH 44107 (440)895-0884 (440) 331-3664 The Carlisle (after 10/15) 8171 Bay Colony Drive, Unit 2003 Naples, FL 34108 (239) 592-7223 Email: meljanuszewski@gmail.com *John A. Swanson (Janet) Founder and Chief Technologist ANSYS, Inc. Renewable Energy (Solar) Expert 1551 Saint James Circle The Villages, FL 32162 Cell: (352) 454-4741 Email: john.swanson@ansys.com

REGULAR MEMBERS *Robert O. Agbede President and CEO Chester Engineers 1555 Coraopolis Heights Moon Township, PA 15108 (412) 809-6600 FAX: (412) 809-6006 [8/18] Email: ragbede@chesterengineers.com David L. Brown (Carolyn) Chief Market Strategist Sabrient Systems 1075 San Antonio Creek Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93111 (805) 452-6575 FAX: (805) 464-3207 Email: david@sabrient.com

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*David K. Bucklew (Danielle) Senior Vice President, North America Sales Eaton Corporation 5566 Beverly Court Bethel Park, PA 15102 (412) 893-3606 FAX: (412) 893-2191 [8/19] Email: davekbucklew@eaton.com Stephen W. Director (Lori) Retired Provost, Northeastern University 88 Liberty Lane Orleans, MA 02653 (617) 373-4517 FAX: (617) 373-8589 Email: s.director@neu.edu

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* Wilson J. Farmerie (Karen) Retired President The Techs 1173 Grouse Run Road Bethel Park, PA 15102 (412) 833-9853 Email: wjfarmerie@gmail.com [8/18] *Kathryn J. Jackson, PhD (Mark Garvey) 22 Woodland Road Sewickley, PA 15143 (412) 596-6451 [8/18] Email: kathryn.j.jackson@gmail.com *Edward F. Kondis (Alice) Retired Vice President, Mobil Corporation P.O. Box 927 10052 Clarendon Farm Drive Marshall, VA 20116 Phone/Fax :(540) 364-3526 [8/19] Email: edkondis@hughes.net *Mr. Francis J. Kramer (Marianne L.) Chairman II-VI Incorporated 2009 Mackenzie Way Suite 100 Cranberry Township, PA 16066 (724) 720-9395 FAX: (724)720-9301 [8/17] Email: Fran.Kramer@II-VI.COM

Frank L. Lederman (Daphna) Retired Vice President and CTO Alcoa Inc., Alcoa Technical Center 7019 North Mercer Spring Place Tucson, Arizona 85718-1415 Phone/Fax: (520) 529-5678 [8/18] Email: franklederman@comcast.net *Mr. Nick J. Liparulo (Anne) Retired Senior Vice President Westinghouse Nuclear Services 12420 Longview Drive Irwin, PA 15642 (724) 863-3970 (home) (412) 374-6700 (office) (412) 983-2933 (cell) FAX: (412) 374-4180 [8/18] Email: nicholasliparulo@gmail.com *Robert H. Luffy (Deborah) Retired President and CEO American Bridge 906 Grandview Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15211 412-367-1561 Email: bobluffy@comcast.net

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*Robert v.d. Luft (Lynn) Retired Chairman Entergy and DuPont International 700 Fairville Road, P.O. Box 217 Chadds Ford, PA 19317 (610) 388-8686 Email: robertluft@msn.com [8/19] *Richard J. Madden (May Wang) 11 The Trillium Pittsburgh, PA 15238 [8/19] (412) 968-0756 Email: madden-rj@comcast.net *John C. Mascaro (Darlene) Chairman Mascaro Construction Company, LP 1720 Metropolitan Street Pittsburgh, PA 15233 (412) 321-4901 FAX: (412)-321-4903 [8/18] Email: jcm@mascaroconstruction.com *James J. McCaffrey (Terry) Senior Vice President – Energy Marketing CONSOL Energy Inc. CNX Center 1000 CONSOL Energy Drive Canonsburg, PA 15317-6506 Office: (724) 485-4428 [8/18] Fax: (724) 485-4836 Email : JamesMcCaffrey@consolenergy.com] *Gerald E. McGinnis (Audrey) Retired Chairman and Founder Respironics, Inc. 3675 Blue Sage Court Export, PA 15632 (724) 433-4857 [8/18] Email:gem.sr@comcast.net *David L. Motley (Darlene) Consultant 517 Avonworth Heights Drive Pittsburgh, PA 15237 (412) 635-0723 [8/17] (412) 337 5716 (cell) Email: david.motley@comcast.net

*John W. Pavia (Louise S.) 142 Freedom Lane Sewickley, PA 15143 412-298-7269 (cell) [8/17] Email: johnwpavia@gmail.com *Robert Francis Savinell (Coletta A.) George S. Dively Professor of Engineering Case School of Engineering Case Western Reserve University 10900 Euclid Avenue, A.W. Smith Bldg.

Cleveland, OH 44106-7217 (216) 368-2728 [8/17] Email: RFS2@case.edu *Jack W. Shilling (Suzanne) Retired Executive Vice President Strategic Initiatives and Technology and Chief Technology Officer Allegheny Technologies 3108 Deerfield Court Murrysville, PA 15668 [8/18] (724) 327-8438 Email: jack.shilling@comcast.net *Kenneth S. Smialek (Jill) Consumer Industry Consultant Flat 3 68 Great Cumberland Place London W1H 7XT United Kingdom Email: smialekks@gmail.com [8/17] *Lester C. Snyder III (Denise) President and Chief Executive Officer Infrastructure and Industrial Constructors USA LLC One Bigelow Square Pittsburgh, PA 15219 [8/18] (412) 471-4200 (412) 779-3554 (cell) Email: lsnyder@iiconusa.com *Humberto Vainieri (Deborah) President Vainieri Consulting 3231 Signet Court Sarasota, FL 34240 (941) 312-5431 Email: Vainieri@aol.com

[8/18]

*Barry J. Wetzel (Kathy) Retired President and CEO Clark Screw Machine Products Company 3132 Henrich Farm Lane Allison Park, PA 15101 (412) 487-7618 (home) (412) 400-8518 (cell) Email: bjwetz@aol.com [8/18] EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS Patrick D. Gallagher (Karen) Chancellor 107 Cathedral of Learning University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260 (412) 624-4200 FAX: (412) 624-1150 Patricia E. Beeson Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor 801 Cathedral of Learning University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260 (412) 624-4223 FAX: (412) 624-9640

Kathy Humphrey (Lyle) Senior Vice Chancellor for Engagement, Chief of Staff, and Secretary of the Board of Trustees 107 Cathedral of Learning University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260 (412) 624-4200 Gerald D. Holder (Diane) U.S. Steel Dean of Engineering Swanson School of Engineering 1140 Benedum Hall University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15261 (412) 624-9809 FAX: (412) 624-0412

------------------------------------------------------------*Alumnus +Former Trustee [] Current Term Expiration for Regular Members #Trustee Emeritus

Departmental Visiting Committees Bioengineering Joe Argyros Senior Vice-President, Operations ALung Technologies, Inc. Scott Berceli, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Surgery University of Florida College of Medicine Eugene Eckstein, PhD Professor and Chairman Department of Biomedical Engineering University of Memphis Dr. Mir Imran Chairman, InCube Labs LLC Chairman, Modulus, Inc. Larry V. McIntire, PhD Wallace H. Coulter Chair The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering Georgia Tech and Emory University Wolf W. von Maltzahn Professor of Biomedical Engineering Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute John Watson, PhD Director/Professor Department of Bioengineering University of California/San Diego Dr. Hal Wrigley President Knightsbridge Biofuels Ecogy Biofuels

Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Nick Liparulo, Chair Vice President of Engineering Services (Retired) Westinghouse Electric Company

Mark Dubnansky Operations Manager Manufacturing & Distribution Springdale Plant PPG Industries, Inc. Dr. Karl W. Haider Innovation Manager New Technologies Group Bayer MaterialScience LLC Dr. Bryan Morreale Focus Area Lead Materials Science & Engineering U.S. D.O.E. National Energy Technology Laboratory Dr. Dale Keairns Executive Advisor Booz Allen Hamilton Robert K. Reinhart Director of Engineering Controls Link, Inc. Christopher Roberts Dean Samuel Ginn College of Engineering Auburn University Dr. Jennifer Sinclair Curtis Professor Chemical Engineering University of Florida Larry C. Smith Manager, Drafting & Design Operations Manager, Ice Condenser Engineering Westinghouse Electric Company Mary T. Zeis Associate Director - Retired Sharon Woods Technical Center The Procter & Gamble Company

Civil and Environmental Engineering John M. Barsom President Barsom Consulting, Ltd. Victor Bertolina President, Engineering SAI Consulting Engineers, Inc.

Dan Slagle President Nichols & Slagle Engineering, Inc. Lester Snyder, III President and CEO i+icon USA, LLC

Nick Burdette HDR Engineering, Inc.

Joseph Szczur District Executive PennDOT District 12-0

Jeff Campbell Vice President Michael Baker Corp.

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Mike Dufalla JMT Engineering

Mr. Graham Cable Vice-President Strategy, Marketing and Project Support Westinghouse Electric Company

Mike Flowers American Bridge Werner C. Loehlein, Chief, Water Management Branch U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Dr. Kenneth F. Cooper Retired; formerly Manager of Process and Control Technology; Westinghouse Electric Company

John T. Lucey, Jr. Executive Vice President Nuverra Environmental Solutions

Stephen Heilman, MD Founder and CEO Medrad, VASCOR and Lifecor

Robert H. Luffy (Retired) President and CEO American Bridge

Mr. Tom Mino CEO Scis Wave Inc.

Michael Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connor Parsons Brinckerhoff

Mr. Mark Murawski Technical Lead/Manager Google, Inc.

Margaret A. Pelcher Senior QHSE Engineer Paul C. Rizzo Associates

Charles M. Russell Senior Vice President (Retired) Michael Baker Jr. Inc.

Dr. Robert T. Novotnak Group Vice President Aerotech, Inc. Mr. John W. Pavia Retired: former General Manager â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Engineering United States Steel Corp.

Mr. Michael Pietropola President Pietropola Consulting

Mr. Francis Kramer President and COO II-VI Inc.

Mr. Rich Stinson President Southwire Company

Ms. Patricia Kelly Lee President Toolkit

Dr. Bryant Wysocki Chief Engineer, Information Directorate US Air Force Research Laboratory

Mr. William Mallin General Counsel Eckert Seamans

Industrial Engineering

Ms. Jamy Rankin The Rankin Group

Ms. Tandy A. Bailey District Industrial Engineering Manager UPS Mr. Glenn M. Foglio President Graciano Corporation Mr. Richard C. Frank General Manager - Business Development Strategic Planning & Business Development United States Steel Corporation â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Retired Mr. Jeff Gilbert Director of Engineering UPS-Mid Atlantic District Mr. Roman Hlutkowsky - CHAIR Principal The Hlutkowsky Group ` Mr. George Huber â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Emeritus Professor of Public Health Practice Associate Dean for Public Policy Graduate School of Public Health Mr. John Innocenti Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer UPMC Shadyside Hospital Ms. Caroline M. Kolman, P. E. Managing Director Healthcare Navigant

Mr. Douglas R. Rabeneck Retail Consulting Practice Accenture Mr. Stan C. Sliwoski - Emeritus Senior Consultant UPS Professional Services Mr. J. (Buster) Weinzierl- Emeritus R&D Coatings, Inc.

Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Mr. James Kimbrell Chief Technologist L-3 Communications, Brashear Division Mr. Wilson J. Farmerie (Retired) Chairman RedZone Robotics Mr. Bernard Fedak Project Executive Aker Solutions, Inc. Mr. David M. Kitch, PE Consultant Mr. Fred Harnack General Manager Environmental Affairs United States Steel Corporation

Raymond J. Labuda (Retired) Vice President of Tire Technology Hankook Tire Company Ms. Laura Livingston President WesDyne International, LLC Westinghouse John E. Goossen (Retired) Director Science & Technology Department Westinghouse Electric Company Dr. David P. Hoydick USX/US Steel Technical Center Mr. Theodore (Ted) F. Lyon Managing Director Hatch Dr. C. Edward Eckert President Apogee Technology, Inc. Mr. R. Rumcik, (Retired) President Elwood Quality Steels Co. Paul E. Fischione CEO Fischione Instruments, Inc. Bart Miller Plant Manager – Nex Tech Steel Dynamics – Flat Roll Group Steve Pilz Lead Product Manager ANSYS

Diversity Advisory Committee Dr. Judith Yang, Chair (Pending) Chemical and Petroleum Engineering 208 Benedum Hall 412-624-8613 judyyang@pitt.edu Dr. Sylvanus Wosu (ex-officio) Associate Dean for Diversity 152 Benedum Hall 412.624.9842 Snn2@pitt.edu Dr. Larry Shuman (ex-officio) Associate Dean for Academic Affairs 152 Benedum Hall 412.624.9815 shuman@engr.pitt.edu Ms. Alaine Allen (ex-officio) Director, EXCEL and Investing Now 152 Benedum Halll 412.624.9628allen@pitt.edu Ms Cheryl Paul (ex-officio) Director, Freshman Program 152 Benedum Hall Cheryl35@pitt.edu

FACULTY / DEPARTMENTS Dr. Steven Abramowitch Bioengineering CNBIO 409 412-383-9618 Sdast9@pitt.edu Term ends- Fall 2019 Dr. Jonathan VandeGeest Bioengineering 412 624-6496 jpv20@pitt.edu Term ends- Fall 2019

Dr. Judith Yang Chemical and Petroleum Engineering 208 Benedum Hall 412-624-8613 judyyang@pitt.edu Term ends- Fall 2019 Dr. John Keith Chemical and Petroleum Engineering 804 Benedum Hall 412-624-7016 jakeith@pitt.edu Term ends- Fall 2018 Dr. Melisa Bilec Civil and Environmental Engineering 153 Benedum Hall 412 648-8075 mbilec@pitt.edu Term ends- Fall 2019 Dr. Luis Vallejo Civil and Environmental Engineering 726 Benedum Hall 412 624-9884 vallejo@civ.pitt.edu Term ends- Fall 2019 Dr. Alex Jones Electrical and Computer Engineering 1128 Benedum Hall 412 624-9666 akjones@pitt.edu Term ends- Fall 2019 Dr. Sam Dickerson Electrical and Computer Engineering 1206 Benedum Hall 412 624-2163 dickerson@pitt.edu Term ends- Fall 2018 Dr. Haight Joel Industrial Engineering 1043 Benedum 412-624-9830 jhaight@pitt.edu Term- Fall 2019

Dr. Lisa Maillart Industrial Engineering 1030 Benedum maillart@pitt.edu Term- Fall 2019 Dr. Jeffrey Vipperman Mechanical Engineering and Material Science 504 Benedum Hall 412-624-1643 jsv@pitt.edu Term ends- Fall 2019 Dr. Nitin Sharma Mechanical Engineering and Material Science 538C Benedum Hall 412.624.9746 nis62@pitt.edu Term ends- Fall 2018

UNIVERSITY MEMBERS Breanne Caution OAFA bcaution@pitt.edu Pamela Connolly The Office of Affirmative Action, Diversity and Inclusion 412 Bellefield Hall Pittsburgh, PA 15260 (p) 412-648-7861 (f) 412-648-7864

Rebecca Gluckman President, SWE Benedum Hall 412-624-4042 Rlg74@pitt.edu Alvaro Cardoza President, EGSO Benedum Hall egso@pitt.edu Justin Cooke President, SHPE Benedum Hall jpc90@pitt.edu Chris Mahoney, President Engineering Diversity Graduate Students' Association (EDGSA) cmm237@pitt.edu Amy Howell Scientists, Engineers and Mathematicians for Service (SEMS) Amh188@pitt.edu Jenna Gustafson Graduate Women Engineering Network jag227@pitt.edu Karianne Chen President of Asian Scientists and Engineers Sap80@pitt.edu

EXTERNAL MEMBERS STUDENT ORGANIZATION MEMBERS Casey Rayburg President, NSBE Benedum Hall President.pittnsbe@gmail.com

Daniel Armanios CMU Faculty member (Pitt ENGR graduate) daniel.armanios@gmail.com Term ends- Fall 2019

Dr. Cathy Bazan-Arias Senior Engineer Civil Engineer (Pitt ENGR graduate) Cathy@DiGioiaGray.com Term ends- Fall 2019 Jared McClain - Deloitte Consultant (Pitt ENGR graduate) jared.mcclain@gmail.com Term ends- Fall 2019 Demond Strothers â&#x20AC;&#x201C; FedEx Ground (Pitt HR Manager ENGR graduate; former INVESTING NOW member) demond.strothers@fedex.com Term ends- Fall 2019

Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation (MCSI) External Advisory Board Charles D. Blumenschein Vice President, Industrial R&D Veolia Water David Constable Director Green Chemistry Institute at American Chemical Society Charles Liotta Past Vice Provost for Research and Dean of Graduate Studies Georgia Institute of Technology John C. Mascaro Chairman Mascaro Construction Company Annie Pearce Associate Professor, Department of Building Construction Virginia Polytechnic Institute Leonard Peters Former Cabinet Secretary Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet

BIOENGINEERING Last Name

First Name

Email

Office Location

Office Phone

Abramowitch

Steven David

sdast9@pitt.edu

CNBIO 405

(412) 383-9618

Aizenstein

Howard Jay

aizen@pitt.edu

STERL 253

(412) 383-5452

Alathur Rangarajan

Anusha

ana92@pitt.edu

EEI 835

Almarza

Alejandro Jose

aja19@pitt.edu

SALKP 409

(412) 648-3101

Ambrosio

Fabrisia

faa@pitt.edu

KAU 201

(412) 365-4850

Amdahl

Matthew Brian

mba27@pitt.edu

MONF NW628.8

(412) 624-6887

Anderson

Carolyn J

cja34@pitt.edu

BST3 10019

(412) 624-6887

Antaki

James

antaki@cmu.edu

BENDM 765

(412) 383-9624

Ardila

Catalina

cata.ardila28@pitt.edu

CNBIO 409

Ataai

Mohammad M

ataai@engr.pitt.edu

BENDM 940

(412) 624-9648

Aucie

Yashar

yashar.aucie@pitt.edu

BENDM 405

(412) 586-3960

Badylak

Stephen Francis

badylaks@upmc.edu

BRDG2 300

(412) 624-5252

Bae

Kyong Tae

ktb4@pitt.edu

FRTOW

(412) 641-2657

Bai

Mingfeng

baim@upmc.edu

BRIDG 452G

(412) 624-2565

Balaban

Carey

cbalaban@pitt.edu

(412) 624-5749

Balmert

Stephen C

scb22@pitt.edu

EEI 107 BENDM 405 / BSTWR W1104

Banerjee

Ipsita

ipb1@pitt.edu

BENDM 940

(412) 624-2071

Bansbach

Heather Marie

hmb47@pitt.edu

FRTOW 4044

Batista

Aaron P

apb10@pitt.edu

BST3 4074

(412) 383-5394

Bayer

Emily A

eab85@pitt.edu

BENDM 440

(412) 624-6445

Behkam

Seyyed

r.behkam@pitt.edu

CNBIO 409

Bell

Kevin Michael

kmb7@pitt.edu

BSTWR E1644

(412) 383-6914

Beniash

Elia

ebeniash@pitt.edu

SALK 548

(412) 648-0108

Beringer

Carl R

crb99@pitt.edu

KEY 220

Beschorner

Kurt E

beschorn@pitt.edu

BENDM 302

(412) 624-7577

Bhatia

Suneera

bsuneera@pitt.edu

BENDM 302

(412) 383-8047

Blose

Kory James

kjb71@pitt.edu

CNBIO 306

Boninger

Michael L

boninger@pitt.edu

KAU 201

(412) 648-6975

Borovetz

Harvey S

borovetzhs@upmc.edu

BENDM 302/751

(412) 624-4725

Brienza

David M

dbrienza@pitt.edu

BAKSQ 400 / 007

(412) 624-6383

Brown

Bryan Nicklaus

bryanbrown@pitt.edu

BRDG2 300

(412) 624-5273

Brown

Brandon Thomas

brandon.brown@pitt.edu

BENDM 636

Bruk

Liza

LAB154@pitt.edu

EEI 930

Buckenmeyer

Michael Joseph

mjb235@pitt.edu

BRDG2 300

Butchy

Adam

AAB133@pitt.edu

Candiello

Joseph Eugene

jec40@pitt.edu

BENDM 1238 BENDM 302 / B63A

(412) 383-8745

(412) 624-9661

BIOENGINEERING Last Name

First Name

Email

Office Location

Office Phone

Card

Nicholas

NSC15@pitt.edu

BST3 4069

(412) 383-9961

Cesnalis

Daniel Paul

daniel.cesnalis@pitt.edu

CNBIO 306

(412) 383-9713

Chakraborty

Souvik

SOC11@pitt.edu

CNBIO 306

(412) 383-9713

Cham

Rakie

rcham@pitt.edu

BENDM 302

(412) 624-7227

Chambers

April J

ajcst49@pitt.edu

BENDM 302

(412) 624-9898

Chen

Jingming

jic74@pitt.edu

SALK 589

Chen

Kevin P

kchen@engr.pitt.edu

BENDM 1238

Chin

Adam Richard

arc112@pitt.edu

SALK 566

Choi

Jaeyeon

jac356@pitt.edu

BRIDG 5450

Chun

Young Jae

yjchun@pitt.edu

BENDM 1034

Cody

Patrick Andrew

pac94@pitt.edu

BST3 5057

Collinger

Jennifer L

collinger@pitt.edu

KEY 220

(412) 383-1274

Cooper

Gregory

GMC8@pitt.edu

RANCH 350

(412) 692-5384

Cooper

Rory A

rcooper@pitt.edu

FRTOW 5042

(412) 383-6590

Corcoran

Timothy E

tec23@pitt.edu

MONF NW628

(412) 624-8918

Cramer

Madline

MCC116@pitt.edu

BRDG2 300

(412) 624-8150

Crompton

Daniel

DAC160@pitt.edu

BRDG2 300

(412) 624-8150

Cugini

Anthony

AVC22@pitt.edu

MGOWN 226

Cui

Xinyan (Tracy)

xic11@pitt.edu

BST3 5063

Datta

Moni Kanchan

mkd16@pitt.edu

BENDM 302

Davidson

Lance A

lance.a.davidson@pitt.edu

BST3 5059

de Souza Santini

Tales Roberto

TAD64@pitt.edu

BST3 1038

Debski

Richard E

genesis1@pitt.edu

CNBIO 408

(412) 648-1638

Decenzo

Diann Blank

ddecenzo@pitt.edu

CNBIO 405

(412) 648-2000

Ding

Xuan

ding.xuan@medstudent.pitt.edu SCAIF 950

(412) 648-2324

Ding

Dan

dad5@pitt.edu

BAKSQ 400

(412) 822-3684

Ding

Xiaochu

xid25@pitt.edu

BENDM 302

Doko

Arta Kelmendi

akd25@pitt.edu

BSTWR E1654

(412) 383-8939

Downey

John Edward

jed92@pitt.edu

KAU 202

(412) 624-6445

Duncan

Andrew Wayne

duncana@pitt.edu

BRDG2 300

(412) 624-5302

Dziki

Jenna Lynn

jld141@pitt.edu

BENDM 302

Easley

Deanna Christine

dce14@pitt.edu

CNBIO 306

(412) 624-9842

El Gharbawie

Omar A

omar@pitt.edu

BST3 4069

(412) 383-9961

Eles

James R

jre35@pitt.edu

BST3 5065

Falo Jr

Louis D

lof2@pitt.edu

PRESB 3880

(412) 864-3664

Farhat

Nadim

naf34@pitt.edu

CNBIO 306

(412) 624-5092

(412) 624-9675

(412) 624-1193

(412) 383-6672 (412) 383-5820

BIOENGINEERING Last Name

First Name

Email

Office Location

Office Phone

Farrokhi

Shawn

shawnfarrokhi@gmail.com

Federspiel

William

federspielwj@upmc.edu

MGOWN 215

(412) 383-9499

Fedor

Max Andrew

maf210@pitt.edu

BENDM 302

(412) 624-0403

Ferrer

Gerald

gerald.ferrer@pitt.edu

BRIDG 305

(412) 648-1638

Fisher

James D

jdf16@pitt.edu

MGOWN 219

(412) 648-9633

Fisher

Lee Erik Bartholomew

lef44@pitt.edu

KAU 201

Flesher

Sharlene Nicole

snf12@pitt.edu

MGOWN 245

Friberg

Thomas R

friberg@pitt.edu

EEI 818

Furdella

Kenneth

KJF43@pitt.edu

CNBIO 409

Furman

Joseph M

furman@pitt.edu

EEHOS 500

Gade

Piyusha Sanjay

psg16@pitt.edu

BENDM 408

Galeotti

John

JMG113@pitt.edu

BENDM 302

Gandhi

Neeraj

neg8@pitt.edu

EEI 108

(412) 647-3076

Gao

Jin

jig22@pitt.edu

BENDM 302

(412) 624-7196

Gartner

Mark J

mgartner@ension.com

BENDM 302

(412) 383-9598

Gau

David Martin

dave.gau@pitt.edu

CNBIO 306

(610) 883-0348

Gaunt

Robert A

rag53@pitt.edu

KEY 220

(412) 383-1426

Gealey

Daniel A

dgealey@pitt.edu

CNBIO 306

Gerlach

Jorg Christian

jgerlach@pitt.edu

MGOWN 200

Gerth

Rebecca Jeanne

rjg35@pitt.edu

CNBIO 306

Ghuman

Harmanvir

hsg7@pitt.edu

BRDG2 300

Gilbert

Thomas

gilberttw@upmc.edu

CNBIO 306

(412) 692-6400

Gleason

Thomas G

tgg2@pitt.edu

PRESB C700

(412) 802-8530

Gloss

Kelsey

KMG166@pitt.edu

BRDG2 221

Goncharova

Elena

eag59@pitt.edu

MONF NW628

(412) 648-9311

Greeno

James Gordon

james.greeno@pitt.edu

BENDM 302

(412) 648-2092

Grigsby

Erinn

EMG90@pitt.edu

BST3 4074

Gronenborn

Angela M

amg100@pitt.edu

BSTWR 0000

(412) 648-9959

Gurleyik

Kilichan

gurleyik@pitt.edu

BENDM 409

(412) 648-8071

Gustafson

Jonathan Adam

jag201@pitt.edu

CNBIO 306

Hachim Diaz

Daniel

djh88@pitt.edu

BRDG2 323

Hansen

Casey E

ceh92@pitt.edu

BENDM 815

Haschak

Martin

MJH115@pitt.edu

BRDG2 300

Herrera

Angelica

AJH146@pitt.edu

KEY 220

Heusser

Michelle

MRH109@pitt.edu

EEI 108

Hirschman

Alan D

alh138@pitt.edu

BENDM 325

(412) 647-2214 (412) 647-2115

(412) 383-7150

(412) 328-0750

(412) 822-3700

(412) 624-1177

BIOENGINEERING Last Name

First Name

Email

Office Location

Office Phone

Hoff

Richard

rih12@pitt.edu

BRDG2 323

(724) 448-2865

Hogan

MaCalus Vinson

mhogan@pitt.edu

(412) 802-4138

Hong

Daeho

dah90@pitt.edu

SHDY 0000 BENDM 848 / 414

Hong

Dandan

dah57@pitt.edu

SALKP 513

Hughes

Christopher

CLH180@pitt.edu

KEY 220

Hung

Chu Chih

chh122@pitt.edu

BENDM 302

Hung

Tin-Kan

tkhung@pitt.edu

CNBIO 405

(412) 624-9896

Huppert

Theodore J

huppert1@pitt.edu

PRESB B804

(412) 726-8459

Hwang

Mintai Peter

mph48@pitt.edu

BENDM 427

(412) 648-9633

Ibrahim

Tamer Selim

tibrahim@pitt.edu

BST3 1038

(412) 383-6946

Iftikhar

Aimon

AII6@pitt.edu

BRDG2 300

Imran

Mir

MIR@incubelabs.com

Iraqi

Arian

ari16@pitt.edu

BENDM 402

Isenberg

Jeffrey S

jsi5@pitt.edu

MONF NW628

(412) 383-5424

Iturralde Rodriguez

Pablo

pitturralde@pitt.edu

BAKSQ 402

(412) 801-1692

Jagadisan

Udaya Kiran

udk3@pitt.edu

EEHOS 153

(412) 624-6445

Jain

Utkars

UTJ1@pitt.edu

BENDM 302

Jampani

Prashanth Hanumantha

pjampani@pitt.edu

BENDM 302

Jan

NingJiun

nij14@pitt.edu

EEI 930

Jeffries

Richard G

RGI4@pitt.edu

MGOWN 226

Jimenez

Jorge

JOJ41@pitt.edu

BTIII 10051 E

Jimenez

Maritza Ann

maj105@pitt.edu

BENDM 302

Jin

Tao

taj6@pitt.edu

MGOWN 159

(412) 383-8010

Joy

Marion E

mej29@pitt.edu

CNBIO 306

(412) 624-6445

Kalinski

Pawel

pak5@pitt.edu

HLMNC 1.46B

(412) 623-7712

Kameneva

Marina Vitaly

kamenevamv@upmc.edu

BRDG2 309

(412) 624-5281

Kandler

Karl

kkarl@pitt.edu

BST3 10016

(412) 624-8398

Karim

Helmet Talib

hek26@pitt.edu

STERL 253

Kellum Jr

John A

kellum@pitt.edu

SCAIF 604

(412) 647-7125

Kemp

Alicia Welsh

aliciakemp@pitt.edu

BENDM 302C

(412) 624-7279

Kennedy

Scott David

sdk29@pitt.edu

MGOWN 245

(412) 624-6445

Khalid

Waqas

WBK6@pitt.edu

BENDM 302

Khanna

Sanjeev Brice Paul

sbk13@pitt.edu

EEI 912

(412) 624-9815

Khanwilkar

Pratap

PRK38@pitt.edu

BENDM 730

(412) 624-0403

Kim

Sung-Min

suk91@pitt.edu

BENDM 302

(412) 383-7200

Kim

Kang

kangkim@pitt.edu

SCAIF 950

(412) 624-5092

(412) 924-9372

(415) 515-2550

(412) 624-9630

BIOENGINEERING Last Name

First Name

Email

Office Location

Office Phone

Kim

Tae

tak19@pitt.edu

MGOWN 159

(412) 383-6695

Kimmel

Jeremy

JDK33@pitt.edu

CNBIO 306

(412) 383-5786

King

Kevin

KWK17@pitt.edu

KAU 201

Knight

Katrina M

kmk144@pitt.edu

CNBIO 405

(412) 624-6445

Kochanek

Patrick

pak6@pitt.edu

(412) 692-5164

Koontz

Alicia

akoontz@pitt.edu

HILL 101 BAKSQ Suite 400

Kormos

kormosrl@upmc.edu

PRESB C700

(412) 648-6259

Kozai

Robert Takashi Daniel Yoshida

tdk18@pitt.edu

CNBIO 208

(412) 383-9044

Krugh

Michele A

mak286@pitt.edu

MGOWN 200

(412) 383-9998

Kumta

Prashant N

pkumta@pitt.edu

BENDM 302

(412) 648-0223

Kunjukunju

Sangeetha

sak132@pitt.edu

BENDM 302

(412) 624-9661

Kuruba

Ramalinga

rak111@pitt.edu

BENDM 402

(412) 624-9661

Lal

Shubhangi

shl88@pitt.edu

THACK 370

(412) 624-0100

Lathrop

Kira L

kll21@pitt.edu

EEI 1046

(412) 647-3492

Laymon

Charles M

cml14@pitt.edu

PRESB B920

(412) 647-0736

Lee

Boeun

bol11@pitt.edu

BENDM 800

(412) 624-9961

Lee

Randy

ral63@pitt.edu

BENDM 400

(412) 624-8150

Lee

Keewon

kel55@pitt.edu

BENDM 302

(412) 624-5266

Lee

Yoojin

YOL40@pitt.edu

BRDG2 300

Leuba

Sanford H

leuba@pitt.edu

HCCLB 2.26A

(412) 623-7788

Li

Lehong

LEL90@pitt.edu

CNBIO 208

(412) 648-7296

Li

Xia

xial@pitt.edu

BST3 5065

(412) 383-9459

Lin

Jeen-Shang

jslin@pitt.edu

BENDM 725

(412) 624-8158

Liou

Jr Jiun

jrl101@pitt.edu

BRDG2 239

(412) 648-9681

Little

Steven R.

srlittle@pitt.edu

BENDM 940

(412) 624-9614

Liu

Yang

liuy@pitt.edu

HLMNC 2.32

(412) 623-3751

Liu

Monica A

monicaliu@pitt.edu

KEY 220

Liu

Shi Tong

SHL87@pitt.edu

BST3 10021

Long

Daniel Ward

dwl17@pitt.edu

BENDM 302

LoPresti

Samuel Traxler

stl40@pitt.edu

BRDG2 326

Lorentz

Katherine

KLL68@pitt.edu

CNBIO 412

Lotze

Michael T

lotzemt@upmc.edu

HLMNC G27.A

(412) 623-5977

Loughlin

Patrick J

loughlin@pitt.edu

BENDM 410

(412) 624-9685

Lowe

Jesse R

jrl93@pitt.edu

SALK 574

Lund

Laura

LWLUND@pitt.edu

BENDM 144

(412) 822-3686

(412) 624-9815

BIOENGINEERING Last Name

First Name

Email

Office Location

Office Phone

Madhani

Shalv Pankaj

madhanisp@upmc.edu

MGOWN 226

Mahboobin

Arash

mahboobin@pitt.edu

BENDM 302

Mahoney

Christopher

cmm237@pitt.edu

BSTWR 1654E

Maiti

Spandan

spm54@pitt.edu

CNBIO 306

Malkin

Alexander David

ALM270@pitt.edu

MGOWN 215

Mallampalli

Rama

RKM20@pitt.edu

MONF 628NW

Mamiya

Hikaru

him25@pitt.edu

BRDG2 302

Mance

Nicholas G

ngm8@pitt.edu

CNBIO 306

(412) 624-6445

Mao

Zhi-Hong

zhm4@pitt.edu

BENDM 1140

(412) 624-9674

Marra

Kacey Gribbin

kgm5@pitt.edu

BSTWR 1655E

(412) 383-8924

Martin

Brian J

bjm118@pitt.edu

SCAIF S628

Massot

Corentin

corentinmassot@pitt.edu

EEI 108

Mau

Jonquil R

jonquil.mao@pitt.edu

CNBIO 405

McClain

Nicole Taylor

ntm10@pitt.edu

BST3 4074

(412) 648-1103

McCullough

Matthew J

matthew.mccullough@pitt.edu

THACK 360

(412) 624-0357

McKelvey

Sally A

sallym@pitt.edu

CNBIO 306B

(412) 624-5446

McMahon

Patrick

mcmahonp@upmc.edu

Meder

Tyler

TJM153@pitt.edu

BENDM 302

Menegazzi

James J

menegazz@pitt.edu

IROQU 400A

(412) 647-7992

Menon

Prahlad Gopalakrishna

prm44@pitt.edu

CNBIO 306

(412) 624-8150

Merrill

Zachary Forest

zfm1@pitt.edu

BENDM 302

(412) 383-1815

Miller Mirhassani Moghaddam

Mark C

mcmllr@pitt.edu

BENDM 636

(412) 624-9720

Seyed Reza

sem162@pitt.edu

BENDM 302

Mischel

Jessica Lauren

jlm334@pitt.edu

BST3 4073

Miskov-Zivanov

Natasa

nmzivanov@pitt.edu

BENDM 1238

(412) 624-0509

Moalli

Pamela A

moalli@pitt.edu

MAGEE 0000

(412) 641-1440

Modo Mohammad Hossein Zadah

Michel Mathias

mmm154@pitt.edu

MGOWN 0000

Asiyeh

a.golabchi@pitt.edu

BST3 5065

Mohsenian

Kevin John

kjm126@pitt.edu

EEI 108

Morton

Larry

LLM62@pitt.edu

BENDM 302

Moyer

Brian

bmoyer@pitt.edu

Johnstown

Muli

Dominic

dk.muli@pitt.edu

CNBIO 409

Murray

Mary Grace

mgwojnar@pitt.edu

CL 826

(412) 624-9019

Musahl

Volker

vom2@pitt.edu

CSMR 200

(412) 432-3618

Nanivadekar

Ameya

amn69@pitt.edu

KEY 220

(412) 648-7634

(412) 624-8900

(412) 961-5968

(814) 269-7271

BIOENGINEERING Last Name

First Name

Email

Office Location

Office Phone

Nolfi

Alexis Lauren

aln24@pitt.edu

BRDG2 300

Oborski

Matthew John

mjo29@pitt.edu

PRESB S-B944

(412) 624-6828

O'Connell

Caitlin Marie

caitlino@pitt.edu

BENDM 438

(412) 383-9800

Ohodnicki

John Michael

jmo30@pitt.edu

BENDM 848

(412) 624-7279

Olia

Salim E

seo10@pitt.edu

BRDG2 300

(412) 624-5283

Parker

Robert

rparker@pitt.edu

BENDM 940

(412) 624-7364

Patil

Mitali S

msp47@pitt.edu

BENDM 302

(907) 378-5791

Patil

Avinash Jagannath

ajp79@pitt.edu

SALK 598

(412) 648-0108

Patzer

Jack

patzer@pitt.edu

BENDM 302

(412) 624-9819

Pavlovsky

Nicholas Paul

npp10@pitt.edu

BST3 4074

Pedersen

Drake

ddp17@pitt.edu

BRDG2 300

Peterson

Glenn

glennp@pitt.edu

CNBIO 306

(412) 624-4705

Phillippi

Julie Anne

jap103@pitt.edu

BRDG2 311

(412) 624-6704

Pichamuthu

Joseph Ezhil Rajan

jep58@pitt.edu

CNBIO 306

(412) 624-5317

Pinkus

Rosa Lynn

pinkus@pitt.edu

BENDM 302

(412) 647-5822

Pinsky

Michael R

pinsky@pitt.edu

SCAIF 606

(412) 647-7125

Pitt

Bruce

brucep@pitt.edu

BRIDG 555

(412) 624-8400

Pliner

Erika

emp95@pitt.edu

BENDM 302

(412) 624-4268

Prest

Travis Austin

tap56@pitt.edu

BRDG2 300

(412) 648-7875

Prinkey

Jarad W

jwpst18@pitt.edu

BENDM 439

(412) 648-7364

Pu

Jiantao

jip13@pitt.edu

FARP 127

(412) 624-2571

Ramaswamy

Aneesh Krishna

akr40@pitt.edu

CNBIO 405

Ratay (Guaragno)

Michelle Lynn

mlg111@pitt.edu

BENDM 1250

(412) 648-9633

Redfern

Mark

mredfern@pitt.edu

CL 826

(412) 624-9019

Reyes

Christopher

CRR63@pitt.edu

BSTWR E1244

Robertson

Anne M

anne.robertson@pitt.edu

BENDM 636

(412) 624-9775

Rodzwicz

Lindsay Jean

rodzwicz@pitt.edu

BENDM 302

(412) 624-3495

Routzong

Megan

MER136@pitt.edu

CNBIO 306

Roy

Abhijit

abr20@pitt.edu

BENDM 302

(412) 648-8499

Roy

Partha

partha.roy@pitt.edu

CNBIO 306

(412) 624-7867

Royston

Dylan Albert

dar147@pitt.edu

KEY 300

(434) 466-3706

Rubin

Joseph Peter

jpr5@pitt.edu

SCAIF 000

(412) 648-9390

Sadagopan

Srivatsun

vatsun@pitt.edu

BST3 10021

(412) 624-8395

Salatiello

Alessandro

ALS414@pitt.edu

BENDM 406

Saldin

Lindsey Tamiko

lsaldin@pitt.edu

BRDG2 300

(412) 624-5272

Samosky

Joseph Thomas

jts35@pitt.edu

BENDM 329

(412) 624-7351

BIOENGINEERING Last Name

First Name

Email

Office Location

Office Phone

Sanatkhani

Soroosh

SOS51@pitt.edu

Sant

Shilpa

shs149@pitt.edu

SALK 527

(412) 648-9804

Schatten

Gerald Phillip

gschatten@pdc.magee.edu

MWRIN B601

(412) 641-1427

Scheurich

Thomas Edwin

thomas.scheurich@pitt.edu

BENDM

Schilling

Benjamin

BES111@pitt.edu

BSTWR E1655

Schmidt

Karen

kschmidt@pitt.edu

FRTOW 7057

(412) 383-5808

Schneider

Walter

wws@pitt.edu

LRDC 629

(412) 624-7061

Schuman

Joel Steven

jss28@pitt.edu

EEI 0000

(412) 647-2205

Schwartz

Andrew B

Aschwartz@pitt.edu

BSTWR E1443

(412) 383-7021

Sejdic

Ervin

esejdic@pitt.edu

BENDM 1238

(412) 624-0508

Sell

Timothy Crawford

tcs15@pitt.edu

CNBIO 306

(412) 246-0460

Sfeir

Charles S

csfeir@pitt.edu

SALKP 513

(412) 648-1949

Shawky

Joseph H

jhs35@pitt.edu

BST3 5065

(518) 364-2858

Shekhar

Sudhanshu

sus72@pitt.edu

BENDM 494

(412) 979-1712

Shridhar

Puneeth

pus8@pitt.edu

BENDM 1034

Shroff

Sanjeev Govinddas

sshroff@pitt.edu

CNBIO 306

(412) 624-2095

Sigal

Ian Alejandro

sigalia@upmc.edu

EEI 930.1

(412) 864-2220

Simon

Marc Alan

simonma@upmc.edu

SCAIF S555

(412) 802-3131

Smalianchuk

Ivan

ivs4@pitt.edu

EEI 108

(412) 648-3379

Smith

Stephen H

shs46@pitt.edu

CNBIO 306

(412) 383-9786

Smith

Matthew A

smithma@pitt.edu

EEI 914

(412) 647-2313

Smithgall

Thomas

tsmithga@pitt.edu

BRDG2 530

(412) 648-8106

Sombric

Carly Jean

cjs180@pitt.edu

BENDM 302

Sowa

Gwendolyn A.

gas26@pitt.edu

KAU 202

(412) 648-1091

Sparto

Patrick Joseph

psparto@pitt.edu

BRIDG 210

(412) 383-6729

Star

Alexander

astar@pitt.edu

EBERL 112

(412) 624-6493

Stetten

George Dewitt

stetten@pitt.edu

BENDM 302

(412) 624-7762

Storkus

Walter

storkuswj@upmc.edu

BSTWR W1041

(412) 648-9981

Stowell

Chelsea Elizabeth

ces98@pitt.edu

BENDM 302 /412

(412) 624-4414

Stuckenholz

Carsten

cstucken@pitt.edu

BST3 5065

(412) 648-9722

Sun

Mingui

drsun@pitt.edu

PRESB B400

(412) 648-9095

Sun

Aaron

AXS3@pitt.edu

BRDG 2 221

(412) 648-2324

Sundd

Prithu

prs51@pitt.edu

BST3 E1255

(412) 648-9103

Taboas

Juan M

jmt106@pitt.edu

SALK 408

(412) 624-3391

Tai

Changfeng

cftai@pitt.edu

KAU 700

(412) 648-7016

Tamimi

Ehab

ehab.t@pitt.edu

CNBIO 409

BIOENGINEERING Last Name

First Name

Email

Office Location

Office Phone

Taylor

Donald

dtaylor@scivelo.pitt.edu

CAUM 500

(412) 648-9324

Taylor

Ian M

imt2@pitt.edu

BST3 5063

(412) 383-6672

Teichert

Tobias

teichertt@upmc.edu

BSTWR 1658

(412) 648-1958

Thunes

James Robert

jrt57@pitt.edu

CNBIO 306

(412) 624-6445

Tien

Rex N

rnt9@pitt.edu

MGOWN 245.13

(412) 624-6445

Timothy

Jackson

trj4@pitt.edu

BST3 5065

(412) 624-7488

Torres

Gelsy

gelsyto@pitt.edu

BENDM 406

(412) 624-2660

Tran

Huong

htt3@pitt.edu

EEI 930.1

Trost

Kimberly

kim.trost@pitt.edu

BENDM 815A

(412) 624-9661

Trout

Jenna Montgomery

jdm139@pitt.edu

BENDM 439

(412) 624-9261

Tsui

Fu Chiang (Rich)

tsui2@pitt.edu

BAUM 400

(412) 648-7182

Tuan

Rocky Sung Chi

rst13@pitt.edu

BRDG2 221

(412) 624-3962

Turner

Robert Sterling

rturner@pitt.edu

BST3 4074

(412) 383-5395

Tyler-Kabara

Elizabeth Christine

elizabeth.tyler-kabara@chp.edu

PRESB B400

(412) 692-8142

Urish Jr

Kenneth L

klu10@pitt.edu

KAU 0000

(412) 648-2324

Van der Merwe

Yolandi

yov2@pitt.edu

BRDG2 300

Vande Geest

Jonathan

JPV20@pitt.edu

CNBIO 409

Vasandani

Paresh Manik

pmv4@pitt.edu

BENDM 0000

Vasquez

Gregory

gregory.vasquez@genollc.com

Vats

Ravi

RAV42@pitt.edu

BST3 E1255

Vazquez

Alberto Luis

alv15@pitt.edu

MGOWN 159

Velikokhatnyi

Oleg

olv3@pitt.edu

BENDM 302

Viator

John

viatorj@duq.edu

CNBIO 306

Vijayraghavan

Deepthi Sudha

dsv1@pitt.edu

BST3 5065

Vipperman

Jeffrey S

jsv@pitt.edu

BENDM 636

(412) 624-1643

Vodovotz

Yoram

vodovotz@pitt.edu

BSTWR W944

(412) 648-3758

Vorp

David A

vorp@pitt.edu

CNBIO 412

(412) 624-5319

Wagner

William R

wagner@pitt.edu

BRDG2 200

(412) 624-5327

Wang

Jihang

jiw86@pitt.edu

BENDM 302

Wang

Huicong (James)

wanghc@pitt.edu

BSTWR E1656

(412) 648-9102

Wang

Yadong

yaw20@pitt.edu

BENDM 302

(412) 624-7196

Waters

Jonathan H

jhw15@pitt.edu

MAGEE 3510

(412) 641-4260

Weber

Douglas John

dougweber@pitt.edu

KEY 220

(412) 383-1426

Weinbaum

Justin Sol

juw51@pitt.edu

CNBIO 410

(412) 624-9242

Weiss

Jeffrey

JMW182@pitt.edu

KEY 314

(412) 648-3379

Wellman

Steven

SMW114@pitt.edu

CNBIO 208

(412) 624-6496

(412) 383-6696

(412) 624-5446

BIOENGINEERING Last Name

First Name

Email

Office Location

Office Phone

Wells

Alan H

wellsa@msx.upmc.edu

CLB 9022

(412) 647-8409

Williamson

Joan L

jwi100@pitt.edu

CNBIO 306

(412) 624-2328

Wipf

Peter

WipfAdmin@pitt.edu

CHVRN 758

(412) 624-8606

Wiltman

Stephanie

saw153@pitt.edu

BENDM 302

Woeppel

Kevin

KMW103@pitt.edu

BST3 5063

Woo

Savio L Y

slyw@pitt.edu

CNBIO 405

(412) 648-2000

Wood

Sossena Cherise

scw24@pitt.edu

BST3 B040

(412) 648-7710

Wu

Jingyao

Jingyao.Wu@pitt.edu

BENDM 302

(412) 230-7236

Wu

Shandong

shw83@pitt.edu

PRESB 0000

Wu

Yen-Lin

yew10@pitt.edu

BENDM 302

Yang

Qianru

QIY24@pitt.edu

BST3 5063

Yang

Lei

lyang@pitt.edu

RANCH 8117

(412) 692-9842

Yang

Zhaochun

zcyang2010@gmail.com

Yeh

Joanne I-Ti

jiyeh@pitt.edu

BST3 1036

(412) 648-9027

Yu

Jaesok

jay49@pitt.edu

SCAIF 958

Yun

Minhee

miy16@pitt.edu

BENDM 1238

Zhai

Xuetong

xuz19@pitt.edu

BENDM 302

Zhang

Xudong

xuz9@pitt.edu

BENDM 636

(412) 624-5430

Zhao

Guangyi

guz14@pitt.edu

BSTWR E1603

(412) 624-9815

Zheng

Xin

xiz149@pitt.edu

BST3 5057

Zhou

Leming

lzhou1@pitt.edu

FRTOW 6021

Zhu

Yang

yang.zhu@pitt.edu

BRDG2 338

(412) 648-8989

(412) 383-6653

NAME

ADDRESS

PHONE

FAX

E-MAIL ADDRESS

CHEMICAL AND PETROLEUM ENGINEERING (412)

(412)

Main Office/ Steven R. Little Chair

940 Benedum Hall

624-9614

624- 9639

srlittle@pitt.edu

Mohammad M. Ataai Anna C. Balazs Ipsita P. Banerjee Taryn Bayles Eric J. Beckman Ioannis Bourmpakis Andrew Bunger Shiao-Hung Chiang Robert M. Enick William Federspiel Susan Fullerton Di Gao J. Karl Johnson John Keith George E. Klinzing Prashant Kumta J. Thomas Lindt Lei Li Steven R. Little Joseph McCarthy James McKone Badie Morsi John Murphy Robert S. Parker John F. Patzer Jason Shoemaker John W. Tierney Sachin Velankar Gรถtz Veser William R. Wagner Christopher Wilmer Judy Yang

908 Benedum Hall 209 Benedum Hall 930 Benedum Hall 909 Benedum Hall 153E Benedum Hall 905 Benedum Hall 710 Benedum Hall 940 Benedum Hall 807 Benedum Hall 302E Benedum Hall 907 Benedum Hall 926 Benedum Hall 904 Benedum Hall 804 Benedum Hall 929 Benedum Hall 849 Benedum Hall 940 Benedum Hall 906 Benedum Hall 940 Benedum Hall 928 Benedum Hall 902 Benedum Hall 809 Benedum Hall 300 BRDG2 931 Benedum Hall 306 CNBIO 932 Benedum Hall 940 Benedum Hall 927 Benedum Hall 806 Benedum Hall 300 BRDG2 903 Benedum Hall 208 Benedum Hall

624-9648 648-9250 624-2071 383-9970 624-4828 624-7034 624-9875 624-9636 624-9649 624-9474 624-2079 624-8488 624-5644 624-7016 624-4604 624-5014 624-9729 624-3691 624-9614 624-7362 383-7407 624-9650 624-5250 624-7364 624-9819 624-3318 624-9645 624-9984 624-1042 624-5327 624-9194 624-8613

624-9639 624-9639 624-9639 624-9639 624-9639 624-9639 624-9639 624-9639 624-9639 624-9639 624-9639 624-9639 624-9639 624-9639 624-9639 624-8069 624-9639 624-9639 624-9639 624-9639 624-9639 624-9639 624-9639 624-9639 383-8788 624-9639 624-9639 624-9639 624-9639 235-5110 624-9639 624-9639

ataai@pitt.edu balazs@pitt.edu ipb1@pitt.edu tbayles@pitt.edu beckman@pitt.edu gmpourmp@pitt.edu bunger@pitt.edu shchiang@pitt.edu rme@pitt.edu federspielwj@upmc.edu fullerton@pitt.edu gaod@pitt.edu karlj@pitt.edu jakeith@pitt.edu klinzing@pitt.edu pkumta@pitt.edu jtlindt@pitt.edu lel55@pitt.edu srlittle@pitt.edu jjmcc@pitt.edu jmckone@pitt.edu morsi@pitt.edu jmurphy@pitt.edu rparker@pitt.edu patzer@pitt.edu jason.shoemaker@pitt.edu jwta@pitt.edu velankar@pitt.edu gveser@pitt.edu wagnerwr@upmc.edu wilmer@pitt.edu judyyang@pitt.edu

NAME

ADDRESS

PHONE

FAX

E-MAIL ADDRESS

CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING Main Office/ Radisav Vidic, Chair

742F Benedum Hall

(412) 624-1307

(412) 624-0135

vidic@pitt.edu

Jorge Abad Kyle Bibby Melissa Bilec John Brigham Daniel D. Budny Andrew Bunger Leonard W. Casson Leanne Gilbertson Kent A. Harries Anthony Iannacchione Vikas Khanna Xu Liang Jeen-Shang Lin M. Magalotti John F. Oyler Piervincenzo Rizzo David Sanchez Morteza Torkamani Luis E. Vallejo Julie M. Vandenbossche Wei, Na Yu, Q.

731 Benedum Hall 709 Benedum Hall 153G Benedum Hall 703 Benedum Hall 126 Benedum Hall 710 Benedum Hall 742C Benedum Hall 202 Benedum Hall 218 B Benedum Hall 218 F Benedum Hall 218G Benedum Hall 728 Benedum Hall 725 Benedum Hall 706 Benedum Hall 704 Benedum Hall 729 Benedum Hall 153 Benedum Hall 707 Benedum Hall 726 Benedum Hall 705 Benedum Hall 708 Benedum Hall 730 Benedum Hall

624-4399 624-9207 648-8075 624-9047 624-6474 624-9875 624-9868 624-1683 624-9873 624-8289 624-9603 6249872 624-8158 624-9870 624-9871 624-9575 624-9793 624-9881 624-9894 624-9879 624-7312 624-9899

624-0135 624-0135 624-0135 624-0135 624-0135 624-0135 624-0135 624-0135 624-0135 624-0135 624-0135 624-0135 624-0135 624-0135 624-0135 624-0135 624-0135 624-0135 624-0135 624-0135 624-0135 624-0135

jabad@pitt.edu bibbykj@pitt.edu mbilec@pitt.edu brigham@pitt.edu budny@pitt.edu bunger@pitt.edu casson@pitt.edu lmg110@pitt.edu kharries@pitt.edu ati2@pitt.edu khannav@pitt.edu xulian@pitt.edu jslin@pitt.edu mjm25@pitt.edu oyler1@pitt.edu pir3@pitt.edu david.sanchez@pitt.edu torkmani@pitt.edu vallejo@pitt.edu jmv7@pitt.edu nawei@pitt.edu qiy15@pitt.edu

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING NAME

ADDRESS

PHONE

FAX

E-MAIL ADDRESS

Akcakaya, Murat Chen, Kevin

1205 Benedum 1130 Benedum

412-624-8622 412-624-9675

412-624-8003 412-624-8003

akcakaya@pitt.edu pec9@pitt.edu

Chen, Yiran

1107 Benedum

412-624-5836

412-624-8003

yic52@pitt.edu

Sam Dickerson

1206 Benedum

412-624-2163

412-624-8003

Sjdst31@pitt.edu

El-Jaroudi, Amro

1225 Benedum

412-624-9621

412-624-8003

amro@pitt.edu

El Nokali, Mahmoud

1238D Benedum 412-624-9664

412-624-8003

men@pitt.edu

Grainger, Brandon

802 Benedum

412-383-8148

412-624-8003

Bmg10@pitt.edu

Jacobs, Steve

1207 Benedum

412-624-9667

412-624-8003

spj1@pitt.edu

Jones, Alex

1128 Benedum

412-624-9666

412-624-8003

akjones@pitt.edu

Jones, Irvin

1231 Benedum

412-624-9690

412-624-8003

irj4@pitt.edu

Kerestes, Robert

1224 Benedum

412-383-5251

412-624-8003

rjk39@pitt.edu

Kim, Hong-Koo

512 Benedum

412-624-9673

412-624-8003

hkk@pitt.edu

Kusic, George

1228 Benedum

412-624-9678

412-624-8003

gkusic@pitt.edu

Alexis Kwasinski

1229 Benedum

412-383-6744

412-624-8003

akwasins@pitt.edu

Li, C. C. Li, Guangyong Li, Helen

1230 Benedum 506 Benedum 1108 Benedum

412-624-9679 412-624-9663 412-648-9597

412-624-8003 412-624-8003 412-624-8003

ccl@pitt.edu gul6@pitt.edu hal66@pitt.edu

Mao, Zhi-Hong Miskov-Zivanov, Natasa Mohanram, Kartik

1204 Benedum

412-624-9674

412-624-8003

zhm4@pitt.edu

1208 Benedum

412-624-0509

412-624-8003

nmzivanov@pitt.edu

1129 Benedum

412-624-8002

412-624-8003

kmram@pitt.edu

Reed, Gregory

815 B Benedum 412-383-9862

412-624-8003

gfr3@pitt.edu

Sejdic, Ervin

1203 Benedum

412-624-0508

412-624-8003

esejdic@pitt.edu

Stanchina, William

1226 Benedum

412-624-7629

412-624-8003

wes25@pitt.edu

Tan, Susheng

B01 Benedum

412-383-8001

412-624-8003

Xiong, Feng

205 Benedum

412-383-5306

412-624-8003

sut6@pitt.edu f.xiong@pitt.edu

Yang, Jun Yun, Minhee

1111 Benedum 218E Benedum

412-624-9088 412-648-8989

412-624-8003 412-624-8003

juy9@pitt.edu miy16@pitt.edu

NAME

ADDRESS

PHONE

FAX

E-MAIL

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

Main Office Bopaya Bidanda, Chair Mary Besterfield-Sacre Karen M. Bursic Youngjae Chun David I. Cleland* Joel M. Haight Jeffrey P. Kharoufeh Paul Leu Louis Luangkesorn Lisa Maillart Mohammad Mousavi Mainak Mazumdar* Bryan A. Norman Oleg Prokopyev Jayant Rajgopal Ravi Shankar Larry J. Shuman Natasa Vidic Harvey Wolfe* *Emeritus

1025 Benedum Hall 1025A Benedum Hall 1033 Benedum Hall 1037 Benedum Hall 1034 Benedum Hall 1022 Benedum Hall 1036 Benedum Hall 1003 Benedum Hall 1004 Benedum Hall 1028 Benedum Hall 1030 Benedum Hall 1035 Benedum Hall 1022 Benedum Hall 1006 Benedum Hall 1031 Benedum Hall 1032 Benedum Hall 1005 Benedum Hall 152A Benedum Hall 1007 Benedum Hall 1022 Benedum Hall

(412) 624-9830 (412) 624-9830 (412) 624-9836 (412) 624-9837 (412) 624-1193 (412) 648-8775 (412) 624-9839 (412) 624-9832 (412) 624-9834 (412) 624-9838 (412) 624-9845 (412) 624-9843 (412) 648-8775 (412) 624-9841 (412) 624-9833 (412) 624-9840 (412) 624-9835 (412) 624-9815 (412) 624-9846 (412) 648-8775

(412) 624-9831 (412) 624-9831 (412) 624-9831 (412) 624-9831 (412) 624-9831 (412) 624-9831 (412) 624-9831 (412) 624-9831 (412) 624-9831 (412) 624-9831 (412) 624-9831 (412) 624-9831 (412) 624-983 (412) 624-9831 (412) 624-9831 (412) 624-9831 (412) 624-9831 (412) 624-1108 (412) 624-9831 (412) 624-9831

minervap@pitt.edu bidanda@pitt.edu mbsacre@pitt.edu kbursic@pitt.edu yjchun@pitt.edu dic@pitt.edu jhaight@pitt.edu jkharouf@pitt.edu pleu@pitt.edu lol11@pitt.edu maillart@pitt.edu mousavi@pitt.edu mmazumd@pitt.edu banorman@pitt.edu oap@pitt.edu rajgopal@pitt.edu ravishm@pitt.edu shuman@pitt.edu nav9@pitt.edu hwolfe@pitt

NAME

ADDRESS

PHONE

FAX

E-MAIL ADDRESS

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AND MATERIALS SCIENCE

Brian Gleeson, Chair John Barnard Markus Chmielus Sung -Kwon Cho Minking K. Chyu William Clark Daniel Cole Thomas Congedo Anthony DeArdo Paolo Galdi C. Isaac Garcia Peyman Givi Tevis Jacobs Jung-Kun Lee Sangyeop Lee Scott Mao Gerald Meier Mark Miller Ian Nettleship Thomas Piccone Anne Robertson Wissam Saidi David Schmidt Nitin Sharma William Slaughter Patrick Smolinski Albert To Jeffrey Vipperman Guofeng Wang Qing-Ming Wang Xiong Wei John Whitefoot Jorg Wiezorek Sylvanus Wosu Xudong Zhang

636 F Benedum Hall 538A Benedum Hall 505 BendumHall 538G Benedum Hall 624 Benedum Hall 218G Benedum Hall 538F Benedum Hall 538 Benedum Hall 603 Benedum Hall 607 Benedum Hall 606 Benedum Hall 1273 Benedum Hall 538E Benedum Hall 538H Benedum Hall 538A Benedum Hall 538D Benedum Hall 805 Benedum Hall 636 Benedum Hall 502 Benedum Hall 604 Benedum Hall 408 Benedum Hall 538F Benedum Hall 509 Benedum Hall 538C Benedum Hall 602 Benedum Hall 608 Benedum Hall 508 Benedum Hall 504 Benedum Hall 538B Benedum Hall 511 Benedum Hall 606 Benedum Hall 803 Benedum Hall 538I Benedum Hall 152 Benedum Hall 609 Benedum Hall

(412) 648-1185 624-4963 624-8176 624-9798 624-9783 624-9794 624-3069 624-9799 624-9737 624-9789 624-9731 624-9605 624-9736 648-3395 624-8111 624-9602 624-9741 359-5282 624-9735 624-9774 624-9775 624-4709 624-9755 624-9746 624-8479 624-9788 624-2052 624-1643 624-3325 624-4885 383-8092 624-0325 624-0122 624-9842 624-5430

(412) 624-4846 624-8069 624-4846 624-4846 624-4846 624-4846 624-4846 624-4846 624-8069 624-4846 624-8069 624-4846 624-4846 624-8069 624-4846 624-4846 624-8069 624-4846 624-8069 624-8069 624-4846 624-4846 624-4846 624-4846 624-4846 624-4846 624-4846 624-4846 624-4846 624-4846 624-4846 624-4846 624-8069 624-4846 624-4846

bmg36@pitt.edu jbarnard@pitt.edu chmielus@pitt.edu skcho@pitt.edu mkchyu@pitt.edu

wclark@pitt.edu dgcole@pitt.edu tvc9@pitt.edu deardo@pitt.edu galdi@pitt.edu cigarcia@pitt.edu givi@pitt.edu tjacobs@pitt.edu jul37@pitt.edu sylee@pitt.edu sxm2@pitt.edu ghmeier@pitt.edu mcmllr@pitt.edu nettles@pitt.edu tipiccone@pitt.edu rbertson@pitt.edu alsaidi@pitt.edu des53@pitt.edu nis62@pitt.edu wss@pitt.edu patsmol@pitt.edu albertto@pitt.edu jsv@pitt.edu guw8@pitt.edu qiw4@pitt.edu weixiong@pitt.edu jwhitefoot@pitt.edu wiezorek@pitt.edu snn2@pitt.edu xuz9@pitt.edu

NAME

ADDRESS

PHONE

FAX

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E-MAIL ADDRESS

ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES

Deanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office Gerald D. Holder, U.S. Steel Dean

109 Benedum Hall

624-9809

624-0412

dnldson@pitt.edu

Sr. Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Larry J. Shuman, Associate Dean

147 Benedum Hall

624-9815

624-1108

pjr10@pitt.edu

Associate Dean for International Initiatives Minking Chyu, Associate Dean

636 Benedum Hall

624-9720

624-4846

mkchyu@pitt.edu

Associate Dean for Research David A. Vorp, Associate Dean

123 Benedum Hall

624-8503

624-0412

mam266@pitt.edu

Schohn L. Shannon, Assistant Dean

106 Benedum Hall

624-9866

624-1108

schohn@pitt.edu

Associate Dean for Diversity Sylvanus N. Wosu, Associate Dean

127 Benedum Hall

624-9842

624-2827

snn2@pitt.edu

Engineering Administration Rama Bazaz, Director

151 Benedum Hall

624-9800

624-9808

jradocay@pitt.edu

Development & Alumni Relations Carey Anne Zucca, Sr. Executive Director

104 Benedum Hall

624-9812

624-0412

czucca@pitt.edu

Information Technology Brian A. Vidic, Executive Director

148 Benedum Hall

624-8101

624-2027

vidicba@pitt.edu

Bioengineering Sanjeev G. Shroff, Chair

306 CNBIO

624-2095

383-8788

sshroff@pitt.edu

Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Steven R. Little, Chair

940F Benedum Hall

624-9614

624-9639

srlittle@pitt.edu

Civil and Environmental Engineering Radisav D. Vidic, Chair

742F Benedum Hall

624-9870

624-0135

vidic@pitt.edu

Electrical and Computer Engineering Mahmoud El Nokali, Interim Chair

1227 Benedum Hall

624-8002

624-8003

men@pitt.edu

Industrial Engineering Bopaya Bidanda, Chair

1025 Benedum Hall

624-9830

624-9831

bidanda@pitt.edu

Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Brian M. Gleeson, Chair

649 Benedum Hall

624-9780

624-4846

bgleeson@pitt.edu

Computer Engineering Alex Jones, Director

205 Benedum Hall

624-8708

624-8003

akjones@pitt.edu

Co-Operative Education Maureen Barcic, Director

137 Benedum Hall

624-9826

624-2827

paub2m@pitt.edu

Engineering Science Brian M. Gleeson, Director

649 Benedum Hall

624-9780

624-4846

bgleeson@pitt.edu

DEPARTMENTS

SPECIAL ACADEMIC PROGRAMS

NAME

ADDRESS

PHONE

FAX

E-MAIL ADDRESS

Freshman Engineering Program Daniel D. Budny, Academic Director

126 Benedum Hall

624-9825

624-2827

fpoadmin@engr.pitt.edu

International Engineering Initiatives Kristine Lalley, Director

133 Benedum Hall

624-3489

624-2827

krl33@pitt.edu

Pitt Engineering Career Access Program (PECAP) Alaine Allen, Director

121 Benedum Hall

624-0224

624-8869

allen@pitt.edu

Student Services Cheryl Paul, Director

130 Benedum Hall

624-9825

624-2827

cheryl35@pitt.edu

Basic Metals Processing Research Institute (BAMPRI) Anthony J. DeArdo, Director

603 Benedum Hall

624-9737

624-8069

deardo@pitt.edu

Center for Bioengineering Sanjeev G. Shroff, Director

306 CNBIO

624-2095

383-8788

sshroff@pitt.edu

Center for Complex Engineered Multifunctional Materials (CCEMM) Prashant N. Kumta, Director

302 Benedum Hall

648-0223

624-8069

pkumta@pitt.edu

Center for e-Design and Realization David A. Vorp, Director

123 Benedum Hall

624-8503

624-0412

mam266@pitt.edu

Center for Energy Gregory Reed, Director

815B Benedum Hall

383-9862

624-8003

reed5@pitt.edu

Engineering Education Research Center Mary Besterfield-Sacre, Director

1040 Benedum Hall

624-9836

624-9831

mbsacre@engr.pitt.edu

Manufacturing Assistance Center (MAC) Bopaya Bidanda, Director

1049 Benedum Hall

624-9830

624-9831

bidanda@pitt.edu

Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation Eric J. Beckman, Co-Director Gena M. Kovalcik, Co-Director

153 Benedum Hall 153 Benedum Hall

624-9698 624-9698

624-7820 624-7820

beckman@pitt.edu gmk9@pitt.edu

Materials Micro-Characterization Center (MMCC) C. Isaac Garcia, Director

606 Benedum Hall

624-9731

624-8069

cigarcia@pitt.edu

Center for Medical Innovation David A. Vorp, Director Alan D. Hirschman, Executive Director

123 Benedum Hall 325 Benedum Hall

624-8503 624-1177

624-0412 927-2632

mam266@pitt.edu alh138@pitt.edu

Center for Metal Cutting Fluids Bopaya Bidanda, Director

1049 Benedum Hall

624-9830

624-9831

bidanda@pitt.edu

Center for Molecular and Materials Simulation J. Karl Johnson, Co-Director Kenneth Jordan, Co-Director

904 Benedum Hall 330 Eberly Hall

624-9631 624-8690

624-9639 624-8611

karlj@pitt.edu jordan@pitt.edu

SPECIAL ACADEMIC PROGRAMS (continued)

ENGINEERING CENTERS

NAME

ADDRESS

PHONE

FAX

E-MAIL ADDRESS

Musculoskeletal Research Center Savio L.-Y. Woo

405 CNBIO

648-2000

648-2001

slyw@pitt.edu

Petersen Institute of Nanoscience and Engineering David H. Waldeck, Director

CHVRN G10

624-8430

624-8611

dave@pitt.edu

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Center of Excellence Ervin Sejdic, Director

732 Benedum Hall

624-0508

624-8003

esejdic@pitt.edu

Center for Simulation and Modeling J. Karl Johnson, Co-Director Kenneth Jordan, Co-Director

904 Benedum Hall 330 Eberly Hall

624-9631 624-8690

624-9639 624-8611

karlj@pitt.edu jordan@pitt.edu

Center for Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure Radisav Vidic, Co-Director Mark Magalotti, Co-Director

742F Benedum Hall 706 Benedum Hall

624-9870 624-8618

624-0135 624-0135

vidic@pitt.edu mjm25@pitt.edu

Swanson Center for Micro and Nano Systems David A. Vorp, Director

123 Benedum Hall

624-8503

624-0412

mam266@pitt.edu

Swanson Center for Product Innovation David A. Vorp, Director

123 Benedum Hall

624-8503

624-0412

mam266@pitt.edu

John A. Swanson Institute for Technical Excellence David A. Vorp, Director

123 Benedum Hall

624-8503

624-0412

mam266@pitt.edu

ENGINEERING CENTERS (continued)