Faculty
Jeanine D. Plummer
Contact Information:
Kaven Hall, 106
Phone: +1-508-831-5142
Fax: +1-508-831-5808
jplummer@wpi.edu
Jeanine D. Plummer
- Associate Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
At WPI, I work with undergraduate and graduate students to explore water quality issues through classroom activities, project work in the field and laboratory, and funded research. I also work to improve water and sanitation options around the globe. Read more...
John A. Bergendahl
Contact Information:
Kaven Hall, 117B
Phone: +1-508-831-5772
Fax: +1-508-831-5808
jberg@wpi.edu
Website
John A. Bergendahl
- Associate Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
John Bergendahl has six years experience as a practicing engineer; he holds a BS in mechanical engineering, an MS in environmental engineering, and a PhD in chemical engineering. He conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Texas in Austin. Read more...
Terri A. Camesano
Contact Information:
Life Sciences & Bioengineering Center, 4002
Phone: +1-508-831-5380
Fax: +1-508-831-5853
terric@wpi.edu
Website
Terri A. Camesano
- Professor, Chemical Engineering
My favorite teaching activities are working on research projects with graduate and undergraduate students. I love to engage students in the discovery process of research. The work in my lab relates to studying how bacteria attach to different kinds of surfaces. For example, we have been studying whether compounds in cranberry juice can inhibit bacteria from colonizing the cells that line the bladder. We also work on strategies to kill pathogenic bacteria using antimicrobial peptides. Read more...
William M. Clark
Contact Information:
Goddard Hall, 124
Phone: +1-508-831-5259
Fax: +1-508-831-5853
wmclark@wpi.edu
William M. Clark
- Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering
To me, there is nothing better than struggling with a problem and finally understanding and solving it. I enjoy teaching chemical engineering students at WPI, because most of them also like the thrill that occurs when seemingly complicated problems start to make sense. I particularly enjoy teaching our unit operations laboratory class, where students get hands-on experience with process equipment. For some students, a light switches on when theory and experiment are combined in the lab. Read more...
David DiBiasio
Contact Information:
Goddard Hall, 125
Phone: +1-508-831-5372
Fax: +1-508-831-5853
dibiasio@wpi.edu
David DiBiasio
- Associate Professor & Department Head, Chemical Engineering
My research involves educational scholarship. That includes understanding learning in hands-on labs compared to virtual or remotely operated labs; learning in international contexts; and how safety, ethics, and social responsibility can be effectively integrated into the chemical engineering curriculum. WPI is a great place to conduct this type of work because of our project-based program, our extensive global perspective program, and our philosophy of student-centered learning. Read more...
Frederick L. Hart
Contact Information:
Kaven Hall, 206
Phone: +1-508-831-5421
flhart@wpi.edu
Frederick L. Hart
- Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
I have been teaching at WPI for more than 30 years and am the director of The Stantec Project Center. I still feel very young and enthusiastic about what I do, mainly because the young people at WPI are very enthusiastic about what they do; it rubs off. Read more...
Nikolaos Kazantzis
Contact Information:
Goddard Hall, 224A
Phone: +1-508-831-5666
nikolas@wpi.edu
Nikolaos Kazantzis
- Professor, Chemical Engineering
I believe strongly in the primacy of the quality of the student-teacher relationship, its intellectual and emotional rewards, and its key role in the attainment of educational objectives such as development of the student's critical thinking, capacity for self-exploration, and independence of judgment. At WPI, curricula are creatively designed to highlight the many nuanced forms and features of the interaction between science, technology, culture, and society. Read more...
Paul Mathisen
Contact Information:
Kaven Hall, 209E
Phone: +1-508-831-5343
Fax: +1-508-831-5808
mathisen@wpi.edu
Website
Paul Mathisen
- Associate Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Professor Mathisen enjoys challenging himself to learn new ideas, which he can apply to solve problems that make a difference for other people. WPI's curriculum and projects program provide the perfect environment for fostering these opportunities. Read more...
Brian J. Savilonis
Contact Information:
Higgins Laboratories, 108
Phone: +1-508-831-5686
bjs@wpi.edu
Brian J. Savilonis
- Professor, Mechanical Engineering
For Professor Savilonis, the project mode of education is a significant tenet of WPI; project based courses are common, along with the required IQP and MQP. Managing this close knit intellectual activity has m any parallels to coaching sports. Read more...
John M. Sullivan
Contact Information:
Higgins Laboratories, 109
Phone: +1-508-831-5199
Fax: +1-508-831-5680
sullivan@wpi.edu
Website
John M. Sullivan
- Associate Department Head
- Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Students completing their projects under Professor Sullivan’s guidance have received more than two dozen awards and honors in the forms of undergraduate publications, provost awards, national competition awards, and ME design of year awards. Read more...
Robert W. Thompson
Contact Information:
Goddard Hall, 119
Phone: +1-508-831-5525
Fax: +1-508-831-5853
rwt@wpi.edu
Robert W. Thompson
- Professor, Chemical Engineering
Participating in open-ended projects at various levels has been among the most stimulating and mind-broadening activities in my 35 years at WPI. While I have been engaged in zeolite crystallization research for over 30 years, I also have been active in studying the use of zeolites for organics remediation of water. Both at the MQP and graduate student research level, we have made several fascinating discoveries using both experimental observations and computational chemistry techniques. Read more...
