Faculty
Email: bmishra@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x5711
Brajendra Mishra’s research focuses on sustainable stewardship of earth’s resources by developing technologies to advance commercially viable metals/materials processing. He is involved in the design and development of industry-oriented methods for energy and materials sustainability, which is one of the greatest challenges in the 21st Century. ...
Email: brown@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x5627
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Email: dlcote2@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6020
After graduating from UNH with a chemical engineering degree in 2005, Danielle Cote worked as a researcher at Saint-Gobain in the Northboro Research and Development Center in polymer science and data automation. Cote continued working while she pursued a master’s degree at WPI, followed by a PhD fellowship, and joined the WPI faculty in 2016. ...
Email: jianyul@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6649
Professor Liang’s research explores the physics of interfaces between the nanometer and micron scales. Her team responds to the challenging interdisciplinary nature of their research endeavor through successful collaboration with colleagues with expertise in metrology, physics, bioscience, medical science, chemistry, and fire protection engineering. Her educational effort includes novel approaches to project-based learning and global centers for science and engineering. ...
Email: mmm@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x5647
Makhlouf M. Makhlouf is professor of Mechanical & Materials Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). He was Director of the Advanced Casting Research Center (ACRC) between 1992 and 2015. ACRC is a collaboration between the academic and industrial sectors focusing on issues that benefit the global foundry industry. It brings fundamental understanding to existing processes, develops new methods, and addresses management-technology interface matters. ...
Email: pmrao@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x4828
My research seeks to understand, design, and develop advanced materials, manufacturing methods, processes, and devices for a range of important applications. Current areas of focus include photocatalytic nanomaterials for solar-driven water purification; printed soft stretchable electronics and sensors for wearable devices and soft robotics; and catalytic processes for the conversion of fossil fuels such as natural gas to clean hydrogen fuel, along with the production of high-value carbon nanomaterials. ...
Email: yanwang@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x5453
I am William Smith Foundation Dean’s Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Since joining WPI, I have been very active in research. Currently, my lab focuses on the study of new electrodes and materials for energy storage, including lithium ion batteries, supercapacitors, flow batteries, battery manufacturing, battery safety and recycle, and fundamental electrochemistry. This research can lead to energy storage with high energy density, high power density, long life, low cost, and high safety. ...
Email: zmao2@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x4845
Dr. Zhu Mao joined WPI as an Associate Professor in the Mechanical and Materials Engineering Department in 2021, and before that, he was on the faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell from 2015. His research interests include dynamics and vibration, intelligent systems, noncontact sensing and computer vision, signal processing and machine learning, uncertainty quantification, and condition-based monitoring for a variety of applications. ...
Email: tchristiansen@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6008
Professor Christiansen works with microstructure optimization and surface engineering of metallic materials for improving materials properties and performance. He is the director of the Center for Heat Treating Excellence (CHTE), which is a member-driven industrial center anchored at Worcester Polytechnic Institute that conducts research and development for primarily the thermal processing industry. The center focuses on heat treating and thermochemical surface engineering of metallic components – technological disciplines that are important for our modern society. Prof. ...
Email: rdaniello@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6776
Staff
Email: jharris5@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x5219
Joel Harris, PE, joined the Manufacturing Laboratory after a 32 year career at Raytheon Technologies (formerly Raytheon Co) plus 3 years at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft. Joel’s area of expertise is mechanical and mechatronic engineering of aerospace and marine products. Joel worked on design, analysis, manufacture, test of components and systems, plus support to fielded products. For his last 12 years at Raytheon, Joel was the engineering lead for the manufacture of the PATRIOT GEM-T missile control section. ...
Email: boquanli@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6025
Email: swoods@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6088
Email: wsegelhorst@wpi.edu
Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6583