Director of Manufacturing and Materials Engineering
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Richard D. Sisson
Professor
George F. Fuller Professor Mechanical Engineering
Email: sisson@wpi.edu
Office: Washburn Shops 246A
Phone: 508-831-5335
Richard D. Sisson, Jr. is the George F. Fuller Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of Manufacturing and Materials Engineering at WPI. He is also the principal investigator (PI) for several projects in WPI’s Center for Heat Treating Excellence. Professor Sisson has been with WPI for 30 years. In addition, he has taught at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and has been a research metallurgist with DuPont Savannah Laboratory and a staff engineer with Exxon Chemical Company. ... View Profile
Diran Apelian
Professor & Dir, Metal Process
Director, Metal Processing Institute
Metal Processing Institute
Email: dapelian@wpi.edu
Office: Washburn Shops 329
Phone: 508-831-5992, 508-831-6008
Dr. Apelian received his BS degree in Metallurgical Engineering from Drexel University (1968) and his Doctorate in Materials Science and Engineering from MIT (1972). After graduating from MIT, he joined Bethlehem Steel’s Homer Research Laboratories where he co-developed the Ultra-Form series of high strength low alloy steels. ... View Profile
Isa Bar-On
Professor
Email: ibaron@wpi.edu
Office: Washburn Shops 224
Phone: 508-831-5127, 508-831-5633
My favorite activities involve guiding students in projects and research. I like to give them independence and to learn from their work. I enjoy challenging them and myself to find better answers, explanations, and solutions. I am very interested in socio-technical systems, such as the healthcare system or the energy delivery system.
Over the past years, my research has focused on developing models in support of an improved healthcare delivery system. ... View Profile
Chris Brown has been on the WPI faculty since 1989. In 1983 he completed his doctoral work on machining at the University of Vermont, where he also worked in orthopedics and studied ski injuries. As an undergraduate, he was Vermont’s only walk-on All-American skier. He raced and coached there during the longest regular season undefeated streak in NCAA history and is a member of UVM’s athletic hall of fame. ... View Profile
Chrysanthe Demetry
Associate Professor
Director, Morgan Teaching and Learning Center
Co-Director, Camp Reach
Co-Director, Professional Writing Program
Email: cdemetry@wpi.edu
Office: Gordon Library 302
Phone: 508-831-5195
As a college professor, I have the opportunity not only to excite students about my field of materials science and engineering, but to help them develop holistically as critical thinkers, lifelong learners, innovators, and effective and ethical communicators during an important formative period in their personal and professional lives. I was an undergraduate at WPI and really valued the project-based learning, the Global Projects Program, and the extent of contact I had with my professors. Those same values drew me back to WPI as a faculty member. View Profile
Diana A. Lados
Associate Professor
Email: lados@wpi.edu
Office: Washburn Shops 319
Phone: 508-831-6168
Professor Liang experimentally studies the physics and interface science at nanometer scales and creates devices with improved performance. 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 chemical engineering. Her educational effort is focused on contributing to the creation of a well-structured nanoscience and nanotechnology curriculum at WPI. ... View Profile
Makhlouf M. Makhlouf
Professor
Director, Advanced Casting Research Center (ACRC)
Email: mmm@wpi.edu
Office: Washburn Shops 334
Phone: 508-831-5647
Brajendra Mishra
Merriam Prof. & Assoc Dir MPI
Director of the National Science Foundation’s Industry/University Collaborative Research Center on Resource Recovery & Recycling
Email: bmishra@wpi.edu
Office: Washburn Shops, 331
Phone: 508-831-5711
Dr. Mishra is the Kenneth G. Merriam Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Assoc. Director of the Metal Processing Institute at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute [WPI]. Dr. Mishra is the Director of the National Science Foundation’s Industry/University Collaborative Research Center on Resource Recovery & Recycling – the first National Center of its kind. Brajendra received his Bachelor of Technology [1981] degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, India and his M.S. [1983] and Ph.D. ... View Profile
My research is aimed at the challenge of meeting the growing energy needs of society and replacing fossil fuels with clean energy sources. The first thrust of my research focuses on creating materials that will be the building blocks of economical, large-scale, clean energy technologies of the future. The key to creating effective energy conversion materials is controlling the flow of energy, electricity and matter at the nanoscale by careful design of the shape, size and composition of materials at the same scale. ... View Profile
Satya Shivkumar
Professor
Email: shivkuma@wpi.edu
Office: Washburn Shops 227
Phone: 508-831-5633, 508-831-5048
I am assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Here at WPI, my main responsibilities are teaching and research. I have taught materials processing and materials for electrochemical energy system. I enjoy teaching and interacting with students because I like to impart m y knowledge/experience to the students. ... View Profile