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About MAE Faculty & Staff Academics Research Student Advising Faculty Search Employment Clubs & Organizations Assessment Contact Info	Home » Faculty & Staff Search: MAE Department Faculty Jump to: Select... Staff Ning Fang Division: Manufacturing Email: nfang@engineering.usu.edu Phone: 797-2948 Office: ENGR 419E View Personal Page View Resume Ning Fang is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. His research interests include modeling and optimization of metal machining, including both the conventional and high-speed machining. His recent project focus is on the study of the effects of tool edge preparation, chip breaking, tool wear, serrated chip formation in high-speed machining, and machining vibrations. He has 15 years of work experience and more than 20 publications in refereed international journals. He is Senior Member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers and serves as a Member of the ASME Manufacturing Processes Technical Committee. Steve L. Folkman Division: Structural Mechanics Email: stevef@engineering.usu.edu Phone: 797-2879 Office: EL 141B View Personal Page View Resume Steven Folkman is an Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. His research interests involve structural analysis using finite element methods, structural dynamics, design of spacecraft structures, and analysis of buried structures. He is associated with USU’s Space Dynamics Laboratory where he has had an active role in the design and analysis of a number of payloads. Dr. Folkman is also involved with USU’s Buried Structures Laboratory where his interests involve soil/structure interaction, finite element modeling and testing. The buried structures laboratory is recognized as one of three laboratories in the United States for performing tests on buried pipes. Thomas H. Fronk Division: Solid Mechanics Email: thfronk@engineering.usu.edu Phone: 797-3893 Office: ENGR 419M View Personal Page View Resume Thomas Fronk is an Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. His primary research interest is in composite structures. He has received numerous teaching awards including "Teacher of the Year" and "Advisor of the Year" for the College of Engineering. He also serves as the faculty advisor for the student section of ASME. R. Rees Fullmer Division: Aerospace Email: rrfullmer@engineering.usu.edu Phone: 797-3894 Office: EL 304D View Personal Page View Resume Rees Fullmer is an Associate Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Utah State University, where he teaches courses in Dynamics, Spacecraft Controls, Linear and Nonlinear Control Theory, and Robotics. His research activities center on spacecraft and optical instrument control systems for spacecraft. He is currently investigating jitter stabilization methods for optical sensors, lidar control systems modeling, and magnetic attitude control techniques. He previously designed the attitude determination and control system for SDL’s Skipper spacecraft, as well as participating in other programs and studies on small spacecraft control problems for BMDO, MDA, DARPA, ONR, and AFRL. Dr. Fullmer has worked in spacecraft control system design since 1993. David Geller Division: Aerospace Email: dgeller@engineering.usu.edu Phone: 797-2952 Office: ENGR 419B View Resume David Geller is an Assistant Professor of Mechancial and Aerospace Engineering. His research interests are in spacecraft guidance, navigation, and control systems, as well as trajectory design for space missions. He also has an interest in space physics. Recent projects and studies include a lunar sample and return mission, a Mars entry, descent, and pinpoint landing study, a Mars orbital rendezvous study for a Mars sample and return mission, and a navigation system design for LEO and GEO inspection satellites. His expertise includes orbital rendezvous maneuvering and navigation, atmospheric entry guidance and navigation, spacecraft trajectory design, powered flight guidance, linear covariance analysis, closed-loop dynamics simulation development using graphical programming languages, astrodynamcis, and optimization theroy. Thomas Hauser Division: Thermal Fluids Email: thauser@engineering.usu.edu Phone: 797-2834 Office: ENGR 419C View Personal Page View Resume Thomas Hauser is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. His research interests are in the areas of computational fluid dynamics, parallel processing and large-eddy simulation. He recently received an Honorable Mention Gordon Bell Prize in the Price/Performance category. Leijun Li Division: Manufacturing Email: leijun@engineering.usu.edu Phone: 797-8184 Office: ENGR 419P View Personal Page View Resume Leijun Li is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. His research interests have focused on materials science as applied to the interdisciplinary field of welding and joint of materials. He has over 30 publications in manufacturing processes, microstructure characterization, mechanical testing, and fracture mechanisms of materials. He consults with General Electric Co., Shell Co., and ATK Motorcycles. Recent projects include laser processing of single-crystal superalloys, effects of thermal cycles on aluminum and titanium alloys, thermodynamics and kinetics of dissolution of second-phase particles, and effects of trace elements in austenitics. Alma P. Moser Division: Structural Mechanics Email: apmoser@engineering.usu.edu Phone: 797-2780 Office: ENGR 413F View Personal Page View Resume Al Moser is an Emeritus Associate Dean and Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, as well as the Director of the Buried Structures Laboratory. The buried pipe testing facilities, along with faculty and staff, have allowed USU to become the leading university in the world in conducting research into the performance of buried pipes. Dr. Moser’s general area of interest is applied solid mechanics. In particular, he has expertise in the area of fracture mechanics which includes stress intensity factors, crack propagation, and failure analysis. He is the author of the book "Buried Pipe Design" published by McGraw-Hill, which is now in the second edition. Warren F. Phillips Division: Aerospace Email: wfphillips@engineering.usu.edu Phone: 797-2950 Office: EL 231 View Personal Page View Resume Warren Phillips is a professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, flight mechanics, and aircraft design. His research interests are in the area of aerodynamics and flight mechanics. His particular areas of interest include airfoil design and modeling, wing tip vortex effects in finite wing design, propeller performance analysis, development of aircraft design software, aircraft performance optimization, computational methods for incompressible fluid dynamics, and turbulence modeling in incompressible flow. Barton Smith Division: Thermal Fluids Email: bsmith@engineering.usu.edu Phone: 797-3278 Office: ENGR 419K View Personal Page View Resume Barton Smith is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and is the Director of the Experimental Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. His research has focused on oscillating flows and their application to flow control, thermoacoustics, and thermal management. Recent Projects have included fundamental studies of oscillating flow, jet vectoring, the instability of parallel 2-D jets, and thermoacoustic chip coolers for thermal management. Robert E. Spall Division: Thermal Fluids Email: spall@engineering.usu.edu Phone: 797-2878 Office: ENGR 419N View Personal Page View Resume Robert Spall is a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Dr. Spall’s research interests are in the area of applied computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer. Past work has involved swirling flows and vortex breakdown, buoyancy driven flows, aerodynamic flows, environmental flows, turbulence modeling, and algorithm development. He has also been active in developing computational fluid dynamics algorithms for use in engineering education. Brent Stucker Division: Manufacturing Email: stucker@engineering.usu.edu Phone: 797-8173 Office: ENGR 419H View Resume Brent Stucker is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and he is Director of the Advanced Manufacturing and Materials Laboratory. This laboratory is being developed to utilize a collection of technologies for creating novel structures from advanced material systems. Equipment in this lab includes Laser Engineered Net Shaping, Selective Laser Sintering, high temperature furnace, metallurgical analysis, precision welding, and additional equipment for investigating applications where computer-controlled manufacturing technologies intersect applications of advanced materials. These applications include: (1) Fabricating superior medical implant structures, (2) Repair of worn or damaged aerospace components made using advance materials, (3) Multi-material and gradient material structures, (4) Satellite manufacturing, (5) Titanium powder metallurgy, (6) Injection molding and die casting tooling and EDM electrodes, and (7) Fabricating complex structures for thermal/fluids experiments and educational projects. Dr. Leijun Li is a co-PI on many of these projects. Stephen A. Whitmore Division: Aerospace Email: swhitmore@engineering.usu.edu Phone: 797-2951 Office: ENGR 419F View Personal Page View Resume Stephen Whitmore is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He joins Utah State after a 28+ Year Career at NASA where his primary career emphasis has been flight test and flight research. His areas of specialization include flight dynamics and flight mechanics, astro-dynamics and orbital mechanics, experimental fluid mechanics, and digital signal processing. His recent project focus is on the development of piloted simulation models for lunar-return lifting reentry vehicles, with an emphasis of developing high-precision low-dispersion footprint techniques for lifting aero-capture and aero assist. Byard Wood Division: Thermal Fluids Email: byard@engineering.usu.edu Phone: 797-2868 Office: ENGR 419D View Resume Byard Wood is Professor and Department Head of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. His area of specialization is heat and mass transfer phenomena in energy systems with an emphasis on solar energy applications. His present research focus is an experimental evaluation of a hybrid solar lighting technology, development of a hydrogen based renewable electric power system, and improving the efficiency of desalination processes. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-Conditioning Engineers. He is a registered Profession Engineering (Mechanical) in the State of Arizona. Carl Wood Division: Manufacturing Email: carlwood@engineering.usu.edu Phone: 797-7112 Office: EL 232 View Resume Carl Wood is an Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. His expertise is in engineering education in manufacturing and design areas. Prior to joining the faculty at USU, he was Director of Engineering for a large company in Setpoint Engineering in Ogden, Utah. He holds two patents and has served as the Chair of the Salt Lake Section of SAE. Wenbin Yu Division: Aerospace Email: wenbin@engineering.usu.edu Phone: 797-8246 Office: ENGR 419J View Personal Page View Resume Wenbin Yu is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. His expertise is in solid mechanics, structure mechanics, multibody dynamics, and computational mechanics (finite element method), with an emphasis on modeling and analysis of advanced aerospace structures including beams, plates, shells, and thin-walled structures made with composite and smart materials. He has developed two engineering programs VABS and VAPAS which are frequently requested by government, academic, and industry researchers throughout the world. He is also actively pursuing research in multiscale simulation with applications in material science, bioengineering, and nanotechnology. For detailed and most updated information, please browse his personal page. MAE Department Staff Return to Page Top Weston Davidson Email: wdavid@cc.usu.edu Phone:435-760-0208 Office: T 112 Gordon C. May Email: gcmay@engineering.usu.edu Phone:797-2934 Office: EL 136A View Personal Page Karen B. Zobell Email: kbzobell@engineering.usu.edu Phone:797-0329 Office: ENGR 419 Terry L. Zollinger Email: tlzollinger@engineering.usu.edu Phone:797-3928 Office: EL 137 Return to Page Top
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