Faculty
The center depends upon the faculty of Tennessee Technological University and its resouces to conduct research. The list presented here, which may not be complete, shows the multidisiplinary group of researchers conducting projects through the center.
Interim Director
Subramaniam Deivanayagam, Associate Dean of Engineering
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(931) 372-3172
Clement (CLEM) 201
Faculty Associates
Ali Alouani, Professor
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(931) 372-3383
Brown (BRWN) 333
Ahmed Elsawy, Chair
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(931) 372-3238
Lewis (LEWS) 107
Benjamin Mohr, Associate Professor
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(931) 372-3546
Prescott (PRSC) 322
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Durability, microstructure, and chemistry of cement-based materials; early-age behavior of cement and concrete; fiber-reinforced concrete; supplementary cementitious materials.
Corinne Darvennes, Professor of Mechanical Engineering
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(931) 372-3253
Brown (BRWN) 126
Acoustics, Noise Control, Ultrasonics, Nondestructive Evaluation
R Henderson, Professor
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(931) 372-3062
Prescott (PRSC) 417
Masonry design, concrete design, structural dynamics, earthquake engineering
Daniel Badoe, Professor
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(931) 372-3490
Prescott (PRSC) 434
Modeling of urban travel demand, transferability of travel demand models, travel behavior analysis, transport-land use interaction, and transportation data collection.
David Huddleston, P.E., Professor and Chair
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(931) 372-3454
Prescott (PRSC) 216
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD), computational design coupling CFD with nonlinear optimization, water resources engineering, open-channel flows, fluid mechanics, applied aerodynamics
Ghadir Radman, Professor
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(931) 372-3520
Prescott (PRSC) 433
Ismail Fidan, Professor
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(931) 372-6298
Lewis (LEWS) 103
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Joseph Biernacki, University Distinguished Faculty Fellow and Professor
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(931) 372-3667
Prescott (PRSC) 312
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Cementious Systems • Biofuels Production • Electronic and Structural Materials
Web Links
International Summit on Cement Hydration Kinetics
Web tools for research and education…
Cement Hydration Kinetics and Modeling
Computer Aided Molecular Design
Access the TTU X-ray Diffraction Laboratory
Jie Cui, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
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(931) 372-3357
Brown (BRWN) 121
Computational Fluid Dynamics, Turbulence Modeling, Large Eddy Simulation, Numerical Heat Transfer, Thermal Fluids
Jane Liu, Associate Professor
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(931) 372-3256
Prescott (PRSC) 432
Primary research interests include composite materials, vibration analysis, plates and shells, computational mechanics, symbolic computer systems in engineering applications, and computational algebraic geometry in nonlinear structural analysis.
Joseph Ojo, TVA Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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(931) 372-3869
Brown (BRWN) 323
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John Peddieson, Professor of Mechanical Engineering
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(931) 372-3274
Brown (BRWN) 110
Multiphase Flow, Friction Stir Welding, Tether Dynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Solid Mechanics
L. Crouch, P.E., Professor
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(931) 372-3196
Prescott (PRSC) 316
Construction materials, aggregates, Portland cement concrete, flowable fill, and bituminous materials.
Omar Elkeelany, Associate Professor
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(931) 372-3677
Brown (BRWN) 331
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Pedro Arce, University Distinguished Faculty Fellow-Professor & Chair
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(931) 372-3189
Prescott (PRSC) 214
Electrokinetics (Electrophoresis, Environmental Proteomics and Health Care Informatics, EK-Soil Cleaning) • High Oxidation Processes (Non-thermal Plasma, Photocatalysis, UV Processes) • Nano-structured (soft) Materials (Morphological Effects, Optimization of Separation Efficiency) • Engineering Education (High Performance Learning Environments, Hi-PeLE; Critical Thinking, Innovation and Creativity).
Periasamy Rajan, Professor and Interim Chairperson
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(931) 372-3397
Brown (BRWN) 217
Stephen Canfield, Professor of Mechanical Engineering
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(931) 372-6359
Brown (BRWN) 329
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Robotics, Dynamic Modeling, Compliant Mechanisms, Smart Actuators, Mechatronics
Steven Click, Associate Professor
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(931) 372-6464
Prescott (PRSC) 439Resume/CV
Traffic signal operations, traffic signal system operations, urban arterial operations, traffic signal controller functions, traffic signal master controller functions, non-traditional intersection and arterial designs.
Stephen Idem, Professor of Mechanical Engineering
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(931) 372-3607
Brown (BRWN) 111
Scale Model Testing, Fluid Flow Measurement, Thermal Modeling, Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer
Sabine Le Borne, Associate Professor
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(931) 372-3690
Bruner (BRUN) 319
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Satish Mahajan, Professor
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(931) 372-3397
Prescott (PRSC) 431
X. Sharon Huo, P.E., Interim Associate Provost
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(931) 372-3224
Derryberry (DBRY) 202
Structural analysis, reinforced concrete design, prestressed concrete design, structural steel design, bridge design, and seismic analysis.
Retired Faculty
- Chowdhuri, Prit, Professor of Electrical Engineering






