Faculty Areas of Expertise
Chemical Engineering
- Pedro Arce
Chair and Professor
P: (931) 372-3267
Nanostructured materials-With Functional Performance (Health Care Engineering Applications: Hydrogels for clinical diagnostics, wound healing, math-assisted medicine, tissue scaffolds and assisted drug delivery) • Micro- and Nano-flows in Biophysical Systems (Microcirculatory and renal system pathologies, arterial stenosis, kidney failure, etc.) • Environmental catalysis (Advanced oxidation in water, soil and air; photocatalytic clean energy production, electrokinetics-based remediation; battery and fuel cell materials) • Engineering education: (collaborative-, creative- and innovation-driven learning; constructionistic approaches)
- Laura H. Arias Chavez
Assistant Professor
P: (931) 372-3678
Improving sustainability at the water- energy nexus, especially through the use of membrane technologies. • Fabrication and characterization of polymeric membranes for reverse osmosis, forward osmosis, and filtration processes. • New fabrication strategies for improving membrane fouling resistance and selectivity. • Development and evaluation of applications in desalination and the recovery of materials and energy from 'waste' water and other non-traditional resources. • Experimental (wet chemistry) work and process-level modelling.
- Joseph J. Biernacki
Professor
P: (931) 372-3667
Modeling of multi-scale materials systems composite concrete systems
- Bahman Ghorashi
Professor
P: (931) 372-3224
Agile Manufacturing • Rheology and non-Newtonian fluid flow • Blockchain Technology and its applications in chemical industry • M2M communication and logistics • Leadership in Higher Education
- Stephanie Jorgensen
Instructor
P: (931) 372-3666
WOUND HEALING: Development of modified early-phase wound environments • Experimental and analytical modeling of drug delivery and transport through early-phase wound environments • Skin-on-a-Chip
- Venkat Padmanabhan
Assistant Professor
P: (931) 372-3606
Polymer membranes for gas separation • Thermo-mechanical and flow properties of polymer nanocomposites • Materials for energy storage and transfer
- Cynthia A. Rice
Associate Professor
P: (931) 372-6059
Polymer electrolyte fuel cells: electrocatalysis, mass transport materials, durability/performance, and diagnostics.
- Robby Sanders
Associate Professor
P: (931) 372-2494
Bio-assay development • Drug delivery • Wound healing
- Holly Stretz
Professor
P: (931) 372-3459
Research program in interfaces in 3-D printing • High-throughput on demand manufacturing of pharmaceuticals • Nanomaterials as sensors • Nanocomposite water treatment membranes • Expertise in polymer nanocomposites
- Liqun (Laura) Zhang
Assistant Professor
P: (931) 372-3474
Molecular simulation on biomass modified asphalt, warm mix asphalt • Simulations and modeling on structure and dynamics of human beta defensin type 3 • Interaction with lipid membranes and receptors