Roop L. Mahajan, Ph.D
James S. Tucker Professor of Engineering
Director of Virginia Tech's Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science
Director of the Virginia Tech Carilion Medical Research Institute
ICTAS Building, Room 410H
Stanger Street
Blacksburg, VA 24061
(540) 231-6876
mahajanr@vt.edu
Energy Solutions, Nanotechnology - Opportunities and Implications
Mahajan comes to Virginia Tech from the University of Colorado at Boulder where he is the founder and current director of the Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Packaging for Microwave, Optical and Digital Electronics (CAMPmode). Since 1992, CAMPmode has functioned as an industry-consortium sponsored center. In 1995, the center became a National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center. CAMPmode currently focuses on nanotechnology and on MEMS.
Mahajan is also the founder and current co-director of MicroElectronic Devices in Cardiovascular Applications (MEDICA). This interdisciplinary center draws on faculty at Colorado University's Health Sciences Center and its College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Its purpose is to foster scientific advancement in the study and application of MEMS in cardiovascular applications.
Mahajan founded the Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Packaging for Microwave, Optical and Digital Electronics and the interdisciplinary research center of MicroElectronic Devices in Cardiovascular Applications, both at the University of Colorado. He holds three patents and has five invention disclosures. He is an American Society of Mechanical Engineers fellow and has earned numerous recognitions for his educational leadership and research achievements. Mahajan received his Ph.D. from Cornell University and his bachelor's and master's degrees from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, India.
Ishwar K. Puri, Ph.D.
Professor and Department Head
Engineering Science and Mechanics
223-A Norris Hall, MC 0219
Blacksburg, VA 24061
540/231-3243
esmhead@vt.edu
www.esm.vt.edu/~ikpuri/
Energy Solutions, Nanotechnology - Opportunities and Implications, Biology Meets Engineering
Professor Ishwar K. Puri has served as Professor and Department Head of Engineering Science and Mechanics (ESM) at Virginia Tech since 2004, where he also directs the Multiphysics Research Group (MuRG). He is also a Professor in the Virginia Tech-Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences.
He obtained his Ph.D. (1987), and M.S. (1984) degrees in Engineering Science (Applied Mechanics) from the University of California, San Diego after obtaining a B.Sc. (1982) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Delhi. He served as an Assistant Research Engineer at the University of California, San Diego from 1987-90. He was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1990, was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure in 1994, and to the rank of Professor in 1999. He served as Director of Graduate of the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering programs from 1994-97, and 1999-2000. He served as Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies (2000-01), and as Executive Associate Dean of Engineering (2001-04). He served on the steering committee of the UIC Institute for Environmental Studies and facilitated UIC's micro- and nanotechnology initiatives.
Professor Puri is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He was a Distinguished Guest of the Swiss Leonard Euler Center of the European Research Community of Fluid Turbulence and Combustion in 1998 and 1999. He was a 1993 American Association for the Advancement of Science-Environmental Protection Agency (AAAS-EPA) Environmental Fellow, a 1992 NASA/Stanford University Center for Turbulence Research Fellow, and a 1991 Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He has served as a program and peer review panelist for the Department of Energy, US EPA, and NSF, and other Federal, State, and private agencies and organizations. He is an editor of the journal Experimental Heat Transfer and an associate editor of International Journal of Reacting Systems.
Professor Puri has conducted research through major grants from NASA, NSF, DOE, US EPA, State of Illinois, the natural gas industry (GTI, IGT, GRI), and other industry. He established a European-US consortium to conduct engineering student exchanges at the undergraduate and graduate levels that was funded through the US Department of Education FIPSE program. His students are placed in major corporations and at universities. He is the author of over 230 archival and conference publications in the field of combustion and transport phenomena (e.g., related to emissions, self assembly and magnetic drug targeting, and hydrogen storage). He has edited a book on the environmental implications of combustion processes, a textbook on Advanced Thermodynamics Engineering and another on Combustion Science and Engineering. Copies of some papers can be obtained by sending Dr. Puri an email message. Some simulations and experimental observations can also be viewed.
At Virginia Tech, Professor Puri has been involved with a number of interdisciplinary and campus-wide initiatives. With his stewardship, ESM was the first department to develop a computational science and engineering program and houses the university's graduate certificate in the area. He chairs a committee to develop a similar certificate in complex systems research. He serves on the Provost's Race and Institution Task Force and the AdvanceVT campus climate committee. He has also assisted the Institute for Critical Technologies and Applied Sciences by serving on various advisory committees.
Mark A. Stremler, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Engineering Science and Mechanics
333P Norris Hall, MC 0219
Blacksburg, VA 24061
540/231-1227
mark.stremler@vt.edu
www.esm.vt.edu/~stremler/
Biology Meets Engineering
Mark Stremler joined Virginia Tech in 2006 as an Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics (ESM). He also directs the Multi-Scale Transport in Environmental and Physiological Systems (multiSTEPS) group at Virginia Tech, an interdisciplinary consortium of faculty conducting research and education at the interface of the engineering and biological sciences.
He obtained his Ph.D. (1998) and M.S. (1996) degrees in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) after obtaining a B.S. (1993) degree in Mechanical Engineering and a B.S. (1993) degree in Mathematics from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. From 1998-2000 he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science & Technology at UIUC. He was an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Vanderbilt University from 2000-2006, where he was also a Faculty Fellow with the Vanderbilt Institute for Integrative Biosystems Research and Education.
Dr. Stremler is a member of the American Physical Society, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Society for Engineering Education, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. His research has been funded by ARO, NIH, NSF, and the state of Virginia. His research activities focus on fundamental problems in fluid transport, including mixing in small-scale systems and vortex dynamics in wakes, with a particular interest in problems having a biological application.