COE Faculty with Interest in Automotive Engineering

Assanis, Dennis N.

Chair of Mechanical Engineering
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Jon R. and Beverly S. Holt Professor of Engineering
Director of Automotive Research Center
Associate Director of General Motors Collaborative Research Lab (GMCRL)
Director of W. E. Lay Automotive Laboratory
Room 2236 G. G. Brown Lab 2125, Tel: (734) 764-8464, assanis@umich.edu
Combustion and heat transfer, with emphasis on internal combustion engine applications

Professor of Mechanical Engineering
2019 Auto Lab 2133, Tel: (734) 936-0423, drd@umich.edu
Powertrain, vehicle, and component NVH; exhaust system acoustics, leak testing

Senior Research Scientist of the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI)
Joint appointment as Research Scientist, Mechanical Engineering
Room 212 UMTRI 2150, Tel: (734) 936-1066, bervin@umich.edu
Vehicle dynamics, automotive controls, intelligent transportation systems

Associate Research Scientist of Mechanical Engineering
Room 2131 Auto Lab 2133, Tel: (734) 936-0427, filipi@umich.edu
Internal combustion engines, powertrain systems, modeling and computer simulation of engine processes and systems, combustion, heat transfer and emissions

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
IEEE Fellow
Room 4219 EECS 2122, Tel: (734) 763-3598, grizzle@umich.edu
Analysis, control of non-linear systems, automotive control systems, control in solid state manufacturing, control of bipeds

Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Undergraduate Program Director of Mechanical Engineering
ASME Fellow
Room 2212 G. G. Brown 2125, Tel: (734) 763-4456, hulbert@umich.edu
Computational mechanics, finite element methods, structural dynamics, rigid and flexible multibody dynamics

Jung, Dohoy

Assistant Research Scientist of Mechanical Engineering
Room 1012 Auto Lab. 2133, Tel: (734) 764-5263, dohoy@umich.edu
Internal combustion engine modeling, engine emissions, hybrid powertrain system, fuel cell, engin-in-vehicle simulation.

Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Materials and Solid Mechanics
Room 3005B EECS 2122, Tel: (734) 615-8180, kikuchi@umich.edu
Computational mechanics including mechanics of composite materials, structural design optimization, analysis of material processing; development of computational methods for composite mechanics using the homogenization method; topology and shape optimization of elastic structures; development of adaptive remesh methods simulation of metal forming process.

Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering
Director of the Value Chain Analysis Program
Co-founded the Japan Technology Management Program
Won three Shingo prizes for Excellence in Manufacturing Research
Room 2863 IOE 2117, Tel: (734) 763-0166, liker@umich.edu
Lean Manufacturing, Japanese technology management, design process management

Louca, Loucas S.

Assistant Research Scientist of Mechanical Engineering
1016 Auto Lab 2133, Tel: (734) 936-5295, cyl@umich.edu
System dynamics and control, bond graph theory, automated modeling of large scale systems, physical system modeling and model reduction, proper modeling of automotive systems, computer aided modeling

Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Executive Director of InterPro
G036 Auto Lab 2133, Tel: (734) 936-0352, hpeng@umich.edu
Optimal control, adaptive control, learning control, ITS

Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor
ASME Fellow
3100 GG Brown 2125, Tel: (734) 936-0403, ncp@umich.edu
Dynamics, non-linear vibrations, stability, acoustics, experimental measurement of vibration and sound

Sastry, Ann Marie

Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
2140 GG Brown 2125, Tel: (734) 764-3061, amsastry@umich.edu
Mechanics of biomaterials, transport and damage of herogeneous battery, composite materials, microscale fluids modeling

Professor of Chemical Engineering
3030 H. H. Dow Bldg 2136, Tel: (734) 764-3374, schwank@umich.edu
Heterogeneous catalysis, analytical and high resolution electron microscopy, microelectronic gas sensors, fuel processors for fuel cells, automotive emission control

Professor of Mechanical Engineering
2023 Auto Lab 2133, Tel: (734) 647-9607, vsick@umich.edu
Development and application of laser diagnostic methods to reacting flows, internal combustion engines

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
G058 Auto Lab 2133, Tel: (734) 615-8461, annastef@umich.edu
Powertrain control systems and architectures, propulsion modeling and feedback control, control of advanced automotive engines (VVT, EVA, VGT, HCCI, EAT, etc.), fuel cell power and hydrogen reforming, control of breathing through valves, vanes, and membranes

Stein, Jeffrey L.

Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Associate Director of Automotive Research Center (ARC)
2292 G. G. Brown Lab 2125, Tel: (734) 936-3336, stein@umich.edu
Automated modeling, vehicle dynamics, machine tool monitoring and diagnostics, machine tool design and control, system dynamics, controls, sensors, servo-systems

Professor of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
214 NAME 2145, Tel: (734) 764-8341, nickvl@umich.edu
Computational methods in structural-acoustics and vibrations; energy finite element analysis, statistical energy analysis, midfrequency computations, boundary element methods, finite element methods, and applications of simulation in system design

Wooldridge, Margaret

Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Automotive Engineering Director
2156 GG Brown 2125, Tel: (734) 936-0349, mswool@umich.edu
Combustion, fluid mechanics and thermodynamics including combustion synthesis; pollution mitigation; reburn and co-firing technologies; reaction kinetics; aerosol sampling and transport; optical diagnostics; gas dynamics.

 

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