Susan C. Mantell is an American mechanical engineer interested in the design, fabrication, and longevity of structures made from polymers and composite materials, and the use of these structures in renewable energy systems and energy-efficient architecture. Her research has also included work on microelectromechanical systems. She is James J. Ryan Professor, Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor, and head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minnesota. [1]
Mantell majored in mechanical engineering at Stanford University, graduating in 1981. After working in industry in Massachusetts for several years, she returned to graduate study for a master's degree at Northeastern University in 1987, and then a Ph.D. from Stanford in 1991. [1]
She became an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota in 1991, choosing the university in part to solve a two-body problem with her husband, who was entering graduate study at the same time. There, she became the only woman in the university's Department of Mechanical Engineering. [2] She was promoted to associate professor in 1998 and full professor in 2003. She has been James J. Ryan Professor, and head of the mechanical engineering department, since 2019. [1]
Mantell was elected as an ASME Fellow in 2016. [3]
The University of Minnesota Alumni Association gave Mantell the Horace T. Morse Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education, and she was given the permanent designation as a Distinguished University Teaching Professor, in 2011. [4]
Romesh C. Batra is a University Distinguished Professor and Clifton C. Garvin Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia. He was born in Village Dherowal, Punjab, India. His family migrated from Dherowal to Shahabad Markanda, Haryana, India after India became an independent country. Dr. Batra has authored the book, Elements of Continuum Mechanics, AIAA Educational Series. His research group has published in reputable refereed and widely read journals more than 460 papers of which about 40 are single-authored and nearly 320 have two authors; these are documented on the website: http://www.beam.vt.edu/batra.
A. K. M. Fazle Hussain is a professor of mechanical engineering at Texas Tech University.
Cristina H. Amon is a mechanical engineer, academic administrator and was the 13th dean of the University of Toronto Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering. She was the Faculty's first female dean. Prior to her appointment at the University of Toronto in 2006, she was the Raymond J. Lane Distinguished Professor and director of the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems at Carnegie Mellon University.
Henry Louis Langhaar was a mathematician, engineer, researcher, educator, and author in the field of engineering mechanics. In 1978, he retired as Professor Emeritus, after 31 years in the Department of Theoretical & Applied Mechanics (TAM) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Daniel Inman is a Kelly Johnson Collegiate Professor and former Chair of the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan.
Elizabeth G. Loboa is an American biomedical engineer, inventor, researcher and academic administrator currently serving at Southern Methodist University (SMU) as provost and vice president for academic affairs.
Christopher J. Cramer is a research chemist and served as Vice President for Research at the University of Minnesota from 2018–2021. He presently serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Research Officer for Underwriters Laboratories Inc.
R. Lee Penn is an American chemist and the Merck Professor of Chemistry at the University of Minnesota. Their research considers crystal growth, materials and environmental chemistry. Penn is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society. In 2020 Penn was awarded the University of Minnesota George W. Taylor Award for Distinguished Service.
N. K. Anand is a Regents Professor and the holder of James J. Cain '51 Professor III in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA. He was the Executive Associate Dean for the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University from 2009 to 2022 and the Associate Director of Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station from 2007 to 2022. In February 2022, Professor Anand was appointed as the Vice President for Faculty Affairs at Texas A&M University.
Francine Battaglia is an American aerospace engineer specializing in computational fluid dynamics, including the study of fluidized beds and of fire, fire whirls, and flame spread. Her other research interests include ventilation and energy usage in architectural design, and alternative and renewable energy systems. She is professor and chair in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of the University at Buffalo, where she directs the Computational Research for Energy Systems and Transport Laboratory.
Svetlana “Lana” Yarosh is an associate professor in the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering at University of Minnesota. She is a Distinguished University Teaching Professor and recipient of the McKnight Presidential Fellowship. Yarosh does research as part of the GroupLens Research group.
Elizabeth T. Hsiao-Wecksler is an American biomechanics researcher specializing in human gait and balance, and in the design of devices for assisting in gait and posture. She is a professor and Willett Faculty Scholar in the Department of Mechanical Science & Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Pamela Marie Norris is an American mechanical engineer and materials scientist known for her research on aerogels, and heat transfer on scales ranging from the nanoscale to macroscopic objects such as jet blast deflectors. She is Frederick Tracy Morse Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia, vice provost for research at George Washington University, and editor-in-chief of the journal Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering.
Corina Sandu is a Romanian-American mechanical engineer, the Robert E. Hord Jr. Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech. Her research topics include multibody systems, vehicle dynamics, and terramechanics, the interactions between soil properties and vehicle dynamics.
Margaret Stacey Wooldridge is an American engineer known for her research on combustion of fuel-air mixtures and its byproducts, including the operation of gas turbines and diesel engines. She is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Walter J. Weber, Jr. Professor of Sustainable Energy, Environmental and Earth Systems Engineering at the University of Michigan, where she directs the Wooldridge Combustion Laboratory.
Roxann (Roxy) L. Engelstad is a retired American mechanical engineer specializing in the vibrations and dynamics of structures on scales ranging from pipes and space tethers to X-ray lithography masks. She is Stephen P. Timoshenko Professor Emeritus and Bernard A. & Frances M. Weideman Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Susan H. Skemp is a retired American mechanical engineer, the former president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the former executive director of the Southeast National Marine Renewable Energy Center at Florida Atlantic University.
Grace D. O'Connell is an American biomechanical engineer known for her research on the biomechanics of the human spine, on the degeneration and regeneration of spinal tissue, and on the comparison of its properties with the spines of animals used in the study of lumbar disc disease. She is an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, where she also holds the Don M. Cunningham Chair in Mechanical Engineering.
Allison Hubel is an American mechanical engineer and cryobiologist who applies her expertise in heat transfer to study the cryopreservation of biological tissue. She is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Minnesota, where she directs the Biopreservation Core Resource and the Technological Leadership Institute, and is president-elect of the Society for Cryobiology.
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