Faculty and Staff
Mansour Karkoub, Ph.D., HDR, PE, F-ASME, F-IET
Department Chair and Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department
Michael E. and Patricia P. Aldredge Endowed Chair
Research: Robust Control, Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles
Hsing-Wei Chu, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Research: Operations Research, Statistical Decision Analysis, Network Flow
Jenny Zhou, Ph.D.
Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department
Associate Dean, College of Engineering
Research: Plant Biomechanics, Multi-Scale Modeling, Engineering Education Research
XuejunFan, Ph.D.
Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department
Mary Ann and Lawrence E. Faust Endowed Professor
Regents’ Professor of Texas State University System (TSUS)
Research: Multi-Physics/Scale Modeling, Characterization and Reliability in Electronics Packaging
Xianchang Li, Ph.D.
Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department
Research: Gas Turbine Blade Cooling, Combustion and Emissions, Combustion Efficiency and Emissions Flares

Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department
Research: Hydrophobic Coating, Microdroplets, Anti-Corrosion Coating, Surface Engineering

Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department
Research: Computational research on supercritical fluids, wetting phenomena, multiphase, multiphysics fluid flows

Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department
Research: Mechanical properties and deformation mechanics of materials at bulk and nano-scale, Microstructure characterization
Sushil Doranga, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department
Research: Force Reconstruction in a Dynamic System, Nonlinear Structural Dynamics, Inverse Problem Modeling
Denizhan Yavas, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department
Research: interfacial fracture mechanics, failure of additively manufactured materials, mechanical characterization

Visiting Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department
Research: Numerical Simulation of Black Carbon Emissions from Non-Premixed Flames; CFD Study of Flare Operating Parameters
Staff
Mechanical Engineering Department
Phone: (409) 880-2363
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