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Padnos College of Engineering Graduate Programs

Graduate Faculty

List of Graduate Faculty by program and their areas of expertise. Also included is a link to a list of the Master's theses they have guided. Graduate faculty teach EGR 5xx and EGR 6xx classes, serve on or chair thesis and project committees, and guide students in their culminating experiences that include EGR 695 Master’s Thesis, EGR 693 Master’s Project, or EGR 686 Capstone Design Project. All graduate faculty teach EGR 699 Independent Study sections as needed.

Graduate Program Committee

This committee consists of graduate faculty who review and approve MSE curriculum and policies, review thesis and project committees, and support graduate students and faculty. The current committee consist of:

  • Dr Abishek Balsamy-Kamaraj (PDM)
  • Dr Nabeeh Kandalaft (CE)
  • Dr Brian Krug (EE) 
  • Dr Farid Jafari (ME)
  • Dr Samhita Rhodes (BME, GPD)

Biomedical Engineering

Engineering faculty and staff headshots taken on 08/25/2011 and 10/05/2001
Photo of professor or biomechanics, Dr Blake Ashby
Product design professor, Dr John Farris
Biomechanics professor, Dr Yunju Lee
Professor Aziz Rahman
Professor of Biomedical and Electrical Engineering, Dr. Samhita Rhodes

Dr. Princewill Anyalebechi

KEN 347,  (616) 331-6405

[email protected]
Biomaterials, Material Failure

Dr. Blake Ashby
KEN 325,  (616) 331-6753

[email protected]
Biomechanics      

Dr. John Farris
IDC 213,  (616) 331-7267

[email protected]
Medical Device Design        

Dr Yunju Lee
KEN 345, (616)331-6043

[email protected]
Musculoskeletal injury

Dr. MM Azizur Rahman
KEN 349,  (616) 331-6664

[email protected]
Power Electronics

Dr. Samhita Rhodes
KEN 253,  (616) 331-6267

[email protected]
Dr Rhodes' Complete Profile

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Professor Bogdan Adamczyk
Professor Nicholas Baine
Professor Karl Brakora
Studio portrait of Atilla Cakmak.
Engineering faculty and staff headshots taken on 08/25/2011 and 10/05/2001
Professor Nabeeh Kandalaft
Dr. Bogdan Adamczyk
IDC136  (616) 331-7286

[email protected]
Electromagnetic compatibility    

 

Dr. Nicholas Baine
KEN 227  (616) 331-6756

[email protected]
Electronic Navigation and Control Systems     

Dr. Karl Brakora
KEN 255  (616) 331-6824

[email protected]
PCB design, embedded systems     

Dr. Atilla Ozgur Cakmak
KEN 259  (616) 331-6017

[email protected]
Communication systems

Dr. Bruce Dunne
KEN 359  (616) 331-6754

[email protected]
Signal Processing

Dr. Nabeeh Kandalaft
KEN 231  (616) 331-6018

[email protected]
Embedded systems, cryptography

Professor Brian Krug
Professor Heidi Jiao
Engineering faculty and staff headshots taken on 08/25/2011 and 10/05/2001
Professor Aziz Rahman
Professor of Biomedical and Electrical Engineering, Dr. Samhita Rhodes
Professor Jeff Ward
Dr. Brian Krug
KEN 233  (616) 331-6830

[email protected]
Embedded systems, medical devices

Dr. Heidi Jiao
KEN 355  (616) 331-6844

[email protected]
Nanotechnology, solar cells

Dr. Chirag Parikh
KEN 351  (616) 331-7318

[email protected]
FPGA, Hardware architecture

Dr. MM Azizur Rahman
KEN 349,  (616) 331-6664

[email protected]
Power Electronics

Dr. Samhita Rhodes
KEN 253,  (616) 331-6267

[email protected]
Dr Rhodes' Complete Profile

Dr. Jeff Ward
KEN 353  (616) 331-6268

[email protected]
Antennas, RF applications

Manufacturing and Design Engineering

Engineering faculty and staff headshots taken on 08/25/2011 and 10/05/2001
Professor Abishek Balsamy Kamaraj
Engineering faculty and staff headshots taken on 08/25/2011 and 10/05/2001
Lindsay Corneal on July 23.
Product design professor, Dr John Farris
Professor Ryan Krauss
Dr. Princewill Anyalebechi
KEN 347,  (616) 331-6405

[email protected]
Biomaterials, Material Failure

Dr. Abishek Balsamy-Kamaraj
KEN 245  (616) 331-6129

[email protected]
Dr Kamaraj's Complete Profile

Dr. Shabbir Choudhuri
IDC 215  (616) 331-6845

[email protected]
Manufacturing Operations, Applied Optimization

Dr. Lindsay Corneal
KEN 136  (616) 331-6502

[email protected]
Material Science, Manufacturing

Dr. John Farris
IDC 213,  (616) 331-7267

[email protected]
Medical Device Design        

Dr. Ryan Krauss
KEN 343  (616) 331-6825

[email protected]
Dr Krauss' complete profile

Studio portrait of Catherine Molloseau.
Dr. Catherine Molloseau
KEN 247, (616)331-6757

[email protected]
Sustainability in waste management
 

Mechanical Engineering

Professor Arjumand Ali
Photo of professor or biomechanics, Dr Blake Ashby
Professor Shirley Fleischmann
Farid Jafari Headshot
Professor Sunghwan Joo
Biomechanics professor, Dr Yunju Lee
Dr. Arjumand Ali
KEN 327  (616) 331-6755

[email protected]
Vibrations, Dynamics, Controls   

 

Dr. Blake Ashby
KEN 325,  (616) 331-6753

[email protected]
Biomechanics      

Dr. Shirley Fleischmann
KEN 331  (616) 331-6761

 fleischs@gvsu.edu
Fluid mechanics, thermodynamics 

Dr. Farid Jafari
KEN 339  (616) 331-6046

[email protected]
 

Dr. Sunghwan Joo
KEN 357  (616) 331-6763

[email protected]
FEA, CAD

Dr Yunju Lee
KEN 345, (616)331-6043

[email protected]
Musculoskeletal injury

Sanjivan Manoharan
Professor Mahdi Norouzi
Dr Ali Olcay
Professor Janice Pawloski
Wendy Reffeor
Professor Mehmet Sozen
Dr. Sanjivan Manoharan
KEN 249 (616) 331-6024

[email protected]
Fluid Mechanics, Turbines   

Dr. Mahdi Norouzi
KEN 329 (616) 331-6044

[email protected]

Dr. Ali Olcay
KEN 223 (616) 331-6015

[email protected] 

Dr. Janice Pawloski
KEN 323 (616) 331-6618

[email protected]

Dr. Wendy Reffeor
KEN 332 (616) 331-6010

[email protected]
Machine design 

Dr. Mehmet Sozen
KEN 333 (616) 331-6517

[email protected]
Fluid mechanics, CFD

Dr Jenna Stolzman
Dr. Jenna Stolzman
KEN 229 (616) 331-6142

[email protected]
CFD, pollution mitigation

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