Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering
Research: Medical applications of operations research; radiotherapy treatment optimization; pandemic planning; data mining to improve bone marrow transplant outcomes; global optimization; heuristic design; parallel computing
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Dean, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
Research: Fluid Dynamics; Micro and Nano Scale Thermal Transport, Micro Fuel Cells; Thermal Engineering of Microelectronics; Hemodynamics and Mass Transport in Biological Systems; Multidisciplinary Engineering Design and Education.
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Research: Biomedical Engineering; Energy Studies, Thermodynamics, and Surface Science; Environmental Engineering; Fluid Sciences
Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering
Research: Stochastic Models, Analysis of Queueing Systems; Production/Inventory Systems; Call Centers, Simulation.
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Research: Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells; PEMFCs)studies. Microfluidics and multiphase flow in porous media; Carbon sequestration.
Lecturer, General Engineering
Research: Design engineering process; engineering education; engineering outreach.
Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering
Research: Optimization, heuristic search, constraint programming, scheduling, hybrid algorithms, dynamic and uncertain problems, and problem modeling.
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Research: Design of lightweight airframe structures; characterization, modeling, and analysis of advanced materials and structures; MDO of aerospace/automotive systems; bridging FE-MD method for multi-scale modeling of solids; application of biofuel in aviation (material compatibility).
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Associate Chair of Research
Research: mechatronics, precision design, smart materials, precision positioning, nonlinear and real-time control, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and microfluidics.
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Research: Design and mathematical analysis of modular and multi-arm robots; Machine vision; Robotic sensors; Supervisory control of manufacturing systems; Automatic quality control; Computer-Aided-Design.
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Associate Chair of Graduate Studies
Research: Thermofluids modeling: interfacial and multiphase flows, heat transfer, and phase change. Algorithm development and application of models to materials processing phenomena: wetting and contact lines, droplets and bubbles, melting and dissolution, particle deposition.
Professor, Industrial Engineering
Research: All of my research is focused on the healthcare industry: modelling, process improvement, decision support tools for policy, scheduling, simulation, system dynamics.
Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering
Research: Optimization under uncertainty, mathematical programming, decision analysis, probabilistic analysis of systems; applications to radiation therapy, health care delivery, sports scheduling and analysis, game theory, and “green” engineering.
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Research: Thermal spray coating. Development of novel spray coating techniques. Experimental studies on fluid flow during impact of liquid drops, jets and sprays on a solid surface. Break-up of liquid sheets created by jets and droplets impinging on surfaces. Effect of droplet and substrate properties on droplet splashing. Heat transfer between surfaces and impinging droplets. Spray forming. Rapid prototyping by droplet deposition. Ink jet printing.
Professor, Industrial Engineering
Research: Dr. Chignell´s interests lie in in the general area of human factors approaches to information technology. He is particularly interested in the areas of dynamic hypertext, mobile computing, healthcare ergonomics, and advanced user interface design. The general approach adopted is to look for opportunities to add intelligence or value through appropriate (re-)design of the user interface.
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Clarice Chalmers Chair of Engineering Design
Research: Analysis and design of high-speed flexible mechanisms; Finite element analysis applied to variations;Computer-aided analysis and design of mechanisms; Computer-aided kinematic and dynamic optimization of robotic systems.
Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering
Research: Mariano Consens research interests are in the areas of Data Management and the Web, Information Retrieval and Visualization, Data Modeling and Business Process Engineering, and Healthcare Data Management. Specific areas include: linked data on the web, XML searching, analytics for semistructured data, and autonomic systems.
Professor Emeritus, Mechanical Engineering
Research: Fluid sciences; non-intrusive velocity measurements using Laser Doppler Anemometry (LDA) and Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) involving both Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids.
Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering
Research: Human factors. Human adaptation to technology. Designing feedback for guiding operator behavior. Driver distraction mitigation. Statistical modeling of crash data. Unmanned vehicle supervisory control. Metric selection methodologies.
Professor, Industrial Engineering
Research: Application of Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology to the modeling, planning and operation of complex organizations. Research topics include: ontologies for enterprise modeling, constraint-directed reasoning, and information engineering.
Senior Lecturer, Industrial Engineering
Research: Application of Simulation Techniques to Health Care and Manufacturing. The Ontario Electricity Market. Interfaces Between Operations Research and Information Systems
Professor Emeritus, Mechanical Engineering
Consulting Engineer
Research: Design of robotics and mechatronics systems. Applications: mobile robots; modular robots; image-guided robot-assisted medical surgery;laboratory automation
Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering
Research: Ontologies, semantic integration, process modelling, enterprise integration, Semantic Web, knowledge representation, mathematical logic
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Research: fluid mechanics, soft matter, colloidal material synthesis, micro/nanofabrication, biomedical engineering
Professor Emeritus, Mechanical Engineering
Research: Fluid mechanics; Flow of non-Newtonian fluids; Extensional Rheology; Experimental and theoretical rheology; Viscoelasticity, elastic effects in flowing fluids; Structure of complex fluids, from molecular to microscopic; Friction reduction with polymer additives; Flow through fibrous porous media; Biomechanics; Physiological lubrication; Microfluidics.
Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering
Research: Human interaction with automation. Analysis of work in complex systems. Design of interfaces. Cognitive engineering applications in process control, energy systems, and other emerging areas.
Professor Emeritus, Industrial Engineering
Research: Manufacturing; Operations Research; Visit the Centre for Maintenance Optimization and Reliability Engineering (C-MORE)
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Canada Research Chair in Fuel Cell Materials and Manufacturing
Research: Solid Oxide Fuel Cells; Fuel Cell Materials and Manufacturing; Graded and Multi-Layered Materials; Plasma Spray and Sol Gel Processing
Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering
Research: Mathematical programming theory and its applications. Primary areas include auction-based methods for combinatorial optimization/logistics/supply chain management, financial optimization (portfolio optimization/risk management and option pricing), and optimization in smart material design.
Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering
Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies
Research: various logistics problems, sequential decision making theories, financial theories applied in manufacturing and service sectors, market-driven conflict resolution, optimal pricing, marketing, information system control and design, and so forth.
Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering
Research: Active-vision and dynamic-camera systems; humanoid robotics; vision-based feedback and control; time-varying geometry object sensing and action recognition; embedded robotic/vision systems; personal robotics.
Professor, Industrial Engineering
Research: Quality, Production, Reliability and Preventive Maintenance with special interest in investigating the optimal operating policies for stochastic controlled systems.
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Diffusion-Wave Sciences and Technologies
Research: Thermophysics, laser-induced phenomena in electronic, optical and biomedical materials, thermal-wave and diffusion-wave phenomena in electronic and photonic media; biothermophotonic and biophotoacoustic transport phenomena in hard (dental) and soft tissues; imaging science; novel instrumentation and measurement techniques; cancer, dental caries, bone and blood glucose diagnostic science and engineering.
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Vice-Dean for the Faculty, Undergraduate
Research: Design of the engineering learning environment for accessibility and
inclusivity; Universal instructional design; Conceptualizing the learning environment as an information system.
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Research: Nanoengineering; Multifunctional Nanocomposites; Design and Analysis of Aircraft Systems; Unmanned Aerial & Ground Vehicles, Morphing Wing Design using Intelligent Materials; Aeroengine Compressor and Turbine Disc Assemblies, Computational Nano- & Micromechanics; Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis; Fatigue, Fracture and Damage Mechanics; Electro-Thermo-Mechanically Coupled Problems; Smart Structures; Functionally Graded Materials; Shock Attenuation of Microelectronic Packaging Systems; Crashworthiness of Foam Filled structures; Shot Peening and Peen Forming; Residual Stresses and Surface Engineering. Biomechanics Research focuses on Finger and Dental Implants; Whiplash; External Fixation Devices.
Professor, Industrial Engineering
Research: Human Factors / human performance modelling. Navigation, manipulation and control in 3D environments. Human-machine interfaces for displaying temporal, spatial and uncertainty information. Visual displays for teleoperation. Stereoscopic (mixed reality) displays. Modelling of attentional workload. Human factors issues in medicine, especially surgery and anaesthesiology. Human factors in aviation, especially air traffic control.
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Research: Control systems development and design with applications to macro-scale and micro-scale automated robotic assembly, integrated mechatronic system design, micro-scale automation, automotive sensing and control. Smart structure vibration control design. Design of high speed robotic machines. Development of convex control design methods for achievement of closed-loop performance specifications. Development of optimization methods for control system design. Integrated control and system design parameter design using convex approaches, with applications to macro and micro-scale system control. MEMS sensor and actuator design and control. Applications include: automotive vibration, pollution, exhaust sensors. Design and robotic automated assembly of micro-scale machines and sensors. Design and development of vision control systems for robotic automated biological processing of cells and other micro-scale tasks. Design development of meso-machine tools and their control systems. Development of supervisory power management control methods for energy efficient vehicles.
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Research: Partially ionized gases, thermal plasma processing and plasma chemistry, arcs, radio-frequency inductively coupled plasmas, microwave plasmas, Diamond film synthesis; Plasma spray coating; Mathematical/computational modelling of high temperature processes.
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Canada Research Chair in Smart and Functional Materials
Research: Manufacturing emerging materials; Multi-functional and adaptive polymers and foams; Smart materials and structures; Active polymers, biopolymers, nanopolymers composites and hybrids; Development and fabrication of physical, mechanical, and biological functional polymers systems; Characterization of mechanical and physical properties of polymers; Analytical and numerical simulation of polymer systems.
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Research: Autonomous Systems. Robotics and Mechatronics. Assistive Devices. Service Robots/Vehicles. Robot-Assisted Emergency Response. Sensor Agents. Socially Assistive Robots. Human-Robot Interaction.
Professor Emeritus, Mechanical Engineering
Research: Thermodynamics of contact angles, wetting and adhesion generalization of the classical theory of capillarity to high curvature situations; Applications of Digital Image Analysis and Processing to interfacial tension and other surface science problems; Modelling of cell and protein adhesion to synthetic and natural biomaterials; Applications of surface thermodynamics to biotechnological problems.
Professor Emeritus, Industrial Engineering
Chair in the Management of Technological Change
Research: Technology management, applications of Information technology in the Financial Services Industry ("FSI") - Banking, Trust, Stock Brokerage, Insurance, Mutual funds and similar systems. Special interest on the electronic banking services and the Internet´s role in the FSI´s present and future. Productivity, efficiency and effectiveness in the services industry, emphasis on the knowledge industries. Entrepreneurship, teaching methods, performance evaluation, wealth creating innovation, technology transfer and intellectual property protection.
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Microcellular Plastics
Research: Development of Novel Foam Processing Technologies; Analysis and Control of Cell Nucleation, Cell Growth, and Shaping; Computational Modeling of Foaming; Development of Artificial Wood; Measurement and Modeling of the Thermophysical Properties of Polymer/Blowing-Agent Solution; Scale-up of Processing Technology; Biodegradble Foams; Replacement of Environmentally Hazardous Blowing Agents;
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Wallace G. Chalmers Chair of Engineering Design
Research: Creativity in conceptual design; Systematic identification and application of biological analogies in biomimetic (biologically inspired) design; Identifying and overcoming obstacles to personal environmentally significant behavior.
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Canada Research Chair in Mechanobiology
Research: Cellular mechanobiology, biomechanics, tissue engineering, biomedical engineering, and biomedical microdevices
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Director, MAGNA/SCFI M.Eng. program
Research: Non-destructive material characterization by means of ultrasound, with applications to nuclear power plants, aerospace, oil/gas pipelines, protective coatings, welds, material interfaces; Resonant frequencies and mechanical wave propagation characteristics; Ultrasonic phased arrays;Signal processing and image enhancement, advanced signal processing techniques.
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Research: Energy; fluid mechanics; microfluidics, nanofluidics, and optofluidics; scalable fluidic devices for bioenergy, carbon management, water purification, public health, and diagnostics.
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Research: Mechanics of materials and manufacturing processes. Microelectronics packaging; Adhesive bonding; Erosion and wear in manufacturing; Abrasive jet micromachining; Wood-based materials.
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Research: The overarching goal of my research is to elucidate the role of hemodynamic forces in the development, diagnosis and treatment of the cardiovascular diseases. This program can be broken down along two complementary lines of research. The first, image-based CFD, exploits medical imaging data to construct patient-specific computational fluid dynamics models. The second, virtual imaging, uses CFD models to simulate the impact of complex anatomy, flow and motion on medical images.
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Research: Specializing in the analysis of experimentally measured turbulent flows, he is developing analytical models based on organized structures in steady and nonsteady flows. He is working with Prof. J. Wallace investigating turbulent flow in Spark Ignition engines with Laser Doppler Velocimetry. Collaborative experimental work is also being done with Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) investigating fibre slurries in high turbulence environments with Prof. D.C.S. Kuhn. Additional work is being performed with PIV in engine models. This work has included the development of improved PIV and PTV algorithms
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Canada Research Chair in Micro and Nano Engineering Systems
Research: Manipulation and characterization of biological cells, molecules, and nanomaterials; microsystems and nanosystems; design and fabrication of MEMS and NEMS (micro-nanoelectromechanical systems); bioMEMS, sensors, actuators, and microfluidic devices; microrobotics and optical microscopy; nanorobotics and electron microscopy; automation at the micro-nanometer scales; cellular biophysics; cellular biomechanics and mechanobiology; and application of enabling micro-nano systems/devices to fundamental/applied biological/biomedical, clinical, and emerging engineering problems.
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Research: Alternative energy; combustion experiments and modeling; biofuel flames and engines; air pollution formation and control; spectroscopy and optical sensors
Professor Emeritus, Mechanical Engineering
Research: Design theory; its relation to engineering design and industrial design in support of new product development; Manufacturing processes; Quality issues in design and manufacturing; Hydrogen systems for storage; Plasticity and metal forming.
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Research: Energy Studies; Environmental Engineering; Alternative fuels combustion; Alternative fuel use in engines. The focus of the work is on reducing engine exhaust emissions; Energy system studies; Clean energy technologies and the integration of energy conversion devices into total energy systems; Investigations of hydrogen-fueled engines.
Professor Emeritus, Mechanical Engineering
Research: Statistical rate theory developed from quantum and statistical mechanics; evaporation and condensation kinetics, gas adsorption kinetics, and thermal desorption kinetics; surface tension of solids
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Research: Biomechanics, tissue engineering, cellular mechanotransduction, bone modeling and remodeling, and bone regeneration.
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Chair, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Research: Mechanical vibrations and dynamic analysis of mechanical systems with particular focus on automotive applications. Development of bio-instruments for characterization and diagnosis of tissue viscoelastic property and for tissue engineering research.