Alma Mater: Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida (2007)
Research: Medical applications of operations research; radiotherapy treatment optimization, pandemic planning
Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering
Alma Mater: Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida (2007)
Research: Medical applications of operations research; radiotherapy treatment optimization, pandemic planning
(416) 978 6780
MC 314A
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Dean, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Toronto
Alma Mater: Sc.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1988)
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.
(416) 978 3131
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Alma Mater: Carnegie-Mellon University (1984)
Research: Biomedical Engineering; Energy Studies, Thermodynamics, and Surface Science; Environmental Engineering; Fluid Sciences
(416) 946 3408
MC229
Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering
Alma Mater: Industrial and Systems Engineering, Rutgers University (2003)
Research: Stochastic Models, Analysis of Queueing Systems; Production/Inventory Systems; Call Centers, Simulation.
(416) 978 5746
MC319
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Alma Mater: Mechanical Engineering, University of Victoria (2008)
Research: Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells; PEMFCs)studies. Microfluidics and multiphase flow in porous media; Carbon sequestration.
(416) 946 5031
MB223A
Lecturer, General Engineering
Alma Mater: University of Saskatchewan (1999)
Research: Design engineering process; engineering education; engineering outreach.
(416) 946 5066
MC323
Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering
Alma Mater: Computer Science, University of Toronto (1999)
Research: Optimization, heuristic search, constraint programming, scheduling, hybrid algorithms, dynamic and uncertain problems, and problem modeling.
(416) 946 8854
BA8126
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Alma Mater: University of Michigan
Research: Applied Mechanics, Robotics, and Manufacturing; Biomedical Engineering; Energy Studies.
(416) 946 7967
MC416
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Associate Chair of Research
Alma Mater: University of Michigan (1994)
Research: mechatronics, precision design, smart materials, precision positioning, nonlinear and real-time control, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and microfluidics.
(416) 946 0689
MC224
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.
(416) 978 3447
MC417
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Associate Chair of Graduate Studies
Alma Mater: University of Toronto (2000)
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.
(416) 978 1275
RS214A
Professor, Industrial Engineering
Alma Mater: Mathematics, University of Waterloo (1980)
Research: All of my research is focused on the healthcare industry: modelling, process improvement, decision support tools for policy, scheduling, simulation, system dynamics.
(416) 978 8661
RS311D
Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering
Alma Mater: Operations Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2007)
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.
(416) 946 5721
MC315
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Vice Chair, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Alma Mater: Cornell University (1990)
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.
(416) 978 5742
BA8254
Professor, Industrial Engineering
Alma Mater: University of Canterbury (New Zealand) (1981)
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.
(416) 978 8951
BA9171A
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.
(416) 978 3043
MB62
Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering
Alma Mater: Computer Science, University of Toronto (1994)
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.
(416) 946 8851
BA8128
Professor, Industrial Engineering
Alma Mater: Carnegie-Mellon (1983)
Research: Ontologies for Enterprise Modelling,Constraint-Directed Scheduling.
(416) 978 6823
BA8114
Senior Lecturer, Industrial Engineering
Alma Mater: University of Toronto (1974)
Research: Application of Simulation Techniques to Health Care and Manufacturing.The Ontario Electricity Market
Interfaces Between Operations Research and Information Systems
(416) 946 7435
MC314C
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Alma Mater: Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto (1976)
Research: Design of robotics and mechatronics systems.
Applications: mobile robots; modular robots; image-guided robot-assisted medical surgery;laboratory automation
(416) 978 5745
MB116
Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering
Research: Ontologies, semantic integration, process modelling, enterprise integration, Semantic Web, knowledge representation, mathematical logic
(416) 946 8853
BA8122
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Alma Mater: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich (2002)
Research: fluid mechanics, soft matter, colloidal material synthesis, micro/nanofabrication, biomedical engineering
(416) 978 1282
MC314B
Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering
Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies
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.
(416) 946 8504
RS306
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Alma Mater: Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research: Solid Oxide Fuel Cells; Fuel Cell Materials and Manufacturing; Graded and Multi-Layered Materials;
Plasma Spray and Sol Gel Processing
(416) 978 3835
MC332
Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering
Alma Mater: University of Pennsylvania (2002)
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.
(416) 978 3274
MC318
Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering
Alma Mater: Industrial and Operational Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2001)
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.
(416) 946 7867
MC320
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Alma Mater: Prague University
Research: Quality, Production, Reliability and Preventive Maintenance with special interest in investigating the optimal operating policies for stochastic controlled systems.
(416) 978 4184
MC223
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Alma Mater: Princeton University
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.
(416) 978 5106
MC334
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Chair, First Year of the Faculty
(416) 978 0490
MC227
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Research: Structural Mechanics; Advanced Design Analysis Tools; Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis and Design Evaluation; Fatigue, Fracture and Damage Mechanics; Electro-Thermo-Mechanically Coupled Problems; Smart Structures; Microelectronic Packaging Systems; Cellular and Composite Materials; Crashworthiness of foam filled structures; Residual Stress and Surface Engineering.
(416) 978 5741
MB102
Professor, Industrial Engineering
Alma Mater: University of Toronto (1980)
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.
(416) 978 3662
RS319
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Research: Automatic assembly operations. Verification of control strategy. Robotics. Biomedical applications of robotic devices.
(416) 978 2454
MB113
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Alma Mater: University of Minnesota
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.
(416) 978 5604
BA8260
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Alma Mater: University of Toronto (2001)
Research: Manufacturing New Materials; smart materials and structures; multi-functional and adaptive polymers. Fabrication of high performance functional polymers; modeling of morphologies and their correlations with polymers properties; polymer properties: mechanical; viscoelastic; thermal; electric; biodegradation; analytical and numerical simulation of polymer properties
(416) 978 7054
RS207A
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Alma Mater: Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto
Research: Autonomous Systems. Robotics and Mechatronics. Assistive Devices. Service Robots/Vehicles. Robot-Assisted Emergency Response. Sensor Agents. Socially Assistive Robots. Human-Robot Interaction.
(416) 946 5033
MC418
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Microcellular Plastics
Alma Mater: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1993)
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;
(416) 978 3053
RS210A
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Wallace G. Chalmers Chair of Engineering Design
Alma Mater: Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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.
(416) 946 3028
MC420
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Alma Mater: University of Toronto (2000)
Research: Cellular mechanobiology, biomechanics, tissue engineering, biomedical engineering, and biomedical microdevices
(416) 946 0548
MC221
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Director, MAGNA/SCFI M.Eng. program
Alma Mater: Nuclear Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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.
(416) 978 6953
MC415
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Research: Mechanics of materials and manufacturing processes. Microelectronics Packaging; Tribology; Adhesive Bonding; Wood-based Materials
(416) 978 5435
MC228
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Alma Mater: University of Toronto (1993)
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.
(416) 978 7781
MC333
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Alma Mater: Queen´s University
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
(416) 978 3110
MC225
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Canada Research Chair in Micro and Nano Engineering Systems
Alma Mater: University of Minnesota (2003)
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.
(416) 946 0549
MC419
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Alma Mater: University of California, Berkeley (1994)
Research: energy, combustion, biofuels, air pollution, spectroscopy, optical sensors
(416) 580 3391
MC335
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Alma Mater: University of Michigan
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.
(416) 978 4899
MC421
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Alma Mater: City University of New York
Research: Biomechanics, tissue engineering, cellular mechanotransduction, bone modeling and remodeling, and bone regeneration.
(416) 978 5736
MC314D
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Chair, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Alma Mater: Mechanical Engineering, University of Manitoba (1999)
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.
(416) 978 7198
MC136