The research preeminence of the Mechanical Engineering faculty is reflected in an excellent record of extramural funding, which annually exceeds $15,000,000. Among a number of indices of quality, the most recent National Research Council Review of Graduate Programs ranked the Department fourth in total publications per faculty and first in citations per faculty among leading mechanical engineering programs. The Department's many faculty honors include two memberships in the National Academy of Engineering; Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the American Nuclear Society; the ASME Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal; the US Department of Energy E.O. Lawrence Award; and five UCSB Distinguished Teaching Awards.

View 2006-2007 Mechanical Engineering Faculty Awards.

• Astrom, Karl
  Professor of Automatic Control.
    
• Paul J. Atzberger
  Stochastic Processes, Statistical Mechanics, and Scientific Computing.
  (Department of Mathematics)
  
  
• Bamieh, Bassam
  Dynamic Systems, Control, and Robotics.
  
  
• Beltz, Glenn
  Solid Mechanics, Materials, and Structures: defect mechanics in electronic materials and structures, mechanical properties of surfaces, interfaces, and thin films, and ductile versus brittle modeling.
  
  
• Bennett, Ted
  Thermal/Fluid Sciences: Microscale Thermal Processing, heat transfer, laser processing, fluid mechanics, manufacturing.
  
  
• Bullo, Francesco (Co-Vice Chair of the Department)
  Motion planning and coordination; geometric and dynamical systems methods in control; distributed and adaptive algorithms; application to (i) autonomous, reliable, and agile robots and (ii) coordinated and adaptive networks of vehicles and embedded sensors.
  
  
• Ceniceros, Hector
  Department of Mathematics
  
  
• Clarke, David R.
  Materials.
  
  
• Evans, Anthony G.
  1942-2009
  
  
• Gibou, Frederic*
  Computational Mathematics, modeling and simulations - materials science, multiphase flows; level-set methods, ghost-fluid methods, and interface problems; and image segmentation with applications to radiotherapy treatment planning and civil engineering.
  
  
• Hansen, Gary
  Technology Management and Commercialization.
  
  
• Holden, Patricia
  Environmental Microbiology
  
  
• Homsy, George "Bud"
  Fluid Mechanics.
  
  
• Kedward, Keith
  Solid Mechanics, Materials, and Structures: advanced composites, design engineering, fracture mechanics, and manufacturing technology.
  
  
• Keller, Arturo
  Fate and Transport, Remediation, Management
  
  
• Khammash, Mustafa
  Dynamics and Controls.
   
• Krechetnikov, Rouslan
  Fluid Dynamics, Microfluidics, Complex Fluid Interfaces, Flow Control, Geometric Mechanics
  
  
• Leal, Gary
  Fluid Mechanics, Rheology, Complex Fluids, Interfacial Phenomena.
  
  
• Levi, Carlos G.*
  Solid Mechanics, Materials, and Structures: conceptual design, synthesis and evolution in service of structural and inorganic materials, especially for high temperature applications.
  
  
• Lucas, Glenn E.*
  Solid Mechanics, Materials, and Structures: structural materials, mechanical properties.
  
  
• MacIntyre, Sally
  Department of Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology
  
  
• Matthys, Eric F.
  Thermal/Fluid Sciences: heat transfer, fluid mechanics, rheology, solidification, material processing and manufacturing, biofluids, thermal distribution systems, polymers, surfactants, metals, energy conservation, materials.
  
  
• McLean, Stephen R.
  Thermal/Fluid Sciences: sediment transport, bedform stability, boundary layer fluid mechanics, coastal processes.
  
  
• McMeeking, Robert M.
  Solid Mechanics, Materials, and Structures: mechanics of materials, fracture, plasticity, composite materials, materials processing.
  
  
• Meiburg, Eckart
  Fluid Mechanics: Computational Fluid Dynamics.
  
  
• Meinhart, Carl
  Thermal/Fluid Sciences: development and analysis of MEMS-based micro-fluidic devices, optical instrumentation for micro-scale fluid mechanics, and wall turbulence.
  
  
• Mezic, Igor
  Applied Mechanics, Non-Linear Dynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Applied Mathematics.
  
  
• Milstein, Frederick*
  Solid Mechanics, Materials, and Structures: theoretical strength of solids, large strain deformation, crystal mechanics.
  
  
• Moehlis, Jeff (Co-Vice Chair of the Department)
  Fluid dynamics, hydrodynamical systems, biological dynamics, dynamical systems.
  
  
• Odette, G. Robert*
  Solid Mechanics, Materials, and Structures: fundamental deformation and fractured mechanisms, mechanics in structural materials, microstructural evolution and property degradation in aggressive environments (aging), structural reliability, and the development of advanced high-performance composites.
  
  
• Paden, Bradley E.
  Dynamic Systems, Control, and Robotics: nonlinear control theory, theoretical kinematics and their applications in mechanical engineering.
  
  
• Pennathur, Sumita
  Microfluidics, Nanofluidics, MEMS, NEMS.
  
  
• Petzold, Linda R.*
  Computational Science and Engineering: Numerical ODEs, DAEs and PDEs, parameter estimation and optimal control for PDEs, scientific computing, problem solving environments.
  
  
• Soh, Hyongsok (Tom)
  Molecular scale detection and manipulation, nanometer scale electromechanical devices, application of MEMS technology and nanofabrication.
  
  
• Theofanous, Theofanis*
  Risk and Safety Engineering and Thermal/Fluid Sciences: multiphase systems, safety, risk analysis.
  
  
• Turner, Kimberly (Chair of the Department)
  Dynamic Systems, Control, and Robotics and Solid Mechanics, Materials, and Structures: MEMS, Solid Mechanics, Dynamics, Microsystems Motion.
  
  
• Valentine, Megan T.
  Single-molecule biophysics, cell mechanics, motor proteins, biomaterials.
  
  
• Yang, Henry T. (UCSB Chancellor)
  Dynamic Systems, Control, and Robotics and Solid Mechanics, Materials, and Structures: Aircraft structures, structural dynamics and control, transonic aeroelasticity, finite elements, composite materials, seismic- and wind-structural control, intelligent manufacturing systems.
  
  
• Yuen, Walter W.
  Thermal/Fluid Sciences: radiation heat transfer, fire and combustion, melting/solidification heat transfer, two phase flow.

* denotes joint appointment with another department

Emeriti:

• Banerjee, Sanjoy*
  Thermal/Fluid Sciences: environmental and multiphase transport phenomena.
  
  
• Bruch, John C. Jr.
  Computational Science and Engineering: numerical methods and parallel computing, free and moving boundary problems, design and control of vibrating structures.
  
  
• Hickman, Roy S.
  
  
  
• Leckie, Frederick A.
  PhD, Stanford University (Mechanics of Materials, Engineering Design).
  
  
  
• Lick, Wilbert J.
  Environmental Engineering and Fluid Mechanics: environmental engineering and science, fluid mechanics, numerical methods.
  
  
  
• MacDonald, Noel
  Solid Mechanics, Materials, and Structures: MEMS, Applied Physics, Materials, Mechanics, Nano Fabrication.
  
  
• Marschall, Ekkehard
  Dr.-Ing, University Hannover, Germany, (Heat and Mass Transfer, Applied Thermodynamics, Experimental Techniques) (805) 893-3106.
  
  
• Mitchell, Thomas P.
  Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Structural Mechanics (805) 893-3106.
  
  
• Tulin, Marshall
  Director, Ocean Engineering Laboratory (805)893-4937.
  
  
• Vanyo, James P.
  Engineering and Geophysical Fluid Mechanics. For more information, see "American Men and Women of Science" (805) 451-4477.