College of Engineering
4183 Bell Engineering Center
Fayetteville, AR 72701
Phone: 479-575-7780
Mechanical Engineering Graduate Program
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1.8:1 Faculty members
to Ph.D. students
1.65M New research awards
3.14M Annual research expenditures
16 Tenured and
tenure-track
faculty members
Research Areas and Faculty
Aerospace engineers are creating better aircraft to help humans travel around the world and into outer space more easily. Ongoing areas of aviation and space research include materials and coatings, design, processes, modeling, manufacturing, electronics, and logistics.
Reseach Faculty
Dr. Larry Roe
lar@uark.edu
Faculty in this area are developing next-generation 3D printers that can print 100 times faster to make 3D printing a mainstream manufacturing technology. Faculty are also focusing on mechatronics with emphasis on nanotechnology.
Reseach Faculty
Dr. Wenchao Zhou
zhouw@uark.edu
Dr. Uche Wejinya
uwejinya@uark.edu
Faculty is this area focus on integrating theories, such as decision theory, network theory and game theory, to develop explanatory models of individual entities' behaviors in supporting complex systems modeling, analysis and design.
Reseach Faculty
Dr. David Jensen
dcjensen@uark.edu
Dr. Zhenghui Sha
zsha@uark.edu
Faculty are researching thermal and energy systems to improve power systems, processing plants, and energy storage and efficiency.
Reseach Faculty
Dr. Darin Nutter
dnutter@uark.edu
Dr. Xiangbo Meng
xbmeng@uark.edu
Dr. Larry Roe
lar@uark.edu
Faculty in this area research micro and nanofluidic systems including those for biomedical applications and other 3D printed solutions.
Reseach Faculty
Dr. Paul Millett
pmillett@uark.edu
Dr. Steve Tung
chstung@uark.edu
Researchers are using design theory, systems engineering and artificial intelligence to understand failures that affect complex systems like airplanes, manufacturing equipment and power generators in order to design new systems that can adapt to failure.
Reseach Faculty
Dr. Wenchao Zhou
zhouw@uark.edu
Dr. David Jensen
dcjensen@uark.edu
Faculty in this area are researching materials and manufacturing processes relevant to electronic packaging in order to improve reliability, performance, and behaviors within electronic systems. Researchers are also focusing on computational modeling of materials to understand the mechanical and surface properties of different material systems.
Reseach Faculty
Dr. Arun Nair
nair@uark.edu
Dr. Paul Millett
pmillett@uark.edu
Dr. Xiangbo Meng
xbmeng@uark.edu
Dr. Min Zou
mzou@uark.edu
Dr. David Huitink
dhuitin@uark.edu
Faculty in this area focus on computational modeling of materials to understand the mechanical and surface properties of different material systems. Faculty also research electronic packaging in order to improve reliability, performance and thermal/mechanical behaviors within electronic systems.
Reseach Faculty
Dr. David Huitink
dhuitin@uark.edu
Dr. Arun Nair
nair@uark.edu
Researchers in this area use experiments and computational modeling to design next generation nanoscale materials and fluidic systems, create nanomaterial coatings, improve photovoltaic and thermoelectric technologies, and address problems ranging from everyday products to medical solutions.
Reseach Faculty
Dr. Uche Wejinya
uwejinya@uark.edu
Dr. Steve Tung
chstung@uark.edu
Faculty in this area develop nano-engineered surfaces to reduce friction and wear in tribological applications, to change surface wetting properties for anti-fogging and self-cleaning, and to facilitate cell adhesion and provide antimicrobial properties in biomedical applications.
Reseach Faculty
Dr. Min Zou
mzou@uark.edu
Research Center
AR Center for Space and Planetary Services
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Arkansas High Performance Computing Center
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Center for Advanced Surface Engineering
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High Density Electronics Center
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