Faculty
| Name | Area | Contact |
Graduate Program Director, Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering | Structural dynamics, Mechanical vibrations, Modal analysis, Dynamics and vibrations of machine tools, modelling of machining processes for Virtual Machining Systems, Process optimization for high performance machining |
Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 539 |
Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering | Applications of micro- and nanotechnologies for biomedical engineering (Bio-MEMS) and energy, tissue engineering, organs-on-chip, microfluidics and sustainable energy |
Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 533 |
Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering | Nanoscale materials, mechanics and transport, nanoscale synthesis and fabrication techniques, fluid and biomedical sensor development, energy and sustainable development |
Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 521 |
Assistant Professor Mechanical | Augmented reality for health and surgery, orthopedic biomechanics, musculoskeletal quantitative medical imaging (MRI and CT), medical device development and design. |
Office: EOW 333 |
Professor Mechanical Engineering | Manufacturing automation, design, sensor systems |
Office: Engineering Lab Wing, Room B133 |
Chair, Professor Mechanical Engineering | Underwater vehicle, dynamics and control, finite element methods. |
Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 531 |
Undergraduate Program Director, Professor Mechanical Engineering | Haptics, mechatronics, robotics, dynamics and control |
Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 541 |
Professor Mechanical Engineering | Multidisciplinary design optimization, wind turbine analysis and design, variable fidelity aerodynamic and structural modelling, sustainable energy systems |
Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 537 |
Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering | Biomedical systems design, MEMS (micro-electromechanical systems), mechatronics, robotics and automation |
Office: Engineering Office Wing, EOW 335 |
Associate Professor (Program Director Biomedical Engineering) MENG | Biomechanics and biomedical instrumentation and focuses on understanding mechanisms of traumatic injury in contexts spanning civilian life, sports and defense. |
Office: EOW 225 |
Professor Mechanical Engineering | Fluid dynamics, transport phenomena, fuel cell technology |
Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 525 |
Professor Mechanical Engineering | Integrated multiphysics modelling, simulation and global optimization, next generation hybrid electric vehicles and fuel cell systems, optimal 5-axis CNC tool path generation, smart grid, green ship, and intelligent systems |
Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 523 |
Assistant Teaching Professor Mechanical Engineering |
Office: EOW 503 | |
Assistant Teaching Professor Mechanical Engineering | Advanced functional nanomaterials, Energy materials, Biomass, Heat transfer, Engineering pedagogy |
Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 231 |
Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering | Orthopaedic biomechanics: in-vitro experimentation and in-silico modelling, orthopaedic device design, integration of biomechanical models and mechatronic systems, patient-specific biomechanically-informed surgical planning |
Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 515 |
Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering | Crystal growth, electron microscopy, confocal holography |
Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 337 |
Dean of Engineering and Computer Science, Professor Mechanical Engineering | Theoretical and experimental advancement of surface science and microfluidic technologies |
Office: EOW 248 |
Assistant Teaching Professor Mechanical Engineering | Her teaching interests include materials science, 3D printing, bioprinting, biosensors, and microfluidics. |
Office: EOW 331 |
Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering | Continuum mechanics, computational mechanics, nonlinear mechanics, multi-scale modelling, anisotropic solids and fluids, inelastic solids, Cosserat media. |
Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 507 |
Professor Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering (cross listed) | Autonomous vehicles and robots, Control systems, Artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, expert systems, MEMS and wearables in intelligent transportation and advanced manufacturing systems. |
Office: EOW 517 |
Professor Mechanical Engineering | Unsteady flows, flow-acoustic coupling, fluid-structure interactions |
Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 529 |
Professor Mechanical Engineering | Thermodynamics, energy systems, cryogenics, heat transfer |
Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 527 |
Professor Mechanical Engineering | Systems and control, networked and distributed control systems, MPC and distributed MPC, mechatronics, navigation and control of autonomous vehicles, optimization and control of energy systems |
Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 519 |
Professor Mechanical Engineering | Non-equilibrium thermodynamics, kinetic theory of gases, microscale transport, aerosol coagulation |
Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 511 |
Professor Mechanical Engineering | Multidisciplinary design optimization, computational and experimental mechanics with application to aerospace structures and systems |
Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 509 |
Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering | Metal additive manufacturing, materials design, light alloys and composites, microstructure and crystallographic texture control, multi-scale mechanical testing, materials characterization. |
Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 235 |
Professor Mechanical Engineering | Disturbance modelling in forested regions, sustainable urban development of water resources, climate change impacts and analysis using artificial neural networks, pollutant dispersion modelling in rivers and nearshore regions |
Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 543 |
Professor Mechanical Engineering | Mechatronics, Mechanical Design, Sensors and Instrumentation |
Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 535 |
Professor Mechanical Engineering | Biomedical engineering, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, biomaterials scaffolds for controlling stem cell differentiation. 3D bioprinting human tissue models, drug delivery, and biomaterials, design and entrepreneurship. |
Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 513 |
Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering | Architected cellular materials, hybrid materials, additive manufacturing, rapid prototyping, mechanical properties, solid mechanics, mechanics of materials |
Office: EOW 233 |
Dr. Marianne Black, PhD, Stanford University
Dr. Guy Dumas, PhD, California Institute of Technology
Dr. Haris Ishaq, PhD, Ontario Tech University
Dr. Keywan Riahi, PhD, Graz University of Technology
Dr. Sawicki, Dr. Barbara, Jagiellonian University
Sadik Dost, MS (Karadeniz Technical University), PhD (Istanbul Technical University)
David S. Scott, BSc, MSc (Queen’s), PhD (Northw), PEng
Yury Stepanenko, DipEng (Moscow Inst of Machine Tool Eng), Candidate of Science (Moscow Eng Res Inst), DSc (Academy of Science, USSR)
Geoffrey W. Vickers, DipEng (Birm), MSc, PhD (Manc), PEng, CEng
Susan Fiddler, BMus (Victoria), Mechanical Engineering Cooperative Education Coordinator
Calvin Tripp, BASc (Waterloo), Mechanical Engineering Cooperative Education Coordinator
Fall 2022
- Vahid Ahsani, ahsaniv@uvic.ca
- Mario Bras, mbras@uvic.ca
- Saeedeh Saghlatoun, ssaghlatoun@uvic.ca
- James Tyrwhitt-Drake, jamesmtd@uvic.ca
- Jamil Fayyed, jfayyad@uvic.ca
- Paris Vakiel, pvakiel@uvic.ca
- Somayeh Fardindoost, sfardindoost@uvic.ca
- Meitham Amerehbozchalouee, mamereh@uvic.ca
- Duncan McIntyre, dmcintyre@uvic.ca
Spring 2023
- Lilah Amlani, lilahmontague@uvic.ca
- Mostafa Azimzadeh, mazimzadeh@uvic.ca
- James Bartlett, cjamesbartlett@uvic.ca
- Mario Bras, mbras@uvic.ca
- Carswell Tess, tmrc@uvic.ca
- Spencer Funk, spencerfunk@uvic.ca
- Barbara Sawicki, barbara@uvic.ca
- Saeedeh Saghlatoun, ssaghlatoun@uvic.ca
- Ricardo Marques, ricardoemarques@uvic.ca
- Kunwu Zhang, kunwu@uvic.ca
- Ash Senini, asenini@uvic.ca
Carlos Correia, Lic., (Porto), PhD (Paris)