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Mechanical Engineering

Faculty & staff

Office

The general office is in room 548 in the Engineering Office Wing. For general inquiries call us at 250-721-8895 or email the administrative assistant.

Mailing address

Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Victoria
PO Box 1700 STN CSC
Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2
Canada

Faculty

  • Dr. Brad Buckham

    Professor & department chair Mechanical Engineering

    Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 551 250-721-8901

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Offshore engineering, dynamics, finite element modeling, marine renewable energy, wave energy, hybrid renewable energy systems

  • Dr. Keivan Ahmadi

    Associate professor & Graduate program director Mechanical Engineering

    Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 539 250-721-8694

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Dynamics and vibrations, advanced manufacturing, machining dynamics

  • Dr. Mohsen Akbari

    Associate professor & Acting Biomedical Engineering program director Mechanical Engineering

    Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 533 250-721-6038

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Microfluidics, tissue engineering, drug delivery, bioprinting, disease modelling, biomaterials

  • Dr. Colin Bradley

    Professor & Associate Dean Research Mechanical Engineering

    Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 245 250-721-6031

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Systems design, manufacturing, machine vision, instrumentation and sensor technology

  • Dr. Daniela Constantinescu

    Professor & Undergraduate program director Mechanical Engineering

    Office: Engineering Office Wing , room 541 250-721-6040

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Bilateral teleoperation, haptics, multi-robot systems, reinforcement learning for robotic systems

  • Dr. Curran Crawford

    Professor Mechanical Engineering

    Office: Engineering Office Wing, room 537

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Energy systems, digital twins, energy storage, wind energy, carbon capture, community energy

  • Dr. Elizabeth Croft

    Professor & Vice-President Academic and Provost Mechanical Engineering

    Office: Michael Williams Building, Room A265 250-721-7013

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Human-robot interaction (HRI), augmented reality in HRI, physical collaboration with robots, mobile robotics, robots in society, industrial robotics, robot assistants, human in the loop control, motion planning, gender diversity in science and engineering

  • Dr. Nikolai Dechev

    Associate professor Mechanical Engineering

    Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 335 250-721-8933

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Biomedical systems design, MEMS (micro-electromechanical systems), mechatronics, robotics and automation

  • Dr. Christopher Dennison

    Professor Mechanical Engineering

    Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 527

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Injury biomechanics, experimental techniques

  • Dr. Zuomin Dong

    Professor Mechanical Engineering

    Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 523 250-721-8693

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Modeling, design and control optimizations, hybrid electric vehicles, marine vessels, hydrogen fuel cell systems, metamodel-based global optimization, machine learning, intelligent systems, optimal control

  • Dr. Flavio Firmani

    Associate teaching professor Mechanical Engineering

    Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 503 250-721-7890

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Robotics, mechanisms, design

  • Dr. Samira Gharehkhani

    Assistant teaching professor Mechanical Engineering

    Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 231 250-472-4201

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Forest-based advanced materials (lignin, micro/nano cellulose), carbonaceous materials, 3D printing of functional materials, microsupercapacitors and microbatteries, X-ray micro-computed tomography

  • Dr. Josh Giles

    Associate professor Mechanical Engineering

    Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 515 250-853-3179

    Area(s) of expertise:
    musculoskeletal biomechanics, surgical technology, medical devices, surgical planning

  • Dr. Rodney Herring

    Associate professor Mechanical Engineering

    Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 337 250-721-8934

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Materials science and engineering, imaging systems, electron microscopes and associated imaging methods

  • Dr. Mina Hoorfar

    Professor & Dean of the Faculty of Engineering & Computer Science Mechanical Engineering

    Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 248 250-721-8612

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Advanced sensing technologies and microfluidic-based encapsulation techniques for enhanced drug delivery

  • Dr. Jason Lee

    Assistant professor Mechanical Engineering

    Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 225 250-721-8867

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Electrochemical energy conversion technology, hydrogen fuel cells and electrolyzers, operando imaging, multi-phase transport, porous medium, advanced interface manufacturing

  • Dr. Ben Nadler

    Professor Mechanical Engineering

    Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 507 250-721-6050

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Advanced topics in continuum mechanical, particularly the constitutive modeling of material with evolving microstructures

  • Dr. Homayoun Najjaran

    Professor Mechanical Engineering

    Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 517

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Robotics, control, intelligent systems

  • Dr. Peter Oshkai

    Professor Mechanical Engineering

    Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 529 250-721-8922

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Fluid mechanics, flow-structure interactions, flow-acoustic coupling

  • Dr. Karolina Papera Valente

    Assistant teaching professor & Director of biomedical systems Mechanical Engineering

    Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 331 250-721-8696

    Area(s) of expertise:
    3D bioprinting, microfluidics, drug development

  • Dr. Scott Roberts

    Assistant teaching professor Mechanical Engineering

    Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 229

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Engineering design, systems engineering, system modelling, astronomical instrumentation

  • Dr. Andrew Rowe

    Professor Mechanical Engineering

    Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 525 250-721-8920

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Energy systems, electrification, hydrogen, cryogenics, thermal design

  • Dr. Yang Shi

    Professor Mechanical Engineering

    Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 519 250-853-3178

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Model predictive control, robust control and filtering, networked and distributed control, cyber-physical systems; mechatronics, robotics, autonomous aerial vehicles, autonomous marine vehicles

  • Dr. Henning Struchtrup

    Professor Mechanical Engineering

    Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 511 250-721-8916

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Thermodynamics, kinetic theory of gases, energy

  • Dr. Afzal Suleman

    Professor Mechanical Engineering

    Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 509 250-721-6039

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Multidisciplinary design optimization, computational and experimental mechanics with application to aerospace structures and systems

  • Dr. Sravya Tekumalla

    Assistant professor Mechanical Engineering

    Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 235 250-721-8882

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Metal additive manufacturing, material design, alloys and composites, microstructure control, multi-scale mechanical testing

  • Dr. Paris Vakiel

    Assistant teaching professor Mechanical Engineering

    Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 331 250-853-3177

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Orthopaedic Biomechanics, Injury Biomechanics, MRI imaging studies, Animal models, gait kinematics, fibre optic sensors

  • Dr. Caterina Valeo

    Professor Mechanical Engineering

    Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 543 250-721-8623

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Environmental modelling of pollutants and resources in watersheds and aquatic regions

  • Dr. Stephanie Willerth

    Professor Mechanical Engineering

    Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 513 250-721-7303

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Bioprinting, stem cell biology, tissue engineering

  • Dr. Bosco Yu

    Assistant professor Mechanical Engineering

    Office: Engineering Office Wing, Room 233 250-472-4220

    Area(s) of expertise:
    Solid mechanics, additive manufacturing, architected meta-materials, sustainable composites, hybrid materials, sustainable development, materials science, materials selections

Staff

Office staff

Sandra Espinola
Graduate secretary
Office: EOW 548
sandraespinola@uvic.ca
250-721-8921

Sarah Lawrence
Administrative assistant
Office: EOW 548
muktalawrence@uvic.ca
250-721-8895

Jessica Navarro
Undergraduate secretary
Office: EOW 548
jessicanavarro@uvic.ca
250-721-7960

Christine Rattray
Assistant to the chair
Office: EOW 548
crattray@uvic.ca
250-721-8900

Kavita Sharma
Administrative officer
Office: EOW 553
kavitas@uvic.ca
250-721-8896

Technical staff

Vahid Ahsani
Manager of laboratories
Office: ELW A214
ahsaniv@uvic.ca
250-721-8893

Patrick Chang
Senior scientific assistant
Office: ELW A216
pchang@uvic.ca
250-721-6032

Ian Fraser
Scientific assistant
Office: ELW A218
ifraser@uvic.ca
250-721-7297

Rodney Katz
Senior scientific assistant
Office: ELW B111
rkatz@uvic.ca
250-721-8667

Maryam Shakourisalim
Scientific assistant
Office: ELW A214
maryamshakourisalim@uvic.ca
250-721-8938

Rocky Ulk
Scientific assistant
Office: ELW A214
rockyulk@uvic.ca
250-721-7297

Adjunct faculty

  • Mohamed Basha, PhD, University of Waterloo
  • Diego Berzi, PhD, Politecnico di Milano
  • Mario Bras, PhD, University of Victoria
  • Michael Greenwood, PhD, McMaster University
  • Haris Ishaq, PhD, Ontario Tech University
  • Hossein Karimi, PhD, Tarbiat Modarres University
  • Iraj Mantegh, PhD, University of Toronto
  • Antony Orth, PhD, Harvard University
  • Barbara Sawicki, Jagiellonian University
  • Samaneh Shahgaldi, PhD, National University of Malaysia
  • Sylvie Spraakman, PhD, University of Toronto