University of Michigan - Dearborn: College of Engineering & Computer Science

The following faculty members participate in the Ph.D. program in automotive systems engineering.

Taehyung Kim - Ph.D., Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Energy Conversion, Plug-In and Fuel Cell Hybrid Electric Vehicles, Power Electronics and AC Motor Drives, Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicle's Traction Motor Drives, Digital Signal Processor (DSP) Based Control for Adjustable Speed Motor Drives, Evaluation & Diagnosis of AC Motors for Military and Commercial Applications, Position Sensorless Control of AC Motors, and Vehicle Electronics

Chris Mi - Ph.D., Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Power electronics, Automotive electronics, Digital and analog electronics, Electrical and hybrid vehicles, Electromagnetic, Renewable energy and distributed energy systems, Permanent magnet machines, Induction machines; large electric motors, and Electric drives and intelligent control.

Yi Lu Murphey - Ph.D., Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Robotic vision, Machine learning, intelligent vehicle power management, Text mining with application to vehicle diagnostic descriptions, Incremental learning, and Research summary

Paul Richardson - Ph.D., Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Real Time Computer Networks, Wireless Communications, Tracking Systems

Weidong Xiang - Ph.D., Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Wireless Communications Technologies: ultra wideband (UWB) radio, cognitive radio/software radio, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), Communications Systems and Networks: inter-vehicle and intra-vehicle wireless communications networks; wireless local area networks (WLAN); Smart Grid, wireless sensor networks, and LTE, and Wireless networked control systems (Wireless NCS): wireless controller areas networks (wireless CAN);

Yubao Chen - Ph.D., Professor, Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Intelligent Decision-Making Systems, Quality and Reliability Engineering, Manufacturing System Planning, and Control, and Management

Sang-Hwan Kim - Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Human Factors, Cognitive Engineering, Aviation Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction User Interface/Interaction/Experience Design

Ghassan Kridli - Ph.D., Associate Professor, Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Metal Forming, Manufacturing Processes, Product and Process Design

Cheol Lee - Ph.D., Associate Professor, Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Intelligent control, modeling and optimization of manufacturing processes and materials processing, Neuro-fuzzy networks, multirate observers, evolutionary algorithm, multivariate statistics, stochastic dynamic optimization and optimal control Intelligent sensors, monitoring and diagnostics, Data mining and data analysis with manufacturing process databases Grinding, machining, and welding

Yung-wen Liu - Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Healthcare System Modeling, Applied Statistics, Stochastic Process Modeling, Reliability/Quality Engineering

Elsayed Orady - Ph.D., Professor Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Egnineering
Manufacturing Processes, Machines Tools and Tool Design, CAD/CAM/CAPP and CIM, Metrology, Intelligent Diagnostic Systems for Manufacturing Processes

Armen Zakarian - Ph.D., Professor, Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Intelligent Design and Manufacturing, System/Product Architecting, Development of Integrated Products and Systems, Modeling and Analysis of Manufacturing Systems

Ben Q. Li - Ph.D., Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Electromagnetic-thermal-fluids Phenomena, Heat and Mass Transfer, Materials Processing and Manufacturing Systems, Multi-scale Modeling, and Numerical Methods

Alan Argento - Ph.D., Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Ocular Biomechanics, Rate dependence of plastics, Foam, Biological Materials, Impact Structural Dynamics, Modal Testing, Soy and other Plant-based Materials, and Elastic Wave Propagation

John Cherng - Ph.D., Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Acoustics and Vibration Analysis, Acoustical Material, Vehicle NVH Controls, Turbo-machinery

C.L. Chow - Ph.D., Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Structural Analysis, Mechanics of Solids, Fracture, and Damage Mechanics

Dohoy Jung - Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Advanced energy conversion in automotive systems, internal combustion engine processes and systems, Hybrid power-train systems, PEM fuel cell systems, Vehicle thermal management and system integration

HongTae Kang - Ph.D., Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Materials Fatigue, Fatigue of Welded Joints and Structures, Structural Durability Analysis Battery Package Design for Hybrid Vehicles, and Thermo-Mechanical Fatigue

Pankaj Mallick - Ph.D. , William E. Stirton Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Fracture, Fatigue, Impact and Crush Behavior of Materials, Relationship between Design Properties and Processing of Polymers and Composites, Forming Characteristics of Polymers, Polymer Matrix Composites and Light Metals, Designing with Lightweight Automotive Materials, Joining and Joining Characteristics of Similar and Dissimilar Materials, and Manufacturing Process Development for Thermoplastic Matrix Composites

Chunhui Mei - Ph.D., Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Vibrations and Acoustics, Controls, Modal Analysis, Dynamics, and Solid Mechanics

Pravansu Mohanty - Ph.D., Paul K. Trojan Collegiate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Additive Manufacturing, Plasma/ Laser Materials Processing, Biomaterials, Nanostructured Materials, Functionally Designed Materials for Energy Storage, and Energy Generation.

Eric Ratts - Ph.D., Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, Refrigeration

German Reyes - Ph.D., Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Fiber-reinforced Composites, Bi-material Interface, Fracture Mechanisms

Subrata Sengupta - Ph.D., Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Experimental and Computational Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer

Taehyun Shim - Ph.D., Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Vehicle Dynamics and Vehicle Stability Augmented Systems: Integrated Chassis Control, Electronic Stability Program (ESP), Active Roll Control, Autonomous Vehicle, System Modeling and Analysis: Mechanical, Electro-Mechanical, Hydraulic and Pneumatic systems, bond graph technique, Vibration Control: Passive and Active Tuned Vibration Absorber (TVA) Design, Hybrid Vehicle Modeling and Control

Keshav Varde - Ph.D., Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Combustion, Explosion and Fuels, Thermodynamics, Propulsion and Engine Systems, and Sprays and Modeling

Yi Zhang - Ph.D., Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Theory of Gearing and Applications, Power Transmissions, Geometry Modeling, CAD/CAM Robotics, and Mechanisms

Oleg Zikanov - Ph.D., Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Computational Fluid Dynamics, Turbulence, Magneto hydrodynamics of liquid metals Phase transition in turbulent flows, Population dynamics of phytoplankton, Hydrodynamic instability and transition to turbulence in shear flows, Hydrodynamics of aluminum reduction cells, Transport and instabilities in breeding liquid metal blankets for fusion reactors, Release of gaseous methane from dissociating natural hydrates induced by global warming, Lorentz Force Velocimetry.