People

Faculty
Name	Ext.	E-mail	Location
Richard D. Sisson, Jr. George F. Fuller Professor, Director of Manufacturing and Materials Engineering	5335	sisson@wpi.edu	WB246
Yiming Rong Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Associate Director of Manufacturing and Materials Engineering	6020	rong@wpi.edu	WB311A
Diran Apelian Howmet Professor, Director of Metals Processing Institute	5992	dapelian@wpi.edu	WB329
Daniel Backman Research Professor	5781	dbackman@WPI.EDU	WB320
Isa Bar-On Professor of Mechanical Engineering	5127	ibaron@wpi.edu	WB224
Ronald R. Biederman Professor Emeritus	5453	rrb@wpi.edu	WB238
Christopher A. Brown Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Director of Surface Metrology Lab	5627	brown@wpi.edu	WB235
Chrysanthe Demetry Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering	5195	cdemetry@wpi.edu	WB332
Michael F. Henry Research Professor	5781	mfhenry@wpi.edu	WB320
Robert N. Katz Saint Gobain Research Professor	5336	katz@wpi.edu	WB238
Diana Lados Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering	5535	lados@wpi.edu	WB319
Boquan Li Lab Manager, Materials Science and Engineering	6025	boquanli@wpi.edu	WB239
Jianyu Liang Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering	6649	jianyul@wpi.edu	WB312
Makhlouf M. Makhlouf Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Director, Aluminum Casting	5647	mmm@wpi.edu	WB327
Md. Maniruzzaman Research Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering	6007	maniruzz@wpi.edu	WB239
Satya S. Shivkumar Associate Professor	5048	shivkuma@wpi.edu	WB227
Libo Wang Research Professor of Metal Processing Institute	5535	libo@wpi.edu	WB 319
Staff
Name	Ext.	E-mail	Location
Carol Garofoli Director of Operations, MPI	5592	garofoli@wpi.edu	WB330
Renee Brodeur Staff Accountant, MPI	5003	rbrodeur@wpi.edu	WB331
Maureen Plunkett Administrative Assistant, MPI	5992	mrp@wpi.edu	WB326
Rita Shilansky Administrative Assistant, MTE	5633	rita@wpi.edu	WB244
Postdoctoral Fellows
Name	Ext.	E-mail	Location
Gang Wang Post doc	6160	wg@wpi.edu	WB307A

Graduate Students - 2007/2008
Name	E-Mail
Xiangping Chen	xiangpingch@wpi.edu
Brian Dewhirst	dewhirst@wpi.edu
Xiaoshu Dai	undoll@wpi.edu
Shelley Dougherty	sad5@wpi.edu
Huanan Duan	huanan_d@wpi.edu
Anastasios Gavras	angavras@wpi.edu
Patrick Hogan	phogan@wpi.edu
Olga Karabelchtchikova	olly@wpi.edu
Shimin Li	shiminli@wpi.edu
Wendi Liu	lwd@wpi.edu
Jonathan Longabucco	jonnyq@wpi.edu
Kendra Rong	zhiyang@wpi.edu
Kevin Shepardson	shep@wpi.edu
Ning Sun	ningsun@wpi.edu
Tracey Vincent	tvincent@wpi.edu
Xiaolan Wang	eva824@wpi.edu
Virendra Warke	viren@wpi.edu
Chang-Kai Wu	lancewu@wpi.edu
Dawei Zhang	davidzhang@wpi.edu

MTE Graduate Student Website

Many individuals from various departments are associated with the Materials Engineering Program. The diverse backgrounds, expertise, and research interests of the faculty facilitate interdisciplinary projects. Strong industrial interaction is a vital part of our research program. A large portion of our Master's theses is funded by research grants from the industry.

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