Mechanical Engineering
Materials Science & Engineering

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
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
Research Associate Professor, 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
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 - 2008/2009

Link to Graduate Students

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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