Department of Mechanical Engineering

Faculty

Mehdi Ahmadian Dan Pletta Professor ahmadian@vt.edu	Alan Asbeck Assistant Professor aasbeck@vt.edu	Francine Battaglia Professor fbattaglia@vt.edu
Javid Bayandor Associate Professor bayandor@vt.edu	Bahareh Behkam Associate Professor behkam@vt.edu	Pinhas Ben-Tzvi Associate Professor bentzvi@vt.edu
Jan Helge Bøhn Associate Professor bohn@vt.edu	Ricardo Burdisso Professor rburdiss@vt.edu	Jiangtao Cheng Associate Professor chengjt@vt.edu
Clinton Dancey Associate Professor & Associate Department Head for Undergraduate Programs cld@vt.edu	Weiwei Deng Associate Professor weiwei@vt.edu	Thomas Diller Professor tdiller@vt.edu
Srinath Ekkad Rolls Royce Professor sekkad@vt.edu	Michael Ellis John R. Jones III, Associate Professor mwellis@vt.edu	Azim Eskandarian Professor & Department Head eskandarian@vt.edu
John Ferris Associate Professor jbferris@vt.edu	Chris Fuller Samuel Langley Distinguished Professor of Engineering cfuller@vt.edu	Tomonari Furukawa Professor tomonari@vt.edu
Alireza Haghighat Professor haghighat@vt.edu	Warren Hardy Associate Professor whardy@vt.edu	Celine Hin Assistant Professor celhin@vt.edu
Scott Huxtable Associate Professor huxtable@vt.edu	Mary E. Kasarda Associate Professor maryk@vt.edu	John Kennedy Professor jljc@vt.edu
Ronald Kennedy Managing Director, CenTiRe ronkenn@vt.edu	Kevin Kochersberger Associate Professor kbk@vt.edu	Alan Kornhauser Associate Professor alkorn@vt.edu
Andrew Kurdila W. Martin Johnson Professor kurdila@vt.edu	Alexander Leonessa Associate Professor leonessa@vt.edu	Zheng Li Assistant Professor zhengli@vt.edu
Yang Liu Assistant Professor liu130@vt.edu	Roop Mahajan Lewis A. Hester Professor mahajanr@vt.edu	Bob Mahan Professor Emeritus jrmahan@vt.edu
Reza Mirzaeifar Assistant Professor rmirzaei@vt.edu	Rolf Mueller Associate Professor rolf.mueller@vt.edu	Amrinder Nain Associate Professor nain@vt.edu
Douglas Nelson Professor doug.nelson@vt.edu	Wing Ng Christopher C. Kraft Endowed Professor wng@vt.edu	Walter O’Brien J. Bernard Jones Professor walto@vt.edu
Robin Ott Associate Professor of Practice rso@vt.edu	Robert G. Parker L.S. Randolph Professor r.parker@vt.edu	Mark Paul Professor mrp@vt.edu
Mark Pierson Associate Professor of Practice mark.pierson@vt.edu	Ranga Pitchumani George R. Goodson Professor pitchu@vt.edu	Shashank Priya Robert E. Hord, Jr. Professor spriya@vt.edu
Rui Qiao Associate Professor ruiqiao@vt.edu	Michael J. Roan Associate Professor mroan@vt.edu	Corina Sandu Professor & Associate Department Head for Graduate Studies csandu@vt.edu
Steve Southward Associate Professor scsouth@vt.edu	Danesh Tafti William S. Cross Professor dtafti@exchange.vt.edu	Saied Taheri Professor & Director, Center for Tire Research (CenTiRe) staheri@vt.edu
Pablo A. Tarazaga Assistant Professor ptarazag@vt.edu	Zhiting Tian Assistant Professor zhiting@vt.edu	Brian Vick Associate Professor bvick@vt.edu
Linda W. Vick Associate Professor of Practice lvick@vt.edu	Michael von Spakovsky Professor vonspako@vt.edu	Robert L. West Associate Professor westrl@vt.edu
Alfred L. Wicks Associate Professor awicks@vt.edu	Christopher B. Williams Associate Professor cbwilliams@vt.edu	Xiaoyu (Rayne) Zheng Assistant Professor ryan23@vt.edu
Lei Zuo John R. Jones III, Associate Professor leizuo@vt.edu

Staff

Jamie Archual Computer Systems Engineer (540) 231-7459 archual@vt.edu	Annette Ben-Tzvi Graduate Academic Advisor (540) 231-3608 abentzvi@vt.edu	Rosaire Bushey Communications & Outreach Specialist (540) 231-2965 busheyr@vt.edu
Kimberly Clark Program Support Technician (540) 231-9101 kdhobbs@vt.edu	Amanda Collins Program Support Technician, HR/Payroll (540) 231-5056 mandamcg@vt.edu	Horatio Cowan Lab Manager (540) 231-4459 hcowan@vt.edu
Sarah Deisher Undergraduate Academic Advisor (540) 231-8592 murfvt@vt.edu	Cathy Hill Graduate Program Coordinator (540) 231-7460 hillcath@vt.edu	Beth Howell Program Manager (540) 231-2908 bethrun@vt.edu
Diana Israel Program Support Technician (540) 231-6424 disrael@vt.edu	Ashlin Jackson Program Support Technician, CenTiRe (540) 231-8250 jashlin@vt.edu	Liz Kersteter Program Support Technician, VAL (540) 231-4162 keliz13@vt.edu
Timothy Kessinger Machine Shop Supervisor (540) 231-3770 tikessin@vt.edu	Jordan Lively Program Support Technician, Nuclear Engineering (540) 231-7183 jordan30@vt.edu	Phillip Long Laboratory Mechanic (540) 231-4007 plong06@vt.edu
Brandy McCoy Executive Assistant to the Department Head (540) 231-6661 brandy07@vt.edu	Lauren Mills Program Support Technician, CEHMS (540) 231-8355 smithls@vt.edu	Ben Poe Computer Systems Engineer, Sr. (540) 231-9114 bpoe@vt.edu
Bill Songer Lab Instrument Maker (540) 231-4007 wsonger@vt.edu	Johnny Underwood Equipment and Facilities Specialist (540) 231-9113 johnnyu6@vt.edu	Sara Vallejo Program Support Technician, CVeSS (540) 231-0700 sara.vallejo@vt.edu
Heather Whedbee Undergraduate Academic Advisor (540) 231-2555 heathaw@vt.edu	Melissa Williams Business Manager (540) 231-4447 mjwillia@vt.edu	Lance Yelton Program Support Technician (540) 231-1673 ylance70@vt.edu