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Instructor Information

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Barbara Hughey (Fall,Spring)

Senior Lecturer

Interest Areas

  1. Experimental techniques, especially in the physical sciences and engineering
  2. Data analysis and effective communication of results and conclusions
  3. Increasing gender parity in engineering and science.

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Dawn Wendell (Spring)

Business Architect

Interest Areas

  1. Design & Manufacturing
  2. Experimental Fluid Mechanics
  3. Equity and Inclusion in Engineering Education

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Irmgard Bischofberger (Spring)

Class of 1942 Career Development Professor

Interest Areas

  1. Pattern formation
  2. Fluid dynamics
  3. Soft condensed matter

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John Leonard (Fall,Spring)

Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering; Samuel C. Collins Professor

Interest Areas

  1. Navigation and mapping for autonomous mobile robots
  2. long-term visual simultaneous localization and mapping in dynamic environments
  3. self-driving autonomous cars

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Cullen Buie (Spring)

Interest Areas

  1. Microfluidic tools genetic transformation in synthetic biology
  2. Dynamic interactions between fluids and porous media
  3. Low cost energy storage systems

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Sili Deng (Fall)

Class of 1954 Career Development Professor

Interest Areas

  1. Energy conversion and storage
  2. Scientific Machine Learning
  3. Reacting Flows

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On a Mission to Measure

From heart rates to exploding pumpkins, the topics students can explore for the Go Forth and Measure project are virtually unlimited.