Core Faculty

Name / Title	Contact Information	Specialization
Ahmet Aktan John Roebling Professor of Inf Full Profile >	aaktan@drexel.edu 215.895.6135 Alumni Engineering Labs Room 270-D	Health monitoring and management of Large Infrastructure Systems with emphasis on Structural Health Monitoring Curriculum Vitae
Franklin Moon Associate Professor Full Profile >	flm72@drexel.edu 215.895.6099 Alumni Engineering Labs Room 280-G	Full-scale structural testing, structural dynamics, evaluation and rehabilitation of existing structures
Ivan Bartoli Assistant Professor Full Profile >	ibartoli@drexel.edu 215.895.2087 Alumni Engineering Labs Room 273-B	Non-Destructive Evaluation and Structural Health Monitoring, Dynamic Identification, Stress Wave Propagation Modeling.
Antonios Kontsos Assistant Professor Full Profile >	akontsos@coe.drexel.edu 215.895.2297 AEL 172 A	Applied Mechanics; Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics; Modeling of smart/multifunctional materials
Anu R. Pradhan Assistant Professor Full Profile >	pradhan@drexel.edu 215.571.3540 Alumni Engineering Labs Room 273-E	Infrastructure Management, construction engineering, transportation engineering, sensing system, geographic information system, statistical machine learning
Franco Montalto Assistant Professor Full Profile >	fmontalto@coe.drexel.edu 215.895.1385 Alumni Engineering Labs Room 273-F	Effects of built infrastructure on societal water needs, ecohydrologic patterns and processes, ecological restoration, green design, water interventions

Affiliated Faculty

Name / Title	Contact Information	Specialization
Peter DeCarlo Assistant Professor Full Profile >	pfd33@drexel.edu
Patrick Gurian Assistant Professor Full Profile >	pgurian@drexel.edu 215.895.2889 Alumni Engineering Labs Room 270-K	Risk analysis of environmental and infrastructure systems, novel adsorbent materials, environmental standard setting, Bayesian statistical modeling, community outreach and environmental health
Charles N. Haas L.D. Betz Professor of Environ Full Profile >	haas@drexel.edu 215.895.2283 Curtis 251	Water treatment, risk assessment, bioterrorism, environmental modeling and statistics, microbiology, environmental health
Thomas Hewett Director, PhD (ACBS); Professo Full Profile >	hewett@drexel.edu 215.895.2461 PSA D-204	Human computer interaction, cognitive engineering, design of computing systems to support creative work
Alan C.W. Lau Associate Department Head, Pro Full Profile >	lau@drexel.edu 215.895.2377 Curtis Hall 155 B	Damage and damage tolerance in biological tissues and engineered materials; Deformation and fracture in nano-devices and macroscopic structures; Structural integrity and structural health monitoring; Health-care inspired engineering; Computational simulation.
Karen Miu Professor Full Profile >	miu@ece.drexel.edu 215.895.6207 Bossone 413a	Power systems; distribution networks; distribution automation; optimization; system analysis.
Kurt Sjoblom Associate Teaching Professor Full Profile >	kjs64@drexel.edu 215.895.6425 Alumni Engineering Labs Room 273-A	Laboratory Testing of Geomaterials, Geotechnical Engineering, Foundation Engineering
Sabrina Spatari Assistant Professor Full Profile >	spatari@drexel.edu 215.571.3557 Alumni Engineering Labs Room 270-G	Research in Industrial Ecology; development and application of life cycle assessment (LCA) and material flow analysis (MFA) methods for guiding engineering and policy decisions; specific interest in biomass and bioenergy, biofuels, and urban infrastructure.
Joseph Mullin Associate Department Head Full Profile >	joseph.v.mullin@drexel.edu 215.895.2350 Alumni Engineering Labs Room 270-I	Structural engineering - failure analysis, experimental stress analysis, materials of contruction - timber, concrete and steel; marine structures
Tein-Min Tan Associate Professor Full Profile >	tan@drexel.edu 215.895.2293 Curtis Hall 155C	Mechanics of composites; computational mechanics and finite-elements methods; structural dynamics.
Jin Wen Assistant Professor Full Profile >	jinwen@drexel.edu 215.895.4911 Alumni Engineering Labs Room 270-H	Building Energy Efficiency, Intelligent Building, Net-zero Building, and Indoor Environment Quality

Current Ph.D. Students Supervised

John DeVitis
Thesis: Characterizing Large Populations of Bridges through Rapid Modal Testing
Expected Graduation: Winter 2014
David Masceri
Thesis Title: Automated Modeling and Structural Identification
Expected Graduation: Winter 2014
Benjamin Cohen
Thesis Title: Asset Management of Civil Infrastructure and the Management of Today's Aging Complex Built Networks
Expected Graduation: Fall 2015

Past Ph.D. Students Supervised

Dr. Matthew Yarnold
Dr. John Prader (Research Engineering, Intelligent Infrastructure Systems)
Dr. Jeffrey Weidner (Research Engineering, Intelligent Infrastructure Systems)
Dr. Nathaniel Dubbs (Research Engineering, Intelligent Infrastructure Systems)
Dr. Ehsan Minaie (Research Engineering, Intelligent Infrastructure Systems)
Dr. Michael C. Mota (Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute)
Dr. Q. Pan (Structural Dynamics Specialist, Bechtel Power Corporation)
Dr. K. Ciloglu (Director of Research, L.B. Foster Company)
Dr. K. Grimmelsman (Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas)

Past Post-Doctoral Research Associates Supervised

Dr. Yun Zhou (Assistant Professor, Hunan University, China)
Dr. Jian Zhang (Assistant Professor, Southeast University, China)
Dr. F. N. Catbas (Assistant Professor,University of Central Florida)
Dr. M. Pervizpour (Assistant Professor, Widener University)

Current M.S. Students Supervised

Aliya Turner
Thesis Title: Aiding Historic Preservation through Structural Identification
Expected Graduation : Spring 2013

Undergraduate Students Supervised through Research

Charlie Young (Drexel University)
Michael Psito (Northwestern University)
Edward Gormley (Drexel University)
Jordan Reimer (Oregon Institute of Technology)
Kelly Shanahan (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Katherine Sitter (Drexel University)
Thomas Golecki (Drexel University)
Nathaniel Dubbs (Drexel University)
Mark Donovan (Drexel University)