Tenure/Tenure Track Faculty
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Nikos J. Mourtos - Professor & Chair Phone: (408) 924-3867 Email: nikos.mourtos@sjsu.edu Office: Online/Zoom Research Interests: Aircraft design, learning theories and innovative pedagogies, course design and assessment, faculty development, complexity and systems thinking. |
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Periklis Papadopoulos - Professor Phone: (408) 924-7168 Email: periklis.papadopoulos@sjsu.edu Office: Online/Zoom Research Interests: Space Transportation Vehicle Design; Computational Fluid Dynamics |
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Maria Chierichetti - Associate Professor & Associate Chair Phone: (408) 924-4329 Email: maria.chierichetti@sjsu.edu Office: Online/Zoom Research Interests: Structural dynamics and vibration testing; Inverse methods for Structural Health Monitoring and Digital Twin; Aeroelastic tailoring; Finite element methods |
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Yawo Ezunkpe - Assistant Professor Phone: (408) 924-3958 Email: yawo.ezunkpe@sjsu.edu Office: Online/Zoom Research Interests: Thermo Fluids; Fluid-Structure Interaction; Biomedical Fluid Dynamics; Applied and Computational Mathematics; Microgravity Science |
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Iole Pecora - Assistant Professor Phone: (408) 924-3126 Email: iole.pecora@sjsu.edu Office: ENG 272E, Online/Zoom Research Interests: Elastic strain energy-driven deployable structures; Advanced machine learning (AI) techniques applied to structural analysis; Inverse problems in engineering applications Science |
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Tianyang Zhou - Assistant Professor Phone: Email: tianyang.zhou@sjsu.edu Office: ENG 272F, Online/Zoom Research Interests: Advanced manufacturing of thermoplastics (additive manufacturing combined with traditional techniques); Multifunctional energy storage devices (structural supercapacitors/ batteries, morphing & conformable batteries); Micromechanics and multiphysics modeling (traditional and multifunctional materials) |
Emeriti Faculty
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Richard Desautel - Professor First AE Department Chair 1987 - 1996 Email: dick.desautel@sjsu.edu |