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University of Pittsburgh    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
 
  Nov 29, 2024
 
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

School of Engineering Faculty


MAI ABDELHAKIM, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, Michigan State University

STEVEN D. ABRAMOWITCH, Professor and William Kepler Whiteford Faculty Fellow, Bioengineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

MURAT AKCAKAYA, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, Washington University

DAVID ANDERSON, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, University of Rochester

HESSAM BABAEE, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, Louisiana State University

ANNA C. BALAZS, Distinguished Professor and John A. Swanson Chair, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

HSEEN BALED, Assistant Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

HENG BAN, R.K. Mellon Professor in Energy, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, University of Kentucky

IPSITA BANERJEE, Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, Rutgers University

MASOUD BARATI, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, Illinois Institute of Technology

MATTHEW BARRY, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

AARON P. BATISTA, Associate Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, California Institute of Technology

CARLA APARECIDA BAUMEL, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD, Northwestern University

TARYN BAYLES, Vice Chair for Education and Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

ERIC J. BECKMAN, George M. and Eva M. Bevier Chair Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, University of Massachusetts

MOSTAFA BEDEWY, Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering, PhD, University of Michigan

KURT E. BESHORNER, Associate Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

MARY BESTERFIELD-SACRE, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Nickolas A. DeCecco Professor, Industrial Engineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

BOPAYA BIDANDA, Chair and Ernest E. Roth Professor, Industrial Engineering, PhD, Pennsylvania State University

HODA BIDKHORI, Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MELISSA M. BILEC, Professor and Roberta Luxbacher Faculty Fellow, Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

HARVEY S. BOROVETZ, Distinguished Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University

IONNIS BOURMPAKIS, Assistant Professor and Bicentennial Faculty Fellow, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, University of Crete

BRYAN N. BROWN, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

DANIEL D. BUDNY, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Director, Freshman Engineering Program, PhD, Michigan State University

ANDREW P. BUNGER, Associate Professor and R.K. Mellon Faculty Fellow, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, University of Minnesota

KAREN BURSIC, Professor and Undergraduate Program Director, Industrial Engineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

LEONARD W. CASSON, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD, University of Texas at Austin

RAKIE CHAM, Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

JUN CHEN, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, Chinese Academy of Sciences

APRIL CHAMBERS, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

KEVIN P. CHEN, Paul E. Lego Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, University of Toronto

MARKUS CHMIELUS, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, Technical University, Berlin, Germany

SUNG KWON CHO, Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, Seoul National University, Korea

YOUNGJAE CHUN, Professor, Industrial Engineering, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles

MINKING CHYU, Associate Dean for International Initiatives; Leighton E. and Mary N. Orr Chair Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, University of Minnesota

RENEE CLARK, Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

WILLIAM W. CLARK, Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

DANIEL G. COLE, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

XINYAN CUI, William Keppler Whiteford Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, University of Michigan

AHMED DALLAL, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

MONI KANCHAN DATTA, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, Indian Institute of Technology, India

LANCE A. DAVIDSON, Professor and Wellington C. Carl Faculty Fellow, Bioengineering, PhD, University of California at Berkeley

RICHARD E. DEBSKI, Professor and William Kepler Whiteford Faculty Fellow, Bioengineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

SAMUEL J. DICKERSON, Associate Professor and Director, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

AMRO EL-JAROUDI, Associate Professor and Director, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, Northeastern University

MAHMOUD EL NOKALI, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, McGill University

ROBERT M. ENICK, Bayer Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

WILLIAM FEDERSPIEL, William Keppler Whiteford Professor, Graduate Coordinator, Bioengineering, PhD, University of Rochester

SUSAN FULLERTON, Assistant Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, The Pennsylvania State University

GIOVANNI P. GALDI, Leighton E. and Mary N. Orr Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, University of Naples, Italy

NEERAJ J. GANDHI, Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, University of California, San Francisco

JIN GAO, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, Chinese Academy of Sciences

WEI GAO, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, Pennsylvania State University

CALIXTO I. GARCIA, Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

MARK J. GARTNER, Professor of Practice, Bioengineering, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University

ALAN D. GEORGE, Ruth E. and Howard T. Mickle Professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, Florida State University

LEANNE GILBERTSON, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD, Yale University

PEYMAN GIVI, Distinguished Professor and James T. MacLeod Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University

BRIAN M. GLEESON, Chair and Harry S. Tack Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science PhD, University of California at Los Angeles

ANDRES GOMEZ ESCOBAR, Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering, PhD, University of California, Berkeley

BRANDON GRAINGER, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

SARAH HAIG, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD, University of Glasgow

JOEL M. HAIGHT, Professor, Industrial Engineering, PhD, Auburn University

KENT A. HARRIES, Professor and Bicentennial Board of Visitors Faculty Fellow, Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD, McGill University

ALAN HIRSCHMAN, Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University

GERALD D. HOLDER, Distinguished Service Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, University of Michigan

KATHERINE MARY HORNBOSTEL, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

JINGTONG HU, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, University of Texas at Dallas

HENG HUANG, John A. Jerenko Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, Dartmouth College

TIN-KAN HUNG, Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, University of Iowa

ANTHONY T. IANNACCHIONE, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

TAMER S. IBRAHIM, Associate Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, The Ohio State University

STEVEN P. JACOBS, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, DSc, Washington University

TEVIS D. B. JACOBS, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, University of Pennsylvania

DANIEL R. JIANG, Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering, PhD, Princeton University

J. KARL JOHNSON, William Kepler Whiteford Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, Cornell University

ALEX K. JONES, Professor and COE Undergraduate Program Director, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, Northwestern University

BISTRA JORDANOVA, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University

JOHN A. KEITH, Assistant Professor and R.K. Mellon Faculty Fellow, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, California Institute of Technology

ROBERT JOHN KERESTES, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

VIKAS KHANNA, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD, The Ohio State University

LEV KHAZANOVICH, Anthony E. Gill Chair Professor and Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD, University of Illinois

KANG KIM, Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, The Pennsylvania State University

HONG KOO KIM, Bell of PA/Bell Atlantic Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University

TAKASHI DANIEL YOSHIDA KOZAI, Associate Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, University of Michigan

PRASHANT N. KUMTA, Edward R. Weidlein Chair Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, University of Arizona

ALEXIS KWASINSKI, Associate Professor and R.K. Mellon Faculty Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

JUNG-KUN LEE, Professor and William Kepler Whiteford Faculty Fellow, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, Seoul National University, Korea

KEEWON LEE, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine

SANGYEOP LEE, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

PAUL LEU, Professor and B.P. America Faculty Fellow, Industrial Engineering, PhD, Stanford University

GUANGYONG LI, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, Michigan State University

LEI LI, Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, University of Michigan

XU LIANG, William Keppler Whiteford Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD, University of Washington

JEEN-SHANG LIN, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, ScD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

STEVEN LITTLE, Chair and William Kepler Whiteford Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

PATRICK J. LOUGHLIN, Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, University of Washington

NIATIKUN LOUIS LUANGKESORN, Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering, PhD, Northwestern University

ARASH MAHBOOBIN, Associate Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

SPANDAN MAITI, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

LISA M. MAILLART, Professor, Industrial Engineering, PhD, University of Michigan

SCOTT X. MAO, William Kepler Whiteford Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, Tohoku University

ZHI-HONG MAO, Associate Professor and William Kepler Whiteford Faculty Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

JOSEPH J. McCARTHY, William Kepler Whiteford Professor and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies, PhD, Northwestern University

JAMES R. McKONE, Associate Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, California Institute of Technology

RAVI S. MEENAKSHISUNDARAM, William Kepler Whiteford Professor, Industrial Engineering, PhD, Purdue University

IRENE MENA, Assistant Professor and Director of the First Year Engineering Program, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, Purdue University

NATASA MISKOV-ZIVANOV, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University

KARTIK MOHANRAM, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, University of Texas at Austin

BADIE I. MORSI, Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, ScD, Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine-Ecole Nationale Superieure des Industries Chimiques

JOHN MURPHY, Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Duquesne University

SITTICHAI NATESAKHAWAT, Assistant Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, The Ohio State University

IAN NETTLESHIP, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, University of Leeds

TAGBO HERMAN ROLAND NIEPA, Assistant Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, Syracuse University

PAUL R. OHODNICKI, Professor and Engineering Science Undergraduate Program Director, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University

ROBERT S. PARKER, Robert V.D. Luft Professor and Vice Chair for Graduate Education, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, University of Delaware

THOMAS PICCONE, Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology

OLEG A. PROKOPYEV, Professor, Industrial Engineering, PhD, University of Florida

JAYANT RAJGOPAL, Professor and Graduate Program Director, Industrial Engineering, PhD, University of Iowa

MARK S. REDFERN, Vice Provost for Research and William Kepler Whiteford Professor, Swanson School of Engineering; Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, University of Michigan

GREGORY F. REED, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

PIERVINCENZO RIZZO, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD, University of California at San Diego

ANNE M. ROBERTSON, William Kepler Whiteford Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, University of California at Berkeley

JOAQUIN RODRIGUEZ, Assistant Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

ABHIJIT ROY, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, Indian Institute of Technology

PARTHA ROY, Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center

WARREN RUDER, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University

STEVEN G. SACHS, Assistant Professor and Civil and Environmental Engineering Undergraduate Program Director, Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

JOSEPH T. SAMOSKY, Associate Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

DAVID SANCHEZ, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

WISSAM SAIDI, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, Ohio State University

SHERVIN SAMMAK, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

DAVID SCHMIDT, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University

JOHN SEBASTIAN, Professor of Practice, Civil and Environmental Engineering, MBA, University of Pittsburgh

ERVIN SEJDIC, Associate Professor and Fulton C. Noss Faculty Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, University of Western Ontario

INANC SENOCAK, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, University of Florida

JASON SHOEMAKER, Associate Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara

SANJEEV G. SHROFF, Interim U.S. Steel Dean of Engineering, Distinguished Professor and Gerald E. McGinnis Chair, Bioengineering, PhD, University of Pennsylvania

WILLIAM S. SLAUGHTER IV, Associate Professor and Undergraduate Director, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, Harvard University

PATRICK SMOLINSKI, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, Northwestern University

MAX STEPHENS, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD, University of Washington

GEORGE DEWITT STETTEN, Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, University of North Carolina

ALEKSANDAR STEVANOVIC, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD, University of Utah

SUSHENG TAN, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, Chinese Academy of Sciences

ALBERT C. F. TO, Associate Professor and CNG Faculty Fellow, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, University of California at Berkeley

GELSY TORRES-OVIEDO, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University

LUIS E. VALLEJO, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD, University of Wisconsin

JONATHAN VANDE GEEST, Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

JULIE M. VANDENBOSSCHE, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD, University of Minnesota

SACHIN S. VELANKAR, Associate Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, University of Delaware

OLEG VELIKOKHATNYI, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, Institute of Strength Physics and Materials Science of Russian Academy of Sciences

GÖTZ VESER, Nickolas A. DeCecco Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, Fritz-Haber-Institute of the Max-Planck-Society

NATASA VIDIC, Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

RADISAV D. VIDIC, Chair William Keppler Whiteford Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD, University of Cincinnati

JEFFREY S. VIPPERMAN, Professor and Vice Chair, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, Duke University

DAVID VORP, Associate Dean for Research, and John A. Swanson Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

GUOFENG WANG, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, California Institute of Technology

QING-MING WANG, Professor and ME Graduate Director, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, Pennsylvania State University

DOUGLAS WEBER, Associate Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, Arizona State University

JUSTIN WEINBAUM, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, Washington University in St. Louis

JOHN WHITEFFOOT, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

JÖRG M. WIEZOREK, Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, University of Cambridge

CHRISTOPHER E. WILMER, Assistant Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, Northwestern University

SYLVANUS N. WOSU, Associate Dean for Diversity Affairs; Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, University of Oklahoma

FENG XIONG, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

WEI XIONG, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

JUDITH C. YANG, William Keppler Whiteford Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, Cornell University

JUN YANG, William Keppler Whiteford Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, University of Arizona

VICTOR YASHIN, Assistant Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, Moscow State University

BO ZENG, Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering, PhD, Purdue University

MIN HEE YUN, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, Arizona State University

XIAYUN ZHAO, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology

LIANG ZHAN, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles



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