• Felix Rantow
• Carolyn Conlee
• Maher Salah
• Ezgi Taslidere

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CoE Graduate  Programs

Architectural Engineering

Biochemical Engineering

Chemical Engineering

Civil Engineering

Computer Engineering

Computer Science

Electrical Engineering

Engineering Geology

Engineering Management

Environmental Engineering

Materials Science and Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

Software Engineering

Telecommunications Engineering

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Drexel University is an institution deeply committed to excellence in education, research, and service to the engineering community.  Through these pages you’ll meet some of our outstanding faculty members and learn about their cutting-edge research.

Visit our site www.drexel.edu/coe/graduate/internal-fellowships.asp

 to find out funding opportunities for graduate studies  
- Dr. Mun Choi, Associate Dean

Research and Graduate Studies

assistant professor in the Computer Science Department, was selected as one of the top ten young Artificial Intelligence (AI) researchers by a committee of the IEEE Intelligent Systems Advisory Board. These outstanding young AI researchers will be featured in a special July/August 2006 issue of IEEE Intelligent Systems to be published on the 50th Anniversary of the Dartmouth Workshop (generally considered the birthplace of modern AI).

Dr. Modi’s research activities are in the areas of artificial intelligence and multiagent systems.  He teaches introductory and advanced courses in artificial intelligence.

Dr. Tiffany Miller (Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) joined Drexel as assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics in Fall 2005.  Dr. Miller’s research is based in the thermal/fluid sciences, combustion, and nanotechnology areas.  Specifically, using combustion synthesis as a means to fabricate nanoparticles for use in such areas as biotechnology, sensor applications, and energy storage and delivery.  This is done by introducing precursor chemicals into the flame, which provides a high temperature reactive environment and leads to the production of nanocomposite materials.  A variety of in situ and ex situ techniques can be used to examine the process and product material including: spectroscopy, laser-induced fluorescence, thermometry, electron microscopy, and diffractometry. 

Dr. Miller teaches courses in thermodynamics, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics.

Dr. Kimberly Cook (Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) recently joined Drexel University in September 2005.  Her research on the design and integration of efficient and reliable power and energy solutions includes systems that scale from micro to macro is size, with emphases on electromechanical systems comprising of magnetic, ferroelectric and piezoelectric materials.  Recognizing the importance of solutions to real-world problems, she currently focuses on power systems for locomotives and stand alone systems.  The scope of her research is interdisciplinary, and incorporates numerical methods, experimentation, and optimization techniques.

Dr. Cook teaches courses in mechanics, dynamics, and intelligent design.

Detecting Safe Water for the Future

 Dr. Schauer teaches courses in natural polymers.

CAREER Award Research Update

Using Simulation to Study Polymers & Proteins

Dr. Cameron Abrams (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley), assistant professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, research interests broadly involve using high performance computer simulation to uncover structure/function relationships in molecular systems of

practical material and biological relevance.  Current interests in his group are polymer nanocomposites and the protein complexes GroEL chaperonin and human insulin.  Dr. Abrams is receiving funding from the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program and NSF for his research efforts.

Dr. Abrams teaches courses in molecular simulation.

Musical Engineering of Sound
Dr. Youngmoo Kim (Ph.D. MIT) is an assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Kim’s primary research interests include music and audio analysis and synthesis, machine understanding of audio for information retrieval, and entertainment media technologies.  His goal is to create systems able to identify, understand, and manipulate meaningful structure within sound. Possible applications of this research include enhanced personal entertainment (automatic music library organization and music recommendation), improved security (voice identification and authentication), and increased safety (vehicle sound-sensing for collision avoidance).

Dr. Kim teaches courses in machine listening & music information and psychoacoustics & sound modeling.

Graduate Students honored during National Engineers Week for Outstanding Research

As part of Drexel’s 12th annual National Engineers Week celebration, the College of Engineering will hold its yearly Honor’s Day student recognition ceremony on February 22nd.  Graduate students from each of the six engineering departments are awarded for scholarship and excellence in research. This year’s recipients include: Felix Rantow of Chemical and Biological Engineering; Carolyn Conlee of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering; Maher Salah of Computer Science; Ezgi Taslidere of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Maria Pia Rossi of Materials Science and Engineering; Gregory Tholey and Binil Starly from of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics.

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