Engineering Research
ECU Engineering faculty are involved in a wide range of research with collaborators from across the university and many collaborations with external partners. The diversity of the research mirrors the diversity of our faculty and includes topics including:
- Acoustics and Vibrations
- Additive manufacturing
- Artificial Intelligence
- Autonomous vehicles
- Biofuels
- Biological extractions
- Biothermal Engineering
- Capstone Design Pedagogy
- Combustion
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Consumer physiological response
- Cryoablation of biomaterials
- Design processes
- Ecological Engineering
- Edema measurement
- EEG Analysis and Interpretation
- Energy Efficiency
- Engineering Education
- Engineering Management
- Health care system analysis and modeling
- Hemodynamics
- Image Analysis and Processing
- Multicomponent textile recycling
- Pharmaceutical manufacturing
- Physiological Modeling
- Power Electronics
- Power generation and distribution
- Quality control processes
- Remote Sensing
- Renewable Energy
- Telemedicine
- Tissue Engineering
- Water Quality Monitoring
Research Interests
See faculty research topics or click on the names to learn more about their individual research interests.
- Dr. Tarek Abdel-Salam — thermo-fluids, energy, environmental engineering
- Dr. Ricky Castles — wireless networks, biomedical engineering, physiological sensors
- Dr. Kurabachew Duba — supercritical fluids, bioenergy
- Dr. James Randall Etheridge — agricultural and ecological engineering, coastal ecosystems
- Dr. Stephanie George — computational modeling of the cardiovascular system, sickle cell disease
- Dr. BJ Kim — information systems, human-machine interactions
- Dr. Sunghan Kim — biomedical data, cognitive functions
- Dr. Jinkun Lee — manufacturing process optimization, vehicle routing
- Dr. Loren Limberis — biomolecular and bioprocess engineering, biohybrid devices
- Mr. Brent Reed — alternative energy, RF propagation
- Dr. Teresa Ryan — dynamics of complex structures, acoustics
- Dr. Raymond Smith — system operations development and application
- Dr. Brian Sylcott — product design, product development process
- Dr. Alex Vadati — medical device design and analysis, predictive modeling of medical procedures
- Dr. Chris Venters — conceptual knowledge development, metacognition
- Dr. Jason Yao — medical sensors, sensor networks, industrial process
- Dr. Zhen Zhu — unmanned systems, autonomous operations, sensor integration