Research
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
Dr. Brent Reed — alternative energy
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