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Our faculty are not content to trod well-worn engineering paths. Instead, they are driven to pursue innovations in teaching, research that address truly complex challenges, and to pursue worldwide leadership roles in their fields.
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Agnew, Sean R.
Read MoreWilliam G. Reynolds Professor of Materials Science, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Our research is focused primarily on metals analysis, including magnesium alloy formability, intermetallic behaviors, and aluminum alloy fatigue. Our methods of analysis typically include uses of SEM, TEM, XRD, and Neutron diffraction. Also included in our army of techniques is mechanical...
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Bezzo, Nicola
Read MoreAssistant Professor, Engineering Systems and Environment, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Nicola Bezzo is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Engineering Systems and Environment and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Virginia. Prior to joining UVA in January 2016, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the PRECISE Center, in the...
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Chen, T. Donna
Read MoreAssistant Professor
Dr. Chen joined the Engineering Systems and Environment Department's Civil and Environmental Engineering Program at University of Virginia in August 2015. Her research focuses on sustainable transportation systems (in particular modeling the impacts of new vehicle technologies systems on...
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Gomez III, Jose Pantaleon
Read MoreLecturer
I was most recently the Director of Research for the Virginia Transportation Research Council, the Virginia Department of Transportation’s research division. I first joined the Research Council in June of 1992 as a Research Scientist and spent 9 years conducting applied research and technical...
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Harris, Devin K.
Read MoreProfessor and Chair, Faculty Director - Clark Scholars Program, Director - Center for Transportation Studies
Professor Harris is chair of the Department of Engineering Systems and Environment at the University of Virginia. He is also the Director of the Center for Transportation Studies (CTS) and...
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Kelly, Robert G.
Read MoreAssociate Chair for Operations, AT&T Professor of Engineering, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Co-Director, Center for Electrochemical Science and Engineering
Robert G. Kelly has been conducting research on the corrosion of metals for the past 30 years. After completing his Ph.D. studies at Johns Hopkins University (1989), he spent two years at the Corrosion and Protection Centre at the University of Manchester (UK) as a Fulbright Scholar and as an...
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Li, Xiaodong (Chris)
Read MoreRolls-Royce Commonwealth Professor
Dr. Li’s expertise and interests include (but not limited to) additive manufacturing, smart manufacturing, nanomaterial-enabled energy systems, biological and bio-inspired materials and devices, biomechanics, micro/nanomechanics, surface engineering, and tribology. He has been PI/Co-PI on over $...
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Opila, Elizabeth J.
Read MoreDepartment Chair, Rolls Royce Commonwealth Professor of Engineering, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Director, Rolls Royce University Technology Center on Advanced Material Systems
Our research focuses on materials for use in extreme environments and can be applied to materials for use in aircraft engines, rocket engines, energy conversion technologies, and thermal protection systems. We first create critical aspects of the use environment in the lab such as high...
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Ozbulut, Osman E.
Read MoreAssociate Professor
Osman Ozbulut is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering in the Department of Engineering Systems and Environment at the University of Virginia. His research focuses on applying innovative materials, sensing technologies and interdisciplinary expertise to the development of resilient and...
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Scully, John R.
Read MoreCharles Henderson Chaired Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Co-Director of Center for Electrochemical Science and Engineering
My primary research interest is to understand the relationships between a material's structure and composition and properties related to environmental degradation. The properties of focused interest and activity are those associated with hydrogen embrittlement, stress corrosion cracking,...