Maura Borrego, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor Department of Engineering Education. Primary Interest: Interdisciplinary teamwork and collaboration.

Jan Helge Bøhn, Ph.D. - Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering, Director Computer Aided Design Laboratory. Primary Interests: Global collaborative engineering design, Product data and lifecycle management, and Rapid prototyping.

Rakesh K. Kapania, Ph.D. - Professor, Aerospace and Ocean Engineering. Primary Interests: Computational structural mechanics; Inverse problems using neural networks and genetic algorithms; Fluid-structure interaction; and Multidisciplinary design optimization.

Ronald Kriz, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics. Primary Interest: High performance computer simulations and data visualization where massive 3D simulation data sets create data rich - information poor dilemma.

Lisa McNair, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor Department of Engineering Education. Primary Interest: Communication and language in interdisciplinary teams.

Marie C. Paretti, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor Engineering Education. Primary Interests: Communication in engineering design; Cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural communication in the engineering workplace; Pedagogies for engineering communication.

Nicholas F. Polys, Ph.D. - Associate Professor, Research Computing, Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Mathematics. Primary Interests: Human computer interaction and usability engineering methodology; Virtual environments and 3D user interfaces; Scientific visualization and medical imaging; Information and interaction architectures.

Janis Terpenny, Ph.D. - Associate Professor, Department of Engineering Education. Primary Interests: Knowledge discovery and knowledge management; Conceptual design and function-based modeling; Concurrent engineering and intelligent design systems; Collaborative problem solving in engineering design; Design theory and methodology information technology for distributed collaborative design.

James F. Antaki, Ph.D. - Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, CMU. Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh. Primary Interests: Experimental and computation fluid dynamics; computer design optimizations; Physiologic control systems, Rheology of blood and mechanics of the heart muscle.

Jon Cagan, Ph.D. - Professor, Mechanical Engineering. Primary Interests: Agent based design; Design optimization; Artificial intelligence; Product development.

Michael Domach, Ph.D. - Professor of Chemical Engineering. Primary Interests: Fundamental and applied aspects of biomedical engineering and cell biology.

Ender Finol, Ph.D. - Research Scientist, Institute for Complex Engineered Systems (ICES) Research Faculty of Biomedical Engineering. Primary Interests: Computational Biomechanics; Medical devices; Computational fluid dynamics; Transition to turbulence in arteriovenous grafts; Design of cerebral protection devices; Computational solid mechanics; 3D reconstruction protocols of CT images.

Susan Finger, Ph.D. - Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Primary Interests: Engineering design education; Internet-enabled collaborative design and information-driven manufacturing; Rapid prototyping; Tissue engineering.

Steinar Hauan, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. Primary Interests: Conceptual design/modeling; Distributed computing and system modeling and optimization, Application areas: Sensor device designs and systems; Design of reaction-separation processes; Agent systems in engineering design and optimization; Microscale chemical synthesis and sensing.

Branislav “Branko” Jaramaz, Ph.D. - Associate Director of the Institute for Computer Assisted Orthopedic Surgery (ICAOS) at The Western Pennsylvania Hospital. Center for Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery (MRCAS) Carnegie Mellon University. Research Interests: Computational biomechanics and computational geometry and applications in computer-assisted surgery; Medical planning; Simulation and analysis.