Faculty & Staff
Faculty Directory
Dr. Norma Alcantar
Professor
Research Areas: Surface Forces and Chemical Characterization, Micellar Surfactants,
Nanoparticles, and Organic/Inorganic Thin Films
Office: ENC 3201 | norma@usf.edu | 813-974-8009 | Website
Dr. Venkat R. Bhethanabotla
Professor and Director of Materials Science & Engineering
Research Areas: Biosensors, Plasmonics, Computational Catalysis
Office: IDRB 218 | bhethana@usf.edu | 813-974-3041 | Website
Dr. J. Carlos Busot
Emeritus Professor
Research Areas: Reactor design and Simulation, Irreversible Thermodynamics, Engineering
Education
Dr. Scott Campbell
Professor and Undergraduate Advisor
Research Areas: Solution Thermodynamics, Phase Equilibria, Environmental Monitoring
and Modeling, Semiconductor Processing
Office: ENC 3405 | campbell@usf.edu | 813-974-3907 | Website
Dr. David Eddins
Interdisciplinary Professor
Research Areas: Correlates of Auditory Perception, Auditory Perception of the Pathological
Voice, Models of Auditory Processing
Office: PCD 4026 | deddins@usf.edu | 813-974-2464 | Website
Dr. Robert Frisina, Jr
Professor and Director of BME Program
Research Areas: Development of Bio-therapeutic Systems, Devices and Compounds for
Treating Sensory Deficits; Emphasis on Bench-to-Bedside Investigations of the Auditory
System, and Translational Research on Deafness and Other Neuroengineering Applications.
Office: ENC 3504 | rfrisina@usf.edu | 813-974-4394 | Website
Dr. Nathan D. Gallant
Interdisciplinary Professor
Research Areas: Materials, Tissue Engineering, Mechanotransduction
Office: ENC 2407 | ngallant@usf.edu | 813-974-5840 | Website
Dr. Richard Gilbert
Professor
Research Areas: Material Science, Biomedical Systems, Electrochemotherapy, Electrogenetherapy,
Instrumentation, Engineering Education, and Drug delivery
Office: ENC 2210 | gilbert@usf.edu | 813-974-2139 | Website
Dr. Ramon Gonzalez
Professor and Florida 21st Century World Class Scholar
Research Areas: Metabolic Engineering, Biorefining and Biofuels
Office: ENC 3202 | ramongonzale@usf.edu | 813-974-1223 | Website
Dr. Yogi Goswami
Distinguished University Professor
Research Areas: Energy Conversion, Solar Energy, Hydrogen Energy and Fuel Cells,
Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer, HVAC
Office: ENB 260A | goswami@usf.edu | 813-974-0956
Dr. Vinay Gupta
Professor, Chemical Graduate Advisor
Research Areas: Interfacial Phenomena, Polymeric Materials, Organic – Inorganic Composites,
Self – Assembled Systems, Molecular Recognition, Nanoscale/Smart Materials
Office: ENC 3200 | vkgupta@usf.edu | 813-974-0851 | Website
Dr. Clifford L. Henderson
Department Chair and Professor
Research Areas: Polymer ultra-thin films and advanced membranes, Advanced materials
and processes for semiconductor patterning, novel routes to manufacturing graphene
and graphene devices
Office: ENC 3400 | clhenderson@usf.edu | 813-974-6354 | Website
Dr. Mark Jaroszeski
Associate Professor and BME Minor Advisor
Research Areas: Drug and Gene Delivery, Electrofusion, Biomedical Instrumentation,
Electrophoresis
Office: ENG 243 | mjarosze@usf.edu | 813-974-4662
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Dr. Babu Joseph
Professor
Research Areas: Modeling, Simulation and Control, Multi – scale Modeling of Systems,
Clean Liquid Fuels from Biomass, Fischer – Tropsch Synthesis
Office: IDRB 212A and ENC 3403 | bjoseph@usf.edu | 813-974-0692 | Website
Dr. Piyush Koria
Associate Professor
Research Areas: Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine, Microscale Technologies,
Biomaterials, Nanomedicine
Office: ENG 248 | pkoria@usf.edu | 813-974-6243 | Website
Dr. John N. Kuhn
Associate Professor
Research Areas: Heterogeneous Catalysis, Materials Chemistry, Electro – catalysis,
Engineering Education, Renewable Energy
Office: IDRB 202D | jnkuhn@usf.edu | 813-974-6498 | Website
Dr. William E. Lee III, PE
Professor
Research Areas: Biomechanics, Prosthetic Design, Creative Processes, Education
Office: ENG 245 | wlee2@usf.edu | 813-974-2136
Dr. Christopher Passaglia
Professor
Research Areas: Vision Systems, Neural Signal Processing, Computational Modeling,
Retinal Physiology and Disease
Office: ENG 247 | passaglia@usf.edu | 813-974-7140 | Website
Dr. Sandy Pettit, PE
Instructor II
Research Areas: Pedagogy and Engineering Education
Office: ENC 3203 | spettit@usf.edu | 813-974-1304
Dr. Anna Pyayt
Associate Professor
Research Areas: Nano-photonic chips for Biomedicine
Office: IDRB 202E | pyayt@usf.edu | 813-974-6250 | Website
Dr. Alberto A. Sagüés
Interdisciplinary Professor
Research Areas: Corrosion of Engineering Materials, Materials for Infrastructure,
Materials for Energy Systems Physical Metallurgy, Scientific Instrumentation, Nuclear
Waste Disposal
Office: ENL 111 | sagues@usf.edu | 813-974-5819 | Website
Dr. David Simmons
Associate Professor
Research Areas: Polymers, Molecular Simulations, Dynamics of Glassy Systems
Office: ENC 3205 | dssimmons@usf.edu | 813-974-4988 | Website
Dr. Carlos Smith
Emeritus Professor
Research Areas: Automatic process control, Dynamic process modeling, Process engineering
smithca@usf.edu
Dr. Aydin K. Sunol, PE
Professor
Research Areas: Systems engineering, Supercritical fluid technology, Green Engineering,
Product and Process Design
Office: ENC 3217 | asunol@usf.edu | 813-974-3566 | Website
Dr. Ryan Toomey
Professor
Research Areas: Responsive Polymers, Hydrogels
Office: ENC 3503 | toomey@usf.edu | 813-974-9164
Dr. Joseph P. Walton
Interdisciplinary Professor
Research Areas: Neural Bases of Age – Related Hearing Loss, Brain Plasticity Following
Injury, Neural Coding of Complex Sounds
Office: PCD 4022 | jwalton1@usf.edu | 813-974-4634 | Website