Faculty & Staff
Faculty Directory
Core Faculty
DR. NORMA ALCANTAR
Professor and Associate Dean for Research
Surface Forces and Chemical Characterization • Micellar Surfactants • Nanoparticles • Organic/Inorganic Thin Films
norma@usf.edu | 813-974-8009 | ENC 3201 | Faculty Webpage
DR. VENKAT R. BHETHANABOTLA
Professor and Director of Materials Science & Engineering
Biosensors • Plasmonics • Computational Catalysis
IDRB 218 | bhethana@usf.edu | 813-974-3041 | Faculty Webpage | Laboratory Website
DR. RAMON GONZALEZ
Professor and Florida 21st Century World Class Scholar
Metabolic Engineering • Biorefining and Biofuels
ENC 3202 | ramongonzale@usf.edu| 813-974-1223 | Faculty Page | Laboratory Website
DR. YOGI GOSWAMI
Distinguished University Professor
Energy Conversion • Solar Energy • Hydrogen Energy and Fuel Cells • Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer • HVAC
ENB 260A | goswami@usf.edu | 813-974-0956 | Faculty Webpage | Laboratory Website
DR. VINAY GUPTA
Interim Chair, Professor, Graduate Advisor
Interfacial Phenomena • Polymeric Materials • Organic – Inorganic Composites • Self – Assembled Systems • Molecular Recognition • Nanoscale/Smart Materials
ENC 3200 | vkgupta@usf.edu | 813-974-0851 | Faculty Webpage | Laboratory Website
DR. PIYUSH KORIA
Associate Professor and Undergraduate Advisor
Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine • Microscale Technologies • Biomaterials • Nanomedicine
ENG 248 | pkoria@usf.edu| 813-974-6243 | Faculty Webpage
DR. JOHN N. KUHN
Professor, Associate Chair for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies
Heterogeneous Catalysis • Materials Chemistry • Electro – catalysis • Engineering Education • Renewable Energy
IDRB 202D | jnkuhn@usf.edu| 813-974-6498 | Faculty Webpage | Laboratory Website
DR. WILLIAM E. LEE III, PE
Professor
Biomechanics, Prosthetic Design, Creative Processes, Education
ENG 245 | wlee2@usf.edu| 813-974-2136 | Faculty Webpage
DR. SANDRA PETTIT, PE
Professor of Instruction
Pedagogy and Engineering Education
ENC 3203 | spettit@usf.edu| 813-974-1304 | Faculty Webpage
DR. ANNA PYAYT
Associate Professor
Nano-photonic chips for Biomedicine
IDRB 202E | pyayt@usf.edu | 813-974-6250 | Faculty Webpage | Website
DR. DAVID S. SIMMONS
Associate Professor
Polymers • Molecular Simulations • Glass-Forming Materials • Nanocomposites • Elastomers • Films and Interfaces
ENC 3205 | Email | 813-974-4988 | Faculty Webpage | Laboratory Website
DR. LAWRENCE A. STERN
Assistant Professor
Immunotherapy • Protein Engineering • Cell Engineering • Biomolecular Engineering • High-Throughput Screening Techniques
ENC 2212 | sternl@usf.edu| 813-974-5587 | Faculty Webpage | Laboratory Website
DR. AYDIN K. SUNOL, PE
Professor
Systems engineering • Supercritical fluid technology • Green Engineering • Product and Process Design
ENC 3217 | asunol@usf.edu| 813-974-3566 | Faculty Webpage | Laboratory Website
DR. RYAN TOOMEY
Professor
Responsive Polymers • Hydrogels
ENC 3503 | toomey@usf.edu| 813-974-9164 | Faculty Webpage
PROFESSOR OF PRACTICE
Dr. Christopher Schemel
Professor of Practice, Founder & President of Delta Q Consultants, Inc.
Research Areas: Fire & explosion safety, hazard identification & hazard analysis,
consequence analysis and quanititaive risk assessment
Emeritus Faculty
Dr. J. Carlos Busot
Emeritus Professor
Research Areas: Reactor design and Simulation, Irreversible Thermodynamics, Engineering
Education
Dr. Carlos Smith
Emeritus Professor
Research Areas: Automatic process control, Dynamic process modeling, Process engineering
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Dr. Babu Joseph
Emeritus Professor
Research Areas: Modeling, Simulation and Control • Multi – scale Modeling of Systems
• Clean Liquid Fuels from Biomass • Fischer – Tropsch Synthesis
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Affiliated Faculty
Dr. Robert Frisina, Jr
Interdisciplinary Distinguished University Professor, Chair of Medical Engineering
Dept.
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 | Email | 813-974-4394 | Website
Dr. Nathan D. Gallant
Interdisciplinary Professor
Research Areas: Materials, Tissue Engineering, Mechanotransduction
Office: ENC 2407 | Email | 813-974-5840 | Website
Dr. Mark Jaroszeski
Interdisciplinary Associate Professor
Research Areas: Drug and Gene Delivery, Electrofusion, Biomedical Instrumentation,
Electrophoresis
Office: ENG 243 | Email | 813-974-4662
Dr. Christopher Passaglia
Interdisciplinary Professor
Research Areas: Vision Systems, Neural Signal Processing, Computational Modeling,
Retinal Physiology and Disease
Office: ENG 247 | Email | 813-974-7140 | Website