Research

The Southern Polytechnic College of Engineering and Engineering Technology (SPCEET) places a high regard for our research to advance our understanding in all aspects of engineering. With the ability to focus research with our many state-of-the-art labs and facilities, we are able to pinpoint important objectives to the college and Kennesaw State University.  Research is driven by the interest of individual faculty and the college conducts a wide range of research projects annually.

Research Centers

Research Core Facilities

Faculty Research 

    • Mahyar Amirghol

      Research Expertise and Interest

      Automated Networks, Cooperative Traffic Control, Network Analysis, Transportation Economics and Public Transportation

    • Parth Bhavsar

      Research Expertise and Interest

      Transportation Data Analytics and Intelligent Transportation Systems

    • Jayhyun Kwon

      Research Expertise and Interest

      Ground Improvement, Geosynthetics, Pavement and Rail

    • Youngguk Seo

      Research Expertise and Interest

      Transportation Infrastructure, Full-field instrumentation, Digital image correlation, Transportation materials and Renewables

    • Ian Ferguson

      Research Expertise and Interest

      III-V, II-VI and Nitride Semiconductor 

    • Billy Kihei

      Research Expertise and Interest

      Wireless Communications

    • Fangyu Li

      Research Expertise and Interest

      Internet of Things

    • Yousef Mahmoud

      Research Expertise and Interest

      Power Electronics, Photovoltaic Power Systems and Solar Energy

       

    • Coskun Tekes

      Research Expertise and Interest

      Medical Ultrasound Imaging, Transducers and Signal Processing

    • Turaj Ashuri

      Research Expertise and Interest

      Multiphysics Analysis, Computational Design and Optimization, Machine Learning, Renewable Energy and Soft Robotics

    • Sylvia Bhattacharya

      Research Expertise and Interest

      Biomedical Engineering

    • Marwan Al-Haik

      Research Expertise and Interest

      Composites, nanomaterials, sensors, mechanics of materials, multiscale modeling

      Research Center/Lab at KSU
      Q336

    • Ashish Aphale

      Research Expertise and Interest

      Materials for energy, Fuel Cells, Electrolyzers, Oxidation and Corrosion

      Research Center/Lab at KSU
      Energy Materials Laboratory, Q136

    • Eduardo Farfan

      Research Expertise and Interest

      Radiation dose assessment, Monte Carlo simulation, radiation detector development, environmental dosimetry, internal/external dosimentry

      Research Center/Lab at KSU
      Q-149

    • Ali Khazaei

      Research Expertise and Interest

      Integrated design of HVAC systems and sustainability, Energy Efficiency and Advanced Decisiom making, Renewable Energy Methods and Green Technolgy.

      Research Center/Lab at KSU
      Q-148

    • Dal Kim

      Research Expertise and Interest

      Robotics, Control for Biomedical System, Brain imaging, Biomedical instrumentation, Fluorescence Imaging, Optimal Control, Model predictive control, Motion tracking, Microrobotics, Nonholonomic motion planning, Optogenetics, Neuroscience

      Research Center/Lab at KSU
      Automated Systems, Control, and Imaging(ASCI) Lab, G207

    • Bo Li

      Research Expertise and Interest

      Biomaterials, Nanomaterials, Self-assembly, Charge Transport, Molecular Electronics and Artificial Neuron

    • Simin Nasseri

      Research Expertise and Interest

      Mechanical Design, Biomedical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Rheology and Viscoelasticity, Polymer Processing, Computational Mechanics and CFD, Robotics, Micromachinery (MEMS) and Engineering Education.

      Research Center/Lab at KSU
      Biomedical Engineering Lab, Q 336

    • Jungkyu Park

      Research Expertise and Interest

      Nanoscale heat transfer, carbon nanomaterials, molecular dynamics simulation, thermal measurement, nanomechanics

      Research Center/Lab at KSU
      Nanoscale Heat Transfer Lab, G207

    • Richard Ruhala

      Research Expertise and Interest

      acoustics, vibration, noise measurement, noise control, mechanics.

      Research Center/Lab at KSU
      Q 336

    • Muhammad Salman

      Research Expertise and Interest

      Bioacoustics, biomechanics, dynamics and vibrations in human body biomechanics. Mechanical properties of human skeletal muscles/tendons such as stiffness (E) are found using a low-cost surface wave and shear wave method. 

      Research Center/Lab at KSU
      Bioacoustics Lab, G 131

    • Mehdi Sarmast

      Research Expertise and Interest

      Modal Analysis, Vibration testing, Nonlinear System Identification, Nonlinear Resonant Decay Method (NLRDM), Dynamics System.

      Research Center/Lab at KSU
      Q-144

    • Novonil Sen

      Research Expertise and Interest

      Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation, Earthquake Engineering

    • Gaurav Sharma

      Research Expertise and Interest

      Aerodynamics, Advanced Space Propulsion, Compressible Flows, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), and Swirl Flows and Swirl Dynamics

      Research Center/Lab at KSU
      Advanced Aero and Propulsion Lab, G 102

    • Lei Shi

      Research Expertise and Interest

      Biomechanics, Cardiovascular Research, Gastrointestinal Research, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Physics

      Research Center/Lab at KSU
      Cardiovascular Gastrointestinal AI Biomechanics Lab (CarVGasAI Lab)

    • Valmiki Sooklal

      Research Expertise and Interest

      Renewable energy, biomedical engineering, remote sensing, sustainable housing

      Research Center/Lab at KSU
      Q 336

    • Philippe Sucosky

      Research Expertise and Interest

      fluid mechanics, hemodynamics, cardiovascular flow, cardiovascular biomechanics, mechanobiology, cardiovascular disease, tissue and cell culture

      Research Center/Lab at KSU
      Multi-Scale Cardiovascular Bioengineering Laboratory (G-202, Q-209)

    • Ayse Tekes

      Research Expertise and Interest

      Design, development, modeling, and control of compliant mechanisms and soft robots; development of virtual lab simulations in MATLAB; development of 3D Printed Lab Equipment design for engineering courses

      Research Center/Lab at KSU
      Dynamics and Control Research Lab, G 114

    • Tris Utschig

      Research Expertise and Interest

      Process education and learning to learn, using 3D-printed laboraty equipment for learning vibrations and controls, faculty development in teaching, peer coaching, and modeling and analysis of thermal systems for nuclear applications particularly relating to safety aspects of fusion reactor designs

    • David Veazie

      Research Expertise and Interest

      Basic and applied research in the areas of constitutive model development and processing for advanced materials including high performance and ultra-lightweight polymers, polymeric composites, and metals. Current research topics include experimental mechanics, energetics, MEMS, fatigue life, micromechanics and long term durability.

      Research Center/Lab at KSU
      Center for Advanced Materials Research and Education (CAMRE) Q 112-114

    • Amir Moghadam

      Research Expertise and Interest

      Robotics, Soft Robotics, Dynamic Systems and Control and Robust Control

    • Hassan Tanveer

      Research Expertise and Interest

      Robotics, Control Systems and Mechatronics

    • Awatef Ergai

      Research Expertise and Interest

      Safety management, Human factors, Patient safety, HIT and Healthcare Systems Engineering

    • Christina Scherrer

      Research Expertise and Interest

      Oral health

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