• Biological and Agricultural Engineering
• Chemical Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Computer Science
• Electrical Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering

• Microelectronic Research and Communication Institute (MRC)
• National Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies (NCATT)
• Center for Applied Thermodynamic Studies (CATS)
• Software Engineering Test Lab (SETL)
• Laboratory for Applied Logic (LAL)

Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering

(for further details, see departmental webpage: http://www.uidaho.edu/bae/)

Individual Faculty Interests:

Dr. Jan Boll, Assistant Professor

Water and pollutant (nutrients, micro-organisms, and other chemicals) transport modeling, GIS applications, water quality monitoring, hydrology, soil and water engineering, watershed management, whole farm planning.

Dr. Mark E. Casada, P.E., Assistant Professor

Research areas include postharvest handling and storage of cereal grains and potatoes, drying of special crops, and refrigerated transportation of perishable crops.

Dr. James A. DeShazer, P.E., Department Head and Professor

Specialties include thermodynamic responses of livestock to the environment and environmental control of livestock systems, optical sensors, and professional ethics and development.

Edwin A. Dowding, P.E., Associate Professor

Research areas include harvesting and handling of small grain and pulse crops, minimum tillage seeding of winter wheat, and cultural practices to reduce surface runoff, and soil and chemical losses.

Dr. Thomas F. Hess, P.E., Assistant Professor

Biological waste treatment, bioremediation, biodegradation and composting.

Dr. Behzad Izadi, P.E., Assistant Professor

Surface irrigation management, and field and laboratory studies for modeling transport of solutes.

Thomas J. Karsky, Extension Professor and Extension Safety Specialist

Educational programs in agricultural safety, USDA agrability projects, emergency and natural disaster preparedness, and chemical application technology on a state wide basis.

Dr. Bradley A. King, P.E., Assistant Professor, Aberdeen Research and Extension Center

Irrigation water management, automated irrigation system control, micrometeorological crop measurements and modeling, irrigation system, and management and equipment strategies for optimum water and chemical use efficiency.

Dr. Myron P. Molnau, P.E., Professor, and State Climatologist

Surface water hydrology with emphasis on snow accumulation and melt, water infiltration as affected by soil surface condition and frost, modeling of hydrologic systems, applications of climate data to decision-making, collection, storage, and dissemination of hydrologic and climatological data, and sediment yield determination in small watersheds. State climatologist for Idaho. Provides climatological and hydrologic data to users in the state and region.

Dr. Howard Neibling, P.E., Assistant Professor and Extension Water Management Engineer, Kimberly Research and Extension Center

Development of automated micro irrigation systems for integrated nitrogen/irrigation management to minimize subsurface nitrate contamination, quantification and treatment options to minimize canal seepage losses, and development and demonstration of techniques to minimize sediment losses from surface irrigated lands.

Dr. Charles L. Peterson, P.E., Professor

Research areas include harvesting, handling and storage of fruits and vegetables, minimum tillage seeding of winter wheat, and alternative fuels for diesel engines.

Dr. Robert Rynk, P.E., Assistant Professor and Extension Waste Management Engineer

Management and treatment of organic waste materials including composting of agricultural and food waste materials

Dr. Geoffrey J. Shropshire, P.E., Assistant Professor

Application of computers and electronics for improving the operation, control and management of on-farm machines, interfacing of sensors to farm-scale geographic information systems (GIS).

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Department of Chemical Engineering

Research Areas: Areas of research of faculty and students in the department include chemical reaction engineering, plasma processing, simulation, optimization and process design in pulp and paper, as well as food processing, hazardous waste site characterization and remediation, biochemical engineering, environmental engineering and mass transfer research. For further details, see departmental webpage: http://www.uidaho.edu/che/.

Individual Faculty Interests:

Wudneh Admassu, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Bioremediation, remediation of heavy metal contaminated soils, membrane separation, and reactor design for mammalian cells.

Thomas E. Carleson, Ph.D., Professor
Mass transfer - Use of electrical fields to enhance liquid extraction; Air pollution - Emission from burning wood and alternate fuels in an industrial boiler; Nuclear fuel reprocessing and waste management-research on operation.

David C. Drown, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Process engineering and analysis, design, and economic optimization of industrial process
facilities

Louis L. Edwards, Ph.D., Professor
Translation of the basic knowledge about chemical physical phenomena in to the solution of engineering problems with particular emphasis on pulp and paper applications; Computer applications in process modeling, process design, process economics and optimization

H. Bradley Eldredge, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Fluidized bed research, including fluidized bed calcination, attrition in fluidized bed and scale-up of fluidized bed coating processes, fluidized combustion, radioactive and hazardous waste treatment

Roger A. Korus, Ph.D., Professor and Chair
Development of microbial and plant culture systems for the production of important biochemicals; development of processes for the bioremediation of contaminated soil and groundwater; biochemical engineering modeling including bioreactor design and the mathematical modeling of biochemical and microbial processes; use of recombinant microorganisms in biochemical engineering processes; use of polymers in biological systems and processes

Jin Y. Park, Ph.D., Professor
Chemical reaction engineering; experimental kinetics; thermal analysis; thermal plasma processing of materials

Jay Scheldorf, Ph.D., Professor

Margrit von Braun, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Hazardous waste site characterization; Multimedia pollution & risk assessment; Development of environmental remedial strategies; Computerized geographic information systems

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Department of Civil Engineering

Research Areas of faculty and students in the department include transportation systems, traffic sensors and systems, hydrology and water management, structural, foundation and earthquake engineering, and fluid dynamics, simulation and modeling. For further details, see departmental webpage: http://www.uidaho.edu/engr/cedept/.
 
Individual Faculty Interests:

Fouad M. Bayomy, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Transportation engineering; materials used in road construction including asphalt
mixtures' design, and performance evaluation, Portland Cement Concrete mixtures, Pavement design, construction, evaluation and management systems

Roger L. Ely, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Water supply and water quality issues; biological processes and systems for water,
wastewater treatment; biological treatment of municipal and industrial wastewaters; bioremediation of hazardous wastes and contaminate

John I. Finnie, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Computer modeling of turbulent water and air flow; ground water flow; pollutant transport
in air and water

Donald F. Haber
Systems research and analysis; computer applications to model buildings and simulation; operations research

James H. Hardcastle, Ph.D., Professor
Civil engineering

Zaher K. Khatib, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Transportation engineering

Michael D. Kyte, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Director of NCATT
Transportation engineering; traffic flow theory, traffic operations at signalized and
unsignalized intersections, video imaging/machine vision methods; public transportation
 

Chyr Pyng Liou, Ph.D., Professor
Experimental, numerical, and theoretical investigations of unsteady flow in closed conduits;
simulation-based real-time monitoring of ligand, gas, or slurry flow in pipelines; fluid transients in energy systems

James H. Milligan
Hydrology; hydraulics; sediment transport; water quality management

Richard J. Nielsen, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Structural dynamics and structural reliability and their application to earthquake-resistant design

Howard S. Peavy, Ph.D., Professor and Chair
Water quality, civil engineering

Edwin R. Schmeckpeper, Ph.D., P.E., Assistant Professor
Infrastructure management, design and maintenance of buildings, pavements, bridges and other structures; structural analysis, engineering and design of concrete structures, steel structures

Sunil Sharma, Ph.D., P.E., Associate Professor
computer applications in civil engineering, numerical techniques for solving static
and dynamic geotechnical problems, soil dynamics and earthquake engineering, slope stability, foundation engineering

Alfred T. Wallace, Ph.D., Professor
Civil engineering

P. Steven Porter, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Environmental Engineering

Parviz F. Rad, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Quantified Techniques In Management, Project Management Principles, Construction Materials and Methods

Peter Goodwin, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Computer simulation of hydraulics, water quality, sediment transport and morphological
evolution in river, coastal and wetland systems

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Department of Computer Science

Research Areas of faculty and students in the department include resource scheduling, design and construction of real-time embedded controllers, distributed network controls, hardware and software co-design, and reconfigurable computing. For further details, see departmental webpage: http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/.

Individual Faculty Interests:

Jim Alves-Foss, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Formal methods in software engineering; Surveying network information flow; Authentication Protocol Research; Development of new authentication protocols; Analysis of authentication protocols and their logics; Microprocessor verification; Formal semantics of programming languages; The semantics of the JAVA language; The security of real-time embedded systems
 
John Dickinson, Ph.D. Associate Professor
Genetic algorithms; Computer networks; Management of computer networks; Internet services and software development for the Web
 
Kent Dunnam, Assistant Professor
Database management and design

James A. Foster, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Evolutionary computation, Computational biology, computational complexity theory.

Deborah Frincke, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Computer security, network security, software testing, object-oriented design

Bill Junk, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Software Engineering, Software Measurement, Software Processes, Software Project Management, Software Quality, Software Quality Assurance, Software Testing, Change Management & Technology Transfer
 
Axel Krings, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Fault tolerant systems, scheduling theory, parallel and distributed systems, computer architecture, real-time systems
 
Thomas Miller, Assistant Professor
 
John Munson, Ph.D., Professor
Software Engineering, Software Reliability, Software Measurement, Statistical Computing and Operations Research
 
Chuck Nelson, Ph.D., Professor
Computer graphics
 
Paul Oman, Ph.D., Chair and Associate Professor

Software engineering methods, tools, and practices for producing high quality reliable software; software metrics

Robert Probasco, Associate Professor
Computer history; musical holographs; music history

Robert Rinker, Associate Professor

Molly Stock, Ph.D., Professor
 
Karen Van Houten, Assistant Professor

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Department of Electrical Engineering

(for further details, see departmental webpage: http://www.ee.uidaho.edu/)

Research Areas of faculty and students in the department include adaptive control, coding and information theory, computer architectures, digital signal processing, electroacoustics, electromagnetics, microwave circuit design, power systems, power electronics and sensors.

Faculty Clusters:

• Analog electronics (Jake Baker, Cal Finn, Harry Li, Ken Noren, Rick Wells)
• Computer engineering (Jim Frenzel, Richard Wall)
• Digital electronics (Jake Baker, Jim Frenzel, Richard Wall)
• Electromagnetics (Dave Atkinson, Dennis Sullivan, Jeff Young)
• Power and power electronics (Herb Hess, Brian Johnson, Joe Law, Richard Wall)
• Systems engineering (Touraj Assefi, Dave Egolf, Joe Feeley, Karen Frenzel, Jim Peterson)

Touraj Assefi, Ph.D., Professor and Director, MRC
Control theory; avionics; simulation; stochastic processes; estimation theory
 
David H. Atkinson, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Electromagnetics; planetary radio science; math/science enhancement and education;

R. Jacob Baker, Ph.D., Assistant Professor

Howard B. Demuth, Ph.D., Professor
Theory, design and application of artificial neural networks and fuzzy systems

David P. Egolf, Ph.D., Professor and Chair
Instrumentation for measuring eardrum impedance; acoustical impedance of the human
eardrum; sonic echo-location of buried plastic pipe, plastic-sheathed fiber-optic cables; micromachined silicon structure,
sensors, actuators

Joseph J. Feeley, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Development and application of new methods for both controlling nonlinear dynamic
systems; estimating key unmeasured process parameters

Calvin L. Finn, Ph.D., Associate Professor

James F. Frenzel, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Development of algorithms and microelectronic architectures for application to areas of
computer engineering

Karen Z. Frenzel, Ph.D., Assistant Professor

Herbert L. Hess, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Applying electrical energy to useful, practical purposes;  electromechanical systems in agriculture; industrial process control and transportation

Brian K. Johnson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
High voltage DC transmission systems; multi-terminal dc systems, superconducting
dc transmission systems; flexible ac transmission systems (FACTS); Custom Power; power quality, power system protection and relaying; power system transients; dynamic magnetic circuit modeling of electric machines; flywheel energy storage; photovoltaic and wind generation; fuel cell power generation; rail locomotive propulsion systems; electric vehicles

Joseph D. Law, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Power electronics; electric machinery; AC machine (motor) drives; modeling and design of synchronous reluctance machines; modeling, simulating and design of field regulated reluctance machines

Harry W. Li, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Analog microelectronics; simulation; analog-to-digital conversion

Kenneth V. Noren, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Analog circuits, discrete and integrated; SPICE modeling of IC's; testing, measurement and characterization of integrated circuits; symbolic analysis of analog circuits; computer-aided design of analog circuits

James N. Peterson, Ph.D., P.E., Professor
Control systems

Dennis Sullivan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Computer simulation of electromagnetics: optics; electromagnetic interactions; electromagnetic dosimetry; hyperthermia cancer therapy; biomedical engineering;  ultrasound.

Richard W. Wall, Ph.D., P.E., Assistant Professor
Modeling power system protective devices with a electro-magnetic transient computer simulation program; working real-time power systems transient modeling for protective relay testing and verification

Richard B. Wells, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Digital magnetic recording: methods for achieving ultra high density data recording; digital communications theory; adaptive signal processing; set-membership theory

Jeffrey L. Young, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Computational methods in electromagnetics which includes time-domain finite difference and finite volume techniques and moment methods; electromagnetic or radio wave propagation; wave propagation in complex media; antenna analysis and design

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Department of Mechanical Engineering

Research Areas of faculty and students in the department include thermophysical properties of fluids and mixtures, energy systems including hybrid electric vehicles and ground-coupled heat pumps, materials fatigue and failure, spent nuclear fuel storage, fluid dynamics, simulation and modeling, bioengineering, and plasma modified materials. (for further details, see departmental webpage: http://calvin.engr.uidaho.edu/~medept/me.html)

Faculty Clusters:

• Thermophysical fluid properties (Dick Jacobsen, Steve Penoncello, Steve Beyerlein)
• Energy systems (Dean Edwards, Steve Penoncello, Steve Beyerlein, Karen DenBraven, Dave Woodall, Fred Gunnerson, John Crepeau, Judy Steciak)
• Materials (Don Blackketter, Ed Odom, Bob Stephens, Ron Smelser)
• Manufacturing (Blaine Tew, Ed Odom, Larry Stauffer)
• Bioengineering (Ralph Budwig, Don Elger)
• Fluid dynamics (John Crepeau, Ralph Budwig, Don Elger)
• Modelling (Ron Smelser, Tony Anderson, Clark Lemmon, Dean Edwards)
• Human factors (Rick Gill)

Michael J. Anderson, Ph.D., P.E., Associate Professor
Acoustics in fluids and solids; vibrations and controls

Tony J. Anderson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Dynamic modeling of structures, instrumentation, and vibration measurements

Jasper R. Avery, B.S.M.E., P.E., Assistant Professor
Computer aided design; pedagogy

Steven W. Beyerlein, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Data collection and correlation methods for developing thermodynamic equations of state, including statistical analysis of thermophysical property data as well as application of non-linear fitting techniques

Donald M. Blackketter, Ph.D., P.E., Associate Professor
Mechanics of composite materials, math modelling; fabrication; structural analysis;
micromechanics

Ralph S. Budwig, Ph.D., Professor
Fluid dynamics and turbulent transport with emphasis on oscillating flows and the heat and mass transfer coupled with them; development of novel techniques for dynamic measurements of velocity, temperature, and species concentration fields in fluid flows; fluid dynamic effects on growth, and rupture of aortic abdominal aneurysms;
hydrodynamics and mass transfer of oscillating droplets; the dynamics of periodic flow through a conduit with a sudden expansion

John C. Crepeau, Ph.D., P.E., Assistant Professor
Flow and solidification of fluids with internal heat generation; transition to turbulence in fluid flow

Karen R. Den Braven, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Design and installation of geothermal or ground-coupled heat pump systems

Dean B. Edwards, Ph.D., P.E., Professor
Mechanical engineering; electromechanical systems; sealed, lead-acid battery for electric vehicle applications.

Donald F. Elger, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Fluid mechanics, unsteady fluid dynamics in internal flows; oscillating and pulsating flow in pipes, in orifices and in sudden expansions

Richard T. Gill, Ph.D., Professor
Methodologies for teaching problem solving; develop and evaluate computerized training
aids for the deaf; human factors engineering

Fred S. Gunnerson, Ph.D., P.E., Professor and Director of the Idaho Falls Center for Higher Education
Turbomachinery, energy systems

Richard T Jacobsen, Ph.D., P.E., Professor and Dean of the College of Engineering
Mechanical engineering; applied thermodynamics; equations of state for mixtures; fluid properties

E. Clark Lemmon, Ph.D., Professor
Mechanical engineering; simulation by numerical methods of physical phenomena in thermosciences.

Edwin M. Odom, Ph.D., P.E., Associate Professor
Applied mechanics and manufacturing; experimental stress analysis; TQM

Steven G. Penoncello, Ph.D., P.E., Professor and Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering
Thermophysical properties of fluids and fluid mixtures, determination of equations of state for fluids and fluid mixtures of engineering interest

Ronald E. Smelser, Ph.D., P.E., Associate Professor
Process modeling and failure of materials; asymptotic methods for approximate models of materials processes

Larry A. Stauffer, Ph.D., P.E., Associate Professor and Director of UI Engineering in Boise
Engineering design, specifically design theory and design methods dealing with
product planning, specifications, ergonomics, safety and production; process design, layout, and simulation; expert systems in engineering

Judith A. Steciak, Ph.D., P.E., Assistant Professor
Applied combustion research, especially the environmental impact of air pollutants released from combustion systems, including pollutants created during the generation of electricity from fossil and renewable fuels and contaminants released from unwanted fires caused by industrial accidents

Robert R. Stephens, Ph.D., P.E., Assistant Professor
Materials properties measurements and modelling

Ron Smelser, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Process modeling and failure of materials; asymptotic methods; approximate models for materials processes

Blaine W. Tew, Ph.D., P.E., Assistant Professor
Manufacturing; computer aided design and manufacturing

David M. Woodall, Ph.D., P.E., Professor and Associate Dean of the College of Engineering, Director of Research
Plasma engineering applied to materials processing, including microelectronic materials, and high power applications, including space power and propulsion; nuclear engineering applied to space applications, including nuclear power sources for non-terrestrial planetary mission power and propulsion; accreditation of engineering programs

Microelectronic Research and Communications Institute (MRC Institute)

A UI Engineering Research Institute specializing in VLSI research, communication systems, device modeling, and electromagnetics. For further details, please see webpage: http://www.mrc.uidaho.edu/home/home.html.

Dr. Touraj Assefi, Director

Faculty: Dave Atkinson, Jake Baker, Joe Feeley, Jim Frenzel, Axel Krings, Harry Li, John Munson, Ken Noren, Jim Peterson, Dennis Sullivan, Richard Wall, Rick Wells, Jeff Young

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Center for Applied Thermodynamic Studies (CATS)

Dr. Richard T Jacobsen, Director

Faculty: Dr. Richard B. Stewart, Director Emeritus, Dr. Steven G. Penoncello , Associate Director, Dr. Steven W. Beyerlein, Assistant Director, Analytical Thermodynamics, Dr. Karen R. Den Braven, Assistant Director, Thermal Energy Systems, Dr. Anthony R.H. Goodwin, Assistant Director, Experimental Thermophysics, Dr. Bradley Eldredge, Chemical Engineering, Dr. David Drown, Chemical Engineering

Works with industry, government, and research institutions to develop, evaluate, and market technologies that will improve the design and operation of transportation vehicles and systems; Alternative Energy Technology, Advanced Materials & Manufacturing Processes, Hybrid Electric and Electric Vehicles, Traffic Control Systems and Operations, Pavement Systems Technology. For further details, please see webpage: http://www.uidaho.edu/ncatt/.

Dr. Michael Kyte, Director

• Alternative Energy Technology Group, Charles Peterson, Group Leader, David Drown, Associate Group Leader
• Advanced Materials & Manufacturing Processes Group, Donald Blackketter, Group Leader, Edwin Odom, Associate Group Leader, Donald Elger, Associate Professor, Blaine Tew, Assistant Professor
• Hybrid Electric and Electric Vehicles Group, Dean Edwards, Group Leader, Steven Beyerlein, Associate Group Leader
• Traffic Control Systems and Operations Group, Michael Kyte, Group Leader, Zaher Khatib, Associate Group Leader, Karl Chang, Professor, Piotr Jankowski, Associate Professor
• Pavement Systems Technology, Fouad Bayomy, Associate Professor and Group Leader, Donald Haber, Professor, Jim Hardcastle, Professor, Jim Kingery, Assistant Professor, Stan Miller, Associate Professor, Richard Nielsen, Associate Professor, Edwin Schmeckpeper, Assistant Professor
• Pipeline Technology Group: Jim Liou, Group Leader
• Power Electronics and Electric Machines Group: Joseph Law, Group Leader, Brian Johnson, Associate Group Leader, James Peterson, Professor, Richard Wall, Assistant Professor
• Idaho Technology Transfer (T2) Center, John Hopkins, Program Manager

Dr. James Alves-Foss, Director

Supports research into computer dependability, develops the mathematical tools and engineering methodology that will enable engineers to design and build dependable computer systems. For further details, please see webpage: http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/lal/homepage.html.

Dr. Paul Oman, Director

Testing and evaluates software engineering tools and methods. For further details, please see webpage: http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/~setl/setl.html.