Faculty Profiles
P. K. Mallick, PhD
P. K. Mallick is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Director of the Interdisciplinary Engineering Programs at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He is also the Director of the Center for Lightweighting Automotive Materials and Processing. He received his Ph.D. from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1973, and after several years of working in industry, joined the university in 1979. His principal research areas are mechanical properties, design characteristics and processing of polymers and fiber reinforced composites. He has published numerous journal articles and conference papers on fracture, fatigue and impact properties of these materials. He has also authored and co-authored three books on fiber reinforced composites. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He received the Distinguished Faculty Research Award form the university in 1997 and the Distinguished Faculty Award from the Michigan Association of Governing Board of State Universities in 1998.
Ghassan Kridli, PhD
G.T. Kridli is an Associate Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri-Columbia, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and his M.S. and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Miami. His research interests include formability evaluation of lightweight materials, numerical and physical modeling and analysis of sheet metal forming processes, and material-process-product relationships. His work is published in refereed journals, and in national and international conference proceedings.
E. A. Orady, PhD
Elsayed Orady joined UM-D in 1986 as an assistant professor of manufacturing in the Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering Department where he teaches manufacturing courses and conducts research in manufacturing-related areas. Dr. Orady is currently a professor of manufacturing and the coordinator of the manufacturing engineering program. He has written and won several grants from industry, NSF, and professional organizations including SME. His current research interests and activities are in machine tools, metrology and precision measurements, machining processes and process simulation, tool monitoring and process diagnostics, process automation, manufacturing systems integration, rapid prototyping, virtual reality, and robot simulation. He has taught several manufacturing courses including manufacturing processes, computer aided manufacturing, computer integrated manufacturing, industrial robots, computer aided machine and tool design, and statistics.
P. S. Mohanty, PhD
P. S. Mohanty is an Associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science from McGill University in 1994. Prior to joining the university he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . His principal research areas are thermal spray and laser materials processing. He has published several journal articles and conference papers on thermal spray and laser materials processing technologies.
Hong Tae Kang, PhD
Hong Tae Kang obtained the BS degree in Earth Science (1991) from Seoul National University in Republic of Korea, MS and PhD in Engineering Mechanics (1999) from the University of Alabama. He worked in the automotive industry as a CAE Analyst and Project engineer for three years. Currently, Dr. Kang is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He teaches Automotive Chassis and Structure Design, Design for Fracture and Fatigue, and FEA application in Automotive structure Design. He is a member of Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) and American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
Cheol W. Lee, PhD
Cheol Lee received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University in 2000. His B.S. and M.S. degrees were obtained in 1992 and 1994, respectively, from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology with a major in Precision Engineering and Mechatronics. Dr. Lee built a significant amount of experiences in building intelligent grinding systems. After his Ph.D., he further broadened his knowledge in grinding and various materials processing operations in his 4 years’ employment as Senior Research Engineer at Saint-Gobain, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of grinding wheels, abrasives and powders. Dr. Lee joined the Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering Department at the University of Michigan – Dearborn as an Assistant Professor in September 2004.
Germán Reyes-Villanueva, PhD
G. Reyes-Villanueva is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He received his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from The University of Liverpool, UK in 2002 and after holding a postdoctoral position joined the university in fall 2003. His principal research areas include multifunctional hybrid systems, lightweight polymer matrix composites, nanoreinforced composites, metal foams, novel sandwich structures, low and high velocity impact, failure prediction and energy absorbing structures. His work has been published in refereed journals, and in international conference proceedings.