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College Welcomes New Faculty

The College of Engineering and Mineral Resources would like to welcome the following new faculty members who are joining us this fall.

Robin Farmer, PhD
Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering

Education:
B.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2001
M.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2001
Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, University of Delaware, 2006

Research Interests: biomaterials, biologically-derived polymers, tissue engineering, drug delivery

Teaching Interests: biomaterials, tissue engineering, biomedical engineering, materials science, polymer physics

John Quaranta, PhD
Assistant Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Education:
B.E., Mechanical Engineering, Youngstown State University, 1984
B.E., Civil Engineering, Youngstown State University, 1988
M.S., Civil Engineering, West Virginia University, 1993
Ph.D., Civil Engineering, West Virginia University, 1996

Research Interests: geotechnical research into improving coal waste impoundment safety through laboratory and field site testing; soil and groundwater remediation of legacy defense waste streams; and soil characterization and environmental forensics of unexploded military ordnance and contaminants.

Teaching Interests: soil mechanics and laboratory testing; foundation engineering; groundwater and seepage; earthwork design; soil properties and behavior; geotechnical field methods; geosynthetics.

Edward M. Sabolsky, PhD
Assistant Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Education:
Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State University, 2001
B.S., Ceramic Science and Engineering, Ohio State University, 1996

Research Interests: ceramics, fuel cells, chemical sensors, reforming catalyst,
Piezoelectric and dielectric materials, nanomaterials

Teaching Interests: ceramic materials and processing, electrical materials, energy-related materials and systems, crystal chemistry, related single-crystal physical properties

Xueyan Song, PhD
Assistant Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Education:
Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, 1998
M.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Yanshan University, 1995
B.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Yanshan University, 1992

Research Interests: Transmission electron microscopy (TEM), materials science

Teaching Interests: Crystallography and crystal structure analysis, transmission electron microscopy, mechanics of materials

Vinod K. Kulathumani, PhD
Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

Education:
B.E. University of Mumbai, 1999
M.S. Ohio State University, 2001
Ph.D. Ohio State University, 2008

Research Interests:
Networking, distributed systems, communication systems
Wireless and sensor networks
Fault tolerant and scalable distributed systems

Teaching Interests:
Networking
Distributed computing

08/18/2008