Faculty Collaboration Database - BYU Research Development

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College of Engineering: Manufacturing Engineering College of Family, Home, & Social Sciences: Anthropology School of Technology: Industrial Design

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Quentin Allen

College: Engineering
Department: Manufacturing Engineering
265K CTB

Research Interests:
- Tribology; friction and wear of interacting surfaces
- Biomaterials
- Surface Engineering
- Orthopedics

James Allison

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
894 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Small-scale societies of the southwest
- Quantitative Methods
- Ceramic Analysis
- Archaeological Theory

Jaime Bartlett

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
870 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Anthropology
- Anglo-Saxon Archaeology
- Archaeology

Zachary Chase

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
882 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Andes

John E. Clark

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
876 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Mesoamerica
- American History

David Crandall

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
820 KMBL

Research Interests:
- African Folktales
- Himba Flora Taxonomy and Herbal Medicines
- Africa
- Human Moral Knowledge

Reuben Domike

College: Engineering
Department: Manufacturing Engineering
265K CTB

Research Interests:
- Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Quality
- Manufacturing location-specific risk models
- Benefit-risk assessment of new technologies and drug applications

Cynthia S. Finlayson

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
882 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Archaeological excavation
- Cultural heritage site development
- Syria and Jordan

Richard Fry

College: Engineering and Technology
Department: School of Technology - Industrial Design
CTB 265

Research Interests:
- Design Thinking as a method for innovation

Andy George

College: Engineering
Department: Manufacturing Engineering
265Q CTB

College: School of Technology
Department School of Technology: Manufacturing Engineering Technology
265Q CTB

Research Interests:
- Modeling and Simulation of composites
- Flow and other phenomena through porous media
- Permeability measurement
- Fabric compressibility
- Thermosetting resin cure kinetics
- Capillary flow
- Void formation and movement
- Void mechanical effects

Jacob R. Hickman

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
860 KMBL

Research Interests;
- How the processes of migration, displacement, and diaspora affect a host of cultural and psychological phenomena
- Transnational ethnographic fieldwork with Hmong communities in both southeast Asia and the west
- Religion, ritual practice, family life, moral thinking, and personhood
- Religious dynamics that are emerging in the Hmong diaspora, which include messianic movements, new forms of transnational ritual networks, and changing religious ideologies and practices
- Comparative fieldwork in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, China, the United States, and other areas where the Hmong have resettled

Yuri Hovanski

College: Engineering
Department: Manufacturing Engineering
265P CTB

Research Interests:
- Friction stir technology
- Solid-state novel joining technology
- Smart manufacturing; automation
- Automation in manufacturing environments
- Novel joining technologies

Bryan Howell

College: Engineering and Technology
Department: School of Technology - Industrial Design
265 CTB

Research Interests:
- Industrial Design
- Design Education

David J. Johnson

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
892 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Cultures associated with the Red Sea area and their involvement in long distance trade from the earliest period through the Islamic Period
- Effects of long distance trade contacts on religious ideology and social organization

Michael Miles

College: Engineering
Department: Manufacturing Engineering
265J CTB

Research Interests:
- Novel solid state joining processes
- Microstructure/formability relationships in sheet metal alloys
- Simulation of forming and joining processes
- Friction stir welding

David Morgan

College: Engineering and Technology
Department: School of Technology - Industrial Design
265 CTB

Research Interests:
- Issues for small manufacturers
- Production Furniture
- Design Theory
- Waste Equals Food

Tracy Nelson

College: Engineering
Department: Manufacturing Engineering
265N CTB

Research Interests:
- Materials joining
- Materials characterization
- Microstructure and mechanical properties

Charles W. Nuckolls

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
894 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Anthropological studies of causal thinking and explanation in India
- Nationalism in Japan
- Psychiatric classification and diagnosis in the U.S. and New Zealand.

Michael T. Searcy

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
820 KMBL

Research Interests:
- Social processes associated with the Viejo (AD 700-1200) and Medio Periods (AD 1200-1450) of the Casas Grandes tradition, which flourished in the northwestern portion of modern-day Chihuahua, Mexico
- Causes linked to transitions in sociopolitical organization and structural transformations
- Long-distance interaction
- Iconographical analysis
- Ground stone analysis
- Ethnoarchaeology
- Fremont archaeology

Paul Skaggs

College: Engineering and Technology
Department: School of Technology - Industrial Design
265 CTB

Research Interests:
- Design Thinking: visual or spatial, creative, flexible

Gregory Thompson

College: Family, Home, & Social Sciences
Department: Anthropology
880 KMBL

Research Interests:
- The intersection of anthropology, language, education, and communication with a broad focus on the mediating role of cultural contexts in human interaction
- Discourse analytic methods drawn from linguistic anthropology
- Micro-cultural contexts
- Motivation and engagement
- Psychological anthropology
- How education and learning are accomplished in actual teaching/learning interactions
- American cultural contexts
- African-American settings
- American cultural meanings of race and class

Jason Weaver

College: Engineering
Department: Manufacturing Engineering
265H CTB

Research Interests:
- Additive manufacturing (3D printing)
- Design for additive manufacturing
- Multi-material additive manufacturing
- Hybrid Manufacturing
- Applications of Additive Manufacturing