Faculty Collaboration Database - BYU Research Development

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College of Engineering: Mechanical Engineering College of Family, Home, & Social Sciences: Anthropology

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Brad Adams

College: Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
360-I EB

Research Interests:
- Combustion Simulations
- Radiative Heat Transfer
- Air Quality
- Microbial Inactivation with UV LEDs

Matt Allen

College: Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
350-B EB

Research Interests:
- Nonlinear dynamics of geometrically nonlinear structures
- Nonlinear normal modes and their utility
- Experimental characterization and prediction of damping and nonlinearity
- Test strategies and data analysis
- Experimental/analytical substructuring methods and applications to noise and response prediction

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

Jonathan Blotter

College: Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
350-P EB

Research Interests:
- Structural Dynamics
- Vibration
- Acoustics
- Noise Control
- Vibration Control

Anton Bowden

College: Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
350-K EB

Research Interests:
- Biomechanics
- Spine
- Medical Device Design
- Orthopedics

Steven Charles

College: Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
350-J EB

Research Interests:
- Biomechanics and neural control of movement
- Movement disorders
- Rehabilitation Technology and robotics
- Adaptive Technology

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

Mark Colton

College: Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
350-I EB

Research Interests:
- Mechatronic Systems
- Dynamic Systems
- Robotics
- Haptic Interfaces

Douglas Cook

College: Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
360-P EB

Research Interests:
- Crop Biomechanics
- Modeling
- Biological Variation

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

Nathan Crane

College: Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
360 EB

Research Interests:
- Additive manufacturing (3D printing)
- Powder Metallurgy
- Electrowetting
- Wetting Phenomena
- Surface tension driven microfluidics

Julie Crockett

College: Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
350-C EB

Research Interests:
- Fluid Mechanics
- Environmental fluid dynamics
- Experimental and theoretical fluids techniques

Brady R. Davies

College: College of Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
350 EB

Research Interests:
- Accelerating transition from design to production

Christopher Dillon

College: Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
360-Q EB

Research Interests:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Human tissue properties
- Thermal therapies
- Bioheat transfer modeling

Cynthia S. Finlayson

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

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

David Fullwood

College: Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
350N EB

Research Interests:
- Composites
- Nano-composites
- Microscopy
- Computational Methods in Materials Science

Steve Gorrell

College: Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
350D EB

Research Interests:
- Experimental and Computational fluid dynamics
- Turbomachinery
- Computational Science and Engineering
- Engineering Education

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

Jeff Hill

College: Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
350U EB

Research Interests:
- Shock and impact protection
- Design and modeling
- Harsh mechanical environments
- Material and structure novel use

Eric Homer

College: Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
350 EB

Research Interests:
- Materials Modeling
- Grain Boundary Structure-property relationships
- Mechanical behavior of polycrystalline metals

Larry Howell

College: Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
A-376 ASB

Research Interests:
- Compliant Mechanisms
- Origami-inspired mechanisms
- Microelectromechanical Systems
- Medical Device Design
- Compliant Space Mechanisms

Brian Iverson

College: College of Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
360J EB

Research Interests:
- Heat Transfer
- Condensation
- Micro/nanoscale Transport
- Sensors and Biosensors
- Solar-Thermal Energy

Brian Jensen

College: Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
350G EB

Research Interests:
- Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)
- Biological Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)
- Electrical Contacts
- Systems Modeling in Diverse Energy Domains

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

Oliver Johnson

College: Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
350M EB

Research Interests:
- Microstructure Design
- Grain Boundary Networks
- Microstructure-properties models
- Multiscale Modeling & Homogenization
- Synthesis of Advanced Materials

Matt Jones

College: Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
360H EB

Research Interests:
- Heat Transfer
- Thermodynamics
- Reduced Order Modeling
- Biomass Cookstoves
- Thermophysical Property measurement

Marc Killpack

College: College of Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
360E EB

Research Interests:
- Soft Robots
- Human-Robot Interaction
- Controls
- Robot Manipulation
- Computer Vision and 3D Sensing
- Haptic Sensing

Spencer Magleby

College: Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
350 Maeser Building

Research Interests:
- Tools and technology development for engineering design
- Mechanical Systems
- Compliant Mechanisms
- Product design and collaboration

Chris Mattson

College: Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
360 EB

Research Interests:
- Product Development
- Design for the Developing World
- Engineering Design Theory and Methodology
- Multi-objective & Multidisciplinary Design Optimization

Daniel Maynes

College: College of Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
360K EB

Research Interests:
- Super-hydrophobic Surface Flow Physics and Thermal Transport
- Microscale Fluid Mechanics and Thermal Transport
- Cavitation in Liquid Flows
- Train Aerodynamics
- Electroosmotic Flow and Heat Transport
- Turbomachinery CFD and Analysis
- Supersonic Jet Acoustics

Tim McLain

College: Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
240-I EB

Research Interests:
- Dynamic Systems
- Control System Design
- Guidance, dynamics, control, and autonomy of unmanned aircraft systems

Troy Munro

Belgium

Andrew Ning

College: Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
360 EB

Research Interests:
- Aerodynamics
- Multidisciplinary Design Optimization
- Aircraft Design
- Wind Energy

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.

John Salmon

College: College of Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
360D EB

Research Interests:
- Systems Engineering Design and Integration
- Multi-disciplinary Optimization
- Operations Research
- Visual and Data Analytics
- Modeling and Simulation
- Multi-agent multi-objective decision making
- Sports Analytics
- Virtual Reality
- Uncertainty Analysis

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

Carl Sorensen

College: Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
350F EB

Research Interests:
- Friction Stir Welding
- Design Team Formation Methods
- Effects of Manufacturing Process Variation in Design

Benjamin S. Terry

Gut Microbiome Dynamics: Real-Time In Situ Assessment

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

Scott Thomson

College: Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
350 EB

Research Interests:
- Experimental and computational fluid mechanics and fluid-structure interactions
- Flow and Elasticity in nature
- Biomechanics of human and animal voice production

Dale Tree

College: Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
360B EB

Research Interests:
- Combustion
- Optical Diagnostics

Brent Webb

College: Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
360G EB

Research Interests:
- Heat Transfer
- Thermodynamics