Faculty Collaboration Database - BYU Research Development

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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

Daniel Becerra

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
270B JSB

Research Interests:
- Moral formation in Late Antiquity
- Early Christianity
- Theology and ethics in the Book of Mormon

Dan Belnap

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
316G JSB

Research Interests:
- Cultural and sociological influences in the Book of Mormon
- Use of ritual in ancient and contemporary contexts
- Doctrines of ascension and theosis in ancient Near East and Late Antiquity
- Comparative cosmologies

Jonathan Blotter

College: Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
350-P EB

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

Lincoln Blumell

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
210F JSB

Research Interests:
- Early Christianity
- Ancient Christian Letters
- Greek papyrology

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

Mark Colton

College: Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
350-I EB

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

Jason Robert Combs

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
275B JSB

Research Interests:
- Cultural history of early Christianity
- Religious experience
- Dreams and visions

Douglas Cook

College: Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
360-P EB

Research Interests:
- Crop Biomechanics
- Modeling
- Biological Variation

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

Amy Easton-Flake

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
210E JSB

Research Interests:
- Nineteenth-century women's reform literature
- Nineteenth-century women's biblical hermeneutics
- Latter-day saint 'home literature' in relation to the larger print culture
- Book of Mormon through a narrative lens
- Reception history of the Book of Mormon

Mark Ellison

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
275E JSB

Research Interests:
- Early Christianity
- Biblical reception
- Marriage, family and celibacy
- Portrayals of Jesus in Christian art
- Experience of ordinary Christians
- Adam and Eve

Nick Frederick

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
275G JSB

Research Interests:
- Relationship between the Bible and Latter-day Saint scripture
- Jesus and his Jewish setting
- Daily Life in Roman Galilee
- Sacred space, ritual, and priesthood in early Judaism
- Dead sea schools and early Jewish sectarianism
- Jesus followers in the Roman world
- Jesus in Film
- Joseph Smith's Study and Uses of Hebrew

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

Tyler Griffin

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
370C JSB

Research Interests:
- Religious education
- New Testament Parables
- Jesus life and Atonement

Jared M. Halverson

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
303K JSB

Research Interests:
- Scriptural Reception and Rejection History
- Secularization
- Faith Loss
- Anti-Religious Rhetoric
- Canonization
- LDS Scripture and History
- Philosophy of Humor

J. B. Haws

College: Religious Education
Department: Church History and Doctrine
375B JSB

Research Interests:
- Latter-day Saint history
- Latter-day Saint reputation
- Contemporary American religions and interfaith dialogue

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

John Hilton III

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
270E JSB

Research Interests:
- The Atonement of Jesus Christ
- Teaching and Learning
- Open educational resources
- Religious pedagogy

Eric Homer

College: Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
350 EB

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

Shon Hopkin

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
375A JSB

Research Interests:
- Judaism and Islam
- Medieval cultures and literature
- Biblical studies
- Religions of the world

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

Kerry Hull

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
316D JSB

Research Interests:
- Linguistics
- Ethnographic studies
- Archaeology
- Language and culture

Eric Huntsman

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
365F JSB

Research Interests:
- Johannine Literature
- Historical Jesus and His depiction in the gospel narratives
- Biblical studies: Luke through Acts and Pauline Epistles
- Early Christianity

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

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

Frank Judd, Jr.

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
316C JSB

Research Interests:
- Latter-day saint interpretation of scripture
- Historical geography and archaeology of the Bible
- Near Eastern Studies

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

Jan Martin

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
316A JSB

Research Interests:
- The Bible and the Book of Mormon
- Early English religious practices
- King James translation of the Bible
- Early English reformers -- William Tyndale, Miles, Coverdale, and John Frith
- Development of the language of English theology

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

Kerry Muhlestein

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
270L JSB

Research Interests:
- Archaeology
- The advent of Christianity in Egypt
- Texts and iconography of Egyptian religion
- Ancient Egyptian religion, history, and culture
- Overlap of the Biblical and Egyptian worlds

Troy Munro

Belgium

Andrew Ning

College: Engineering
Department: Mechanical Engineering
360 EB

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

George A. Pierce

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
303F JSB

Research Interests:
- Regional settlement patterns
- Archaeological digital data structure, creation, maintenance and dissemination
- Archaeological and geographic aspects of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament

Krystal V. L. Pierce

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
303L JSB

Research Interests:
- Ancient Near Eastern society, religion, and culture
- Expatriates and refugees
- Personhood and gender

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

Aaron Schade

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
316J JSB

Research Interests:
- Northwest Semitic inscriptions
- Archaeology
- The Old Testament

Joshua Sears

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
270C JSB

Research Interests:
- Israelite prophecy
- Marriage and family in the ancient world
- Latter-day Saint scripture history and publications

David Seely

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
303G JSB

Research Interests:
- King James translation of the Bible
- The temple in ancient and modern times
- The Old Testament

Avram Shannon

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
210C JSB

Research Interests:
- Idolatry and Image Worship
- Jewish and non-Jewish interactions
- Tribal and Affinity Groups
- Kingship and priesthood in the ancient world

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

Joseph Spencer

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
270R JSB

Research Interests:
- Philosophy
- Theology
- Scripture

Gaye Strathearn

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
370D JSB

Research Interests:
- Bridal chamber ritual in Gnosticism
- The life and teachings of Paul
- The Gospel of Matthew

Charles Swift

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
316F JSB

Research Interests:
- Bridal chamber ritual in Gnosticism
- The life and teachings of Paul
- The Gospel of Matthew

Stephan D. Taeger

College: College of Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
303J JSB

Benjamin S. Terry

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

Research Interests:
- Surgical tool design
- Swallowable mechatronic devices
- Biomechanical characterization and modeling of gastrointestinal tissue

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

Justin B. Top

College: College of Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
210J JSB

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

David Whitchurch

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
303D JSB

Research Interests:
- Latter-day Saint history
- Old and New Testament studies
- The coming forth of the English Bible
- Graeco-Roman burial traditions

Keith Wilson

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
270A JSB

Research Interests:
- The coming forth of the Book of Mormon
- Latter-day Saint history

Mark Alan Wright

College: Religious Education
Department: Ancient Scripture
316E JSB

Research Interests:
- Ancient Mesoamerican ritual and religion
- Historicity of the Book of Mormon