Full-Time Faculty
Junling (Joyce) Hu
Chair, Departments of Mechanical Engineering
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
- Email: jjhu@bridgeport.edu
- Phone: 203-576-4757
- Office: Tech 133
- Website: http://www1bpt.bridgeport.edu/~jjhu/
- Research Interests: Computational fluid dynamics, Thermal management of electronic devices and systems, Transport phenomena in welding processes and other industrial applications, Nano/microscale heat transfer, Microfluidic, Gas metal arc welding, Gas tungsten arc welding, Friction stir welding, Laser welding, Laser hole drilling, Laser cutting, Laser cladding and other laser material processing.
Elif Kongar
Assistant Professor of Technology Management and Mechanical Engineering
- Email: kongar@bridgeport.edu
- Phone: 203-576-4379
- Office: Tech 141
- Website: http://www1bpt.bridgeport.edu/~kongar
- Research Interests: Supply chain management, logistics, environmentally conscious manufacturing, product recovery, disassembly systems, production planning and scheduling and multiple criteria decision making
Zheng (Jeremy) Li
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Jani Macari Pallis
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- Email: jpallis@bridgeport.edu
- Phone: 203-576-4579
- Office: Tech 130
- Website: http://www1bpt.bridgeport.edu/~jpallis/
- Research Interests: sports engineering, sustainable design and environmentally conscious manufacturing for the aviation, aerospace and sports industries, numerical methods and simulation, engineering outreach.
Prabir Patra
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Program Director, Biomedical Engineering
- Email: ppatra@bridgeport.edu
- Phone: 203-576-4165
- Fax: 203-576-4343
- Office: Tech 159
- Website: http://www1bpt.bridgeport.edu/soe/patra/
- Research Interests: Multifunctional nanomaterials, bioinspired nanomaterials, biomedical materials, tissue engineering, flexible nanoelectronics, polymer gels, biosensors, label free immunoassay and lab on chip protein sensor, piezoelectric soft sensors and actuators, carbon nanotube and graphene architectures and their device, hybrid nanomaterials for sustainable energy, smart membranes for desalination and ion exchange, proton exchange fuel cell membranes, photovoltaic, synthesis and design of polymer nanofibers, synthesis and structural function of polymers, rheology of polymers, electro-rheological and magneto-rheological fluids, synthesis and simulation of nanocomposites, inkjet printing and writing of macromolecules, electronic materials and biological molecules, self assembled nanostructures, ultrathin supercapacitors, batteries and associated electrodic applications.
Adjunct Faculty
Tarek Sobh
Vice President for Graduate Studies and Research
Dean of the School of Engineering
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Neal Lewis
Associate Professor of Technology Management
Xingguo (Michael) Xiong
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Email: xxiong@bridgeport.edu
- Phone: 203-576-4760
- Office: Tech 140
- Research Interests: Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS), Nanotechnology, Low Power VLSI design, VLSI Testing
Linfeng Zhang
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Timothy Chen
ISM – Mechanical Engineering
Jack Toporovsky
Lab Engineering – Electrical Engineering
- Email: ytoporov@bridgeport.edu
- Phone: 203-576-2370
- Office: Tech 215
- Research Interests: Automation, vision applications, servo motor application for robotic and fast precise movements.