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Faculty

Jayanta Kapat

Professor, CATER Director

Erik Fernandez

Associate Professor

Marcel Otto

Assistant Professor

Post Doctoral Fellows

Vipul Goyal

Doctoral and Master Students

Emmanuel Gabriel-Ohanu

Degree:Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering

Thesis/Dissertation: Investigation of Effect of Inclination on SCO2 Heat Transfer in a Circular Pipe

Lucas Cavalcante

Degree: M.S. in Mechanical Engineering

Kangana Chiragkumar Patel

Degree: Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering

Ryan Wardell

Degree: Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering

Abhilash M. Prasad

Degree: M.S. in Aerospace Engineering

Marc Heinrich

Degree: M.S. in Mechanical Engineering

Andrew Menendez

Degree: M.S. in Mechanical Engineering

Elena Torres

Degree: M.S. in Aerospace Engineering

Alejandro Moreno

Degree: M.S. in Aerospace Engineering

Ghanshyam Sarobar Mandal

Degree: Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering

Ben Turner

Degree: M.S. in Aerospace Engineering

Claire-Phonie Silaire

Degree: M.S. in Mechanical Engineering

Mairah Ahmed

Degree: Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering

Connor Wall

Degree: M.S. in Mechanical Engineering

Brian Garrett

Degree: Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering

Ethan Taylor

Degree: Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering

Al-Muthanna Al-Ani

Degree: Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering

Zamir Londono

Degree: Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering

Arianna De La Paz

Degree: M.S. in Aerospace Engineering

Undergraduate Research Assistants

Riley Fitzgerald

Degree: B.S. in Aerospace Engineering

Matthew Dearolph

Degree: B.S. in Aerospace Engineering

Jesse Chotiner

Degree: B.S. in Aerospace Engineering

Orlando Lugo

Degree: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering

Rohan Jay

Degree: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering

Noah Santiago-Walsh

Degree: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering

Hannah Mattiza

Degree: B.S. in Aerospace Engineering

Jonathan Espinal

Degree: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering

John Seltenright

Degree: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering

Roshan Shetye

Degree: B.S. in Aerospace Engineering

Alumni

Weston Olson

Casting Simulations Design Engineer at Siemens-Energy

Degree: Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (thermo-fluids)

Thesis/Dissertation: Anisotropic Heat Transfer Mechanisms in Equiaxed Casting Processes

Adil Riahi

Degree: Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering

Thesis/Dissertation: Cryogenic Hydrogen Storage Using the Adsorption Process

Brandon Cotto

Degree: M.S. in Mechanical Engineering

Patrick Tran

Degree: Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering

Thesis/Dissertation: Flow Induced Vibrations in Corrugated Flexhoses

Yakym Khlyapov

Degree: M.S. in Mechanical Engineering

Thesis/Dissertation: Hydrogen Storage in Silica Aerogel at Cryogenic Conditions

John Richardson

Degree: M.S. in Mechanical Engineering (Thermal Fluids)

Thesis/Dissertation: Experimental and Numerical Study of Jet Impingement with SCO2

Uday Manda

Postdoc

Nandhini Raju

Degree: Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering

Thesis/Dissertation: Improving Structural Integrity of Additively Manufactured High-Temperature Gas Turbine Component

Manoj Prabakar Sargunaraj

Postdoc

Charles Cunha

Degree: B.S. in Aerospace Engineering

Ladislav Vesely

Assistant Professor