Faculty
Core Faculty
Oluwaseyi Balogun
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
Zdeněk Bažant
McCormick Institute Professor, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering and Material Science and Engineering
Jian Cao
Associate Vice President for Research
Cardiss Collins Professor of Mechanical Engineering and (by courtesy) Civil and Environmental Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, and Materials Science and Engineering
Director, Northwestern Initiative for Manufacturing Science and Innovation (NIMSI)
Wei Chen
Chair and Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Wilson-Cook Professor in Engineering Design
Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences and Materials Science and Engineering (by courtesy)
Gianluca Cusatis
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering
Isaac Daniel
Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
Horacio Espinosa
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering (by courtesy)
Director, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Program
Director of the Institute for Cellular Engineering Technologies
Sandip Ghosal
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and (by courtesy) Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
James Hambleton
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Yonggang Huang
Jan and Marcia Achenbach Professorship in Mechanical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and (by courtesy) Materials Science and Engineering
Neha Kamat
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and (by courtesy) Chemical and Biological Engineering
Sinan Keten
Jan and Marcia Achenbach Professor
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering and (by courtesy) Biomedical Engineering
Associate Chair of Mechanical Engineering
Sridhar Krishnaswamy
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Director of Center for Smart Structures and Materials
Wing Liu
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Civil and Environmental Engineering and (by courtesy) Materials Science and Engineering
Richard Lueptow
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and (by courtesy) Chemical and Biological Engineering
Senior Associate Dean
Michael Miksis
Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics and (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering
Director of MS Studies for Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
Julio Ottino
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering
Distinguished Robert R. McCormick Institute Professor
Professor of Management and Organizations, Kellogg School of Management
Neelesh Patankar
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and (by courtesy) Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
Director, NAISE
John Rudnicki
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
Surendra Shah
Walter P. Murphy Emeritus Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Lucia Stein-Montalvo
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Igal Szleifer
Christina Enroth-Cugell Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Professor of Medicine
Petia Vlahovska
Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics and (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering and Physics and Astronomy
Gregory Wagner
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Director of Graduate Studies for Mechanical Engineering
Q. Jane Wang
Joseph Cummings Professor in Mechanical Engineering
Executive Director, Center for Surface Engineering and Tribology






























