"Only in the present do things happen"
—Jorge Luis Borges
—Jorge Luis Borges
- Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering
- Affiliated Assistant Professor, CEGE and Social Sciences
- Faculty Advisor, Green Campus Enterprise
- rhandler@mtu.edu
- 906-487-3612
- H-STEM 235
Courses
- ENG 4515/5515 Introduction to Sustainability and Resilience
- ENG 4525/5525 Systems Analysis for Sustainability and Resilience
- CM 3980 Sustainable Chemical Engineering
- Green Campus Enterprise
Research Interests
- Life-cycle assessment
- Sustainability and resilience
- Food, Energy, and Water systems
- Sustainable materials and manufacturing
- Ecosystem services
- Aquaponics and hydroponics
- Director, Center for Technology & Training
- Staff, Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering
- Adjunct Assistant Professor, Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering
- tkcollin@mtu.edu
- 906-487-3354
- Dillman Hall 309
- Professor, Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences
- Affiliated Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- jsgierke@mtu.edu
- 906-487-2535
- Dow 405
Links of Interest
Teaching Interests
- Hydrogeology
- Ground water Engineering
- Contaminant Transport
- Subsurface Remediation
Research Interests
- Field performance of air sparging for removing volatile organic chemicals from ground water
- Volatile organic vapor transport in unsaturated soils
- Sulfur dioxide interactions with volcanic ash
- Associate Director, Center for Technology & Training
- Staff, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Adjunct Associate Professor, Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering
- cggilber@mtu.edu
- 906-487-2102
- Dillman Hall 309
- Assistant Professor, Engineering Fundamentals
- Affiliated Assistant Professor, Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering
- Affiliated Assistant Professor, Psychology and Human Factors
Links of Interest, Publications
Research Interests
- Technology Adoption
- Online Learning
- Service Learning
- First-year Engineering
- Sustainability
- Adjunct Associate Professor, Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering
Research Interests
- Integrated geospatial technologies for sustainable development
- Mobile mapping platforms for geographical and environmental studies
- SAR- and LIDAR-based remote sensing and GIS
- Geosensorics, real-time networks of geosensors
- Human-computer symbiosis for knowledge extraction and expertise transfer
- Visual perception in remote sensing and GIS
- 3-D geospatial visualization and augmented reality
- Visual and automated feature extraction in multispectral and hyperspectral image interpretation
- Geospatial-sensor modeling and calibration
- Image processing and automated feature extraction from aerial and satellite imagery
- Automated systems for vision-based autonomous navigation and control of manned/unmanned robotic platforms
- Image fusion and analysis
- Photogrammetry of aerial and high-resolution satellite imagery
Teaching Interests
- Earth observation systems
- Geodesy
- Photogrammetry
- Geospatial technologies, data, and systems
- Global positioning systems
- Remote sensing
- LIDAR-, SAR-/InSAR-based remote sensing
- Geospatial 3-D visualization
- Geospatial imaging: perception and interpretation
- Introductory and advanced GIS
- Spatial analysis and modeling
- Spatial decision support
- Cartography and cybercartography
- Adjunct Associate Professor, Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering
- zhenl@mtu.edu
- 906-487-1826
- Dillman 201F
Links of Interest
Teaching Interests
- Soil mechanics and labs
- Foundation engineering
- Numerical simulations (FEM, FDM)
- Multiphysics
- Artificial intelligence
- Data analytics in engineering
Research Interests
- Intelligent infrastructure systems enabled by computing (AI, hybrid computing), sensing (acoustic, electromagnetic), and control (distributed systems with microcontrollers) for smart cities and safer, more (energy) efficient, and more resilient built environments
- Enhancing system resilience with artificial intelligence (deep and reinforcement learning), physics (multiphysics and inverse analysis), and advanced data analytics (with transportation, meteorological, and GIS data)
- Multiphysics and applications: thermohydromechanics (seasonal and climatic effects, material/environment processes, energy from gas hydrates), buoyance-driven flow (surface water geothermal), electromagnetics (sensing and sensors, energy harvesting), and soil-structure-fluid interaction (erosion and infrastructure protection)
- Advanced soil mechanics and numerical simulation techniques: stress formulation, soil wetting, adsorption, non-isothermal soil mechanics, phase change, and soil behavior under extreme conditions; FEM, FDM, FVM, XFEM, molecular dynamics, SPH, Monte Carlo, and self-made methods.
- Adjunct Assistant Professor, Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering
Teaching Interests
- Surface Water Quality Engineering
- Water Quality Modeling
Research Interests
- Limnology
- Aquatic-terrestrial connectivity and landscape-scale drivers of water quality
- Water quality modeling
- Carbon cycling and ecosystem metabolism
- Nutrient biogeochemistry
- Associate Teaching Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- Affiliated Associate Teaching Professor, Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering
- smmorse@mtu.edu
- 906-487-3241
- MEEM 820
Research Interests
- Window Glass Strength Design
- Wind loads on Structures
- Finite Element Modeling of Brittle Materials
- Large Scale Data Processing and Data Mining
- Assistant Professor, Lou and Herbert Wacker Professorship of Mechanical Engineering
- Affiliated Assistant Professor, Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering
- Multiplanetary INnovation Enterprise (MINE) Faculty Advisor
- pjvansus@mtu.edu
- 906-487-3253
- MEEM 915A
Teaching Interests
- Engineering Design Process
- Mechanics of Materials
- System Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering Practice
- Finite Element Analysis
- Intro to Aerospace Engineering
- Space System Engineering
- Space Resource Utilization
- Senior Design Capstone / Enterprise Project
- Product Realization
Areas of Expertise
- Solid Mechanics
- Structural Design
- Finite Element Analysis
- Engineering Design Process
- System Engineering
- Interdisciplinary Engineering (Aerospace, Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, Mining, Architecture)
- Extreme Environment Design
- Civil and Mining Engineering
- Education
- Optimization and Modeling
Research Interests
- Extreme Environment Technologies (Space, Underwater, Mining, Arctic, etc.)
- Excavation and Mining Technology
- Planetary Science and Exploration
- In-Situ Resource Utilization
- Space Mining and Construction
- Design Optimization
- Robotics and Automation
- System Engineering and Integration
- Adjunct Teaching Professor, Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering
- norma@mtu.edu
- 906-487-2681
- Dow 861