Engineering Faculty
Joseph L. Cecchi, Dean
Charles B. Fleddermann, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Kevin J. Malloy, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies
Julia E. Fulghum, Chair, Department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering
Arup Maji, Chair, Department of Civil Engineering
Stephanie Forrest, Chair, Department of Computer Science
Chaouki T. Abdallah, Chair, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Juan C. Heinrich, Department of Mechanical Engineering
April Davidson, School Administrator
Faculty Statistics
98 faculty in 5 departments - ChNE, CE, CS, EECE, ME
2 members of the National Academy of Engineering
2 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
2 fellows of the American Ceramic Society
1 fellow of American Institute of Chemical Engineers
1 fellow of the American Nuclear Society
1 fellow of the American Physical Society
1 fellow of the American Concrete Institute
3 fellows of the American Society of Civil Engineers
7 fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
10 fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
1 fellow of the Institute of Transportation Engineers
4 fellows of the Optical Society of America
1 fellow of the International Society for Optical Engineering
1 fellow of the Society for Photonics and Instrumentation Engineers
1 Diplomat of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers
2 fellows of the National Academy of Engineers
26 Registered Professional Engineers
28 research faculty
2 University of New Mexico / National Laboratories Distinguished Professors
New School of Engineering Faculty -- Welcome!
Chemical and Nuclear Engineering
 Elizabeth Dirk graduated from Rice University in 2004 with a PhD in Bioengineering and has joined the Chemical and Nuclear Engineering
Department. Dirk's research involves the development of rationally designed three- dimensional degradable polymeric scaffolds for the delivery of cells and/or signaling molecules for the regeneration of natural tissues including heart valves, bone, and cartilage. She graduated with a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Computer Science
Forrest Appointed as Department Chair
 Stephanie Forrest has been appointed the new chair for Computer Science. She has taught in the department for the past 16 years.
Forrest plans to expand the department's outstanding research and teaching record in core computer science and build on its special strength in interdisciplinary science, reaching out to other disciplines and underrepresented groups.
While at UNM, Forrest has attracted over $9 million for research projects. Her research focuses on information processing in biological systems, importing strategies used in biology to build better electronic computers and furthering scientific understanding of natural processes by using information-processing principles to explain their behavior. This research agenda has led to projects in computer security, memory management algorithms, computer networking, operating systems, and many others.
New Faculty
 Melanie Moses received her Ph.D. in Metabolic Scaling in Individuals and Societies from the Department of Biology at UNM in 2005. Her areas of interest include study of complex biological systems, the scaling properties of networks, and the general rules governing the acquisition of energy and information by social organisms. She will join the CS department in January, 2007.
Electrical and Computer Engineering
 Payman Zarkesh-Ha's interests include statistical modeling of VLSI systems; design for manufacturability; and low-power, high-performance VLSI design. He received his Ph.D. from Georgia Tech and most recently worked at LSI Logic.
 Sudharman Jayaweera's interests include wireless commmunications, signal processing, information theory, wireless sensor networks, image processing, and quantum information processing. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton and has been a professor at Wichita State.
 Yasamin Mostofi's interests include sensor and actuator networks, collaborative information processing in intelligent mobile networks, sensing and control over wireless networks, and signal processing. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford and was a postdoc at CalTech for the last two years.
Pradeep Sen's interests include computer graphics, real-time rendering, computational photography, and computer vision algorithms. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford in June.
Mechanical Engineering
 Professor Zayd Leseman has just joined the department's nanomechanics program. Dr. Leseman is a recent graduate of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on the development of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) for studying the properties of nanofilms, adhesion between micro/nanodevices, and laser material interaction. At UNM, he will also begin research in BioMEMS by measuring cell-cell adhesion and the mechano-transduction in cells.
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