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Faculty Research

 
FacultyTitleDisciplinePrimary Research Area
Business
Mark AgeeAssociate ProfessorEconomicsEconomics
Donna BonInstructorEntrepreneurshipEntrepreneurial institutes ­ making them successful; entrepreneurship pedagogy across all disciplines
Ron CarrellAssistant ProfessorBusiness AdministrationDeception and ethics
Bill EngelbretAssociate ProfessorAccountingFinancial and managerial accounting; accounting and engineering business education
Tulay GirardAssistant ProfessorMarketingE-Commerce strategies, patronage intentions, retailer attributes, Internet privacy, security, and trust, product classes, risk perceptions, information search, shopping orientations, pedagogical research in logo selection, marketing case analysis using interactive methods, gender bias, and market research.
Deb HommerInstructorBusiness Administration/MIS 
John McGinnisAssociate ProfessorFinanceFinancial planning, Financial Education, Investments
Sylvester OsagieAssistant ProfessorOrganizational BehaviorEmotionally troubled workers in organizations; international and comparative labor relations; corporate ethics
Bruce RutterInstructorBusiness 
Rajeev SooreeaAssistant ProfessorEconomicsMonetary Policy Rules, Stock Market and Trade Deficits; Nonnested Models
Barbara Wiens-TuersAssociate ProfessorEconomicsLabor market issues - nonstandard labor and mandatory overtime; asset building as a way to ameliorate poverty
Cynthia WoodInstructorBusiness AdministrationCourse/Curricular assessment
Computers
David BarnesInstructorComputer ScienceOperating systems and networks
Tim LesoInstructorComputer ScienceProblem-Based Learning
Charlotte McConnInstructorInformation Sciences and TechnologySecurity tools and risk assessment
Jungwoo RyooAssistant ProfessorInformation Sciences and TechnologySoftware architecture; Architecture Description Languages (ADLs); object-oriented software development; formal methods; requirements engineering; network management; e-government; Internet/computer/software security
Richard SingerInstructorComputer ScienceVoice/Speech Recognition
Engineering
Sohail AnwarAssociate ProfessorElectrical EngineeringEngineering education issues; industrial quality control; automation; process control
Todd BatzelAssistant ProfessorElectrical EngineeringControl of electric machines; Predictive diagnostics for electric machinery
Mihai ComanescuAssistant ProfessorElectrical EngineeringPower Electronics; Estimation and Control of AC Motor Drives; Sensorless Control; Sliding Mode Control
Irene FerraraSenior InstructorMechanical EngineeringRecruitment and retention of under-represented groups; Active learning; Interdisciplinary efforts to enhance non-technical courses for technical majors; Soft skills for engineering majors
Eric GranlundInstructorMechanical EngineeringSensors; Machine and component design, Pedagogy related to Engineering Design
Bruce MullerSenior InstructorMechanical EngineeringAutomation, Manufacturing, Robotics, Alternative Energy, Mechatronics Engineering Design
Grant RishaAssistant ProfessorMechanical EngineeringCombustion, propulsion, energetic materials, propellants, hybrid, liquid, and solid rockets
Peter ShullAssociate ProfessorMechanical EngineeringNondestructive sensing methods particularly those applied to process control; Bioassay; Periodontal Instrumentation
Richard SnyderInstructorElectrical Engineering
Andrew VavreckAssociate ProfessorEngineering Science and MechanicsSmart materials - magnetorheological fluids, devices and control