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Department of Mechanical Engineering

Professor Feridun Delale, Chair • Department Office: Steinman 235 • Tel: 212-650-5224

General Information

The City College offers the following graduate degrees in Mechanical Engineering:

M.E. (M.E.) Professional Master’s Degree
M.S. (Engineering)
Ph.D. (M.E.)

Advisement

Master’s Program
Professor T. Lee
ST-250; 212-650-6122

Doctoral Program
Professor Y. Andreopoulos
ST-253, 212-650-5206

Laboratories

In addition to the undergraduate laboratories, the Department has established specialized laboratories to carry out research in advanced materials and fracture mechanics, environmental and fluid sciences, aerosciences, and bioengineering.

Experimental Fluid Mechanics and Aerodynamics Laboratory

This laboratory aims to develop and implement advanced thermal-flow diagnostic technologies to solve the most challenging multiphase flow and heat transfer problems related to aerospace, mechanical, biomedical, transportation, marine, and civil applications. The focus of research carried out in this laboratory includes plasma physics in low and high speed flows, plasma-droplet interactions, multiphase flow and heat transfer in additive manufacturing, blast/shock-surface interactions, high-speed multiphase interactions driven by blast/shock, aircraft icing physics and anti-/de-icing technologies, and unsteady multiphase flow in energy devices. The facilities and equipment in this lab include a 4 ft. x 4 ft. x 25 ft. low speed wind tunnel; a large scale compressible flow shock tube of 12 in. diameter, 74 ft. length and 3,000 psi maximum pressure; multiple environmental test chambers, and plasma reactors. The laboratory is equipped with various cameras, lasers, optics and sensors that enable a suite of advanced thermal-flow diagnostic techniques, including particle imaging velocimetry (PIV), digital image projection (DIP), high-speed imaging, high-speed infrared (IR) imaging, and high-speed Schlieren imaging technique, Rayleigh Scattering, and Laser Doppler anemometry.

Solid Mechanics/Materials Research Laboratory

This laboratory is devoted to research involving solid mechanics and materials processing, testing and evaluation, with emphasis on the study of fracture and damage mechanics, composite and nanocomposite materials, high and low temperature behaviors, and micro- and nanomechanics for micro- and nanostructural design. Various modern testing and processing techniques, such as micromechanical in situ testing, static, fatigue, vibration and impact testing at high, low and room temperatures, non-destructive evaluation and digital image processing are used. Currently, it has a very high-speed digital camera, a servo-hydraulic universal testing machine with an environmental chamber, a computer controlled drop weight impact tester with an environmental chamber, two gas guns for high-speed ballistic impact, a split Hopkinson bar, a computer-controlled vibration shaker system with a precision temperature/humidity chamber, an immersion and a spray ultrasonic scanning system, a compression/transfer molding hydraulic press, a universal measuring microscope, and a microhardness tester.

Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) Laboratory

In the Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) Laboratory, miniature sensor and actuator systems made using microfabrication processes, especially Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) processes are being developed. Research in this area is motivated by the potential to produce high-performance, low-cost, miniature sensors and actuators. Smart sensors are made by combining microstructures and circuits on a single silicon chip. Specific research areas of interest include nano and micro cantilever beams, biosensors based on porous silicon, single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCT) sensors and microfluidic channels for electrophysiological studies of single cells.

Computer Aided Design and Engineering (CAD/CAE) Facilities

The Department of Mechanical Engineering maintains a Computer Aided Design Laboratory which is used for engineering analysis and design. It consists of 46 Dell Precision 3650 computers (each equipped with a 1 TB solid state drive, Intel Core I9 processor and 64 GB RAM), a Kodak NuScan Q800 document camera, two HP Color LaserJet 4700dn printers, one HP LaserJet P4015dn printer, a Sony LCD projector and computerized whiteboard.  The Department also has a Multimedia Facility which includes 27 Dell Precision 3650 computers (as described above), a Kodak NuScan Q800 document camera, LCD projector, computerized whiteboard, and two HP LaserJet P4015dn printers. In addition, the Department shares a VDI Computer Laboratory equipped with forty-five Dell Wyse 5050 terminals, LCD projector and document camera. These systems are equipped with mechanism design, mathematics, finite element, boundary element and computer-aided manufacturing and simulation software including, SolidWorks, ANSYS Fluent, Abaqus, Autocad, Autodesk CFD, Matlab,  Mathematica,  MS Office, Altair, NASA GMAT (Generalized Mission Analysis Tool), and specialized Nuclear Engineering software PCTran BWR5 and PCTran PWR4LP.

Faculty

Zeev Dagan, Professor
B.E. (ME), The City College, M.E. (ME); Ph.D. (Eng.), CUNY

Feridun Delale, Herbert G. Kayser Professor and Chair
B.S. (CE), Istanbul Tech. Univ., M.S. (CE); Ph.D., Lehigh Univ.

Niell Elvin, Professor
B.S. (CE), University of Witwatersrand (South Africa); M.S. (CE), M.S. (Aeronautics and Astronautics), Ph.D. (CE), M.I.T.

Jing Fan, Associate Professor
B.E. (Thermal Engr.), Shandong Univ.;  M.E.(Engr. Thermophysics), Shandong Univ., Ph.D, (Thermofluids), Univ. of Hong Kong

Peter Ganatos, Professor
B.E. (ME), The City College, M.E. (ME); Ph.D. (Eng.), CUNY

Masahiro Kawaji, Professor and Pope Chair
B.S. (ChE), Univ. of Toronto; M.S. (ME), Univ. of California, Berkeley, Ph.D.

Taehun Lee, Professor
B.S. (ME), Seoul National University, M.S. (ME); Ph.D., Univ. of Iowa

Jacqueline Jie Li, Professor
B.S. (Mech), Peking Univ.; M.E. (Applied Mech), Beijing Inst. of Technology; Ph.D. (ME), Rutgers Univ.

Yang Liu, Assistant Professor
B.S. (Aerospace Engr.), Beihang Univ.; M.S. (Aerospace Engr.) Beihang Univ.; Ph.D., Iowa State Univ.

Prathap Ramamurthy, Associate Professor
B.E.(ME), Madras Univ., M.S.(ME) Univ. of Utah, Ph.D., Univ. of Utah

Ali M. Sadegh, Professor
B.S. (ME), Arya-Mehr Univ. of Technology; M.S., (ME), Michigan State, Ph.D.; P.E. (Michigan); CmfgE

Inigo Sanz-Pena, Assistant Professor
B.S. (ME), Universidad de La Rioja; M.E. (Industrial Engr.), Universidad de La Rioja; Ph.D. (M.E.), Universidad de La Rioja

Ioana R. Voiculescu, Associate Professor
M.S. (ME), Technical University (Romania), Ph.D. (ME); Ph.D., George Washington Univ.

Bo Wang, Assistant Professor
B.E. (Electronic Engr.), Northeast Forestry Univ.; M.S. (Control Theory and Eng.), University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Ph.D. (M.E.), Villanova Univ.

Honghui Yu, Associate Professor
B.S. (Applied Math), Tsinghua Univ., M.E. (Solid Mech.); Ph.D., Princeton Univ.

Professors Emeriti

Latif M. Jiji

Myron Levitsky

Sheldon Weinbaum