Mechanical Engineering Technology Program in the College of Engineering

Faculty in the Mechanical Engineering Technology Program
Advisors for the College

Mechanical Engineering Technology Program

Rajeev Kumar, Ph.D.

Professional Associate Professor and Program Coordinator

Office: RFEB 210
Phone: (361) 825-2559
Email: rajeev.kumar@tamucc.edu

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Faculty in the Mechanical Engineering Technology Program

David Bridges, Ph.D.

Associate Professor and Director of the Unmanned Aerial Systems Program

Office: RFEB 222E
Phone: (361) 825-2181
Email: david.bridges@tamucc.edu

Director of the Unmanned Aerial Systems Program

Lea-Der Chen, Ph.D.

Associate Dean for Research

Office: CI 371
Phone: (361) 825-3046
Email: ld.chen@tamucc.edu

Combustion and Gasification of Biomass and Alternative Fuels; Fuel Characterization; Fuel Cells; Immersive Evaluation of Vehicles; Solar Thermal Power; Wind Turbine

Iltai (Isaac) Kim, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Engineering

Office: RFEB 318
Phone: (361) 825-2734
Email: ikim@tamucc.edu
Website: https://www.tamucc.edu/science/research/nse/professor.php

Nano-bio-chemical sensing and micro/nanoscale thermal-fluids using nano-biophotonics and engineering
- Portable lab-on-a-chip in UAV and ROV chemical sensing and subsea leak detection
Energy conversion such as energy harvesting, thermophotovoltaics, and light emitting diode (LED) nanowire applications
Ultra-sensitive, super-resolution, and three-dimensional surface plasmon resonance imaging coupled with ultrafast and nanoscale scanning for sensing and point-of-care device development
Hyperbolic metamaterials, perfect absorption, and plasmonics
Thermo-fluidic analysis, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), mechanical design, and experiments: reheating furnace, heat exchanger, combustion device, and others