ME Faculty & Staff

Benjamin H. Powell Jr, ’36 Institute Professor

Ph.D. Mechanical and aerospace Engineering from University of Virginia

Office: Nichols Engineering Building 718

Phone: 540-464-7531

Email: blandinojr@vmi.edu

Fields: Thermal-Mechanical Interactions, Non-Contact Metrology

Full Professor

Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from University of Virginia

Office: 702 Nichols Engineering Hall

Phone: 540-464-7537

Email: blandinojk10@vmi.edu

Fields: Biomechanics

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from New Mexico State University

Office: 717 Nichols Engineering Building

Phone: 540-464-7523

Email: hasanmk@vmi.edu

Fields: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Hydrodynamic Instability, Numerical Methods for CFD, Grid Generation

Associate Professor

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Wichita State University

Office: 719 Nichols Engineering Building

Phone: 540-464-7533

Email: soltanisr@vmi.edu

Fields: Mechanics of Materials, Polymer Composites Processing and Manufacturing, Nanostructured Advanced Materials, Material Characterization, Sustainability

Associate Professor

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Toronto

Office: 721 Nichols Engineering Building

Phone: 540-464-7547

Email: shahbazik@vmi.edu

Fields: Gas Dynamics, Thermodynamics, Capillarity Theory, Photoacoustics and Laser Heating of Nanoparticles, Computational Fluid Dynamics, High-Order Numerical Methods for Single and Two-Fluid Dynamics

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. in Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering from Virginia Commonwealth University

Office: 716 Nichols Engineering

Phone: 540-464-7546

Email: wilkinsjv@vmi.edu

Fields: Aerosol Science, Inhalation Therapy, In Vitro Modeling, Respiratory Drug Delivery