Rutgers School of Engineering faculty are nationally-recognized industry leaders. They are active researchers and experts in the subjects they teach. Professors serve as members of leading professional organizations like the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), and Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS). They also work as editorial and advisory board members for top journals like IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering; International Journal of Quality, Statistics and Reliability; Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A; and International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology.
Professors bring their industry knowledge to the classroom, enabling students to gain experience solving real-world problems. They help students get the most out of their education, offering virtual office hours to address any questions or points for further discussion. Each of them are committed to helping students form industry connections through their own networks and career events.
Mohsen A. Jafari, PhD
Professor and Department Chair
Industrial and Systems Engineering
- Phone: 848-445-3627
- Email: jafari@soe.rutgers.edu
Mohsen A. Jafari is a professor and chair of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Rutgers School of Engineering, a principal at the Rutgers Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation (CAIT), and founder of the Laboratory for Energy Smart Systems (LESS). Since 2006, Jafari’s research focus has been on control and optimization of energy systems with applications in Distributed Energy Resources, smart connected buildings, demand-side management, and electrical vehicles. Jafari has also been active in research concerning transportation safety and mobility since 2005. Prior to 2005, his research focused on additive manufacturing of ceramic actuators and sensors, and intelligent manufacturing in food and pharmaceutical applications. He is one of the pioneers in architecting and building the first multi-material Solid Free Form (SFF) fabrication system with online image-based process control sponsored by the ONR-MURI program.
Overall, Jafari has been principal and co-principal investigator to over $23M R&D funding from the U.S. and international government agencies, and industry. Jafari’s work has led to 120 refereed publications and patents. He actively collaborates with universities and national labs in the U.S. and abroad, and he has advised twenty-three PhD theses and nine post-doctoral and research fellows. He is a member of IEEE and was recipient of the IEEE excellence award in service and research, SAP curriculum award and two transportation safety awards. Jafari is currently a member of New Jersey governor Phil Murphy’s Fuel Cell Task Force and has been a consultant to several Fortune 500 companies, and national and international government agencies.
Education
- PhD, Industrial Engineering, Syracuse University, 1984
- MSc, Computer Science, Syracuse University, 1981
Professional Affiliations
- IEEE Power and Energy
- IISE
- Operations Research
Research Interests
Automation sciences with applications in energy, transportation, and manufacturing
David W. Coit, PhD
Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering
- Phone: 848-445-2033
- Email: coit@soe.rutgers.edu
David W. Coit’s research interests are in the areas of system reliability modeling and optimization, power systems reliability, and multiple-objective optimization. He has been funded for his research from the NSF, U.S. Navy, U.S. Army, power utilities, and industry. Supported by NSF grants, he developed system reliability models and algorithms to determine optimal system design configurations considering degradation and reliability estimation uncertainty. Working under a grant from a power utility, Coit and his students developed reliability importance metrics and optimal transformer replacement policies. He also previously worked for more than ten years at IIT Research Institute (IITRI) in Rome, NY (now called Alion Science and Technology), where he designed and implemented reliability programs, developed reliability prediction models, and conducted reliability analyses.
Coit has received recognition for his research. In 1999, he was awarded an NSF CAREER grant to research system reliability design optimization with incomplete or uncertain component reliability estimation. In 2001, he was awarded the P.K McElroy award for best paper at the annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS) conference. In 2003, he was awarded the A. J. Golomski award for the best paper at RAMS by an IIE member, and in 2009, he was awarded the A. O. Plait award for the best tutorial at RAMS.
Education
- PhD, Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 1996
- MS, Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 1993
- MBA, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1988
- BS, Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University
Professional Affiliations
- IISE Transactions
- INFORMS
Research Interests
- System reliability modeling and optimization
- Reliability theory
- Energy systems planning and optimization models
- Applied operations research
Weihong Guo, PhD
Assistant Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering
- Phone: 848-445-8556
- Email: wg152@soe.rutgers.edu
Weihong ‘Grace’ Guo is an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. She earned her BS in Industrial Engineering from Tsinghua University, China, in 2010 and her PhD in Industrial & Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan, in 2015.
Guo’s research interests are in the areas of statistical quality control and process monitoring, data mining for manufacturing and healthcare systems modeling and improvement, and quality-oriented design and modeling of complex manufacturing systems. Her current research focuses on data fusion methods in the interface between applied statistics and system control/optimization.
She is a member of IISE, INFORMS, and ASME. Guo is the recipient of the 2014 ISERC Quality Control & Reliability Engineering Best Student Paper Award Finalist, the 2014 International Conference on Frontiers of Design and Manufacturing Sciences Best Paper Award, the Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship from the University of Michigan, and the Wilson Prize for the Best Student Paper in Manufacturing. Her teaching interests include quality engineering, data analytics, and manufacturing systems.
Education
- PhD, Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, 2015
- MS, Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, 2012
- BS, Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 2010
Honors
- First Place Winner in 2014 INFORMS Minority Issues Forum Poster Competition, for poster titled “A Decision Support System on Surgical Treatments for Rotator Cuff Tears”, November 2014
- Best Paper Award Finalist, Quality Control and Reliability Engineering (QCRE) Student Paper Competition, 2014 Industrial & Systems Engineering Research Conference (ISERC), May 31 – June 3, Montreal, Canada
- Best Paper Award, the 11th International Conference on Frontiers of Design and Manufacturing (ICFDM), for paper titled “Real-time Within-cycle Monitoring of Nonlinear Profile Signals”, May 23-25, 2014, Nanjing, China
- Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship (one of the most prestigious awards given to graduate students with a three term stipend and other benefits to support dissertation research), University of Michigan, 2014 (total 76 awardees, among which only 12 are from the College of Engineering)
- Wilson Prize ($1,000, departmental award given to the best student paper dealing with any aspect of manufacturing systems), Department of Industrial & Operations Engineering, University of Michigan
- 2014 NSF Travel Grant, for presenting at 2014 ISERC, Montreal, Canada
- Rackham Travel Grant, University of Michigan (2011-2014)
- Graduate Student Research Assistantship, Department of Industrial & Operations Engineering, University of Michigan (2010-2013)
- Departmental Fellowship, Department of Industrial & Operations Engineering, University of Michigan (2012-2013)
- Second Place Winner in Design and Manufacturing Track in the 7th Annual Engineering Graduate Symposium, University of Michigan (November 2012)
- Outstanding Graduate of the Year, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (2010)
- National Scholarship (8000RMB), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (2009)
- Tung OOCL Scholarship (5000RMB), funded by Hong Kong’s Tung Foundation and Orient Overseas Container Line Ltd., Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (2008) 4 Weihong (Grace) Guo Second Prize in “Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press Cup” National English Debate Competition – Tsinghua Round, Beijing, China (2009)
- Tau Beta Pi, The Engineering Honor Society (2014)
- Selected attendee of NextProf Workshop at the University of Michigan, College of Engineering (September 24-27, 2013). NextProf Workshop was designed to encourage women in engineering and science to consider academia.
- Selected attendee of Yonsei Leadership Forum – Northeast Asian network 2009, organized by Yonsei Institute for Leadership Development, Seoul, Korea (2009)
Professional Affiliations
- Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE)
- Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) – Quality, Statistics, and Reliability section – Data Mining section – Minority Issue Forum
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
- Student Volunteer in ASME MSEC 2014
Research Interests
- Statistical quality control and process monitoring
- Data fusion for manufacturing and healthcare system modeling and improvements
- Sensing, modeling, and monitoring of high definition profile data
- Quality-oriented design and modeling of complex manufacturing systems
Jerry Shan, PhD
Department Associate Chair
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
- Phone: 848-445-3653
- Email: jshan@rutgers.edu
Jerry Wei-Jen Shan received all his degrees from the California Institute of Technology. Shan is a fluid dynamicist with experience in experiments and analysis of fluid flows at scales ranging from flows about individual nanoparticles, to transport in cells, to large-Reynolds-number turbulent flows. He is a recipient of the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, and two Excellence in Teaching Awards from the Rutgers Engineering Governing Council, The Presidential Scholar-Teacher award from Rutgers University, and the Director’s Award in Science & Technology from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He has served on the board of the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A. He currently serves as the associate chair for the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
Education
- PhD, Aeronautics with minor in Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 2001
- MS, Aeronautics, California Institute of Technology, 1996
- BS, Engineering and Applied Science, California Institute of Technology, 1995
Professional Affiliations
- American Physical Society
Research Interests
- Nanofluidics
- Nanoelectronics characterization & assembly
- Colloids & complex fluids
- Electroporation & other transfection techniques
- Water filtration
- Green energy
Hao Lin, PhD
Professor, Packaging Engineering Undergraduate Director
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
- Phone: 848-445-2322
- Email: hlin@rutgers.edu
Hao Lin is currently a professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at Rutgers University. He received his BS degree in Mechanics from Peking University in 1996, and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley in 2001. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University from 2001 to 2005. He joined the faculty of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Rutgers University in 2005. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2008) and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE, 2010). He currently serves as the Packaging Engineering Undergraduate Director.
Education
- PhD, Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 2001
- BS, Applied Mechanics, Peking University, Beijing, P.R. China, 1996
Professional Affiliations
- American Physical Society
Research Interests
- In vitro and in vivo drug and gene delivery
- Fluid mechanics
- Mechanics of soft matter: vesicles, cells, and tissue
- Electrokinetics and electrohydrodynamics
- Micro- and nano-engineered functional surfaces and devices
- Pollution research
- Automation, robotics, and fluid and solid mechanics with application to Packaging Engineering
Rajiv Malhotra, PhD
Associate Professor
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
- Phone: 848-445-5058
- Email: rajiv.malhotra@rutgers.edu
Dr. Rajiv Malhotra got his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University and is currently an associate professor at Rutgers University where he has established the Advanced Manufacturing Sciences Laboratory, funded by both federal and industry sources. His research focuses on knowledge-driven innovation of advanced manufacturing processes that span additive, deformative, and subtractive paradigms. He has published his research in diverse journals including Applied Materials and Interfaces, Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Theory and Simulations, Nanotechnology, Additive Manufacturing, Journal of Materials Processing Technology, and Journal of Manufacturing Processes.
Malhotra is an associate editor for Manufacturing Letters, Journal of Manufacturing Processes, and Scientific Reports and has been a guest-editor for special issues in ASME and SME journals, the Micro-Nanomanufacturing track chair in the ASME Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference, and a scientific committee member in the North American Manufacturing Research Conference. His research and service efforts were recognized by the 2017 Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers and the 2018 Associate Editor of the Year Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers.
Education
- PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2012
- MS, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 2008
Professional Affiliations
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- Society of Manufacturing Engineers
Research Interests
- Additive manufacturing
- Manufacturing of printed electronics
- Laser-based material processing
- Machine learning in manufacturing
Stephen D. Tse, PhD
Professor, Graduate Program Director
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
- Phone: 848-445-0449
- Email: sdytse@rutgers.edu
Stephen D. Tse is professor and graduate program director for the MEng in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He received his BSE in Engineering Physics from Princeton University and his MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. He was a post-doctoral researcher and research staff member at Princeton University before joining Rutgers University in 2001 as an assistant professor. Dr. Tse’s research focus is in the thermal sciences, involving applications in nanomaterials synthesis, microgravity processes, combustion and propulsion, and advanced laser-based diagnostics. His research methodologies encompass experimentation; computational simulation of complex flows, chemistry, and molecular dynamics; and mathematical analysis. He has designed diagnostics and conducted research experiments on the Space Shuttle and International Space Station (ISS). He is involved in various technical societies and editorial boards.
Education
- PhD, Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
- MS, Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
- BSE, Engineering Physics, Princeton University
Professional Affiliations
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Combustion Institute
- Materials Research Society
Research Interests
- Microgravity combustion
- Nanomaterials synthesis
- Laser-based diagnostics
- Fire safety
Zhimin Xi
Associate Professor and Graduate Director
Industrial and Systems Engineering
- Phone: 848-445-3657
- Email: zhimin.xi@rutgers.edu
Zhimin Xi is an associate professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. He received his BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Science and Technology Beijing in 2001 and 2004, respectively. He obtained his PhD in Mechanical Engineering (Program of Reliability Engineering) from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2010. His research focuses on lithium-ion batteries, design for reliability in autonomous vehicles and robots, and additive manufacturing. He has published more than 80 papers in prestigious journals and peer-reviewed conference proceedings. His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, DARPA, the Department of Energy, Ford Motor Company, Denso North American Foundation, and The Woodbridge Group.
Xi is a recipient of the ASME Design Automation Young Investigator Award (2021), the Journal of Mechanical Design Reviewer with Distinction Award (2020), the Rutgers A. Walter Tyson Assistant Professorship Award (2019), and the DARPA Young Faculty Award (2016). In addition, he has received multiple ASME Design Conference Awards for Best Paper and Top 10 Best Paper (2008, 2011, 2013, and 2015). He currently serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. He is a member of IISE, ASME, and IEEE.
Education
- PhD, Mechanical Engineering (Program of Reliability Engineering), University of Maryland, College Park, 2010
- MS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Beijing, China, 2004
- BS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Beijing, China, 2001
Honors
- Defense TechConnect Innovation Awardee (autonomy, mobility, space, defense), 2022
- ASME Design Automation Young Investigator Award, 2021
- Journal of Mechanical Design Reviewer with Distinction Award, 2020
- Walter Tyson Assistant Professorship Award, Rutgers School of Engineering, 2019
- DARPA Young Faculty Award, 2016
- Best Paper Award, International Conference on QR2MSE, 2015
- Top 10 Best Paper Award (out of 168 submissions), ASME IDETC 41st Design Automation Conference, 2015
- Best Paper Award (out of 142 submissions), ASME IDETC 39th Design Automation Conference, 2013
- Top 10 Best Paper Award (out of 156 submissions), ASME IDETC 37th Design Automation Conference, 2011
- Best Paper Award (out of 174 submissions), ASME IDETC 34th Design Automation Conference, 2008
Professional Affiliations
- IISE, Senior Member
- ASME, Member
- IEEE, Member
- INFORMS, Member
Research Interests
- Design for reliability and its applications for autonomous vehicles and robots
- Lithium-ion batteries
- Additive manufacturing
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