Mechanical, Industrial, and Systems Engineering

Mechanical, Industrial and Systems Engineering

Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering, Room 260, 2 East Alumni Avenue, Kingston, RI 02881 – USA
401.874.2525 – nsantucci@uri.edu


News

  • A Message From Dean Marchese, December 2023 - Dear URI Engineering Community: As we enter the home stretch of another busy and exciting semester, and head toward the holiday season, it is an appropriate time to pause and give thanks to the many blessings that have been bestowed upon our community.   As Dean of Engineering, I am thankful for (and indebted to) the […]
  • Student Led Team Receives Artificial Intelligence Award - A URI graduate student’s paper was recently awarded “Best Student Paper Finalist” for the 2023 Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics conference. Emadodin Jandaghi and Xiaotian Chen’s work was overseen by Associate Professor and Advisor Chengzhi Yuan. As the name suggests, soft robotics involves using flexible materials in an increasingly wide variety of uses, from medical applications to […]
  • COE Welcomes New Faculty - Mehrshad Amini, Assistant Professor, CVE/OCE Dr. Mehrshad Amini will join the University of Rhode Island in Fall 2023 as an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Ocean Engineering. He completed his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Pennsylvania State University in 2021. […]
  • URI Engineering Researchers Awarded $750k Grant on Floating Wind Turbines - The Biden administration has set a goal of deploying enough offshore wind turbines to produce 30 gigawatts—enough to power tens of millions of homes—by 2035. Key to that strategy is the development of floating wind turbines that can be built in vast areas of deeper water.

Highlights

  • Ash Giri in lab Ash Giri Published in Nature - Of all of the honors in science and engineering, being published in the journal Nature is at the top of the list. Congratulations to URI Engineering assistant professor Ash Giri and his student C.J. Dionne on their recent publication. Ash’s research is related to nanoscale thermal transport, energy conversion and storage, nano mechanics, condensed matter […]
  • College of Engineering faculty and staff awards End-of-the-Year Awards Presented to College of Engineering Faculty and Staff - Dean Anthony Marchese presented end-of-the-year awards to faculty and staff members during the College of Engineering’s holiday event on Dec. 16. The recipients were nominated by their peers and by engineering students.

Events

Programs

Undergraduate

Graduate

Faculty

Professor and Department Chair

Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 260B

401.874.2542
rousseau@uri.edu

Dean, URI College of Engineering, Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Systems Engineering

Dean's Suite, 4th Floor, Bliss Hall

401.874.2186
marchese@uri.edu

Professor

Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 219

401.874.2356
chelidze@uri.edu
website

Professor

Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 291

401.874.2514
pdatseris@uri.edu

Professor

Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 306

401.874.5180
faghrim@uri.edu

Distinguished Engineering Professor

Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 212

401.874.2909
ghonem@uri.edu
website

Assistant Professor

Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 302

401.874.4248
ashgiri@uri.edu
website

Professor

Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 488

401.874.2349
jouaneh@uri.edu

Assistant Professor

Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 316

401.874.4249
yanglin@uri.edu
website

Associate Professor

Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 387

401.874.2243
macht@uri.edu
website

Associate Professor

Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 389

401.874.5187
valerie@uri.edu

Assistant Professor

Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 215

401.874.4556
hmatos@uri.edu

Distinguished University Professor

Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 217

401.874.9335
bn@uri.edu

President, University of Rhode Island, Professor, Mechanical, Ocean, and Civil Engineering

Green Hall

401.874.2222
lharrison@uri.edu
website

Joint Lecturer

Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 288

nara7@uri.edu

Simon Ostrach Professor

Kirk 133

401.874.2283
shuklaa@uri.edu
website

Professor

Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 284

401.874.5189
sodhi@uri.edu

Professor

Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 289

401.874.5934
taggart@uri.edu

Professor

Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 391

401.874.5195
jhwang@uri.edu

Associate Professor and Graduate Director

Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 484

401.874.9067
cyuan@uri.edu

Professor

Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 210

401.874.2517
zhang@uri.edu

Assistant Teaching Professor

mwestner@uri.edu

Assistant Teaching Professor

2 East Alumni Ave, Office 208

401.874.9292
andrew.borme@uri.edu

Adjunct Faculty

Adjunct Professor

Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 304

401.874.2524
anagnostopoulos@uri.edu

Adjunct Professor

401.874.9437
cgoodwin@rinsc.ri.gov

Adjunct Professor

idocfd@uri.edu

Adjunct Professor

401.524.9457
JLEBL49724@Yahoo.com

Adjunct Professor

+1.401.874.2524
twettergren@uri.edu

Staff

Fiscal Clerk

Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 260

401.874.2524
mariafan@uri.edu

Tech III

Kirk 114A

401.874.5197
david_ferreira@uri.edu

Fiscal Clerk

Fascitelli Center for Advanced Engineering 260

401.874.2525
nsantucci@uri.edu