Faculty Affiliates
CEPDAM’s faculty affiliates represent a dynamic, interdisciplinary community drawn from seven colleges across NC A&T, bringing together innovators across engineering, design, computational sciences, and the arts to advance convergent research and education in product design and advanced manufacturing.
Department of Chemical, Biological and Bioengineering
Narayan Bhattarai, Associate Professor - nbhattar@ncat.edu
Arvind Chandrasekaran, Assistant Professor - achandra@ncat.edu
Mohammad Azad, Assistant Professor - maazad@ncat.edu
Yeo Heung Yun, Professor - yyun@ncat.edu
Lijun Wang, Professor - lwang@ncat.edu
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Jag Sankar, University Distinguished Professor - sankar@ncat.edu
Dhananjay Kumar, Professor - dkumar@ncat.edu
David Schall, Assistant Professor - jschall@ncat.edu
Ajit Kelkar, Professor - kelkar@ncat.edu
Sun Yi, Associate Professor - syi@ncat.edu
Michael Atkinson, Assistant Professor - mdatkinson@ncat.edu
Paul Akangah, Associate Professor - pmakanga@ncat.edu
Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering
Steven Xiaochun Jiang, Associate Professor, xjiang@ncat.edu
Sanjiv Sarin, Professor - sarin@ncat.edu
Zhichao Li, Associate Professor - zli@ncat.edu
Lauren Davis, Professor - lbdavis@ncat.edu
Michael Hamilton, Assistant Professor - mahamilton1@ncat.edu
Younho Seong, Professor - yseong@ncat.edu
Stephen Oneyear, Adjunct Associate Professor - sjoneyea@ncat.edu
Hyung Nam Kim, Assistant Professor - hnkim@ncat.edu
Faisal Alkaabneh, Assistant Professor - fmalkaabneh@ncat.edu
Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Taher Abu-Ledbeh, Professor - taher@ncat.edu
Renzun Zhao, Assistant Professor - rzhao@ncat.edu
Raymond Tesiero, Assistant Professor - rctesier@ncat.edu
Ahmed Megri, Associate Professor - acmegri@ncat.edu
Sameer Hamoush, Professor - sameer@ncat.edu
Venkatesh Pandey, Assistant Professor - vpandey@ncat.edu
Kristen Rhinehardt, Assistant Professor - klrhineh@ncat.edu
Marwan Bikdash, Professor and Chair - bikdash@ncat.edu
Ali Karimoddini, Associate Professor - akarimod@ncat.edu
Grace Gowdy, Assistant Professor - gmgowdy@ncat.edu
Department of Graphic Design Technology
Robert Cobb Jr., Associate Professor - rcobbjr@ncat.edu
Devang Mehta, Interim Chair and Associate Professor - mehtad@ncat.edu