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Clemson University

Department of Bioengineering

L. Benson, Ph.D.Voice: (864)656-0417 E-mail: lbenson@clemson.edu

K. J. L. Burg, Ph.D.  Research interests: Absorbable polymers, tissue engineering. Voice: (864) 656-6462 E-mail: kburg@clemson.edu

S.W. Harcum, Ph.D.  Research interests: recombinant protein manufacturing using both experimental methods and models to improve production. These research areas concentrate on stress-induced proteases in recombinant Escherichia coli, glycosylation heterogeneity due to bioprocess conditions produced in mammalian cells, and metabolic engineering of E. coli. Voice: (864) 656-6865. E-mail: harcum@clemson.edu

R.A. Latour Research interests: medical device design, analysis and evaluation, molecular modeling of protein-surface interactions, protein-surface binding affinity studies. Voice: (864) 656-5552. E-mail: latourr@clemson.edu

Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

D.A. Bruce, Ph.D. Research interests: Surface chemistry; use of molecular modeling in the prediction of bulk properties from chemical structure data; applications to pharmaceutical and polymer processing. Voice: (864) 656-5425. E-mail: david.bruce@ces.clemson.edu

D.D. Edie, Ph.D. Research interests: Polymer processing; rheology; formation and characterization of carbon, ceramic, and other high performance fibers; applied mathematics. Voice: (864) 656-4535. E-mail: dan.edie@ces.clemson.edu

G.M. Harrison, Ph.D. Research interests: non-Newtonian fluid mechanics, extensional flow, optical methods, film formation, filled polymer materials, and polymer rheology. Voice: (864) 656-6399. E-mail: grahamh@clemson.edu

D.E. Hirt, Ph.D. Research interests: Processing and characterization of polymer films, polymer composites, interfacial phenomena. Voice: (864) 656-0822. E-mail: hirtd@clemson.edu

S.M. Husson, Ph.D. Research interests: Bioseparations and separation materials synthesis. Voice: (864) 656-4502. E-mail: shusson@clemson.edu

S.M. Kilbey, II, Ph.D. Research interests: Structure-property relationships of molecularly thin polymer films; electrically conductive polymers; characterization of surface layers. Voice: (864) 656-5423. E-mail: mike.kilbey@ces.clemson.edu

A.A. Ogale, Ph.D. Research interests: Polymer processing; fiber formation; fabrication and characterization of composites; micromechanics and modeling. Voice: (864) 656-5482. E-mail: amod.ogale@ces.clemson.edu

M.C. Thies, Ph.D. Research interests: Supercritical fluid processing of high molecular weight materials; thermodynamics; high-pressure phase equilibria; chemical characterization of complex mixtures. Voice: (864) 656-5424. E-mail: mark.thies@clemson.edu

Department of Chemistry

R.K. Marcus, Ph. D.  Voice: (864)656-50d11  E-mail: marcusr@clemson.edu

D.W. Smith, II, Ph.D. Research interests: Synthesis, mechanism, structure/property relationships, and applications of polymeric materials. Processable polymers for electronics, space, telecommunications, LEDs, dielectrics & conductors, optical polymers, fuel cell membranes, composites, and nanophase assemblies. Voice: (864) 656-5020. E-mail: dwsmith@clemson.edu

Y.-P. Sun, Ph.D. Research interests: Fundamental studies of supercritical fluid systems and their applications in material processing; preparation and characterization of fullerene-based polymeric materials; spectroscopic investigations of material structures and inter- and intra-polymer interactions. Voice: (864) 656-5026.  E-mail: syaping@clemson.edu

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

W.B. Ligon  Research interests: parallel I/O systems, reconfigurable computing, problem solving environments, and Beowulf cluster computers. Applications of interest include large out-of-core numerical problems, processing of satellite imagery, and problems from simulation of film and fiber formation including molecular dynamics and fluid dynamics. Voice: (864) 656-1224. E-mail: walt.ligon@ces.clemson.edu

Department of Mathematical Sciences

C.L. Cox, Ph.D. Research interests: Numerical methods for partial differential equations; finite element methods for fluids problems; parallel processing; and numerical linear algebra. Voice: (864) 656-5203. E-mail: clcox@clemson.edu

E. W. Jenkins, Ph.D.  Voice: (864) 656-6907  E-mail: lea@clemson.edu

J. B. Von Oehsen, Ph.D. Research interests: Computational Mathematics, Viscoelastic Flow Problems, Computational Sociology, Finite Element Methods, Algebraic Topology, Modular Forms, Formal Methods, Multi-Agent Systems, Software Engineering, and Design Patterns. Voice: (864) 656-0548 E-mail: joehsen@clemson.edu

Department of Mechanical Engineering

J.M. Kennedy, Ph.D. Research interests: Interfacial phenomena; thermal characterization of materials; experimental mechanics; failure phenomena. Voice: (864) 656-5632. E-mail: john.kennedy@ces.clemson.edu

School of Materials Science & Engineering

P. J. Brown, Ph.D. Research interests: production of photonic crystal fibers, the application of UV laser radiation to textile substrates, production and properties of hollow fiber membranes for gas separation, phase inversion and the dry jet wet and wet spinning of fibers, electrospinning of fibers and also melt spinning. Voice (864) 656-6072. E-mail: pjb@clemson.edu

M.S. Ellison, Ph.D. Research interests: Empirical and theoretical studies on structure development and structure-property relations in fiber melt spinning. Voice: (864) 656-5956. E-mail: ellisom@clemson.edu

Konstantin Kornev, Ph.D. Research interests: Fundamentals and applications of fiber-based micro and nano-fluidics, fibrous biomaterials and biopolymers, engineering fibrous deployable structures, spinning fibers from carbon nanotubes, spinning nanofibers using EM fields. Voice: (864) 656-6541. E-mail: kkornev@clemson.edu

G.C. Lickfield, Ph.D. Research interests: Synthesis and characterization of polymeric materials, polymer surface chemistry and modifications, computational chemistry / molecular modeling of the interactions controlling surface adsorption, dissolution, wetting, and adhesion phenomena in polymer systems, and their applications to textile and polymer materials. Voice: (864) 656-5964. E-mail: lgary@clemson.edu

I. Luzinov, Ph.D. Research interests: Fundamental and applied research problems in nanofabrication of thin polymer films and their utilization for multicomponent polymer systems. Voice (864) 656-5958. E-mail: luzinov@clemson.edu

Clark Atlanta University

D. Hylton, Ph.D.

Eric Mintz, PhD. Voice: (404) 880-8000 Ext. 6886. E-mail: emintz@cau.edu

LeHigh University

A. McHugh, Ph.D. Research interests: flow-induced crystallization; rheology/rheo-optics of solutions; polymer-cement composites; phase inversion with applications to membrane formation and drug delivery. E-mail: ajm8@lehigh.edu

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

R.C. Armstrong, Ph.D. Research interests: Analyses of anisotropic materials and interfaces; computational methods for boundary-value problems; thermomechanical modeling; applications to fiber/matrix and film/substrate material and structural systems. Voice: (617) 253-4581. E-mail: rca@mit.edu

R. A. Brown, Ph.D.  Research Interests: Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluid mechanics, solidification theory and defect formation in crystalline solids, applied mathematics and numerical analysis. Voice (617) 253-5726. E-Mail: rab@mit.edu

G.C. Rutledge, Ph.D. Research interests: Experimental method development for accurate strain measurement; high temperature fracture measurements and analytic modeling/experiments for determining fracture parameters; optical evaluation methods including computer visualization. Voice: (617) 253-0171. E-mail: rutledge@mit.edu

McGill University

A.D. Rey Voice:514-398-4196 E-mail: alejandro.rey@mcgill.ca

University of Illinois

C. Tucker. Department of Mechanical Engineering.


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This work was supported by the Engineering Research Centers Program of the National Science Foundation under NSF Award Number EEC-9731680. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the National Science Foundation.

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