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Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering (MIAE)

Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering (MIAE)

Faculty members

  • Waizuddin Ahmed
    • Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Dynamic systems; stability; vehicle systems; vibration isolation and control; railway vehicle dynamics; vehicle system dynamics and design; modeling and analysis of physical systems.
  • Ali Akgunduz
    • Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    • Associate Dean, Academic Programs
    Research areas: Airline operations, Transportation management, Systems simulation, Application of Operations Research on service and manufacturing applications
  • Julia Aman
    • Assistant Professor, LTA, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Numerical simulation and modelling of Sustainable energy systems, HVAC&R, advanced thermodynamics, heat transfer enhancement, Thermal Cooling, Two-phase fluid flow.
  • Nadia Bhuiyan
    • Vice-Provost, Partnerships and Experiential Learning
    • Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Operational issues dealing with the design, development, production, and distribution of goods & services, with a focus on emerging tools and techniques in product/process design & development, design and manufacturing technologies, information management, and methods for integrating design & manufacturing to improve process performance.
  • Mingyuan Chen
    • Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Applied operations research; manufacturing systems design & analysis; production engineering; computer integrated manufacture; simulation of industrial systems; inventory control.
  • Claudio Contardo
    • Associate Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Operations Research, Logistics Management, Vehicle Routing, Location Analysis, Integer and Combinatorial Optimization. Artificial Intelligence
  • Javad Dargahi
    • Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Haptic sensors and feedback systems for minimally invasive surgery and robotics, Design and fabrication of intelligent tactile sensors for robots and endoscopes, Design and fabrication of sensors by micromachining, Application of piezoelectric polymers in robotic and endoscopic sensors, Teletaction in minimally invasive surgery.
  • Kudret Demirli
    • Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Lean Manufacturing, Lean Supply Chain, and Lean Healthcare.
  • Robin A.L. Drew
    • Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Research in advanced materials: porous materials, foams, metal-ceramic composites, biomaterials and tissue engineering, metal-ceramic interactions, high temperature wetting studies and joining processes.
  • Carole El Ayoubi
    • Sr. Lecturer, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Aero-thermal design of gas turbines
  • Sam Eskandarian
    • Faculty Lecturer, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Mechanical Design, Manufacturing Process & Material Science
  • Nabil Esmail
    • Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    status: Professor
    Research areas: Liquid Coating Mechanics - Coating in Pulp and Paper - Rheology, Mechanical Properties of Polymeric Liquids; Solid Surface Wetting Phenomena and Mechanics.
  • Ebenezer Ekow Essel
    • Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Turbulence, Aerodynamics, Flow control, Jets, Boundary layers, Particle image velocimetry, Computational fluid dynamics, Bioassay analysis, Machine learning
  • Rajamohan Ganesan
    • Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Composite materials and structures; stochastic mechanics and random vibrations; stress analysis; finite element method; vibration analysis and machine dynamics; machinery monitoring and diagnostics; engineering fracture mechanics and fatigue.
  • Marzieh Ghiyasinasab
    • Assistant Professor, LTA, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
  • Hany Gomaa
    • Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Fluid Mechanics; Microfluidics and Solid-Surface Wetting Phenomena; Thermofluids; Rheology; Aerodynamics Design; Mechanical Engineering Design.
  • Brandon Gordon
    • Associate Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Control systems; mechatronics; robotics; virtual reality; distributed computing networks; real-time simulation; active flow control; internal combustion engines; automotive and aerospace control systems.
  • Gerard J. Gouw
    • Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    • Graduate Program Director, MEng Industrial Engineering, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Human factors engineering/ergonomics; safety engineering; biomedical engineering
  • Hossein Hashemi Doulabi
    • Associate Professor in Industrial Engineering (Operations Research)
    Research areas: Healthcare optimization under uncertainty, Large-scale optimization, stochastic programming, decomposition-based integer programming algorithms (Benders decomposition, Lagrangian relaxation, Column generation), and robust optimization.
  • Suong Van Hoa
    • Professor and Director of CONCOM, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    • Concordia Institute of Aerospace Design & Innovation
    Research areas: Composite materials and structures; design of composite structures; vibration; stress analysis; dynamics; finite element method; testing and evaluation of composite materials and structures; manufacturing of composites.
  • Mehdi Hojjati
    • Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    • Concordia Institute of Aerospace Design & Innovation
    Research areas: Composite Manufacturing, Automated Fiber Placement, 3D printing, Filament Winding, Sandwich Structures, Recycling, Process Modelling, Material Characterization and Testing, Composite Design and Analysis

  • Ayhan Ince
    • Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Computational damage modeling, damage/fracture mechanics of materials and structures, short crack growth behavior, high cycle fatigue, multiaxial fatigue, machine learning-based modeling, peridynamics-based modeling, fatigue design, durability, material deformation, stress-strain analysis
  • Jerin John
    • Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Rocket Propulsion Concepts, Combustion, Rheology, Green Propellants, Energetic Materials, Gel fuels, Non-Newtonian Fluids, Material Charaterization Techniques, Droplet and Spray Combustion, Soft Matter, Hybrid Rocket Engines
  • Lyes Kadem
    • Professor , Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    status: Director of the Laboratory of Cardiovascular Fluid Dynamics
    Research areas: Cardiovascular Fluid Dynamics Fluid Mechanics Medical Devices Medical Imaging (e.g., Doppler ultrasound, MRI) Mathematical Modeling of the Cardiovascular System Advanced Data Post-Processing Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV)
  • Makbule Kandakoglu
  • Ida Karimfazli
    • Associate Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Fluid dynamics, complex fluids, computational and mathematical analysis, heat and mass transfer
  • Ashok Kaushal
    • Lecturer(ETA), Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    • Chair Capstone Design Committee, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Rotor dynamics; Modal testing and analysis; Finite element method; Vibration analysis and machine dynamics; Machinery monitoring and diagnostics; Product Development product development
  • Masoumeh Kazemi-Zanjani
    • Associate Chair, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    • Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Stochastic and Robust Optimization, Operations Research, Industry 5.0, Supply Chain Management; Reverse Logistics; Production Planning; Maintenance Logistics; Healthcare Operations Management
  • Mojtaba Kheiri
    • Associate Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Fluid-structure interactions, Aeroelasticity, Flow-induced vibration, Wind engineering, Airborne wind energy, Aerodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Renewable energy systems, Energy harvesting, Numerical methods
  • Charles Basenga Kiyanda
    • Associate Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Thermodynamics, Equations of State, Compressible Fluid Dynamics, Supersonic Flow, Combustion, Nonlinear Systems
  • Onur Kuzgunkaya
    • Associate Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Design and Analysis of Flexible/Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems, Manufacturing System Performance Evaluation, Complexity in Manufacturing, Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) Methods,Fuzzy Optimization, Lean Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management
  • Tsz Ho Kwok
    • Associate Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: 3D Printing, Design for Additive Manufacturing, Mass Customization, Computer-Aided Design
  • Jonathan Liscouët
    • Associate Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Design of drones and VTOL aircraft for safety-critical applications
  • Susan Liscouët-Hanke
    • Associate Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: integrated aircraft systems design for sustainable aviation, aircraft systems architecting, aircraft-level technology evaluation, model-based systems engineering, novel technologies for aircraft systems, aircraft electrification
  • Mamoun Medraj
    • Concordia Institute of Aerospace Design & Innovation
    • Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Water droplet impingement erosion, hydrogen embrittlement, 3D printing of metals, solid state hydrogen storage
  • Christian Moreau
    • Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Thermal Spraying, Coatings, Properties / Microstructure Relationship, Industrial Applications of Coatings, Particle Diagnostics, Optical, Sensors, Optical Pyrometry, Control of Thermal Spray Processes

  • Sivakumar Narayanswamy
    • Professor and M. Eng & M.A.Sc. Program Director, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Measurement of surface roughness, profile and length using laser interferometry, dynamic characterization of vibrating objects, characterization of MEMS devices. In Micromachining: Pulsed Laser micromachining of photonic devices such as surface relief gratings, fiber bragg gratings and feature size reduction by direct machining
  • Hoi Dick Ng
    • Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Combustion; explosion; detonation and deflagration; shock waves physics; alternative fuel research; energetic materials; theoretical and computational fluid dynamics; applied mathematics, numerical methods
  • Muthukumaran Packirisamy
    • Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    • Concordia Institute of Aerospace Design & Innovation
    Research areas: Optical MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems), PVDF MEMS, Microphotonics, Dynamics of Microsystems, Integrated Microsensors and Microactuators, Silicon Micromachining, Fuzzy System Identification of Microsystems, Design and manufacturing.
  • Alexandre Paradis
    • Extended-Term Appointment, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
  • Marius Paraschivoiu
    • Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Computational fluid dynamics; finite element methods for fluid simulations; aerodynamic simulations; wind energy; acoustic simulations; parallel computing; turbulence modeling.
  • Martin D. Pugh
    • Professor and Chair of the Department, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Plastics, ceramics, metals, and composites; materials science; properties and failure of materials; casting, welding, heat-treating and non-destructive testing.
  • Subhash Rakheja
    • Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Human response to vibration and shock; vehicle dynamics; optimization and vibration control in system design; directional control and stability of commercial vehicles; driver-vehicle interactions; power tools and hand-transmitted vibration; seating dynamics and driver vibration; semi-active and active vibration control; vehicle and ride dynamics; vehicle suspension analysis;
  • Wael Saleh
    • Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
  • Tommaso Schettini
    • Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Electric Vehicle Charger Location, Public Transit, Timetabling of Metro Lines, Operations Research, Integer and Combinatorial Optimization, Discrete Simulation-based Optimization, Benders Decomposition
  • Ramin Sedaghati
    • Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Smart Materials and Structures (Adaptive Structures); Adaptive Energy Absorption Systems using Smart ER/MR Fluids; Design Optimization of Lightweight Metallic or Composite Structures; Computational Mechanics (Finite Element Method)
  • Farjad Shadmehri
    • Associate Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Composite structures: analysis, design & testing; Composite materials; Automated manufacturing of composites; Automated Fiber Placement (AFP); Aircraft structures
  • Navid Sharifi
    • Lecturer, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
  • Ion Stiharu
    • Director of CONCAVE
    • Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Design and manufacturing; dynamics; micromachining and micromechanics; tribology; high precision mechanics; intelligent vehicle systems; micromechatronic devices; microsensors (acoustic, acceleration, pressure, humidity); microtribology; nonconventional lubrication methods; sensors and detection systems.
  • Chun-Yi Su
    • Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Control systems; mechatronics; precision engineering; robotics; process dynamics and control; linear systems.
  • Hamid Taghavifar
    • Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs); Robotics; Control Systems; Mechatronics; Artificial Intelligence (AI); Reinforcement Learning; Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • Moussa Tembely
    • Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Multiphase Flows, CFD, Flow in Porous Media, Machine and Deep Learning, Thermal Spray, Icing
  • Brian Vermeire
    • Associate Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Computational fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, high-performance computing, turbulence, numerical methods, applied mathematics, optimization, large eddy simulation, direct numerical simulation.
  • Sorin Voiculescu
    • Lecturer, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
  • Christopher Yee WONG
    • Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Human-Robot Interaction, Robot Kinematics, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Affective Computing, Engineering Education
  • Rolf Wuthrich
    • Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    • Head of EGE group, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    • Professor, Chemical and Materials Engineering
    Research areas: Non traditional manufacturing processes, glass micro-machining, electrochemical discharges, micro-systems , nano-particles, gas evolving electrodes, stochastic process modelling, multi-physics modelling, nanostructured electro-catalysts, hydrogen production, fuel-cells.
  • Wen-Fang Xie
    • Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Dynamic modeling and control, Mechatronics, Visual Servo Control, Soft Computing Techniques, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, Hybrid Electric Vehicle, Industrial Process Control and Flight control.
  • Hang Xu
    • Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Mechanical Metamaterials, Lightweight Structures, Aircraft Structure Design, Multi-scale Mechanics of Materials, Multi-material Additive Manufacturing, and Soft Robotics
  • Yassine Yaakoubi
    • Assistant Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Machine Learning-Augmented Optimization, Probabilistic Machine Learning, Large-Scale Combinatorial Optimization, Stochastic Programming, Uncertainty Quantification, Supply/Value Chain Optimization, Decision Support for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation, Mining and Aviation Applications, Intelligent Transportation Systems.
  • Behrooz Yousefzadeh
    • Associate Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    Research areas: Mechanical vibration, nonlinear dynamics, elastic wave propagation, mechanical metamaterials, applied mechanics, nonlinear waves, stability analysis, architectural acoustics.
  • Youmin Zhang
    • Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
    • Concordia Institute of Aerospace Design & Innovation
    Research areas: Monitoring, Fault Diagnosis and Fault Tolerant Control of Safety-critical Systems (air, land, ground, surface/underwater, and autonomous vehicles etc.); Avionics and Flight Control; Industrial Process Control; Modeling and Simulation of Physical Systems; Estimation, Identification and Information Fusion Techniques; Advanced Signal Processing Techniques for Diagnosis and Control; Mechatronics;

Our part-time faculty members have access to a common office located at EV3.238. The phone number for this room is 514-848-2424 ext. 3462. However, as these professors are part-time and not always on campus, it is best to consult your course outline for preferred office hours or contact your professor by email to make an appointment.

Summer 2025-26

Professor's Name Course E-mail address
Aziz, Ali MIAE 215/1 CC ali.aziz@concordia.ca 
Foroughi, Shervin ENGR 311/AA shervin.foroughi@concordia.ca
Gauthier, Pierre MECH 370/1 CC and MECH 6111/1 CC pierre.gauthier1@concordia.ca
Hamidi, Hamid AERO 417/ENGR 6421/1 AA hamid.hamidi@concordia.ca 
Khamsepour, Peyman MECH 6501/1 AA peyman.khamsepour@concordia.ca
Rembacz, Michael MIAE 311/1 AA michael.rembacz@concordia.ca 
Sabih, Amar MECH 6491/1 CC amar.sabih@concordia.ca
Tadayon, Rahim ENGR 243/1 AA and ENGR 245/1 AA rahim.tadayon@concordia.ca 
Talla, Malleswara Rao ENGR 301/1 CC malleswara.talla@concordia.ca
Taraboulsi, Choucri-Gabriel MECH 6491/1 AA gabriel.taraboulsi@concordia.ca
Tardy, Francois ENGR 251/1 CW francois.tardy@concordia.ca 

Winter 2024-25

Professor's Name Course E-mail address
Azami, Aria INDU 424/4-W aria.azami@concordia.ca
Engin, Serafettin MECH 6421/4-WW Serafettin.engin@concordia.ca
Gauthier, Pierre AERO 455/4 T and  MECH 6961/4 WW pierre.gauthier1@concordia.ca
Girgis, Sami with Raja Rama Murthy AERO 465/MECH 6161/4-XX raja.ramamurthy@pwc.a
Joshi, SuraJ ENGR 244/4 T suraj.joshi@concordia.ca 
Obuchowicz, Ted MIAE 215/4 YY ted.obuchowicz@concordia.ca 
Portaro, Rocco MECH 414/MECH6611/4 XX rocco.portaro@concordia.ca
Rembacz, Michael MIAE 313/4 M michael.rembacz@concordia.ca 
Sabih, Amar INDU 411/4 X amar.sabih@concordia.ca
Sabour, Mohammad ENGR 243/4 T sabour@encs.concordia.ca
Sadouk, Said AERO 446/MECH 6241/4 X said.sadouk@concordia.ca 
Tardy, Francois MECH 343/4 MM francois.tardy@concordia.ca
Vaidya, Viwek MECH 6541/4-X and  MECH 6541/4-XX Viwek.vaidya@concordia.ca

Fall 2024-25

Professor’s Name

Course

E-mail address
Fenster, Richard MIAE 215/2 T richard.fenster@concordia.ca
Gauthier, Pierre ENGR 6201/2 XX, MECH 461/MECH 6111/2 XX pierre.gauthier1@concordia.ca
Ghoreshilangrodi, Seyedramin ENGR 6251/2 M ramin.ghoreishi@concordia.ca
Joshi, Suraj ENGR 311/2 X and MECH 352/2 N suraj.joshi@concordia.ca
Khamsepour, Peyman MECH 6501/2 X peyman.khamsepour@concordia.ca
Nasrallah, Danielle MECH 371/2 F  danielle.nasrallah@gmail.com danielle.nasrallah@opal-rt.com
Obuchowicz, Ted MIAE 215/2 XX ted.obuchowicz@concordia.ca
Portaro, Rocco MIAE 311/2 TT rocco.portaro@concordia.ca
Sharifi, Shahram ENGR 301/2 G & INDU 330/2 X shahram.sharifi@concordia.ca 
Tardy, Francois MECH 412/2 NN francois.tardy@concordia.ca
Tata, Viswanath AERO 417/ENGR 6421/1 MM viswanath.tata@concordia.ca

Name Title Contact
Dr. Rama Bhat Distinguished Professor Emeritus  
Dr. Henry Hong Associate Professor Emeritus  

Farhad Aghili, PhD McGill University
Ali Dolatabadi, PhD University of Toronto
Dayong Gao, PhD Concordia University
Anirban Ghosh, PhD Jawaharlai Nehru University
Ashok Kaushal, PhD Concordia University
Nicole Viola, PhD Politecnico di Torino
Weixing Yuan, PhD University of Munich

Associate Professors

Yong (Eric) Chen, PhD Nanjing University
Amien Gheribi, PhD Aix-Marseille University

Affiliate Assistant Professors

Jayan Ozhikandathil, PhD Concordia University
Rocco Portaro, PhD Concordia University

 
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