Engineering faculty awarded professorships and fellowships

Early Career Professorships 

Early Career Professorships are awarded to junior faculty members whose research and teaching demonstrate exceptional promise. These professorships provide resources to advance their scholarly work and educational initiatives, enabling them to create exceptional learning experiences for students.

Marc Dandin

Dr. William D. and Nancy W. Strecker Early Career Endowed Professor

Dandin’s research interests lie at the intersection of microsystems engineering, integrated circuit design, and biomedicine. His research focuses on establishing new paradigms in technology integration for interfacing electronics with biological systems. His research objectives are two-fold: first, he seeks to learn from biology to design more efficient and smarter artificial sensing and actuation systems, and second, he aims to develop translational bioengineering approaches for enabling novel diagnostics methods and therapies that address unmet needs in medicine.

Katherine Flanigan

Henry Posner, Anne Molloy, and Robert and Christine Pietrandrea Career Development Chair in Civil and Environmental Engineering

Flanigan’s research draws upon tools and technologies from across disciplines to transform traditional civil infrastructure and urban systems into intelligent and adaptable cyber-physical systems. She focuses on integrating sensing, computing, and actuation technologies to improve the performance, resilience, accessibility, and sustainability of infrastructure and urban systems.

Destenie Nock

Alex Hills Career Development Professor of Engineering and Public Policy

Nock’s broad research interests are focused around using mathematical modeling tools to address societal problems related to sustainability planning, energy policy, and engineering for social good. She has a breadth of professional experience, having worked in industry, national labs, and government settings on issues related to energy systems and equity.

Dean’s Early Career Fellowships

Dean’s Early Career Fellowships are awarded to untenured faculty members who have been nominated by a department head and selected to receive the fellowship by the College of Engineering Review Committee.

Sneha Narra

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Narra’s research lies at the intersection of mechanical and materials engineering, with a primary focus on advancing the qualification and certification of metal additively manufactured parts to accelerate adoption in aerospace, energy, and other industries. To achieve this goal, her group works on process and material characterization, process planning, and real-time monitoring and control for powder- and wire-based metal additive manufacturing processes.

Thomas O’Connor

Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

O’Connor’s research aims to apply theory and simulation to understand the nanoscale structure and dynamics of plastics, gels, nanocomposites, and other soft matter in equilibrium and during flow and deformation. His research group uses a variety of computational methods, including molecular dynamics, lattice-Boltzmann Methods, and mesh-free hydrodynamics.

David Rounce

Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Rounce’s research seeks to quantify the response of glaciers, water resources, and hazards to climate change to inform adaptation and mitigation efforts at local, regional, and global scales. His work uses computational models informed by remote sensing and grounded in fieldwork to produce actionable information.