- Last Name Starting With: S
Data structures, design and analysis of algorithms, cache optimized algorithms, parallel and distributed computing, high performance computing, packet routing and classification, mobile computing interconnection networks, VLSI, CAD, medical algorithms.
Formal methods, software specification and verification, parallel and distributed systems, object-oriented programming.
Composite materials and structures, impact-fracture- and micro-mechanics, textile composites, sandwich construction, functionally graded materials, thermal structures.
Soft tissue biomechanics, physiologic fluid flow, and macromolecular drug delivery.
W. Gregory Sawyer received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He joined the University of Florida’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 1999. Dr. Sawyer is a fellow of National Academy of Inventors (NAI), and a member of the University of Florida Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars.…
Thermochemical and electrochemical energy conversion processes, solar driven thermochemical redox cycles for H2 and syngas production, defect chemistry and thermodynamics of nonstoichiometric oxides, solid oxide fuel cells, solid oxide membrane separations, reaction kinetics
Databases in general; spatial databases, spatio-temporal databases, fuzzy databases, extensible databases; applied computational geometry, visual languages.
Water resources engineering; hydraulic transportation and conveyance design; beneficial management of reclaimed water and nutrients; water and nutrient utilization by crops; non-linear model development and analysis.
Manufacturing, Controls, Machine systems, Off-highway vehicles.
Robotics, machine intelligence, autonomous mobile agents, embedded systems, digital design, controls.
Fluid mechanics, combustion, fluid diagnostics, aircraft design.
Interfacial phenomena in
engineering, biomedical systems.
Wireless communications, adaptive modulation and coding, multicast
signaling, multimedia transmission over wireless channels, channel-quality
estimation,
and spread-spectrum communications.
Sheng is a hurricane expert working with Florida counties in flood zone preparation. He uses hurricane wind forecasts
and data to study and predict storm surge, waves and coastal flooding during hurricanes.
Microelectromechanical systems, experimental fluid dynamics and acoustics.
Fluid-structure interaction, structure-induced sediment scour, eolian
sand transport.
Ocean waves, nearshore waves, wave-sediment interaction.
Heat and mass transfer, thermodynamics, thermal systems design and optimization, refrigeration and cryogenics, HVAC.
Watershed hydrology, field and watershed scales effects on BMPs, water quantity/quality monitoring, hydrologic modeling, irrigation and drainage.
Colloid and interfacial chemistry, powder processing, surface
chemical modification, thin films, polymers and ceramics, rapid
prototyping.