Mechanical Engineering Faculty

The faculty section offers an alphabetical listing of faculty in the Mechanical Engineering Department.

Dr. Chean Chin Ngo Ngo, Chean Chin
Department Chair & Professor 
Room: E-100E 
Phone: (657) 278-3014
Email: chngo@fullerton.edu

Dr. Chean Chin Ngo received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma in 2006. His teaching interests are in the areas of thermal-fluid sciences, alternative energy and numerical modeling. Dr. Ngo’s current research interest focuses on transport phenomena in porous media, heat and mass transfer enhancement using electric field and multimedia technology in engineering education & K-12 STEM education. Prior to joining Cal State Fullerton, Dr. Ngo was a visiting assistant professor at the University of North Dakota from 2008-2010 and a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Oklahoma in 2007.

 

Dr. Darren BanksBanks, Darren
Associate Professor
Room: E-313
Phone: (657) 278-7276
Email: dabanks@fullerton.edu

Dr. Darren Banks earned his B.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from UC Riverside in 2010 and 2015, respectively. His teaching interests are in fluid mechanics and heat transfer. His research is in phase-change cooling and optical cavitation applications. Dr. Banks served as a postdoctoral researcher investigating experimental techniques to characterize thermally-induced cavitation prior to coming to Fullerton.

 

Dr. Bingling HuangHuang, Bingling
Assistant Professor
Room: E-212
Phone: (657) 278-4010
Email: bihuang@fullerton.edu

Dr. Bingling Huang earned her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Southern California (USC) in 2023, and M.S. in Computer Science from the same university in 2021. Prior to that, she completed her M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering and B.Eng. in Aircraft Design and Engineering, both from Beihang University in 2018 and 2015, respectively. Her teaching interests include engineering graphics, digital computation, and solid mechanics. Dr. Huang’s research focuses on engineering design, complex and self-organizing systems, knowledge acquisition, and multiagent reinforcement learning and machine learning for industry applications. 

Dr. Sagil James James, Sagil
Associate Professor 
Room: E-409  
Phone: (657) 278-3337 Email:   sagiljames@fullerton.edu

Website: http://www.fullerton.edu/ecs/faculty/sagiljames/Opens in new window

Dr. James received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 2015. His teaching interests are in the areas of Manufacturing Processes, Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing (CAD/CAM) and Mechanics of Materials. His primary research areas are Advanced Manufacturing, Nanomanufacturing, Metrology, Process Modeling and Simulation. His doctoral research focused on the development of an innovative nanomachining process - Vibration Assisted Nano Impact-machining by Loose Abrasives (VANILA). He has also worked as a product engineer at Larsen and Toubro Limited in Mumbai, India.

 

Dr. jin woo lee

Lee, Jin Woo
Assistant Professor
Room: CS-303
Phone: (657) 278-5916
Email:   jinlee@fullerton.edu

Dr. Jin Woo Lee received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan, and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Binghamton University. His teaching interests include design processes, computer-aided design, manufacturing, and solid mechanics. Dr. Lee’s research focuses on design theory and methodology, product design, medical device design, creativity and innovation, front-end design processes, and engineering education. He was a National Institute of Health Fellow. Before pursuing his academic career, he designed and manufactured automated packaging machines.

 

Dr. Salvador Mayoral Mayoral, Salvador
Associate Professor
Room: E-414
Phone: (657) 278-2198
Email:   smayoral@fullerton.edu

Dr. Salvador Mayoral received his Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of California, Irvine in 2013. As a graduate student, Dr. Mayoral worked on the shielding of jet noise by a hybrid wing body aircraft. In 2014, Dr. Mayoral joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at California State University, Fullerton where he currently serves as an Assistant Professor. As the PI of the Wind Tunnel Laboratory, his research interests span the areas of aeroacoustics and ground effect aerodynamics. Currently, Dr. Mayoral is investigating the vortex dynamics of underbody diffuser flows in ground-effect, the diffraction of aeroacoustic noise sources from a momentum wake, and has recently expanded his interests into the hydrodynamics of marine life. Moreover, Dr. Mayoral is a CoPI of the NSF funded “Advancing Student Success by Utilizing Relevant Social-cultural and Academic Experiences for Undergraduate Engineering, Computer Science Students” (ASSURE-US) Project. Before joining the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dr. Mayoral worked as a Research and Development Engineer at Sonendo Inc. developing and testing medical devices for endodontics.

Sang June Oh Oh, Sang June
Professor
Associate Dean, College of Engineering and Computer Science
Room: CS-503  
Phone: (657) 278-7161  
Email:   sjoh@fullerton.edu 

Dr. Sang June Oh received his BS, MS, and PhD (2004) degrees in Mechanical Engineering, all from Columbia University.  His teaching interests are in the areas of control systems, vibrations, mechatronics, optimization, and applied mathematics.  Dr. Oh’s current research focuses on control applications in biomedical engineering, assistive technology, and iterative learning and repetitive control design for aerospace applications.  His previous academic experience includes postdoctoral research in Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University and Yale University, respectively.

 

Dr. Yong Seok ParkPark, Yong Seok
Associate Professor
Room: E-315
Phone: (657) 278-5745
Email: yopark@fullerton.edu

Dr. Yong Seok Park received his B.S. and M.S. degree from Sogang University in Korea. Dr. Park also obtained a M.S. degree at George Washington University and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Dr. Park's current research interest is in teaming science, design cognition, engineering design education, and STEM education research. Prior to joining California State Fullerton, Dr. Park was a postdoctoral research associate at Arizona State University.

Dr. Nina Robson Robson, Nina
Professor 
Room: E-406 
Phone: (657) 278-3723  
Email: nrobson@fullerton.edu
Website: ecs.fullerton.edu/~nrobson

Dr. Robson obtained her Ph.D. degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) in 2008. Prior to joining California State University, Fullerton (CSUF) in 2012, she was an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University (2009-2011).  

Dr. Robson is the director of the Human Interactive Robotics (HIR) lab at CSUF. Her research is in the areas of Kinematics, Mechanism Design and Robotics/Bio-robotics. She is a member of the organizing committee of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2018), as well as an elected general member of the International Federation for Promotion of Mechanisms and Machine Science (IFToMM) Computational Kinematics Technical Committee and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Mechanisms and Robotics Technical Committee.

Honors and awards received by Dr. Robson include Women in Robotics Ambassador (International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems) in 2014, Outstanding Engineering Educator (Orange County Engineering Council) in 2015, and the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) in 2018.

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Contact: Nina Robson at nrobson@fullerton.edu

 

 

Dr. Siheng Su Su, Siheng
Associate Professor 
Room: E-201A
Phone: (657) 278-2654
Email:   ssu@fullerton.edu

Dr. Siheng Su earned her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Texas Tech University in 2016. Her teaching interests are in the area of kinematics of mechanisms, mechanics of materials, and finite element methods. Her research interests focus on multifunctional nanomaterial development, biomolecule-nanomaterial interaction and 3D printing of artificial tissues and organs. Her doctoral research focused on the development of functional nanomaterials for brain cancer therapy. Dr. Su was an instructor at Texas Tech University.

Dr. Justin TranTran, Justin
Assistant Professor
Room: CS-526
Phone: (657) 278-8948
Email: justran@fullerton.edu

Dr. Justin Tran received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UCLA in 2013, his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UCSD in 2015, and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 2018. His teaching interests include fluid mechanics, numerical methods, biomechanics, and finite element methods. The subject of his doctoral dissertation was the verification, validation, and improvement of computational fluid dynamics tools for studying coronary artery disease. Currently, his research interests focus on the development and application of computational tools for studying cardiovascular disease.

Dr. Haowei Wang Wang, Haowei
Professor
Room: E-415
Phone: (657) 278-7913
Email: haowwang@fullerton.edu

Website: fullerton.edu/ecs/faculty/haowwang/ 

Dr. Haowei Wang received his B.Eng degree in Thermal Energy and Power Engineering from Southeast University in Nanjing China in 2008. He received his MS and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York in 2009 and 2012. His doctoral research was on combustion and in particular the autoignition of traditional and alternative jet fuels and jet fuel surrogates. He is the author of several publications and presentations in the field of combustion. Currently his research is focused on the combustion of traditional and alternative fuels and heat exchangers. He teaches primarily thermal-fluids related courses. 

Dr. Hope Weiss Weiss, Hope
Associate Professor
Room: E-413
Phone: (657) 278-2816
Email: hweiss@fullerton.edu

Dr. Hope Weiss earned her BS in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Cornell University (2006), and her MS and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley (2008, 2012 respectively). Dr. Weiss' doctoral work investigated mechanical damage from a cavitation microbubble, in and near a blood clot, under high intensity focused ultrasound for application to stroke patients. Her current research interests are focused in the areas of nonlinear dynamics and chaos, with application to environmental and biomedical systems. Dr. Weiss’ teaching interests are in the areas of (but not limited to) system dynamics and vibrations, controls, fluid mechanics, numerical methods, applied mathematics, and programming. Prior to joining Cal State Fullerton, Dr. Weiss was an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering department at the Milwaukee School of Engineering in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from 2012-2015.

Faculty Early Retirement Program

 

Professor Emeriti

  • Bazar, Andy Ph.D.

Email: abazar@fullerton.edu

  • Elsaden, Munir Ph.D.

Email: mechengoffice@fullerton.edu

  • Kreiner, Jesa Ph.D.

Email: kreiner@fullerton.edu

  • Krishnamurthy, Sundaram Ph. D.

Email: krish@fullerton.edu

  • Lancey, Timothy Ph.D.

Email: tlancey@fullerton.edu

  • Moini, Hossein Ph.D.

Email: moini@fullerton.edu

 

Staff 

Sarah Jordan
Administrative Support Coordinator I
Room: E-100
Phone: (657) 278-8390
Email: spjordan@fullerton.edu

Lorenzo Armas
Information Technology Consultant
Room: E-13C
Phone: (657) 278-7436
Email: larmas@fullerton.edu

Donald Ray
Laboratory Technician
Room: E-014B
Phone: (657) 278-5475
Email: doray@fullerton.edu 

Kevin Si 
Administrative Support Coordinator II
Room: E-100
Phone: (657) 278-4267
Email: kevinsi@fullerton.edu
Email: mechengoffice@fullerton.edu