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Faculty

CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING
• Dr. Christos Georgakis, Department Head (cgeorgak@poly.edu). http://cbse.poly.edu
• Biomedical Engineering Major technological advances in the practice of both engineering and medicine are vastly improving the way patients are cared for, and this is opening up unprecedented career opportunities that straddle both disciplines. (http://www.poly.edu/biomed/index.cfm) Chemistry and Materials Chemistry and Science The once classical divisions of chemistry-organic, inorganic, analytical, and physical-now are increasingly overlapped into interdisciplinary fields such as biochemistry, electrochemistry, photochemistry, polymer chemistry, solid-state chemistry, and chemical physics. Chemical Engineering and Polymer Science and Engineering These educational and research programs fulfill the present trends with novel molecules, advanced properties and processes and high-quality optimization. Polytechnic University was the first place in the world to offer education in polymer science. Informatics in Chemistry and Biology Bioinformatics is a relatively new branch of science that organizes and interprets the overwhelming amount of data now available on living organisms as a result of the human genome project.

• Research areas: Polymer blends and gels, polymer fibers, polymer synthesis, degradation, polymer miscibility, membranes, carbohydrate structure, macromolecular stereochemistry, protein, molecular modeling, polypeptides, thermal analysis, plasma polymerization, biocatalysis, nonlinear optics and multiphoton spectroscopy, insite monitoring processes, surface engineering, viscoelasticity, rheology, conductive polymers, polymer interactions, molecular weight separations, phosphorus and flammability.

CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
• Roger Roess, Department Head (rroess@poly.edu). http://www.poly.edu/cee
• Construction Management (Exec 21) The Construction Management Program is designed to train and build the next industry executives. (Pooyan Aslani, Program Manager: paslan01@utopia.poly.edu. WWW: http://media.poly.edu/Exec21/index/html) Environmental Engineering and Science These programs emphasize professional practice at an advanced level, while providing potential Ph.D. students with advanced theoretical material sufficient to prepare them for independent research. (http://cities.poly.edu) Transportation Management The program is intended for practicing professionals who deal with a transportation system or agency and/or facility management. Transportation Planning and Engineering These programs emphasize professional practice at an advanced level, while providing potential Ph.D. students with advanced theoretical material sufficient to prepare them for independent research.

• Research areas: Uncertainty propagation and wetting front instability in unsaturated porous media, experimental and analytical investigation of displacement and dispersion in radial flow through porous media, dispersion modeling, water-supply operations, infrastructure engineering, nondestructive integrity analysis of multilayer concrete slabs using SASW method, modeling 3-D flow and soil structure using optical tomography, fiber-reinforced recycled plastic substitutes for wood poles, decision making for urban infrastructure performance, seismic behavior of micropile systems, highway capacity, freeway facilities planning, urban ITS strategies and implementation, real-time traffic control.

COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
• Stuart Steele, Department Head (ssteele@rama.poly.edu). http://cis.poly.edu
• Computer Science CIS serves as the foundation of practically all information technology and its related fields. The CIS academic department is the school's largest in terms of enrolled students, faculty members, and courses offered. Telecommunications Networks Telecommunications is a rapidly growing field. Recent challenges include gigabit optical networks, multimedia communications and wireless network access.

• Research areas: Algorithms and complexity: computational geometry, combinatorial optimization, parallel algorithms, learning theory, applied algorithmics; visual information processing: computer vision, image processing, image compression, graphics, visualization, multimedia; software engineering: software testing, verification, and security; database information retrieval: database systems, client server databases, data mining, text categorization, Web search and analysis; parallel and distributed computing; wireless and mobile computing; computer architecture.

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
• Henry Bertoni, Department Head (hbertoni@duke.poly.edu). http://www.eeweb.poly.edu
• Computer Engineering The program educates professionals and researchers in computer engineering by offering graduate courses that meet the current and projected needs of industry and government in the metropolitan New York area. Electrical Engineering These programs are designed for working professionals who want the best education available but face limitations on their time and require a convenient setting. Polytechnic's ECE Programs provide maximum flexibility in scheduling and location. Electrophysics The electrophysics program is intended to prepare students to work at the interface between electrical engineering and physics, where new engineering applications of various physical phenomena are developed. Emphasis is placed on wave propagation, electrooptics, and plasmas. Systems Engineering Systems engineering is based on the body of theoretical knowledge that underlies the engineering of modern complex systems. Systems engineering applies this body of knowledge to designing systems, usually involving the integration of several disciplines to achieve the desired design objective.

• Research areas: Control and robotics, fields and waves, power, image processing, signal processing, telecommunications and high-speed networks, wireless communications, local area networks, VLSI, wireless propagation, video networks.

HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
• Harold P. Sjursen, Department Head (hsjursen@poly.edu). http://ls.poly.edu
• Environment-Behavior Studies Environment-Behavior Studies applies the methods and knowledge of the behavioral sciences to understand the relationship between people and the built or natural environment. This program is aimed at training students to be capable of addressing socio-technical problems in a variety of research and applied settings. Students with training and expertise in design, technical, or scientific areas are encouraged to apply. Technical and Professional Communication Skilled writers have never been in such demand as they are today. Being a technical and professional communicator means a new world full of professional opportunities, sought after by companies in wide-ranging fields as diverse as finance, education, manufacturing and pharmaceuticals.

MANAGEMENT
• F.H. (Bud) Griffis, Department Chair (griffis@poly.edu).http://www.ite.poly.edu/mg/mngt.cfm
• Management The Management Program incorporates the Internet and technology management as key focal points. Going beyond traditional management programs, the curriculum emphasizes understanding and utilizing technology and innovation that is critical for all modern managers. Executive Master's programs in Management of Technology and in Telecommunications and Information Management are offered on the weekends. Organizational Behavior Polytechnic's Organizational Behavior (OB) Program is designed to prepare human resource professionals and managers for today's technology-driven work environment in the knowledge-based economy. Polytechnic OB students include human resource practitioners who need to update or broaden their qualifications as well as career-changers with diverse backgrounds who wish to acquire the expertise to enter a new field. Financial Engineering This program, for both working professionals and full-time students who want to enter the field of financial services, teaches quantitative modeling theory unified with real-world financial applications.

MATHEMATICS
• Erwin Lutwak, Department Head (elutwak@poly.edu). http://simplex.poly.edu
• Mathematics Mathematics plays a constantly increasing role in our rapidly changing technological world. A solid background in mathematics is critical for adapting to new ideas and paradigms in science and technology. The graduate curriculum in mathematics that provides not only a solid foundation in mathematics but also extensive exposure to how mathematics is used in other fields of science and engineering.

• Research areas: Cramer-Rao inequality for star bodies, L®MDSD¯p affine isoperimetric inequalities, Born-Infeld theory, Sobolev-type inequalities, Gunther's proof of the Nash's isometric imbedding theorem, Hibert's fourth problem in dimension two I, Crofton formulas and Gelfand transforms, locally symmetric Finsler spaces in negative curvature, space of geodesics of Zoll three-spheres.

MECHANICAL, AEROSPACE, AND MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING
• Said Nourbakhsh, Department Head (snourbak@poly.edu). http://media.poly.edu/mechanical/page/template/mechanical.html
• Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering These programs provide students with a unique combination of in-depth quantitative and qualitative theory with the rigorous training needed to apply this knowledge in real-world situations. Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Mechanical engineering develops physical systems and devices-everything from air conditioners to satellites to rocket engines to robots. Aerospace engineering focuses on the design and performance of aircraft, missiles, and spacecraft.

• Research areas: Phase transormation, electrom microscopy, mechanical behavior, composite materials, smart materials, ferroelectric thin films, alloys, intermetallic materials, hybrid simulation, computational mechanics, thermal fluids, energy systems, robotics, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, laser diagnostics, product design, computational methods, manufacturing processes, high-speed flow, dynamics and vibration, pulsed lasers, engineering economics.