Leadership

Department Chair

  • Mechanical engineering associate professor Leigh McCue-Weil

    Professor and Department Chair, Department of Mechanical Engineering

    A trailblazer in naval engineering research and engineering education, Leigh McCue combines curiosity, storytelling, and teaching to foster a welcoming environment for the future STEM workforce.

Associate Chairs

  • assistant professor Ali Beheshti

    Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Research, Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Research Interests: Additive Manufacturing, Tribology, Multiscale Contact and Interface Mechanics, High Temperature Materials, Thin Films/Coatings, Surface Engineering, Failure Mechanics
  • Mason Instructor Colleen Berg

    Instructor and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Programs, Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Colleen Berg has been an instructor in Mechanical Engineering since 2006.
  • Mechanical engineering associate professor Jeffrey Moran

    Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Research Interests: Self-propelled nanoparticles, mechanobiology, extracellular matrix, microbiology, fluid dynamics, heat transfer