Meet Our Faculty

Department of Mechanical Engineering

  • Mehdi Darehbidi wears a dark suit, striped tie, and glasses in his faculty profile for the Department of Mechanical Engineering
    Mehdi Amiri Darehbidi

    Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Research Interests: Fatigue and Fracture, electrochemistry and corrosion, computational materials, reliability, thermodynamics and heat transfer, failure mechanics.
  • Shaghayegh Bagheri wears a black cardigan and white blouse in her faculty profile for the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
    Shaghayegh Bagheri

    Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Research Interests: Additive Manufacturing, advanced materials, failure mechanics
  • Ali Beheshti wears a dark suit, blue tie, and glasses in his faculty profile for the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
    Ali Beheshti

    Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Research Interests: Additive Manufacturing, advanced materials, failure mechanics
  • Colleen Berg wears glasses and a light blue shirt for her faculty profile in the ME department.
    Colleen Berg

    Instructor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Colleen Berg has been an instructor in Mechanical Engineering since 2006.
  • Juan Cebral wears a navy-blue sweat jacket and green shirt in his faculty profile for the Department of Mechanical Engineering
    Juan Cebral

    Professor, Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering

    Research Interests: Stroke, cerebral aneurysms, blood flow, image-based modeling, patient-specific modeling, computational fluid dynamics, hemodynamics, modeling medical devices
  • Missy Cummings wears a black shirt and has light-brown hair in her faculty profile for the CEC at M
    Missy Cummings

    Professor, and Director of Mason Autonomy and Robotics Center (MARC)

    Missy Cummings will be the new director of the Center for Robotics, Autonomous Systems, and Translational AI
  • Pei Dong wears a mustard-yellow shirt, dark suit and glasses in her faculty profile for the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
    Pei Dong

    Assistant Professor

    Research Interests: Sensors, micro/nano mechanics, soft robotics
  • Zelalem Eshete wears a light suit and shirt in his faculty profile for the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
    Zelalem Eshete

    Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Zelalem Eshete is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
  • Robert Handler wears a dark suit and yellow tie in his faculty profile for the Department of Mechanical Engineering
    Robert Handler

    Professor and Director of Graduate Programs, Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Research Interests: Theoretical and computational fluid mechanics, turbulence, laser propagation through random media, viscoelastic flows, acoustics, geophysical fluid mechanics, micro-fluidics
  • George Hazelrigg wears a dark suit and tie in his faculty profile for Mason's Mechanical Engineering department
    George Hazelrigg

    Adjunct Professor and Affiliate Faculty, Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Research Interests: Systems Engineering Theory and Engineering Design Decision Making.