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

    Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Research Interests: Fatigue and Fracture, electrochemistry and corrosion, computational materials, reliability, thermodynamics and heat transfer, failure mechanics.
  • Assistant Professor Shaghayegh Bagheri in a black cardigan and white blouse

    Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Research Interests: Additive Manufacturing, advanced materials, failure mechanics
  • Mason assistant professor Ali Beheshti

    Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Research Interests: Additive Manufacturing, advanced materials, failure mechanics
  • Mason Instructor Colleen Berg

    Instructor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Colleen Berg has been an instructor in Mechanical Engineering since 2006.
  • Mason Bioengineering professor 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
  • Professor and Director of MARC Missy Cummings

    Professor and Director of Mason Autonomy and Robotics Center (MARC); First American Bank Chair

    Missy Cummings will be the new director of the Center for Robotics, Autonomous Systems, and Translational AI
  • Mechanical engineering assistant professor Pei Dong

    Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Research Interests: Materials Science, Carbon Nanomaterials, Energy, Water, Biomedical
  • Mechanical engineering assistant professor Zelalem Eshete

    Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Zelalem Eshete is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
  • Mason mechanical engineering professor 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
  • A place holder photo of the George Mason statue for the faculty profile

    Adjunct Professor and Affiliate Faculty, Department of Mechanical Engineering

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