Faculty

  • Carol Barry
    Carol Barry
    Chair, Professor
    Plastics Engineering

    Plastics processing, including extrusion, injection molding, and novel processing techniques; nanomanufacturing with polymers; 3D printing

  • Bridgette Budhlall, Ph.D.
    Bridgette Budhlall, Ph.D.
    Professor and Associate Department Chair for Graduate Programs
    Plastics Engineering

    Polymer colloids, soft matter, stimuli-responsive polymers, emulsion polymerization and water-based polymer coatings, inks and adhesives. Photoresist polymers for nanolithography, nanofluidic devices & microcapsules & hybrid nanoparticles for nanomedicine, biomedical devices, drug delivery devices and biosensors.

  • Amy Peterson, Ph.D.
    Amy Peterson, Ph.D.
    Professor, Associate Chair - Master's Studies
    Plastics Engineering

    Additive Manufacturing, Polyelectrolyte Processing, Cell-Material Interactions, Interfacial Phenomena, Packaging

  • Anne Soucy, D.Eng.
    Anne Soucy, D.Eng.
    Associate Teaching Professor, Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies
    Plastics Engineering
  • Amir Ameli
    Amir Ameli
    Associate Professor
    Plastics Engineering

    Processing: Additive Manufacturing/3D Printing, Compounding, Foaming, Injection Molding; Materials: Multifunctional Nanocomposites, Biopolymers & Biocomposites, Advanced Polymeric Foams

  • Wan-Ting (Grace) Chen, Ph.D.
    Wan-Ting (Grace) Chen, Ph.D.
    Associate Professor
    Plastics Engineering

    Plastics Recycling, Bioplastics, Microplastics, Safer Solvents and Chemicals, Biomass Conversion

  • Stephen Driscoll
    Stephen Driscoll
    Professor
    Plastics Engineering

    New polymeric materials, additives, fillers, economic evaluations, elastomers, & rheology

  • Stephen Johnston
    Stephen Johnston
    Professor
    Plastics Engineering

    Computer-aided engineering, computer-aided manufacturing, process control, injection molding, part design, mold design, finite element analysis

  • David Kazmer
    David Kazmer
    Professor
    Plastics Engineering

    Plastics product and process design, process simulation, instrumentation, and control

  • Akshay Kokil
    Akshay Kokil
    Assistant Teaching Professor
    Plastics Engineering

    Organic Chemistry, Polymer Chemistry, Polymer Science, Materials Science, Nanoscience & Technology, Opto-electronic devices, Photophysical characterization

  • Davide Masato, Ph.D.
    Davide Masato, Ph.D.
    Associate Professor with Tenure
    Plastics Engineering, SCORE
  • Joey Mead
    Joey Mead
    University Professor, Co-Director of Nanomanufacturing Center of Excellence; Deputy Director, NSF Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing; Center Director, SHAP3D
    Plastics Engineering

    Rubber technology, thermoplastic elastomers, design, properties and processing of elastomers, nano materials.

  • Ramaswamy Nagarajan, Ph.D.
    Ramaswamy Nagarajan, Ph.D.
    Distinguished University Professor, Co-Director of HEROES
    Plastics Engineering, HEROES, Fabric Discovery Center, PERC, Nanomanufacturing Center for Excellence, NERVE, RURI, LoCSST,

    Sustainable approaches to polymers, additives and multifunctional materials, structure-property-utility relationships of plastics and elastomers. Polymers and additives from renewable resources. Thermal & morphological characterization of materials, prototyping and scalable manufacture of flexible electronic products.

  • Jay Park
    Jay Park
    Associate Professor
    Plastics Engineering

    Polymer Processing, Multiscale Fiber Manufacturing, Electrospinning, Polymer Nanocomposite, Extrusion, Additive Manufacturing, Hierarchical Structural Assembly, Smart Textile.

  • Margaret Sobkowicz Kline, Ph.D.
    Margaret Sobkowicz Kline, Ph.D.
    Professor
    Plastics Engineering

    Renewable polymers, Plastics recycling, extrusion, nanocomposites, organic photovoltaics and electronics, rheology, scattering

  • Jinde Zhang, Ph.D.
    Jinde Zhang, Ph.D.
    Assistant Research Professor
    Nanomanufacturing Center

    Bio-inspired surface science and engineering; Roll-to-Roll processing for functional polymeric surface; High-rate manufacturing of polymer nanocomposites