Engineering Faculty and Staff Directory
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All Engineering Faculty and Staff
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Susan M. Barton, Ph.D.
Professor, Mathematics Department
Susan.Barton@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Learning Resource Center, Room 323L
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Bernhard Bettig, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair, Mechanical Engineering Department
Bernhard.Bettig@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Learning Resource Center, Room 305E
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Deborah K Beutler, Ph.D.
Professor, Biology Department
Deborah.Beutler@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Life Sciences Building, Room 307B
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Rachel Brown
Academic Lab Manager II
Rachel.brown3@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Learning Resource Center 319A
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Deborah Chun, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair, Mathematics Department
Deborah.Chun@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Learning Resource Center, Room 323J
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William Church, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department
William.Church@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Learning Resource Center, Room 305C
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Melissa Craddock
Accounting Assistant II
Melissa.Craddock@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Monday and Wednesday – Physical Sciences Building, Room 302 Tuesday and Thursday – Life Sciences Building, Room 119 Friday (AM) – Physical Sciences Building, Room 302 Friday (PM) – Life Sciences Building, Room 119
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Asadollah Davari, Ph.D.
Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
Asad.Davari@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Learning Resource Center, Room 300M
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Brian Dickman, Ph.D., P.E.
Associate Professor, Civil Engineering Department
Brian.Dickman@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Learning Resource Center, Room 300
Dr. Dickman has over 27 years of private consulting and academic experience in water resources engineering and ecology. Before accepting a position with WVU Tech, he worked for several consulting firms in Kentucky and Georgia performing field surveys for jurisdictional wetlands, protected species and habitat studies. He also performed floodplain analysis using HEC-RAS and hydraulic analyses for wastewater treatment plants in Kentucky and bridge replacement projects in Georgia.
During his tenure at WVU Tech, Dr. Dickman has taught several classes including Hydraulic Engineering, Engineering Hydrology and sessions for FE review. Dr. Dickman is a registered professional engineer (P.E.) in Georgia and West Virginia. He received his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2008.
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Hasan El-Rifai, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair, Physical Sciences Department
Hasan.El-Rifai@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Physical Sciences Building, Room 302A
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Tarek Farhat, Ph.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Tarek.Farhat@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Physical Sciences Building, Room 311A, LRC 300V
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Lisa Ferrara, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Biology Department
Lisa.Ferrara@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Life Sciences Building, Room 307A
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L. J. Fox, III, M. S.
Adjunct Instructor, Mathematics Department
LJFox@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Learning Resource Center, Room 323I
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Winnie Fu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department
Winnie.Fu@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Learning Resource Center, Room 319L
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Nathan Galinsky, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering Department
ngalinsk@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Learning Resource Center, Room 305A
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Stephen Goodman, Ph.D.
Interim Associate Dean, Professor and Chair, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
stephen.goodman@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Learning Resource Center, Room 306C
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Kimberlyn Gray, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering Department
Kimberlyn.Gray@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Learning Resource Center, Room 305B
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BhanuKiran Gurijala, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Information Systems Department
BhanuKiran.Gurijala@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Learning Resource Center, Room 323T
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Guillermo D. Hahn, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Civil Engineering Department
Guillermo.Hahn@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Learning Resource Center, Room 300T
Dr. Hahn's engineering interests center on the analysis and design of structural systems against various phenomena including static loads and dynamic actions due to seismic ground motions, moving forces, water waves, and vortex induced excitations.
Before joining West Virginia University Institute of Technology, he had experience in academia and professional practice, having been a tenured faculty member in civil engineering at Vanderbilt University, and performed various roles in industry including engineering design, consulting and project management for building structures and deep-water offshore platforms and associated pipelines and risers for oil and gas production and transport.
Dr. Hahn can teach engineering courses in statics, mechanics of materials, mechanics of fluids, reinforced concrete design, steel design, structural analysis, and structural dynamics. With much interest in education and research, he received a Ph.D. in civil engineering from Rice University in 1986.
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Dr. Salam Hajjar
Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering
Office: Robert C. Byrd Learning Resource Center, Room 300G
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Kenan Hatipoglu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
Kenan.Hatipoglu@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Learning Resource Center, Room 300I
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J. T. Hird, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Mathematics Department
John.Hird@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Learning Resource Center, Room 323B
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James Hoffman
Academic Lab Manager I
JAHoffman@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Learning Resource Center, Room 300F
James has previously worked as a Fabrication Engineer/CADD Technician & CNC programmer for Kanawha Manufacturing Company (2009-2014) and as a CADD Technician & CNC programmer at Charleston Steel/Bismark Steel (2008-2009)
Education: WVU Tech college of Engineering graduate of 2008 in Mechanical Engineering B.S.
WVU Tech CTC (Now Bridgevalley) graduate of 2006 in Computer aided Drafting and design A.S. w/ Mechanical Emphasis. -
Caleb Holloway, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Mathematics Department
Caleb.Holloway1@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Learning Resource Center, Room 323C
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Scott Hurst, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Physical Sciences Department
Scott.Hurst@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Physical Sciences Building, Room 210A
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Deb Jackson
Administrative Secretary - Senior
Debbie.Jackson@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Learning Resource Center, Room 305
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Rana M. Jisr, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Physical Sciences Department
Rana.Jisr@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Physical Sciences Building, Room 409
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Shafique Khan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department
Shafique.Khan@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Learning Resource Center, Room 305F
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Taejin Kim, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Physical Sciences Department
Taejin.Kim@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Learning Resource Center, Room 300W
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Brian Leary, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Mathematics Department
Brian.Leary1@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Learning Resource Center, Room 323K
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Steven D. Leftwich, Ph.D., P.E., P.S.
Professor and Chair, Civil Engineering Department
Steve.Leftwich@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Learning Resource Center, Room 300N
Dr. Leftwich has over 39 years of industrial and academic experience in structural analysis and design of steel, reinforced concrete, masonry and timber structures. Before academia, he worked eight years for Bechtel National Inc. performing analysis and design of structures for nuclear waste repository, solar energy and space shuttle launch site projects.
During his tenure at WVU Tech, Dr. Leftwich has taught several classes including Statics, Dynamics, Mechanics of Materials, Fluid Mechanics, Surveying, Software Tools, Structural Analysis, Advanced Structural Analysis, Steel Design, Reinforced Concrete Design, Timber Design, Civil Engineering Projects and sessions for F.E. and P.E. reviews. Dr. Leftwich is a registered professional engineer (P.E.) in California and West Virginia and a licensed surveyor in West Virginia. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at the University of Virginia in 1980.
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Charan Litchfield, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
charan.litchfield@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Learning Resource Center, Room 300L
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Mingyu Lu, Ph.D.
Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
Mingyu.Lu@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Learning Resource Center, Room 300K
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Chris McClain, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Mathematics Department
Christopher.McClain@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Learning Resource Center, Room 323G
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Jonathan Mitchell, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Biology Department
Jonathan.Mitchell@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Life Sciences Building, Room 119B
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Amr Mohammed, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Civil Engineering Department
Amr.Mohammed@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Learning Resource Center, Room 300P
Dr. Amr Mohammed has over 16 years of private consulting and academic experience in transportation engineering, traffic engineering, public transit planning and traffic safety. He joined the Department of Civil Engineering at WVU Tech in 2012. He received his undergraduate civil engineering degree from Ain Shams University, Egypt (1998), his M.Sc. from the University of Central Florida (2002) and his Ph.D. in transportation engineering from the University of Toronto (2007).
Before accepting a position with WVU Tech, he worked for several consulting firms in Canada, Egypt and Dubai, in addition to several academic assignments as an adjunct professor. He has been involved in large scale public transit projects and traffic impact studies, performing traffic surveys and providing traffic engineering analysis. He also performed pedestrian/LRT Station analysis and traffic diversion analysis during construction for the first BRT to LRT transit conversion in the world, currently happening in Ottawa, Canada. Dr. Mohammed has been working in several countries for different international projects of different scales.
During his tenure at WVU Tech, Dr. Mohammed has taught several classes, including Traffic Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Surveying Highway Engineering and sessions for the FE review, in addition to introducing the GIS/GPS Applications course at WVU Tech.
Dr. Mohammed’s research interests in traffic/transportation engineering include public transit operations and planning, traffic safety and driver characteristics, traffic control devices and intersection analysis. He is a registered professional engineer (P. Eng.) in Ontario, Canada and a member of the American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) and the Transportation Research Board (TRB). -
John Tyler Moss, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Mathematics Department
JTMoss@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Learning Resource Center, Room 323E
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Ranjith A. Munasinghe, Ph.D.
Professor, Computer Science & Information Systems Department
Ranjith.Munasinghe@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Learning Resource Center, Room 323N
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Afrin Naz, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Computer Science & Information Systems Department
Afrin.Naz@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Learning Resource Center, Room 323S
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John Neary, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Biology Department
John.Neary@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Life Sciences Building, Room 307C
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Gifty Osei-Prempeh, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair, Chemical Engineering Department
Gifty.OseiPrempeh@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Learning Resource Center, Room 305G
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Michel Ouendeno, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Engineering Technology Department
Michel.Ouendeno@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Learning Resource Center, Room 300G
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Yogendra Panta, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department
Yogendra.Panta@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Learning Resource Center, Room 319M
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Sanish Rai, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Information Systems Department
Sanish.Rai@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Learning Resource Center, Room 323O
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Maegen Shults, M. S.
Teaching Instructor, Mathematics Department
Maegen.Shults@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Learning Resource Center, Room 323H
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Karen Skaggs
Administrative Associate, Office of the Dean
karen.skaggs@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Room 306D, Learning Resource Center
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Paul O. Steranka, Jr., D.Ing., P.E.
Interim Dean and Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department; Acting Chair, Engineering Technology Department
Paul.Steranka@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Learning Resource Center, Room 306E
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Ebenezer Tackey-Otoo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Ebenezer.tackeyotoo@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Learning Resource Center, Room 300C
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Keith Whitaker, J.D., P.E.
Associate Professor and Program Director, Construction Management
keith.whitaker@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Learning Resource Center - Room 300B
Keith Whitaker has over 20 years of construction and professional engineering experience and eight years of academic experience with a focus in Construction Engineering and Management. Mr. Whitaker holds both civil and structural engineering licenses in several states and comes to WVU Tech from positions at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, College of Engineering and Mines.
Prior to beginning his academic career, Mr. Whitaker served for nearly 20 years as president of a full-service A/E firm located in the state of Maine specializing in construction engineering and partnering in design build construction projects. He was raised in a family-owned New England commercial construction firm, obtained his BSCE from the University of Rhode Island and earned his JD from the University of Maine School Of Law.
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Susan Wittman
Program Assistant II
susan.wittmann@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Learning Resource Center, Room 323
Fax: 304.253.8984
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Adrienne Williams, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Biology Department
adrienne.williams@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Life Sciences Building, Room 119A
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Matthew Williams, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Biology Department
matthew.williams2@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Life Sciences Building, Room 119B
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Horng-Jyh (Tigra) Yang, Ph.D., P.E.
Associate Professor, Civil Engineering Department
Horng-Jyh.Yang@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Learning Resource Center, Room 300R
Dr. Horng-Jyh (Tigra)Yang joined the Department of Civil Engineering at WVU Tech in 2011. Dr. Yang received his undergraduate civil engineering degree from Chung Yung University and his M.S. from National Pingtung University of Science and Technology (NPUST) in Independent Taiwan. Before leaving his homeland, Dr. Yang practiced as a manager of the Civil Engineering Service Center at NPUST and served as a lieutenant in the Taiwan Army Corps of Engineers. Dr. Yang later earned his Ph.D. in geotechnical engineering from the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) in 2005. After obtaining his Ph.D., Dr. Yang served as a Lecturer and Manager of the Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory at UNR. While there, he taught geotechnical engineering courses both at the undergraduate and graduate levels and participated in soil liquefaction research. Dr. Yang also performed research on large scale soil-structure interaction under simulated earthquake motions.
Dr. Yang’s other research interests in geotechnical engineering include soil property characterizations, large scale soil-structure interaction, in-situ soil testing and geotechnical earthquake engineering. Dr. Yang is a registered professional engineer in the State of Nevada and a member of the American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) and the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI).
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Sihe Zhang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering Department
Sihe.Zhang@mail.wvu.edu
Office: Learning Resource Center, Room 305H
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Govindappa "Pat" Puttaiah, Ph.D. [Emeritus]
PROFESSOR EMERITUS, MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
Govindappa.Puttaiah@mail.wvu.edu
Office: