Department of Mechanical Engineering

Professor Eui-Hyeok Yang was recently named Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Sensors Council for the period of 2023-2025. Among several outstanding candidates, Yang was selected based upon his academic reputation, expertise, and insights into the future of sensor technology.

Yang’s experience with the world-renowned engineering organization is extensive. It includes his work as an editor of the IEEE Sensors Journal, his service on professional committees and as chair of several professional events. For his technical contributions to the scientific and engineering communities, he was awarded, among other honors, the Lew Allen Award for Excellence at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2003, and the IEEE Technical Achievement Award (Advanced Career) from the IEEE Sensors Council in 2020. Yang is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, and a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Yang is a prolific researcher who has brought $10 million in grant funding to Stevens. He has authored seven book chapters and served as editor-in-chief of an entire book, and has published more than 100 research articles in peer-reviewed journals. Additionally, he has given more than 150 conference presentations, and another 100 keynote and invited conference/workshop and seminar presentations.

Yang’s current research focuses on advanced quantum materials and sensing, which find critical applications in nanoscale sensors, spintronic memories, and spin photovoltaics.

Dr. Brendan Englot, Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, was recently appointed as Director of the Stevens Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI). The Stevens Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI) is an interdisciplinary, tech-driven collaboration of engineering, business, systems and design experts working toward solving pressing global problems in industry and the world. As director, Englot will, in coordination with SIAI’s steering committee, set the agenda and vision for SIAI, and further develop and grow the research enterprise as well as its educational programs.

Englot's research through the Robust Field Autonomy Lab focuses on designing perception and decision-making algorithms, optimization methods, and control systems that help mobile robots achieve robust autonomy in complex physical environments.

Englot has received several prestigious young investigator awards, including the NSF CAREER (2017) and ONR YIP (2020). He has also been serving as Geoffrey S. Inman Junior Professor since August 2018, an appointment that recognizes the excellence in his scholarly activities and quality of teaching, as well as his significant contributions to Stevens and his field of expertise.

Principal investigator (PI) Damiano Zanotto, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and co-PI Kishore Pochiraju, professor of mechanical engineering and associate dean for undergraduate studies, along with co-PI Dr. Karen Nolan of the Kessler Foundation, have recently been awarded a grant of $1.19 million from the Department of Defense for their project "Machine Learning Methods to Individualize Powered Orthotic Intervention for Improved Functional Recovery after Lower Extremity Trauma."