Instructors for Capstone Design (ME 450)

Fall 2024 and Winter 2025

Expertise and Interests:
mechanical design; precision engineering; human-centered design; mechatronic systems; robotics; medical devices; modular prostheses; micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS)

Email: awtar@umich.edu

Phone: (734) 615-0285

Winter 2025

Expertise and Interests:
The research focuses on lightweight materials, with emphasis on developing micro- and nanocellulose composites, natural fiber composites and associated manufacturing processes for automotive and aerospace applications, multi-scale modeling of materials and simulation of forming processes, manufacturing of personalized dental ligaplants. 

Email: mbanu@umich.edu

Phone: (734) 936-0378 

Fall 2024

Expertise and Interests:
control theory and applications; iterative learning control; multi-agent systems; human/robot collaborations; smart manufacturing; manufacturing robotics; high-performance micro/nano-scale printing for electrical and biomedical applications

Email: bartonkl@umich.edu 

Phone: (734) 764-7293

Winter 2025

Expertise and Interests:
automotive engineering

Email: ahyde@umich.edu

Phone: (313) 300-3604

Fall 2024

Expertise and Interests:
aeronautical engineering; aerospace engineering

Email: bakish@umich.edu

Phone: (734) 763-0036

Fall 2024

Expertise and Interests:
design for health; front-end design methods and processes; design justice; global health equity; stakeholder co-design

Email: kramerju@umich.edu

Phone: (734) 763-9688

Fall 2024

Expertise and Interests:
mechamatronic system design methodology; smart materials and structures; inflatable structures and devices

Email: jluntz@umich.edu 

Phone: (734) 615-3889

Winter 2025

Expertise and Interests:
design; fabrication; control and evaluation of human assist devices; gait analysis; biomechanics; instrument design

Email: kshorter@umich.edu 

Phone: (734) 764-8449 

Fall 2024 and Winter 2025 (Lead Instructor)

Expertise and Interests:
environmental and sustainable technology systems; life cycle product design optimization; pollution prevention technologies for manufacturing; metalworking; membrane filtration; technology policy analysis

Email: skerlos@umich.edu

Phone: (734) 615-5253

Winter 2025

Expertise and Interests:
Energy justice and equity, sustainable energy and mobility systems, human-centered design methods, design need finding, socially-engaged design, community engagement, optimization, cost modeling, agent-based modeling, uncertainty quantification, multi-attribute decision making, energy policy. 

Email: syalsm@umich.edu 

Phone: (734) 936-1675

Fall 2024

Expertise and Interests:
physics-based modeling for advanced manufacturing processes; computational fluid dynamics; computational materials modeling for additive manufacturing; welding, casting, powder metallurgy; and electrohydrodynamic printing processes

Email: wendatan@umich.edu