Faculty and Staff

Meet our mechanical and aerospace engineering faculty and staff.

Chair

  • Robert Gao, PhD, MS, BS

    Robert Gao, PhD, MS, BS

    Chair, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Case School of Engineering; Cady Staley Professor of Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Case School of Engineering

    Email: robert.gao@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.6045

Faculty

  • Ozan Akkus, PhD

    Ozan Akkus, PhD

    OMEGA Principal Investigator,; Kent H. Smith Professor , Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Case School of Engineering

    Email: ozan.akkus@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.4175

  • Richard Bachmann, PhD

    Richard Bachmann, PhD

    Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Case School of Engineering

    Email: richard.bachmann@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.4904

  • Paul Barnhart, PhD

    Paul Barnhart, PhD

    Associate Chair , Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Case School of Engineering; Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Case School of Engineering

    Email: paul.barnhart@case.edu

  • Changyong (Chase) Cao, PhD

    Changyong (Chase) Cao, PhD

    Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Case School of Engineering; Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Case School of Engineering

    Email: changyong.cao@case.edu

  • Sunniva Collins, PhD

    Sunniva Collins, PhD

    Associate Dean, Office of Professional Programs, Case School of Engineering; Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Case School of Engineering

    Email: sunniva.collins@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.4155

  • Kathryn Daltorio

    Kathryn Daltorio

    Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Case School of Engineering

    Email: kathryn.daltorio@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.6189

  • Umut Gurkan, PhD

    Umut Gurkan, PhD

    Wilbert J. Austin Professor of Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Case School of Engineering; Member, Population and Cancer Prevention Program, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center,

    Email: umut.gurkan@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.6447

  • Steve Hostler, PhD

    Steve Hostler, PhD

    Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Case School of Engineering

    Email: steve.hostler@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.0320

  • Chirag Kharangate, PhD

    Chirag Kharangate, PhD

    Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Case School of Engineering

    Email: chirag.kharangate@case.edu

  • Chengyu Li

    Chengyu Li

    Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Case School of Engineering

    Email: chengyu.li5@case.edu

  • Ya-Ting Liao, PhD, MS, BS

    Ya-Ting Liao, PhD, MS, BS

    Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Case School of Engineering

    Email: yating.liao@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.0048

  • Zachary Patterson

    Zachary Patterson

    Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Case School of Engineering

    Email: zpatt@case.edu

  • Roger Quinn, PhD

    Roger Quinn, PhD

    Distinguished University Professor and Arthur P. Armington Professor of Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Case School of Engineering; Director, Biologically Inspired Robotics, Case School of Engineering

    Email: roger.quinn@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.3222

  • Majid Rashidi

    Majid Rashidi

    Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Case School of Engineering

    Email: majid.rashidi@case.edu

  • Bryan Schmidt, PhD

    Bryan Schmidt, PhD

    Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Case School of Engineering

    Email: bryan.e.schmidt@case.edu

    Phone: 216.368.2943

  • Melinda Speers

    Melinda Speers

    Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Case School of Engineering

    Email: mal259@case.edu

  • Brian Taylor, PhD

    Brian Taylor, PhD

    Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Case School of Engineering

    Email: bkt2@case.edu

    Phone: 216-368-5787

  • Edward Wang

    Edward Wang

    Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Case School of Engineering

    Email: pxw206@case.edu

  • Chris Yingchun Yuan, PhD

    Chris Yingchun Yuan, PhD

    Leonard Case Jr. Professor , Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Case School of Engineering; Leonard Case Jr. Professor , Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Case School of Engineering

    Email: chris.yuan@case.edu

Emeritus

Staff

Research Faculty