Sara McMains
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

A.B. Harvard University ’91
Ph.D. UC Berkeley ’00

Expertise: Geometric and solid modeling; Computer Aided Design; Computer Aided Manufacturing; Computer Aided Process Planning; layered manufacturing; computer graphics and visualization; virtual prototyping; virtual reality.

Tarek Zohdi
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering

B.S. Louisiana State University ’89
Ph.D. University of Texas ’97

Expertise: Micro-structural/macro-property inverse problems involving optimization and design of new materials; modeling and simulation of strongly coupled multified processes in multiphase systems; multiscale modeling of microheterogeneous materials; computational and statistical testing methods; modeling and simulation of aging solids.