Florian Solzbacher

    Gerald and Barbara Stringfellow Endowed Professor

    • Phone: 801-581-6942
    • Email: florian.solzbacher@utah.edu
    • Office: MEB 2110C

    Harsh Environment MEMS, including: materials (SiC (on Si), SOI, GaN), metallisation systems for high temperatures and aggressive ambient conditions, and silicon fusion bonding and packaging issues

    Jamesina Simpson

    Associate Chair

    • Phone: 801-585-6929
    • Email: jamesina.simpson@utah.edu
    • Office: MEB 2278

    Computational electromagnetics theory and applications; finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) solutions to Maxwell's equations from near-DC to light; electromagnetic propagation in the Earth-ionosphere waveguide; electromagnetic compatibility; plasmonics; biophotonics

    Berardi Sensale-Rodriguez

    • Phone: 801-585-5657
    • Email: berardi.sensale@utah.edu
    • Office: MEB 2134

    EM and optics: terahertz technology, high frequency electronics, two dimensional materials, active metamaterials, plasmonics, and nanophotonics

    David Schurig

    Director of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Professor

    • Email: david.schurig@utah.edu
    • Office: MEB 2274

    Metamaterials: Design, analysis and fabrication of metamaterials in frequency ranges from megahertz to petahertz. Transformation design of devices implementable with metamaterials. Applications include: remote sensing, near-field imaging, biological imaging, implantable devices, electro-mechanical devices and invisibility cloaking.

    Mike Scarpulla

    Professor

    • Phone: 801-585-1231
    • Email: scarpulla@eng.utah.edu
    • Office: MEB 2138

    Semiconductors and photovoltaics: earth-abundant, benign compound semiconductors for thin film photovoltaics such as Cu2ZnSnS4. Other sulfide semiconductors for PV, light management for thin film PV, CIGS, laser processing of semiconductors, and the physics of semiconductor alloys and transition metal and rare earth additions to semiconductors.

    Mostafa Ardakani

    Associate Professor

    • Phone: 801-587-8883
    • Email: mostafa.ardakani@utah.edu
    • Office: MEB 2218

    Power and energy systems: electricity markets, energy economics, energy policy, power and energy systems, power system optimization, smart grid, transmission networks.

    Angela Rasmussen

    Director of Mentoring & Advising

    • Phone: 801-581-6952
    • Email: angela.rasmussen@utah.edu
    • Office: MEB 2268

    Microelectronics and VLSI Systems

    Masood Parvania

    Roger P. Webb Endowed Associate Professor

    • Phone: 801-585-0030
    • Email: masood.parvania@utah.edu
    • Office: MEB 2222

    Operation and planning of cyber-physical power and energy systems, with emphasis on the modeling and integration of distributed energy resources, as well as sustainable renewable energy integration

    John Palmer

    Associate Professor (Lecturer)

    • Phone: 801-581-7350
    • Email: john.a.palmer@utah.edu
    • Office: MEB 2130

    Power System Protection: cause and origin analysis of electrical accidents, electrical equipment failures, electrical fires, structural fires, vehicle fires, and explosions

    Neda Nategh

    Associate Professor

    • Phone: 801-213-3675
    • Email: neda.nategh@utah.edu
    • Office: MEB 2220

    Visual computation and computational vision: Research in our lab employs an interdisciplinary approach to understand the real-time, robust, and efficient visual computations performed by our natural vision and to translate this knowledge into computational vision frameworks for machine vision applications, artificial vision solutions, and imaging systems.