Research interests

The Department of Mechanical Engineering has more than 30 tenured and tenure-track faculty members engaged in a great variaty of interesting research areas.

Below are the four general categories of the research areas in the department. You can always contact the faculty member via email for specific information about the faculty member's expertise and recent reserach projects. Click on the name of the faculty member to access his/her webpage.

Applied Mechanics	Thermal Power	Renewable Energy	Mechatronics
Hazem S. Zibdeh - Professor	Bourhan M. Taschtouch- Professor	Ghassan M. Tashtoush- Professor Thermal power, renewable energy, industrial management fields using modeling and experimental approach	Mohammad A. Jaradat -Asc. Prof Robotics, Path Planning & Navigation, Intelligent systems & Control, Sensor fusion & Fault diagnosis.
Khaled R. Asfar - Professor	Ghassan M. Tashtoush- Professor Thermal power, renewable energy, industrial management fields using modeling and experimental approach	Mohamad I. Al-Widyan - Professor	Qais A. Khasawneh -Asc. Professor
Mohamed G. Al-Fandi- Professor	Khaled M. Bataineh - Professor	Suhil M. Kiwan - Professor Renewable Energy; Solar and wind energy, Energy Conversion and Conservation. Computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer; porous media; micro-and –nano-fluidics flows and heat transfer.	Wafa M. Batayneh- Asc. Professor Design, Implementation and control of different Mechanical/Mechatronics Systems.
Mohammad O. Othman- Professor	Mohammad A. Al-Nimr-D.professor		AHMAD M. ALSHORMAN-Ass. Prof Robot Locomotion, Path Planning, Mechatronics systems Design, Flexure Hinge Mechanism, Bio-Medical devices, Impact Mechanics with an emphasis on robotics.
Naim A. Khader- Professor	Mohammad K. Alkam- Professor		AHMAD M. BATAINEH- Ass. Prof
Nidal H. Abu-Hamdeh- Professor	Osamah M. Haddad- Professor Computational Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, Forced Convection of Micro-Flows, Forced Convection of Nano-Fluids, Flow in Porous Media, Thermodynamics: Second Law Analysis, Solar Energy		Adnan M. Al-Ghasem- Ass. Prof
Samer A. Alsiad- Professor Design, stress analysis, rotor dynamics structural modal analysis crack identification using vibration and thermography	SAUD A. KHASHAN- Professor CFD, Microfluidics, BioMEMS; Bioassays, Multi-phase flow; Bioheat and biofluid		Khaled S. Hatamleh- Ass. Prof
Bassam J. Alshaer- Asc.Professor Control and Simulation of multi-body mechanical systems of heavy construction Machines. Autonomous heavy vehicle systems and operators assist functions. Modeling and simulation of multi-body mechanical systems with imperfect joints. Large Tires Modeling and simulation.	Suhil M. Kiwan - Professor Renewable Energy; Solar and wind energy, Energy Conversion and Conservation. Computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer; porous media; micro-and –nano-fluidics flows and heat transfer.		Laith S. Sawaqed- Ass. Professor Robotics, Control, Automated systems, Smart Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Feras H. Darwish- Asc. Professor	Taha K. Aldoss - Professor
Malak I. Naji - Asc. Professor	Yousef S. Najjar - Professor
Nisrin R. Abdel Al- Asc. Professor Maufacturing and Characterization of Composite materials, Nanomaterials, Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites, 3D printing, characterization of Polymers, Multifunctional composites	Ziad H. Kodah - Professor
Tariq T. Darabseh- Asc. Professor	Adnan I. Khdai - Asc. Professor
Mohammad A. Omari- Ass. Prof Composite materials, microstructure-property relation of heterogeneous materials, CAD/CAM	Khaleel R. Al-khasawneh- Ass. Prof Gas dynamics, Computational fluid mechanics, Rarefied gas flows, Thermodynamics and heat transfer.
YAHIA F. MAKABLEH- Ass. Prof
YAHIA M. AL-SMADI- Ass. Prof