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Leadership Team<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Andrew Maxwell<\/strong>
Professor, MECH<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Zheng Hong (George) Zhu<\/strong>
Professor, MECH<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksander Czekanski<\/strong>
Professor, MECH<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Aijun An<\/strong>
Professor, EECS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Rashid Bashir<\/strong>
Associate Professor, CIVL<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Satinder Brar<\/strong>
Professor, CIVL<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Solomon Boakye-Yiadom<\/strong>
Associate Professor, MECH<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Marina Freire-Gormaly<\/strong>
Associate Professor, MECH<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Stephanie Gora<\/strong>
Assistant Professor, CIVL<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Ronald Hanson<\/strong>
Associate Professor, MECH<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Jeffrey Harris<\/strong>
Associate Professor, MECH<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Cuiying Jian<\/strong>
Associate Professor, MECH<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Roger Kempers<\/strong>
Associate Professor, MECH<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Siu-Ning (Sunny) Leung<\/strong>
Associate Professor, MECH<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Garrett Melenka<\/strong>
Associate Professor, MECH<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Paul O’Brien<\/strong>
Associate Professor, MECH<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Ryan Orszulik<\/strong>
Associate Professor, ESSE<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Matthew Perras<\/strong>
Associate Professor, CIVL<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Simone Pisana<\/strong>
Associate Professor, EECS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Pouya Rezai<\/strong>
Professor, MECH<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Reza Rizvi<\/strong>
Associate Professor, MECH<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Eleftherios (Terry) Sachlos<\/strong>
Associate Professor, MECH<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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James Andrew Smith<\/strong>
Associate Professor, EECS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Nima Tabatabaei<\/strong>
Associate Professor, MECH<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Jianguo Wang<\/strong>
Professor, ESSE<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Dan Zhang<\/strong>
Professor, MECH<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Jon Kerr<\/strong>
Assistant Professor, LAPS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Angelo Dossou-Yovo<\/strong>
Associate Professor, ILST<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Chris Caputo<\/strong>
Associate Professor, FSc CHEM<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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