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Individual attention is one of the highest priorities of Trinity's faculty. Class sizes are small and students are assigned a faculty member for academic advising, mentorship and guidance in career development.

Distribution

Trinity's Engineering Science Department has nine full-time, tenure track faculty with the following distributions: two chemical engineering, three electrical engineering, and four mechanical engineering. The mechanical engineering positions are divided equally between thermal/fluid and solid mechanics.

Advising

The engineering faculty strives to be excellent advisors, to be available and accessible to our students, and to foster an atmosphere of excitement, caring, and nurturing. Entering students who have expressed an interest in engineering are assigned advisors from the engineering department prior to their arrival on campus. Our advisors meet with these incoming students and follow their progress very closely as they move through our program. Our faculty are encouraged by the University to invite new advisees for dinner and to meet with them outside the office environment (e.g., in the dining hall). Advisors help students find (and prepare for) summer and permanent jobs, undergraduate summer research fellowships, applications for scholarships, graduate school and graduate fellowships. Many alumni keep in touch following graduation and have let us know that this close contact with and accessibility to faculty is a highly desirable feature of our program.

Scholarship

The engineering faculty is dedicated to excellence in teaching, scholarship, and professional development. We expect the kind of intellect well suited to teach at Trinity to be inquisitive, thoughtful, and naturally inclined to scholarly productivity. Good teachers must have the drive to remain up to date and be aware of significant advances in their areas of interest. Moreover, students are intrigued by the knowledge that comes from actual faculty experience. In many instances, scholarly work can be utilized to develop classroom examples that demonstrate the state-of-the-art applications of scientific and engineering analog and modeling tools. Our faculty are actively engaged in research and development in their areas of expertise, in educational research methods, and software development and consulting. The rate of publication in the journal and conference proceedings continues to improve. Over the last five years, our faculty published approximately 60 articles in technical journals and conference proceedings.

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Our Faculty

Mahbub Uddin, Professor and Chair Degrees earned: M.S., Moscow Institute of Petro-Chemical and Gas Industry; Ph.D., Oklahoma State, Chemical Engineering Research/Consulting: Stochastic Approaches to Process Design and Simulation, Transport Processes in Two Phase Systems, Heat Exchanger Design, Kinetics and Reactor Design, Refrigerants (R-134a). Commonly teaches: Mass and Energy Balances, Engineering Materials, Thermodynamics, Environmental Engineering and Unit Operations Contact: Dr. Uddin

Farzan Aminian, Professor Degrees earned: B.S., University of Oklahoma; M.S., Ph.D., Ohio State University, Electrical Engineering; P.E., Texas Research/Consulting: Neural networks, Monte Carlo simulations, finite element methods, Bayesian techniques, fault diagnosis of electronic circuits, application of neural networks in medicine, simulation of high field transport equations and electronic devices and materials, computer- aided design of electronic circuits. Commonly teaches: Electronics, Signals and Systems, Engineering Design Contact:  Dr. Aminian   Dr. Aminian's Home Page

J. Paul Giolma, Associate Professor Degrees earned: B.S.E.E., University of Florida; M.S.E.E., Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon, Electrical Engineering; P.E., Texas Research/Consulting: Circuits and Systems, Signal Processing, Instrumentation, Biomedical Systems. Commonly teaches: Electronics, Senior Design, First Year Seminar Contact:  Dr. Giolma   Dr. Giolma's Home Page

H. William Collins, Associate Professor Degrees earned: B.S., Trinity University; M.S., Ph.D., Purdue, Chemical Engineering Research/Consulting: Reaction Engineering, Process Simulation Commonly teaches: Control Systems, Engineering Design, Biochemical Engineering Contact: Dr. Collins

Kevin Nickels, Assistant Professor Degrees earned:B.S.E.E., Purdue University; M.S., Ph.D., University of Illinios, Electrical Engineering Research/Consulting: Robotics, Computer Vision, Object Tracking, Information Fusion Commonly teaches: Digital Logic Design, Network Analysis, Microcomputer Systems Contact:  Dr. Nickels   Dr. Nickels' Home Page

Peter Kelly-Zion, Assistant Professor Degrees earned: B.A., Grinnell College; B.S., Washington University; M.E., Carnegie Mellon University, Mechanical Engineering; Ph.D., University of Illinios, Mechanical Engineering Research/Consulting: Internal Combustion Engines, Atomization, Sprys. Commonly teaches: Engineering Design, Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics Contact: Dr. Kelly-Zion

Diana Glawe, Assistant Professor Degrees earned:B.S., M.S., Ph.D., The Ohio State University, Mechanical Engineering Research/Consulting: Supersonic flow and mixing, laser-based flow diagnostics. Commonly teaches: Mechanics, Engineering Design Contact: Dr. Glawe