Faculty and Staff

Roger Veldman, Chairperson

Phone: (616) 395-7154
Office: VanderWerf 223H
Email: veldman@hope.edu

Research Interests: Dynamic response of structures, Blast and Impulse-loading of structures, Aviation security, Aircraft hardening, Finite Element Analysis, Rapid Decompression of Aircraft.

Miguel Abrahantes

Phone: (616) 395-7513
Office: VanderWerf 223D
Email:abrahantes@hope.edu

Research Interests: Modelling, Identification, Simulation and Control.

Susan Brown

Phone: (616) 395-7924
Office: VanderWerf 223B
Email:browns@hope.edu

Research Interests: Engineering Education, K-12 STEM Education Outreach

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John Krupczak

Phone: (616) 395-7152
Office: VanderWerf 223C
Email:krupczak@hope.edu

Research Interests: Technological Literacy, Engineering Education, Engineering of Low-temperature thermal-fluid systems, Engineering Design.

Michael Misovich

Phone: (616) 395-7879
Office: VanderWerf 223G
Email: misovich@hope.edu

Research Interests: Phase equilibrium, equations of state, engineering education and assessment.

Courtney Peckens

Phone: (616) 395-7021
Office: VanderWerf 223E
Email: peckens@hope.edu

Research Interests: Wireless sensing networks, biologically inspired systems, structural health monitoring.

Katharine Polasek

Phone: (616) 395-7079
Office: VanderWerf 223F
Email: polasek@hope.edu

Research Interests: Rehabilitation/Biomedical Engineering, Neural Engineering, Functional Electrical Stimulation, Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation.

Matthew Smith

Phone: (616) 395-7309
Office: VanderWerf 223I
Email: msmith@hope.edu

Research Interests: Responsive materials, elastic
instabilities of structures, mechanics problems in biology.

Faculty Emeritus

 James vanPutten

Email: vanputten@hope.edu

Staff

   Dave Daugherty

Phone: (616) 395-7519
Office: Accelerator Lab Vanderwerf Hall
Email: daugherty@hope.edu

  
  Stephanie Doolittle

  
  Cathy Stoel