The REU participants will be mentored by a multi-disciplinary team of faculty members in the Colleges of Engineering and Science at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. The faculty mentors along with the proposed research topic are given in the table. The REU Participants will be assigned to one or more mentors for a research project. REU participants’ interest will also be taken into account during selection process.
| Faculty member | Department | Research Project |
| Ryan Beemer | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Hollow and porous crushable granular materials |
| Patrick Cappillino | Chemistry & Biochemistry | ÂA Bio-inspired Approach to Overcome Flow Battery Design Challenges |
| Wei-Shun Chang | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Antifouling on nanostructured surfaces |
| Vijaya Chalivendra (PI) | Mechanical Engineering | Damage sensing in Additively Manufactured Hierarchical Core employed Multi-Functional Sandwich Composite Structures |
| Jun Li | Mechanical Engineering | Computational Modeling of Additive Manufacturing Materials and Triboelectric Nanogenerators |
| Hangjian Ling | Mechanical Engineering | Design Robust Underwater Super-Hydrophobic Surfaces for Marine Applications |
| Maricris Mayes | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Simulation and Modeling of Bio-Inspired Active Materials for Nonaqueous Redox Flow Batteries |
| Kihan Park | Mechanical Engineering | Soft Robotic Hand with Tactile Sensors for Underwater Applications |
| Caiwei Shen | Mechanical Engineering | Novel bi-functional composite materials for structural energy storage in marine systems |
| Milana Vasudev | Bioengineering | Bioinspired Photonic Materials Based on Iridescent C. Lytica Bacteria |
| Arghavan Louhghalam | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Optimal design of meta-materials for source localization using machine learning techniques |
| Sivappa Rasapalli | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Development of eco-benign marine natural products based antifouling coatings |