Experts

Dr. Tarek Farhat

Lab Manager, Chemistry Instructor, Technical Consultant

304.929.1356

tarek.farhat@mail.wvu.edu

Expertise: analytical lab instrumentation; filtration systems (micro-filtration, reverse osmosis, etc.); lab bioreactor systems; carbon capture; polymer thin film deposition; programming and interactive web page design.

Dr. Bhanukiran Gurijala

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Information Systems

304.929.1201

bhanukiran.gurijala@mail.wvu.edu

Expertise: cyber-security; software engineering; quality assurance; formalism; web-application security; Model-Based Testing (MBT); secure software development; penetration testing

Dr. Kenan Hatipoglu

Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

304.929.1632

kenan.hatipoglu@mail.wvu.edu

Expertise: smart grid and microgrid applications, power system analysis and control; renewable energy resources; power electronics

Dr. Andrea Kent

Associate Professor of Political Science, IDEA Fellow

304.929.1312

Andrea.Kent@mail.wvu.edu

Expertise: American politics; comparative politics; world politics; international relations; constitutional law; terrorism; global issues; elections; public opinion; political activism and participation

Dr. Joan Neff

Professor of Criminal Justice

304.929.0312

joan.neff@mail.wvu.edu

Expertise: criminal behavior; delinquent behavior; victimology; criminal justice system; juvenile justice system

Dr. Joshua Price

Assistant Professor of Economics

304.929.1346

joshua.price@mail.wvu.edu

Expertise: economics; welfare programs; applied microeconomics; applied statistics; policy analysis.

Brent Woodard

Adjunct Professor of Art

740.456.7244

brent.woodard@mail.wvu.edu

Expertise: Arts, fine arts, illustration, design, painting, scratchboards, writing, education, history & art of the Holocaust.

Dr. William Church

Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department

304.929.1654

william.church@mail.wvu.edu

Dr. Church specializes in engine design and performance. His academic areas of expertise include combustion, thermodynamics, and fluid dynamics. By trade, Dr. Church is an engineer. He is experienced in using solid modeling to create cylinder head and intake porting that was used in NASCAR racing, and he employs computational fluid dynamics to test those designs. Dr. Church is an ideal candidate to discuss engine and mechanical designs in vehicles, electric vehicles, physics applications in engineering and design/manufacturing application in mechanical engineering.