Alphabetical Faculty Directory: B

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Babcock, Susan E. - Professor: Materials Science and Engineering
structure-property relationships for solid-solid interfaces -- solid-solid interfaces -- crystal defect microstructures -- microstructure in films and engineered substrates of/for GaN and other compound semiconductors -- applications of electron microscopy in materials research
Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Materials Science Center, Materials Science Program
Bach, C. Eric - Professor: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Bahia, Hussain U. - Professor: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Asphalt Pavement Research Program, Construction Engineering and Management Program
Bahr, Jean M. - Professor: Geology and Geophysics, Institute for Environmental Studies
Field and modeling studies of fluid flow and mass transport in groundwater systems with applications to environmental problems, water resource management and energy and mineral resource development
Geological Engineering Program, Water Resources Management Program
Baker, Timothy B. - Professor Emeritus: Industrial and Systems Engineering, School of Medicine and Public Health
Banerjee, Suman - Assistant Professor: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Networking and Distributed Systems; protocols, algorithms and architectures of such systems, peer-to-peer systems, multicast services, network security, services for mobile and wireless networks and network measurements
Banfield, Jillian F. - Professor: nanocrystalline materials (kinetics and thermodynamics) -- biomineralization and biomimetics
Bank, Lawrence C. - Professor: Civil and Environmental Engineering
FRP composites in structural engineering -- Mechanics of composite materials and structures -- Performance based design of buildings -- Architecture/Engineering/Construction integration -- Paperboard structures -- Innovative bridge materials and construction
Center for Human Performance and Risk Analysis, Construction Engineering and Management Program, Wisconsin Structures and Materials Testing Laboratory
Barmish, B. Ross - Professor: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Control systems -- Robustness -- Optimizations -- Financial Systems
Barner, James R. - Associate Faculty Associate: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Beachley, Norman H. - Professor Emeritus: Mechanical Engineering
mechanical design -- mechanical energy storage -- fluid power systems -- continuously variable transmissions -- automotive engineering
Beckman, William A. - Ouweneel-Bascom Professor Emeritus: Mechanical Engineering
solar energy applications -- radiation heat transfer -- systems analysis -- computer simulation-solar processes -- energy load calculations
Solar Energy Laboratory
Beebe, David J. - Professor: Biomedical Engineering
Microfluidics -- Cell & Cancer biology
Biomedical Engineering Center for Translational Research, Biotechnology Training Program, Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program, Computation and Informatics in Biology and Medicine, Genome Sciences Training Program, Materials Science Program, University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center
Behdad, Nader - Assistant Professor: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Applied Electromagnetics and RF/Microwaves
Beilfuss, Richard D. - Adjunct Professor: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Bennett, Philip M. - Professor Emeritus: environmental design -- architectural design -- work environment -- construction information handling -- material evaluation -- mined land reclamation -- construction management -- construction inspection
Benson, Craig H. - Professor: Civil and Environmental Engineering
geo-environmental engineering -- landfill design and construction -- remediation of hazardous waste sites -- field testing and performance evaluation -- transport of groundwater pollutants -- statistical construction quality control -- stochastic modeling of flow and transport -- data sufficiency
Consortium for Fly Ash Use in Geotechnical Applications, Geological Engineering Program
Berg, William D. - Professor Emeritus: Civil and Environmental Engineering
traffic safety, traffic engineering -- transportation systems analysis -- highway engineering -- cost-effective safety improvements
Berthouex, Paul M. - Professor Emeritus: Civil and Environmental Engineering
water supply -- wastewater treatment -- industrial waste treatment, environmental statistics/modeling
Wisconsin Consortium for Applied Water Quality Research
Bier, Vicki M. - Professor: Engineering Physics, Industrial and Systems Engineering
security in the supply chains for food and agricultural products -- critical infrastructure protection -- security -- technological hazards -- risk analysis -- decision analysis -- operations research
Center for Human Performance and Risk Analysis
Bird, R. Byron - Professor Emeritus: Chemical and Biological Engineering
transport phenomena -- polymer fluid dynamics -- polymer kinetic theory -- rheology
Rheology Research Center
Bisognano, Joseph - Professor: Engineering Physics
Accelerator physics -- Theoretical analysis and simulation of collective phenomena in particle beams
Synchrotron Radiation Center
Black, James Roger - Assistant Faculty Associate: Engineering Professional Development

Technical Communication Certificate Program
Blanchard, James P. - Professor: Engineering Physics
nuclear microbatteries -- radiation damage -- fusion technology -- laser-induced stresses -- surface property characterization -- reactor vessel embrittlement
Engineering Mechanics, Fusion Technology Institute, Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics, Wisconsin Institute of Nuclear Systems
Blasko, Vladimir - Adjunct Professor: Electrical and Computer Engineering
power electronics -- adjustable-speed drives -- control of power electronics/drives
Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium
Bleam, William F. - Professor: Institute for Environmental Studies, Soil Science
Surface and colloid chemistry of soils and sediments including: adsorption of inorganic ions at mineral/water interfaces, magnetochemistry of transition and rare-earth ions at the mineral/water interface, reduction/oxidation chemistry, macromolecular and colloidal chemistry of humic substances, metal complexation by humic substances, and sorption of nonpolar organic compounds by humic substances.
Blewett, Thomas J. - Professor: Engineering Professional Development
industrial and small business pollution prevention -- solid waste planning and management -- organics management and composting -- rural fuel storage systems -- environmental compliance regulations
Solid and Hazardous Waste Education Center
Blick, Robert H. - Lynn H. Matthias Professor II in Engineering: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Physics
Electro-mechanical structures on the micro- and nanoscale (NEMS & MEMS) -- Single electron, single spin circuits and devices -- Information processing in quantum and biofunctionalized circuits
Genome Center, Materials Science Center, Materials Science Program
Block, Walter F. - Associate Professor: Biomedical Engineering, Medical Physics
magnetic resonance (MR) interventional procedures -- MR angiography and cardiac imaging - specifically designing real-time magnetic resonance acquisition and processing algorithms and systems for these procedures -- MR contrast mechanisms -- signal and image processing -- distributed computing
Biomedical Engineering Center for Translational Research, Materials Science Program
Bollinger, John G. - John Bascom Professor Emeritus: Industrial and Systems Engineering
Dynamic behavior of machine tool drive systems -- Position control for automatic welding -- Noise generation/noise control in product design -- Machine tool structure control dynamics -- Dynamic loads in gears -- Environmental noise control -- Digital computer control of machines and processes -- Mini-computer and micro-processor systems design -- Guidance systems for industrial robots -- Robotics for space application -- Environmental control of humidity
Bonazza, Riccardo - Professor: Engineering Physics, Mechanical Engineering
experimental fluid mechanics and heat transfer -- impulsive unsteady phenomena -- shock tube applications -- laser and X-ray imaging & measuring techniques
Engineering Mechanics, Fusion Technology Institute, Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics
Boom, Roger W. - Wisconsin Distinguished Professor Emeritus: Engineering Physics
superconductive magnetic energy storage for electric utilities
Applied Superconductivity Center, Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics
Booske, John H. - Duane H. and Dorothy M. Bluemke Professor: Electrical and Computer Engineering
electromagnetic field interactions with materials -- microwave and RF processing of materials (e.g., ceramics, semiconductors); see Using microwaves to speed materials processing, UW-Madison College of Engineering Annual Report, 2000. -- microwave vacuum electronics -- advanced vacuum cathodes and electron emitters -- microfabricated millimeter-wave and terahertz-regime vacuum electronic devices -- bio-electromagnetics -- innovative teaching methods, especially for electromagnetics
Materials Science Program
Boston, Nigel - Professor: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mathematics
Cryptography -- Coding theory -- Biometrics -- Digital watermarking -- Applications of algebra to EE, CS, and Math Dept.
Botez, Dan - Philip Dunham Reed Professor: Electrical and Computer Engineering
high-power,coherent semiconductor diode lasers -- semiconductor lasers based on active photonic crystals -- intersubband-transition, quantum-confinement emitters
Materials Science Program, Reed Center for Photonics
Bower, Elaine M. - Faculty Associate/Program Director: Engineering Professional Development
trace chemical detection for forensic applications -- unique biosensors for non-traditional applications -- chemical engineering unit operations including mixing, drying, separations -- strategic R&D planning; biotechnology
Bower, Glenn R. - Faculty Associate: Mechanical Engineering

Engine Research Center
Box, George E.P. - Professor Emeritus: Industrial and Systems Engineering
quality improvement -- statistical and Bayesian inference -- experimental design -- data analysis -- response surface analysis -- engineering statistics -- nonlinear estimation
Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement
Boyle, William C. - Professor Emeritus: Civil and Environmental Engineering
environmental engineering -- biological waste treatment -- industrial wastes -- waste disposal and treatment
Small-Scale Waste Management Project, Water Resources Management Program, Wisconsin Consortium for Applied Water Quality Research
Brace, Christopher L. - Assistant Professor: Biomedical Engineering, Radiology, School of Medicine and Public Health
Thermal tumor ablation -- Microwaves in medicine -- Biomedical imaging
Bradt, Mitch, P.E. - Assistant Faculty Associate/Program Director: Engineering Professional Development
Windfarms -- Alternative Energy -- Power Electronics -- Rotating Machinery and AC Drives -- Distribution Engineering -- T & D -- Protective Relaying -- Electric Power Systems -- Substation Design
Brennan, Patricia Flatley - Professor and Chair: Industrial and Systems Engineering, School of Education, School of Nursing
health informatics -- community health -- information systems -- computer-mediated clinical practice -- health services research
Biomedical Engineering Center for Translational Research
Bretherton, Francis P. - Emeritus Professor: Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Earth system science -- remote sensing -- atmospheric and oceanic dynamics
Bucklew, James A. - Professor: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mathematics
Simulation of communication systems and networks; rare event simulation; digital and wireless communication systems
Burnside, Elizabeth S. - Professor: Industrial and Systems Engineering, Radiology

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