People

Mechanical Engineering

Melody Baglione

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
212.353.4295 | melody@cooper.edu

Michael Bambino

Adjunct Instructor
mb@michaelbambinodesign.com

Robert Barrett

Adjunct Professor
212.353.4292 | barrett@cooper.edu

Scott N. Bondi

Adjunct Professor
sbondi@cooper.edu

Wallace Chinitz

Professor Emeritus

George J. Delagrammatikas

Associate Dean of Education and Administration; Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
(212) 353-4285 | georged@cooper.edu

Robert Dell

Director, Center for Innovation and Applied Technology, Adjunct Professor, C.V. Starr Research Foundation Research Fellow
212-353-4298 | rdell@cooper.edu

Maria Jimenez

Secretary, Mechanical and Civil Engineering Departments
212-353-4292 | jimenez@cooper.edu

Lembit Kutt

Adjunct Professor
212-353-4301 | kutt@cooper.edu

Eric Lima

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Director The Open-Source Hardware Laboratory
212.353.4029 | lima2@cooper.edu

Dirk Luchtenburg

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
dluchten@cooper.edu

Dirk Martin Luchtenburg

Visiting Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
dluchten@cooper.edu

Haiyan Luo

Post Doctoral Research Fellow
212-353-4285 | hluo@cooper.edu

Ericson Mar

Adjunct Professor
mar@cooper.edu

Karl Orishimo

Adjunct Professor

Jorge Ortega

Lab Manager
212-353-4330 | ortega@cooper.edu

Katherine M. Panchyk

Adjunct Professor
212-353-4292

George W. Sidebotham

Professor of Mechanical Engineering
212.353.4308 | sidebo@cooper.edu

Daniel M. Speyer

Adjunct Professor
212-353-4301

Thomas Synnott, III

Adjunct Professor
212-353-4301 | synnott@cooper.edu

Chih-Shing (Stan) Wei

George Clark Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Chair
212.353.4299 | swei@cooper.edu

David M. Wootton

Professor of Mechanical Engineering
212.353.4393 | wootton@cooper.edu

Hui (Grace) Yu

Adjunct Professor

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