Dennis Adams’ work addresses historical and sociopolitical undercurrents in photography, cinema, Public space and architecture. He has realized over fifty urban projects in cities worldwide—from Antwerp to Zagreb. His work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in museums throughout North America and abroad, including: the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich; the Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Sculpture Project in Münster Germany, the Centro de Arte Contempråneo Wilfredo Lam, Havanna, Cuba; the Jeu de Paume, Paris; the Mies Van Der Rohe Pavilion, Barcelona; the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid; and the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.

Adams artworks are included in extensive public collections both in the United States and abroad.    He is a recipient of three National Endowment for the Arts Awards in: 1984,1988, and 1995; the DAAD Berlin Artists-in-Residence Program in 1989; and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018.

Adams has taught at numerous institutions, including: Parsons School of Design, New York; Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris; Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam; Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich; Malmö Art Academy, Sweden; the Bergen Academy of Art and Design in Norway; and the Metropolis Postgraduate Program in Architecture and Urban Culture in Barcelona.  From 1997 to 2001, he was Director of the Visual Arts Program and Professor in the School of Architecture at MIT—before joining the School of Art faculty at The Cooper Union in 2001, where he currently teaches Three-Dimensional Design and Sculpture.

Adams received his BFA from Drake University in Des Moines in 1969 and his MFA from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia in 1971.

Dr. Wootton teaches fundamental courses in mechanics and mechanical engineering (fluid and solid mechanics, engineering mechanics/dynamics), and bioengineering electives (Biotransport, Injury Biomechanics and Safety, Tissue Engineering).  He has advised a variety projects for seniors, freshmen, master’s degree, and independent studies, including: exercise equipment for overweight teens; experimental systems for impact injury, bone interference screw strength, knee mechanics, and upper airway mechanics; folding bicycle design; microchannel blood platelet inhibition assay; bone and osteochondral tissue engineering scaffold manufacturing; bone interference screw testing, and atomic force microscopy. 

Dr. Wootton’s main research interests are biofluid and biosolid mechanics and biotransport modeling,  Current research projects in this area include magnetic resonance image-based upper airway fluid and solid mechanics models to better understand anatomic and neuromuscular factors contributing to obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, and novel (often CAD/CAM based) manufacturing methods for tissue engineering scaffolds and constructs.  His past studies in this area include models of flow, near-wall platelet concentration, and platelet accumulation in arterial thrombosis, which linked the flow field features typically found in advanced atherosclerosis (artery disease) with the enhanced rate of blood clot formation (thrombosis) associated with many heart attacks and strokes.  He also developed an experimental and computational model of thrombolytic (“clot-busting”) drug therapy in remnants of thrombus adhering to a vessel wall after blood flow is reestablished.   His research is currently supported by federal grants from the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation, and he has been supported by the American Heart Association.  Dr. Wootton is also interested in introducing novel experiments and demonstrations in the engineering curriculum, and participates in an NSF-sponsored project to bring microfluidics experiments into the introductory courses in fluid mechanics and Biotransport.  He is collaborating with Professor Delegrammatikas and Cooper Alum and ME lab manager John Consiglio to introduce particle image velocimetry (PIV) to undergraduate student courses and  projects (funded by NSF).

Dr. Wootton studied Mechanical Engineering Cornell University (BS 1987), MIT (MS 1990), and Georgia Tech (PhD 1998), and Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech (PhD subject area) and Johns Hopkins University (Postdoc 1998-2000).  His professional experience includes Crashworthiness and Safety Engineering at General Motors, environmental noise and vibration (Harris Miller Miller and Hanson), and musical instrument repair and restoration (Reuning and Son Violins).

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Dr. Ja-beom "JB" Koo, earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in 2006 and 2008 respectively from Korea University in South Korea. After graduation, he worked at SK Hynix Semiconductor Inc. in Korea until August 2011, as an Analog Circuit Design Engineer. There, he focused on designing High-speed input/output (I/O) circuit for 512GB Graphic Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) memory chip with 45nm CMOS technology. 

Dr. Koo received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle, in March 2016. He then joined the Analog I/O design team at Intel Corporation in Hillsboro, OR for i5/i7 CPU design. After the first tape-in with CMOS 10nm technology, he moved to the RF technology team in Advanced Design group. He worked as a RF/Analog Circuit Design Engineer and participated in 140GHz Transceiver/Receiver system design for server chips communication. He also had additional responsibilities as a lab manager controlling all measurements for Intel 22nm FinFet technology development. His current research interests are in the area of RF IC design for wireless applications.

“I have long admired the belief of the founder, Peter Cooper, that emphasizes the importance of quality education for all. I am excited to join the Electrical Engineering department of Cooper Union and to take part in fulfilling such belief. I am also thrilled to share what I have learned from my experience in the industry as an engineer with the students. I believe that I can help EE students grow into extraordinary engineers as well as researchers in the field.” – Ja-beom "JB" Koo