Pam Banks-Lee
Associate Professor
919-515-6581
pbanks-l@tx.ncsu.edu
Room: 3328

• Technical Textiles and Textile Structures

Roger Barker
Burlington Chair in Textile Technology
919-515-6577
roger_barker@ncsu.edu
Room: 3335

• Health and Safety

Physical properties of fabrics and clothing systems. (Heat resistant fabrics, fabric comfort and hand, moisture transport mechanisms; protective clothing).

Keith Beck
Professor
919-515-6558
keith_beck@ncsu.edu
Room: 3120

• Color and Dye Chemistry and Sciences
• Health and Safety
• Forensic Trace Evidence

Analytical (NIR, HPLC) aspects of Polymer & Color Chemistry. Real-time data acquisition in dyeing processes by FIA and SIA; textile applications of L and SC carbon dioxide.

Alexander Bogdanovich
Research Professor
919-515-6566
aebogdan@ncsu.edu
Room: 2315

• Nanosciences, Surface Modification, Fibers and Polymers
• Technical Textiles and Textile Structures

Philip Bradford
Assistant Professor
919-515-1866
philip_bradford@ncsu.edu
Room: 3315

• Nanosciences, Surface Modification, Fibers and Polymers
• Technical Textiles and Textile Structures

Ahmed El-Shafei
Assistant Professor
919-515-6548
ahmed_el-shafei@ncsu.edu
Room: 3119

• Nanosciences, Surface Modification, Fibers and Polymers
• Energy, Environment and Sustainability
• Health and Safety
• Forensic Trace Evidence

Photostability and photodegradation mechanisms of dyes, pigments and high performance fibers; molecular modeling, nanostructure, synthesis and characterization of novel functional dyes for solar cells, PDT and self-disinfecting textiles; nanolayer graft polymerization of chemical finishes and surface chemistry modifications of fibers using high density atmospheric plasma for medical applications; molecular modeling of polymers.

Harold Freeman
Associate Dean for Research, Ciba Professor of Dyestuff Chemistry
919-515-6552
harold_freeman@ncsu.edu
Room: 3425

• Color and Dye Chemistry and Sciences
• Energy, Environment and Sustainability

Design, synthesis and analysis of organic dyes and pigments. (Nongenotoxic dyes, lightfast dyes, molecular modeling, NMR, X-ray, mass spectrometry)

Tushar Ghosh
Professor
919-515-6568
tghosh@tx.ncsu.edu
Room: 3311

• Nanosciences, Surface Modification, Fibers and Polymers
• Technical Textiles and Textile Structures

Russell Gorga
Associate Professor
919-515-6553
regorga@ncsu.edu
Room: 3304

• Nanosciences, Surface Modification, Fibers and Polymers
• Health and Safety
• Technical Textiles and Textile Structures
• Forensic Trace Evidence

Mechanical and electrical properties of nanocomposite fibers and films. Structure-property relationships of polymer systems. Surface and interfacial properties of polymers with an emphasis on biomedical applications.

Hechmi Hamouda
Teaching Professor
919-515-6567
hechmi_hamouda@ncsu.edu
Room: 3310

• Technical Textiles and Textile Structures
• Health and Safety

Application of thermal and fluid sciences to textiles. Mechanics and formation of fibrous structures. Instrumentation and control systems. (Fire protective fabric evaluation); Textile waste-treatment and Processing.

Peter Hauser
Professor
919-513-1899
peter_hauser@ncsu.edu
Room: 3117

• Nanosciences, Surface Modification, Fibers and Polymers
• Color and Dye Chemistry and Sciences
• Energy, Environment and Sustainability

Chemical finishing of textile fabric. Indigo dyeing. Denim finishing and garment wet processing. Mathematical modeling of textile processes. Dyeing pretreatments for low pollution dyeing.

David Hinks
Cone Mills Professor of Textile Chemistry
919-515-6554
david_hinks@ncsu.edu
Room: 3248

• Energy, Environment and Sustainability
• Health and Safety
• Forensic Trace Evidence

Color science; molecular modeling; chemistry of and application of dyes; SCF technology.

George Hodge
Assistant Dean Graduate School and Associate Professor and TT Program Director
919 513-1636
george_hodge@ncsu.edu
Room: 3326 or RBIII rm 214

• Systems and Quality
• Supply Chain

Sam Hudson
Professor
919-515-6545
sam_hudson@ncsu.edu
Room: 3116

• Nanosciences, Surface Modification, Fibers and Polymers
• Color and Dye Chemistry and Sciences
• Health and Safety

Fiber-forming biopolymers. Computer-controlled fiber spinning. (Chitin/chitosan chemistry, hollow fibers, chaotic flow analysis)

Warren Jasper
Professor and TE Program Director
919-515-6565
wjasper@tx.ncsu.edu
Room: 3308

• Color and Dye Chemistry and Sciences
• Systems and Quality
• Health and Safety

Use of computers to monitor, model and control textile processes. (Modeling and controlling batch dyeing, neural-networks, fuzzy logic control, image processing techniques to control/detect fabric defects)

Jeff Joines
Associate Professor and Associate Department Head
919-513-4188
JeffJoines@ncsu.edu
Room: 3251

• Systems and Quality
• Educational Innovation
• Supply Chain

Issues related to the optimization of complex systems, including: developing efficient stochastic search algorithms; utilizing traditional search methods; using and developing object-oriented simulation languages; and applying all these techniques to the design, control, and analysis of supply chain and production systems. Supply chain optimization, shop floor scheduling, inventory control policies, computer simulation modeling, genetic algorithms.

Jesse Jur
Assistant Professor
919-515-1676
jsjur@ncsu.edu
Room: 3147

• Nanosciences, Surface Modification, Fibers and Polymers
• Technical Textiles and Textile Structures

Martin King
Professor
919-515-1011
martin_king@ncsu.edu
Room: 3305

• Nanosciences, Surface Modification, Fibers and Polymers
• Technical Textiles and Textile Structures
• Health and Safety

Richard Kotek
Associate Professor
919-515-6585
Richard_Kotek@ncsu.edu
Room: 3143

• Nanosciences, Surface Modification, Fibers and Polymers
• Color and Dye Chemistry and Sciences

Polymer synthesis. Melt fiber spinning. Hollow fibers. Sound propagation in filaments.

Wendy Krause
Associate Professor
919-515-6560
wekrause@ncsu.edu
Room: 3144

• Health and Safety
• Nanosciences, Surface Modification, Fibers and Polymers

Structure-property relationships of macromolecules, with emphasis on biomaterials, medical textiles, rheology, electrostatic self-assembled nanolayers, and polyelectrolytes.

Jerome Lavelle
919-515-3263
jerome_lavelle@ncsu.edu
Room: Page Hall 120

• Educational Innovation
• Supply Chain
• Economic Competitiveness

Marian McCord
Associate Professor
919-515-6571
mmccord@tx.ncsu.edu
Room: 3320

• Nanosciences, Surface Modification, Fibers and Polymers
• Technical Textiles and Textile Structures
• Health and Safety

Barrier fabric protection and comfort, structure/property relationships of fibers; biomaterials.

Steve Michielsen
Professor, Director of Professional Development of Graduate Scholars
919-515-1414
Stephen_Michielsen@ncsu.edu
Room: 3312

• Technical Textiles and Textile Structures
• Health and Safety
• Nanosciences, Surface Modification, Fibers and Polymers

Bill Oxenham
Associate Dean for Academic Programs, Abel C. Lineberger Professor
919-515-6573
william_oxenham@ncsu.edu
Room: 3409

• Nanosciences, Surface Modification, Fibers and Polymers
• Technical Textiles and Textile Structures
• Economic Competitiveness

Melissa Pasquinelli
Associate Professor
919-515-9426
Melissa_Pasquinelli@ncsu.edu
Room: 3324

• Nanosciences, Surface Modification, Fibers and Polymers
• Health and Safety
• Energy, Environment and Sustainability

Computational modeling as a tool for understanding, predicting, and modulating the physical and chemical properties of macromolecules. Structure-property relationships of nanotechnological and biologically-inspired materials.

Behnam Pourdeyhimi
Associate Dean for Industry Research and Extension
William A. Klopman Distinguished Endowed Chaired Professor and Director, NCRC
919-515-1822
bpourdey@ncsu.edu
Room: 2419

• Technical Textiles and Textile Structures
• Nanosciences, Surface Modification, Fibers and Polymers
• Health and Safety

Jon Rust
Department Head
Professor of Textile Engineering
Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor
919-515-6564
jon_rust@ncsu.edu
Room: 3252

• Technical Textiles and Textile Structures
• Educational Innovation
• Forensic Trace Evidence

Process reengineering, especially with regard to fiber-to-yarn conversion and fiber preparation, novel processes and systems, machine and process design

Renzo Shamey
Associate Professor and PCC Program Director
919-515-6546
rshamey@ncsu.edu
Room: 3145

• Color and Dye Chemistry and Sciences
• Nanosciences, Surface Modification, Fibers and Polymers

Color science including color perception, unique hues, study of whiteness and blackness, and color difference equations. Dye application including photochromic dyes on various media. Mathematical modeling, control and monitoring of dyebath. Expert systems. Textile Printing.

Al Tonelli
INVISTA Prof. of Fiber & Polymer Chemistry
919-515-6588
alan_tonelli@ncsu.edu
Room: 3146

• Nanosciences, Surface Modification, Fibers and Polymers

Conformations, sizes and shapes of polymers. (Polymer microstructure and properties, molecular modeling, solid state NMR, behavior of isolated polymer chains, interchain interactions). Inclusion compounds.

Julie Willoughby
Assistant Professor
919-515-1884
julie_willoughby@ncsu.edu
Room: 3316

• Nanosciences, Surface Modification, Fibers and Polymers
• Technical Textiles and Textile Structures
• Health and Safety

Fundamentals of physical chemistry of surfaces and polymer physics as they apply to 1) molecular transport of small molecules through materials such as fibers, polymer blends, and composites, 2) harvesting energy in soft matter to enable economically-viable solar cells and 3) to increase the efficacy of biomedical materials for tissue engineering and implants.

Xiangwu Zhang
Associate Professor
919-515-6547
xiangwu_zhang@ncsu.edu
Room: 3118

• Nanosciences, Surface Modification, Fibers and Polymers
• Energy, Environment and Sustainability
• Health and Safety

Nanostructured and multifunctional polymer, composite, fiber, and textile materials. Structure-property relationships with an emphasis on energy-related applications.