Administration

Professor and Department Chair

360B EB
801-422-6030
bdjensen@byu.edu

Office Hours

By Appointment (contact Joanie Nelson at 801-422-4372 or joan_nelson@byu.edu)

Research

Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) and Biological MEMS, Electrical Contacts, Modeling of Systems in Diverse Energy Domains

Background

Brian D. Jensen is a professor at Brigham Young University. He received the M.S. de-gree in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Univer-sity of Michigan. He also received B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from Brigham Young University. He also worked as a micromechanism designer at Sandia National Laboratories. He has performed research and published over 100 pa-pers in design topics including microelectromechanical systems and compliant mecha-nisms, and he holds 12 U.S. patents. His work has been recognized by several best pa-per awards, the BYU Young Scholar Award, and the Utah Engineers Council Educator of the Year Award.

Associate Chair, Professor

350K EB
801-422-4760
abowden@byu.edu

Office Hours

Monday: 11am - 12pm
Wednesday: 2pm - 4pm
Friday: 10am - 11am

Research

Spinal biomechanics and medical device design

Background

Anton E. Bowden loves BYU and especially his interactions with the students in the Mechanical Engineering Department! His background and research interests are in spinal biomechanics, medical device design, computational biomechanics, and engineering leadership education. He directs the BYU Applied Biomechanics Engineering Laboratory. He received his PhD in Bioengineering from University of Utah and his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Utah State University. He is a licensed professional engineer and a recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. He is grateful to have been awarded the Weidman Professorship in Leadership and enjoys serving in various committee capacities for the Orthopaedic Research Society. He speaks Spanish with moderate fluency and is currently trying to learn Mandarin Chinese. He and his wife Jennifer love learning and traveling with their children and live in Lindon, Utah.

Associate Professor and Undergraduate Coordinator

360E EB
801-422-6342
marc_killpack@byu.edu

Office Hours

Tuesday/Thursday: 9:00am-10:00am
via zoom, contact for link

Research

Soft Robots, Human-Robot Interaction, Controls, Robot Manipulation, Computer vision and 3D Sensing, Haptic Sensing

Background

Marc Killpack completed his Ph.D. in Robotics from the Georgia Institute of Technology and joined BYU as an Assistant Professor in December of 2013. His areas of expertise include soft robotics, human-robot interaction, controls, mechanics and perception for robotics and other automated systems. His current research interests relate to improving modeling and control for robot manipulation in unstructured and difficult environments. This includes applications related to search and rescue, disaster response and human robot interaction. While at Georgia Tech in the Healthcare Robotics Lab (HRL), Marc worked on projects including sensing and control for mobile robot bases, automating learning from robot grasping, manipulation around and interacting with human subjects, and control of a robot arm in cluttered and unmodeled environments. Prior to joining HRL, he completed Masters degrees in Mechanical Engineering from both Georgia Tech and AM Paris Tech (formerly ENSAM) in Metz, France. In 2007, Marc graduated with a Bachelor's of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Brigham Young University.

Professor and Graduate Coordinator

350L EB
801-422-4462
eric.homer@byu.edu

Office Hours

Available by appointment

Research

Materials Modeling, Grain Boundary Structure-Property Relationships, Mechanical Behavior of Polycrystalline Metals

Background

Eric R. Homer is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering with research and teaching emphases in Materials Science & Engineering. As a Materials Scientist and Mechanical Engineer, Eric investigates how the atomic- and micro-scale structure of materials affects their macroscopic properties that can be used in the design and construction of engineering structures. His main research focus is in computational materials science where he has developed models and software to simulate a variety of material phenomena.