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Faculty & Staff Spotlights

Mission: Possible!

With more than 30 faculty members, and a team of staff, the ME department is full of individuals whose main goal is to help you obtain the education you are seeking. Our faculty and staff strive to help you learn the ins and outs of engineering through the light of the Gospel.

Know someone who ought to be spotlighted? Email me-communications@byu.edu with your recommendations!
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Dr. Jason Porter - Faculty Spotlight

By Larissa Beatty
December 02, 2023 01:30 PM
Batteries can be found in almost anything, but what happens when you push them to their limit? That’s what Dr. Jason Porter, one of the newest mechanical engineering faculty members at Brigham Young University, is researching to find out. 
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Dr. Nathan Speirs - Faculty Spotlight

November 29, 2023 12:26 PM
After post-doctoral work in Saudi Arabia and research for the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Rhode Island, Dr. Nathan Speirs has found his way back to Brigham Young University to teach fluids.
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Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Nathan Usevitch

By Larissa Beatty
October 27, 2023 11:16 AM
Is it a man or a robot? Dr. Nathan Usevitch, one of the newest faculty members in the mechanical engineering department, works in his soft robotics research to blur the lines between the robotic and the real.
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Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Carl Sorensen

By Larissa Beatty
April 18, 2023 06:42 PM
Dr. Carl Sorensen is concluding his 36 year career as a professor at Brigham Young University this summer. During his time here he has changed the face of engineering at BYU and made contributions that will last for generations.
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Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Anton Bowden

By Larissa Beatty
January 17, 2023 04:12 PM
In more ways than one, Dr. Anton Bowden is a mechanical engineering professor who’s “got your back.” He’s been changing lives — and more specifically spines — for the better in the biomedical engineering industry, the lab and the classroom for over 20 years.
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Staff Spotlight: External Relations Manager Lisa Barrager

By Larissa Beatty
May 26, 2022 04:01 PM
Lisa Barrager has experience managing a wide variety of projects — from the Super Duty truck program at Ford, to water park attraction development. This prepared her for her unique position as the External Relations Manager for the Brigham Young University Mechanical Engineering department.
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Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Dillon

By Larissa Beatty
February 11, 2022 03:26 PM
Coming straight out of the fire (or rather the study of objects in fire) at Sandia National Laboratories, assistant professor Dr. Christopher Dillon is bringing his heat transfer expertise to the Brigham Young University Mechanical Engineering department.
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Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Jeff Hill

By Larissa Beatty
October 18, 2021 03:28 PM
Dr. Jeff Hill was half a mile away when he helped set off a half a pound of high explosive for a work experiment that bent the grass waves as the shock rolled toward him. This kind of high impact in both engineering and people is Dr. Hill’s focus as the newest faculty member in the Brigham Young University Mechanical Engineering Department.
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Faculty Spotlight: Meet Dr. Matt Allen

September 20, 2021 03:31 PM
When rockets take off or airplanes fly, all of their internal parts move, shake and bend because of various forces. How do you design those parts so they don’t break? Dr. Matt Allen’s structural dynamics research group is working on solutions to these types of problems.
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Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Daniel Maynes

By Lauren Maynes
June 16, 2021 02:44 PM
Dr. Daniel Maynes decided to major in Mechanical Engineering through what he called “a process of elimination,” because he liked Chemistry, Math, Physics and did not like subjects like history. Maynes had narrowed down his focus to Engineering, Physics or Math before he left for his mission.
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