Pei-feng Hsu
Professor and Director
Professor and Director
Pei-feng Hsu | Professor and Director
Pei-feng Hsu, Ph.D., is a professor of engineering and co-director of the Center for Advanced Coatings. He is an ASME Fellow, an AIAA Associate Fellow and a senior member of ASHRAE.
His research and project interests include:
- Thermal barrier coating thermal gradient testing and finite element analysis of fracture failures
- Radiative properties of random roughness surfaces with and without coating
- Multidimensional radiation heat transfer in flames, combustion systems, and radiating gases with spectrally dependent properties
- Combined mode heat transfer
- Premixed combustion with detailed multistep chemistry kinetics
- Electromagnetic wave scattering of small particles
- Directional and wavelength-selective radiative properties of micro- and nano-scale devices
- Transient radiation processes for optical imaging using ultra-fast light pulses
- HVAC systems
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Ilya Mingareev
Asst. Professor and Co-Director
Asst. Professor and Co-Director
Ilya Mingareev | Asst. Professor and Co-Director
Dr. Ilya Mingareev is an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering. He holds a Dr. rer. nat. degree from the RWTH Aachen University (Germany). Prior to joining Florida Tech, he was a senior research scientist at the Townes Laser Institute, University of Central Florida, where he established an international academic and research exchange program between UCF and the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology.
Dr. Mingareev’s research interests include:
- Ultrafast laser material processing
- High-precision micro- and nano-structuring
- Laser-based surface functionalization
- Processing of infrared optical materials
- Laser additive manufacturing (3D printing)
- Hybrid additive-subtractive manufacturing