Physical and Computational Sciences
and Engineering
Washington State University is committed to building on its existing strengths in the areas of physical sciences and engineering. The researchers highlighted here provide a sampling of both established and recently added research programs in these fields. Each of these researchers and their many collaborators are making important impacts in their respective areas.

March 2006 Mission

Informatics
Kenneth Daratha
Improving Health Outcomes for Individuals with Chronic Disease

College of Sciences
Valipuram S. Manoranjan
Teaching and Using Mathematical and Computational Tools

School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Sinisa Mesarovic
Multi-scale Modeling: Between large and small, discrete and continuous

School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
M. Grant Norton
Nanomaterials for Converting and Storing Energy

School of Engineering and Computer Science
WenZhan Song
Advancing the Cyberinfrastructure for Volcano Monitoring

May 2005 Mission

Civil and Environmental Engineering
J. Daniel Dolan
Improving Performance of Low-Rise Buildings

Physics
Peter Engels
Quantum Hydroynamics—Atomic-Scale Behavior Meets the Macroscopic World

Civil and Environmental Engineering
Cole C. McDaniel
Predicting and Improving the Behavior of Structures in Earthquakes

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Robert R. Lewis
From Synthesizing Realistic Images to Visualizing
Scientific Data