Director
Raffaella De Vita
Professor and Associate Department Head
Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics Department
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 2005
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 2003
Laurea in Mathematics, University of Naples II, Caserta, 2000
Graduate Students
Alyssa Huntington
Ph.D. student
Engineering Mechanics
M.S. in Engineering Science and Mechanics, Virginia Tech, 2018
B.S. in Engineering Science and Mechanics, Virginia Tech, 2016
Jeffrey McGuire
Ph.D. student
Mechanical Engineering
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2015
Kandace Donaldson
Ph.D. student
School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences
B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, Arizona State University, 2017
William Snyder
Ph.D. student
Engineering Mechanics
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2019
Graduate Students (co-advised)
Erica Pack
Ph.D. student
Co-advised with David Schmale
School of Plant and Environmental Sciences
B.S. in Forensic Science, Penn State, 2016
UnderGraduate Students
Justin Dubik
Engineering Science and Mechanics, Virginia Tech
(Spring 2018-present)
Jose Monclova
PREP student
(Fall 2019-present)
B.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of New Mexico, 2019