College of Engineering, Architecture & Technology

I am a multidisciplinary Engineer with professional experiences developing scientific software and custom robotic/electronic solutions. My academic research interests are primarily focused on UAS-based atmospheric measurements, particularly in support of aviation weather. Such efforts resulted in a U.S. patent, a textbook chapter, and multiple peer-reviewed journal papers.

Research Interests:

Unmanned systems, instrumentation, calibration and validation, experiment design, atmospheric measurements, phased array radars, embedded systems, systems integration, and problem-basedlearning.

Dr. Bach is an Professor at OSU MAE, conducting industry relevant research in HVAC&R systems and components. His focus is heat pumps and their components and controls. Current projects include heat exchanger testing and simulation, compressor testing and simulation, as well as transitioning an updated defrostign controls algorithm to the industry sponsor.

He received his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 2014 and his Dipl.-Ing.(FH) from the University of Applied Sciences in Germany. Experience outside OSU includes working for Cool Expert GmbH and MIPack GmbH & Co.KG as well as internships at Siemens ICN in Germany and Minus 40 Pty. Ltd. in Australia.

He served as committee member or mentor for over 20 graduate students and mentored over 20 undergraduate class projects. He is an active member of ASHRAE and co-adviser for the OSU student branche of ASHRAE.

I received my Ph.D in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2007 and my B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras in 2002. I am primarily interested in solving combinatorial optimization problems modeled on networks and applications of integer programming. This has led me into diverse domains including computational biology, social network analysis, and graph-based data mining, as well as classical areas of operations research like transportation logistics, production-inventory planning, and scheduling.

My research has been sponsored by National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Office of Naval Research, and industry partners. Publications coauthored with my students and other collaborators have appeared in Operations Research, INFORMS Journal on Computing, INFORMS Journal on Optimization, and INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics, among others. I serve on the editorial boards of Networks (Wiley) and Journal of Global Optimization (Springer).

Research Interests:

• Graph-powered Analytics
• Optimization Applications

I am an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Oklahoma State University, based at the OSU-Tulsa campus. My research lies at the intersection of control theory, optimization, and machine learning, where I develop methods for trustworthy autonomy in safety-critical aerospace and robotic systems.

My work brings together two complementary strengths. Control theory and optimization provide mathematical structure, reliability, and formal guarantees. Artificial intelligence and machine learning give autonomous systems the ability to learn from data and adapt to uncertain or changing environments. My goal is to combine these capabilities without sacrificing the safety and predictability required when intelligent systems leave simulation and operate in the real world.

My research includes computationally efficient methods for real-time trajectory planning and control as well as learning-enabled approaches for aerospace autonomy. Applications span spacecraft guidance and control, UAV navigation, advanced air mobility, robotic systems, and space domain awareness.

At OSU, I am building a research program focused on safe-by-design learning-enabled guidance, navigation, and control, and I am especially interested in connecting fundamental mathematical research with experimental validation and real-world flight testing.

Research is only one part of what draws me to academia. I am equally committed to teaching and mentorship, and I aim to create a collaborative environment where students are encouraged to ask difficult questions, develop independent ideas, and grow into confident, creative, and ethical researchers and engineers.

Tim Brown is an Assistant Professor in Electrical & Computer Engineering at Oklahoma State University. Tim obtained his BSc in Electronics Engineering Physics from the University of Tulsa (2014) and his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Texas A&M University under Prof. Patrick Shamberger (2019). After postdoctoral work under Prof. R. Stanley Williams at Texas A&M and Suhas Kumar at Sandia-California he has newly joined the Electrical Engineering department as Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State University.

In his research, Tim has leveraged his multidisciplinary career to investigate central questions in neuromorphic and memristor circuits at the boundary of physics, materials, and electrical engineering: Which materials and devices are capable of useful artificial neuron behaviors? How do we intentionally design desired dynamics into such systems?

Chuck is the Associate Dean of Research for the College of Engineering Architecture and Technology and is director of the Robust Electromagnetic Field Testing and Simulation Laboratory at Oklahoma State University where he is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Chuck was a distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE EMC society (2011-2012), IEEE EMC society Board of Directors (2011-2016), Technical Activities Committee Chair (2016-2017), VP Technical Services (2017 – 2022), IEEE EMC Board of Governors (2026- present).

Named IEEE Fellow in 2018 for "for educational contributions to electromagnetic compatibility and reverberation chambers."

Research Interests:

His interests include electromagnetic field penetration in aircraft structures and reverberation chamber simulation using numerical and experimental methods, engineering education, and electromagnetic characterization and application of reverberation chambers for communication systems including RFID and UAS.

Heterogeneous Catalysis; Reaction Engineering; Nanoporous Materials; Catalyst Design; Zeolite; Sustainable Chemical Process; Hydrogen Technology; Chemical Sensor; Biomass Conversion; Environmental Remediation

Anthony Comer is an Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State University and Director of the Simulation to Flight Applied Research Laboratory (S2FAR), specializing in the development, optimization, and flight testing of configuration-independent flight control system architectures with a focus on vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) vehicles. He is a co-applicant on two provisional patents related to the Simplified Vehicle Operations flight control architecture developed during his doctoral studies. He has previously worked with the NASA Ames Aeromechanics Branch to develop a sizing framework for a Martian vehicle with stability and control integration. He also worked at the NASA Langley Research Center, where he helped advance their flight simulation and subscale flight testing capabilities. He received his Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral degrees in Aerospace Engineering from Auburn University. His research interests include control system development, flight simulation, simulation model development, hardware integration, control system optimization, subscale flight testing, and VTOL handling qualities.

Dr. Cook has more than 20 years of experience in the fields of construction, concrete, cement, and research & development. Dr. Cook is an Assistant Professor in the Construction Engineering Technology program within the Division of Technology at Oklahoma State University. He has taught Concrete Technology CET 2343, Introduction to Construction CET 1213, Technology in Construction CET 4273, and Equipment Management CET 4333.

Also, Dr. Cook is the Director of the HCMT Program (ODOT training center), where Oklahoma DOT requires inspectors and other quality control personal dealing with state projects to be trained and certified. Dr. Cook is the instructor for concrete, aggregates, and general sampling and testing of concrete. This involves providing an overview of the construction materials and testing standards based on the Oklahoma DOT construction manual, hands-on demonstration of the specific test procedure, and then walking the trainee through the specific test procedure as this person conducts the test.

Dr. Cook grew up working for his family-owned concrete construction company starting as a labor and working through the positions of finisher, foreman, and estimator. Dr. Cook has a vast experience of building concrete structures from floor slabs using post-tension cabling, parking lots with minimal elevation for drainage, city streets, private dams, small bridges, retaining walls, residential house slabs and driveways, decorative concrete, and concrete repair. 

Upon completing his doctorate in Civil Engineering at Oklahoma State University, Dr. Cook worked as a technical service engineer for an international cement supplier. Dr. Cook provided technical support for both customers and internal personnel on variety of topics related to cement, slag cement, concrete, masonry, and oil-well. Some of these tasks included communicating material specifications, generating concrete submittals, submitting slag and cement submittals, designing mixes for concrete, conducting quality audits, and troubleshooting hardened and fresh concrete and masonry. Also, Dr. Cook has designed mixtures for a wide-spread of applications such as high strength concrete, slip formed paving concrete, typical slab-on-grade concrete, pumpable concrete, self-consolidating concrete, flowable fill, grout, and even a few mass pour mixtures.

Dr. Cook is involved as a national member of the American Concrete Institute (ACI). Dr. Cook serves as a committee member of ACI 211 "Proportioning of Concrete Mixtures", ACI 302 "Construction of Floor Slabs", and ACI 309 "Consolidation of Concrete". Previously, Dr. Cook has been a main voting member of ASTM 04.02 Concrete & Aggregate.

Research Interests:

Concrete construction practices, construction education, workforce devlopement, construction materials, concrete, aggregate, cement, fly ash, slag,

Dr. Norbert J. Delatte, Jr., P.E., is a Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Oklahoma State University.  He was previously the M.R. Lohmann Endowed Professor of Engineering and the Head of the School.   He was also a Fulbright Scholar in Naples, Italy, in Structural Engineering, at the University of Naples Federico II, January – June 2025 under a Fulbright grant in the Fondazione CON IL SUD Teaching/Research category.  

Formerly, he was the Professor and Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cleveland State University. He also served on the faculty of the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. He received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from The Citadel in 1984, a Master's Degree in Civil Engineering from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986, and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 1996.
Dr. Delatte has served as an ABET Program Evaluator since 2010 and a Commissioner for the ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) (2016-2021 term). He was elected for a three-year term on the EAC Executive Committee as a Member-at-Large 2022-2025.   Member of the EAC Criteria Committee 2017 – 2025.  Vice chair of the EAC Criteria Committee 2023 – 2024, Chair of the EAC Criteria Committee 2024 – 2025.
He was formerly the Chair of the Executive Committee of the American Society of Civil Engineers Technical Council on Forensic Engineering, since renamed the Forensic Engineering Division.
He was the Chair of TRB Committee AFN20 Properties of Concrete and AKM60 Properties of Concrete and Constituent Materials (2016 - 2021).
He is the Chair of ACI Committee 522 Pervious Concrete as well as the former Chair of ACI Committee 325 Concrete Pavements and of Committee 327 Roller Compacted Concrete Pavements and of ACI S803 Faculty Network, Secretary of ACI 522 Pervious Concrete, and a member of several other ACI Committees.
Dr. Delatte is the author of Beyond Failure: Forensic Case Studies for Civil Engineers (ASCE Press, 2009) and Concrete Pavement Design, Construction, and Performance, 2nd Edition (Taylor and Francis, 2014).
In addition, he is the Editor of ASCE's Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities. Dr. Delatte is a registered professional engineer in the States of Oklahoma, Ohio, and Alabama, and in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
He served for eleven years in the United States Army as an officer in the Corps of Engineers, including two years of service in the Republic of Korea, wartime service in the Arabian Peninsula during Operation Desert Storm, and command of an engineer company during Hurricane Andrew relief operations in southern Florida. He taught as an Assistant Professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York during the 1996-1997 academic year.
New to The Conversation, "Florida condo collapse – searching for answers about what went wrong in Surfside can improve building regulation," https://theconversation.com/florida-condo-collapse-searching-for-answers-about-what-went-wrong-in-surfside-can-improve-building-regulation-163469

Research Interests:

Concrete materials
Concrete pavements
Nondestructive evaluation
Forensic Engineering
Engineering Education

Dr. Paul Elliott is a Research Assistant Professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Department at Oklahoma State University. He has also been an Assistant Professor at the State University of New York where he was selected as the Instructor of the Year in 2020, and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of North Florida. He earned his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from UConn where he received a Nuclear Regulatory Commission Fellowship, a MS from University of Dayton in renewable and clean energy engineering, and a BS in mechanical engineering from Harding University. His work with NASA includes the design and construction of a rover experiment platform for the detection of methane over large distances on the Martian surface, and the construction of an experimental package that flew on a sounding rocket to an altitude of 41 miles. His areas of research include low stress ceramic to metal bonding, metal 3D printing and low temperature casting, non-toxic amalgams and metal matrix composites, and vehicle and motor design for high powered rocketry.