Horea Ilies

Professor

Mechanical Engineering

Department of Mechanical Engineering
Professor and Department Head

Dr. Horea Ilies is a Professor and Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department and holds a dual appointment in the Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Ilies joined the Mechanical Engineering Department in 2004 from Ford Motor Company. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Wisconsin – Madison, and received M.S. degrees in Mechanics and ME from Michigan State University, and Technical University of Cluj, Romania. He has several years of industrial experience with Ford Motor Company in research, manufacturing, and product design and development activities. His current research interests include geometric and physical computing, shape synthesis and geometric reasoning, and, more generally, center on theoretical and computational aspects for systematic design and manufacturing of engineered systems. Dr. Ilies received the NSF CAREER award in 2007, as well as several Best Paper awards. He is an elected member of Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE) and serves as the director of the DREAM Research Center at UConn.

The central focus of our work has been on developing new engineering computational models, representations, algorithms, and design semantics to enable systematic, and efficient design, analysis and manufacturing of engineering artifacts.