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Lyles College of Engineering

Sankha Banerjee

Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering | 559.278.4265 | Office: EE 158

sankha@csufresno.edu

Education

  • Postdoctoral Training, Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, 2015
  • Ph.D., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers University, 2014
  • M.S., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers, University, 2013
  • B.S., Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Allahabad India, 2007

Courses Taught

Spring 2023: ME 155 (Senior Design II), ME 291T (Fundamentals of Electron Microscopy and Microanalysis)

Courses Taught in Previous Semesters
Undergraduate: ME 01 (Introduction to Engineering), ME 26 (Engineering Graphics), ME 31 (Engineering Materials), ME 32 (Engineering Materials Laboratory), ME 134 (Kinematics of Machinery), ME 140 (Advanced Engineering Analysis), ME 135 (Senior Design I), ME 155 (Senior Design II), ME 162 (Computer Aided Design),

Graduate: ME 215 (Design Optimization of Engineering Systems), ME 291T (Topics Courses: Advanced Electronic Materials, Advanced Engineering Materials, Fundamentals of Electron Microscopy and Microanalysis)

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, California State University, Fresno (August 2020 – Present)

Graduate Program Coordinator, Department of Mechanical Engineering, California State University, Fresno (August 2018 – Present)

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, California State University, Fresno (August 2015 – July 2020)

Postdoctoral Researcher, Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton University (June, 2014 – May 2015)

Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers University (August 2008 – May 2014)

Technical Analyst, Infosys Technologies Limited, Product Life Cycle Engineering Solutions Division (June 2007- June 2008)

Research interests in the areas of

  • Electro-active composite materials towards developing flexible devices in energy harvesting and scavenging for applications in biometric identification in electronic devices
  • Plasma based processing and surface modification of multiphasic polymer based flexible composites toward the development of biomedical implantable devices
  • Water purification using micro-plasma and graphene/graphene oxide membranes and filter stacks towards the development of targeted removal of contaminant species
  • Perovskite materials based energy harvesting devices towards applications in wearable medical devices
Research Profile and Publications: 
Google Scholar Link
ORCID Link 

Research Lab Website: http://www.energyandplasma.com/

Funding Agencies: DoD (Office of Naval Research), Agricultural Research Institute, USDA, Private Partners and Agencies