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New Faculty Dr. Barrera |
Thomas P. Barrera, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Dr. Barrera joined the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at Cal Poly Pomona as an Associate Professor in June, 2007. Prior to joining Cal Poly Pomona, Dr. Barrera was a Sr. Scientist for The Boeing Co., Integrated Defense Systems (El Segundo, CA). During his 10 years with The Boeing Co., Dr. Barrera led and managed numerous engineering teams in the design, development, manufacturing, test and delivery of advanced electrical power sub-systems for various space applications. Government civil programs supported include the NASA Space Shuttle and International Space Station as well as numerous other commercial and U.S. government classified space platforms. In support of these programs, Dr. Barrera holds an active SSBI-top secret government security clearance. With over 17 years of relevant industry experience (The Boeing Co., The Aerospace Corp., and the NASA/Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center), Dr. Barrera is a recognized industry expert in aerospace secondary and primary battery power systems.
After receiving his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1994, Dr. Barrera was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (1995-96) in the Materials Science and Engineering Dept. at UCLA. In addition, Dr. Barrera earned a M.S. in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences from Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) in 1986, B.S. in Chemical Engineering (Cum Laude) and B.A. in Mathematics-Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) in 1985. Dr. Barrera is also an active member of The Electrochemical Society, The Materials Research Society, and Tau Beta Pi.
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New Faculty Dr. Li |
Mingheng Li, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Starting in June, 2007 Dr. Li joined the Cal Poly Pomona Chemical & Materials Engineering Department as an Associate Professor. Previously, Dr. Li worked as a Senior Research Engineer at the Glass Technology Center, PPG Industries, in Pennsylvania. Dr. Li's research interests lie in the general areas of process systems engineering (process design and control, dynamics and optimization, and computational modeling and applied mathematics) with applications to a variety of industrial and engineering processes such as materials processing (thermal spray, chemical vapor deposition, glass manufacturing), energy (Low-E energy-conserving windows, hydrogen generation, energy conservation) and environment (self-cleaning coating, bacteria neutralization, electrostatic precipitator, waste minimization) etc.
Dr. Li received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2004. He earned a Master's degree in Chemical Engineering in 2000 at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China and a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering (honors) in 1997 at Beijing University of Chemical Technology in China.
