Faculty Profile

Degrees

MS, SUNY Stony Brook Univ; BS, New York Univ (NYU)

Bio

Gozde Ustuner is an adjunct instructor in Engineering Department at Hofstra University. She received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from New York University where she graduated with highest honors. She received the M.S degree in mechanical engineering from Stony Brook University and currently pursuing her Ph.D in Materials Science Engineering. She worked as a design engineer in industry and taught many courses at different universities. She has done various research projects where her work was funded by United States Department of Energy (DOE), National Science Foundation (NSF) and others. Her areas of expertise include nanoparticles, nanocatalyst development, electrochemistry, electrocatalysis, impedance and fuel cell technology. She conducts research at Brookhaven National Laboratory and the main objective of her work is to design and develop electrocatalysts with low Platinum (Pt) content for fuel cell reactions.

Research interests:

Renewable energy, Fuel Cells, Nanomaterials

Courses taught:

ENGG 163: Mechanics of Solids and Properties of Materials Laboratory
ENGG 026: Mechanics: Dynamics
ENGG 025: Mechanics: Statics
ENGG 129: Mechanical Vibrations
ENGG 170: Thermodynamics/Heat Transfer Laboratory
ENGG 027: Engineering Materials

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