Assistant Professor Joseph J. Brown joined the UHM Mechanical Engineering department in August 2017. Dr. Brown has worked on a diverse array of research since 1999, centered on nanoscale device and materials engineering, including precision assembly, experimental mechanics, fluid processing, and applications of nanostructures and nanoscale systems. His research currently focuses on new material integration to devices and applications, nanomanufacturing, applied mechanics, and device and system design. He was previously a Research Scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder Department of Mechanical Engineering, and served there as a Lecturer in 2014-2015, teaching classes of up to 90 students. He received an A.B. in Engineering Sciences from Dartmouth College in 2000, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2008 and 2010, respectively. He helped found a company that provided nanotube textiles used on NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter. He is author of 18 journal articles, 11 conference papers, and 1 book chapter, and he is an inventor of 8 U.S. patents and 11 international patents. He is a member of ASME, IEEE, and AAAS.