Research

Department of Mechanical Engineering

The department's research activities are organized both by discipline and by application area. There is a considerable amount of collaboration among ME department researchers and across departmental, college, and university lines.

Discipline areas

Thermal Fluid Systems

• Fluid Mechanics
• Heat Transfer and Thermal Systems

Mechanical Systems & Mechanics

• Engineering Mechanics

• Design & Manufacturing
• Mechanical Dynamics & Vibrations
• Mechatronic Systems Modeling & Control

Application areas

• Automotive Engineering
• Biomedical Engineering
• Combustion and Fire
• Computational Fluid Mechanics
• Computational Solid Mechanics
• Mechatronics
• Turbomachinery