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. To learn more about the department's faculty and their research, see the selection of disciplines and applications below the sample photos. For more detailed contact information, see the Research Labs link. We hope you will also visit our ME@MSU Research Profiles magazine. Click here for the PDF.

Automotive Research

• Automotive Research Experiment Station
• Energy and Automotive Research Laboratories

Biomedical & Biomechanical Research

• Biomedical Engineering Website
• Biomechanical Design Research Laboratory (BDRL)

Combustion and Fire Research

• Combustion and Thermal Property Measurement Laboratory
• Structural Fire Testing Facility

BioFluids and Fluid Mechanics

• BioFluids Magnetic Resonance Diagnostics Laboratory
• Computational Fluid Mechanics

Computational Solid Mechanics and Nonlinear Solid Mechanics

• Nonlinear Solid Mechanics Research Group

Controls and Mechatronics Research

• Controls and Mechatronics Research Group

Turbomachinery

• Turbomachinery Lab (Engeda)
• Turbomachinery (Muller)

Thermal Fluid Systems

• Fluid Mechanics
• Heat Transfer and Thermal Systems

Mechanical Systems & Mechanics

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