Research Areas
The Department of Mechanical Engineering hosts a world-class faculty with research interests in the following interdisciplinary focus areas:
Acoustics and Vibrations
- Applied Acoustics and Ultrasonics
- Laser Acoustics/Photoacoustic and Photothermal Microscopy
- Lithotripsy and Acoustic Leviation
- Nonlinear and Biomedical Acoustics
- Physical and Optical Acoustics
- Vibrations
Biomechanics
- Multi-Scale Tissue Biomechanics
- Nonlinear and Biomedical Acoustics
- Orthopaedic and Developmental Biomechanics
Computational Science and Engineering
Dynamics, Robotics, Systems and Controls
Thermofluid Sciences, Energy and Sustainability
- Electromechanical Devices
- Fundamental and Applied Thermofluid Sciences
- Green Technologies
- Sustainable Electric Power Systems
Materials
- Advanced Materials Process Control
- Biomedical Microdevices and Microenvironments
- High-Temperature Chemical and Electrochemical Processing of Materials
- High-Temperature Oxidation
- Materials Theory
- Microscopy
- Powder Metallurgy and X-ray
- Surface Modification