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Enriching Student Experiences Through Research

The graduate faculty of the mechanical engineering department is dynamic and committed to professional growth. Some of the current research activities include finite elements, vibrations, robotics, cardiovascular signal processing and system modeling, turbomachinery flows, laser-based flow measurement, applications of computational fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and computer-aided design and manufacturing. Research also is conducted in areas such as vibration damping, boiling heat transfer and thermal simulation of heat exchangers and electronic devices, non-linear dynamics, and fracture mechanisms in materials.

Also, there is interest in software design and development for engineering applications, experimental heat transfer, developing techniques for airfoil optimization, flow in time-varying boundaries, two-phase heat transfer, heat and moisture transport in porous media, characterization of intermetallic materials, flow boiling and fluid mixing. The department houses several laboratories, which support vibration and modal analysis, robotics, industrial fluids applications, thermal analysis, biomedical systems analysis and materials science.

If you are a student who is interested in research, you are encouraged to contact faculty members in the areas that interest you.