Research
The mechanical engineering faculty is very active in research, expending a million dollars a year in external research funding.
The principal research areas, with associated faculty, are as follows:
- Composite materials (Chen, Sherwood)
- Smart materials/acoustics/controls (Niezrecki)
- Nanomanufacturing (Chen, Reynaud)
- MEMS & microsystems (Sun, Kim)
- Modal analysis (Avitabile)
- Aero/wind tunnel (Niemi, Willis)
- Microgravity (Charmchi)
- Baseball (Sherwood)
- Robotics (Parkin)
- Manufacturing (Parkin, Shina)
- Solar/sustainable energy (Duffy)
- Thermal plasmas and coating (McKelliget, Charmchi)
- Wind Energy (Avitabile, Chen, Duffy, Niemi, Niezrecki, Reynaud, Sherwood, Willis)
Graduate Laboratories