About Us

Our biomedical engineers apply engineering principles, design concepts, and scientific knowledge to engineer better solutions in biomedical research and health care. At Rochester, our students learn about and can conduct research in various subfields, including biomechanics, medical imaging, bio-nanotechnology, tissue engineering, biomedical optics, and neuroengineering. Our department also has close ties to the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC), allowing for unique interdisciplinary research opportunities and collaborations.

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Chemical engineering applies scientific methods to convert raw materials into valuable products while protecting and improving the environment. At Rochester, we are working to develop more efficient and sustainable chemical processes, find alternative energy solutions, and apply the fundamentals to biology, pharmaceutical sciences, and medicine. Meanwhile, our students have opportunities to collaborate with faculty on research projects in labs featuring state-of-the-art equipment.

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Research by our computer science faculty impacts both the infrastructure and the applications of computing, ranging across system efficiency and security, computational social choice and algorithmic game theory, mining and predicting social and health outcomes, and natural language and video understanding. The research is often interdisciplinary, leading to collaborations across several departments and centers within the University.

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Electrical and computer engineering is the bedrock of the digital age, from communications and networks to robotics, media, and consumer electronics, with research that has broad societal impact across multiple fields, including energy, health and medicine, the connected world, and music. Our students learn the fundamentals of circuits and systems, electromagnetics, microelectronics, digital systems, computer architecture, signals, and communications.

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Data science is the creation and application of powerful new methods to collect, curate, analyze, and make discoveries from large-scale data. Our interdisciplinary teams across computer science, medicine, and all the sciences are harnessing big data to improve our health, create new industries, and expand fundamental knowledge. Our program includes coursework and research experiences in data mining, database systems, statistics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.

Visit the Goergen Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence website to learn more.

Design, manufacturing, industry collaborations, research innovations—mechanical engineering combines these and more. Many of our researchers hold joint appointments in other engineering and science departments, allowing us to develop cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research.

Our students apply the latest software to solve problems of solids and fluids, energy, materials science, mechanical systems, and advanced power. They do so through extensive hands-on work as well as design and experimental projects.

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Institute researchers study both optics—the science of light and the interaction of light with matter, and optical engineering—the discipline of solving problems with optics and photonics. The Institute of Optics was the first of its kind and is a leader in quantum optics and laser physics. It’s also home to the Industrial Associates Program, where the Institute partners with industry to provide cutting edge training and networking within the field of optics.

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