Graduate Program
Virtual Open House
Specific research areas include:
- Professor Douglas Kelley – Mixing Lab: Fluid Dynamics of Brain Cerebrospinal Fluid and Liquid Metal Technologies
- Professor Jessica Shang – Hydrodynamics Lab
- Professor Hussein Aluie – Laboratory for Laser Energetics: Complex and Turbulent Flows in Fusion, Geophysics, Astrophysics, and Engineering
- Professor Andrea Pickel – Pickel Group: Nanoscale Thermal Transport
- Professor Jong–Hoon Nam – Nam Lab: Capturing the Moment of the Inner Ear Mechanotransduction
Undergraduate, as well as graduate students, are encouraged to participate in research. Use the links above to find descriptions of the research areas and associated faculty members.
The Department of Mechanical Engineering includes approximately 20 faculty members, 45 full-time graduate students, and 215 undergraduate students. Research is conducted in five overlapping areas:
- Fluid and solid mechanics
- Biomechanics
- Fusion/plasma/HEDP
- Materials science
- Precision machining and optics manufacturing
Mechanical engineering faculty members have strong research ties with the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, the Rochester Center for Biomedical Ultrasound, and various departments within the School of Medicine and Dentistry.