The College of Engineering sponsors the following areas of research activities
(for further information, please contact the individual department):
- Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
- Computational Fluid Dynamics, Wind Tunnel Testing and Experimental Aerodynamics
- Vehicle Design and Simulation (airplanes, ground vehicles and race cars)
- Composite Materials and Light-weight Structures
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Transportation Engineering (traffic engineering, travel behavior modeling, transportation safety)
- Water Resources Engineering (river engineering, sedimentation, computational hydraulics)
- Geotechnical Engineering
- Environmental Engineering (water, wastewater and hazardous waste treatment, site mediation, air pollution control)
- Structural Engineering
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Sensors and Instrumentation for Real-Time Motion Analysis
- Opto-electronics and Optical Fiber Communication
- Communication Systems and Signal Processing
- Video Image Processing
- Microprocessors and Embedded Systems
- Power Systems Control and Reliability
- Robotics and Mechatronics
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Powder Technology Laboratory
- Powder Metallurgy
- Ceramic Processing
- Functionally Graded Materials
- Electronic Packaging
- Thick and Thin Film Technologies
- LTCC
- Electrochemical Processing
- Combustion Synthesis
- Mathematical Modeling and Computer Simulations of Sintering Processes
Mechanical Engineering
- Heat Transfer in Microgravity Combustion
- Smart Materials and Mechatronics
- Cardiovascular and musculoskeletal mechanics
- Virtual Reality
- Product Realization Process (PRP) - ranked among the top ten for educational best practices in a study supported by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the National Science Foundation
