Departments
See also Degree
Programs for information about degrees and majors offered.
Aerospace Engineering
Aerodynamics and propulsion, including combustion,
aeroelastics, hypersonics and diagnostics; dynamics and control,
including autonomous stability, unmanned air vehicles (UAVs),
robotic systems and spacecraft formation flying; and materials and
structures, including mechanics of composite materials,
multifunctional and nanomaterials and structural health
monitoring.
Biological and Agricultural
Engineering
Environmental air quality, optimization and design of
food processing systems, application of information technologies in
agricultural production, site-specific crop management, and soil
and water engineering.
Biomedical Engineering
Cardiovascular mechanobiology, biomedical sensing and optics,
instrumentation and signal processing, medical device system
safety, and orthopedic biomechanics.
Chemical
Engineering
Biomedical and biomolecular, complex fluids, environmental,
materials, microelectronics, microfluidics, modeling and
simulation, nantotechnology, process safety, process systems
engineering, reaction engineering and thermodynamics
Civil Engineering
Civil engineering, coastal engineering, construction engineering,
engineering mechanics, environmental engineering, geotechnical
engineering, infrastructure management, materials engineering,
ocean engineering, structural engineering, transportation
engineering, and water resources engineering.
• Ocean
Engineering
Computer Science and
Engineering
Software, software engineering, systems, information, human
centered systems, foundations of computing, and intelligent systems
and robotics. Multidisciplinary research in bioinformatics,
security, computational science, brain networks and humanities
informatics.
• Computer
Engineering
Electrical and Computer
Engineering
Biomedical imaging, computer engineering, control systems,
electromagnetics and microwaves, electric power and power
electronics, solid state electronics, electronic materials and
electrooptics, telecommunications and signal processing, VLSI and
microelectronics.
• Computer
Engineering
Engineering Technology and Industrial
Distribution
Electronics, telecommunications, manufacturing and mechanical
engineering technologies, and industrial distribution.
Industrial and Systems
Engineering
Manufacturing and production systems modeling and analysis of
probabilistic systems; modeling and analysis of manufacturing
control; knowledge-based systems; automated and integrated
modeling; concurrent engineering; manufacturing control systems;
supply chain management; electronics manufacturing; human-computer
interaction; and human factors in transportation systems.
Mechanical Engineering
Energy systems, turbomachinery performance, rotodynamics,
tribology, combustion and laser diagnostics, precision motion
control, polymer science and engineering, materials, aerosols,
cooling of micro-electronics, robotics, fuzzy systems, automated
highways, composites, magnetic bearings, active control,
manufacturing and computational mechanics.
Nuclear Engineering
Nuclear energy, nuclear forces and related areas, including
ion/solid interactions, nuclear reactor design and operation,
reactor safety, fusion technology, plasma science and pulsed power,
health physics, two-phase flow and heat transfer, computational
fluid dynamics, intelligent computer-aided reactor systems design,
knowledge-based systems for reactor diagnostics and operation, and
"aerosols and clusters" in health physics and materials
technology.
• Radiological
Health Engineering
Petroleum Engineering
Hydraulic fracturing, reservoir description, artificial
intelligence, reservoir management, well control, offshore drilling
technology, multi-phase flow, pumping and measurement, well
testing, enhanced oil recovery, determination of ultimate oil and
gas reserves, and artificial lift.