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Mechanical Engineering

Dunham Laboratory, 432.4250
M.Eng., M.S., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Chair
Mitchell Smooke

Professors
David Bercovici, Ira Bernstein (Emeritus), Boa-Teh Chu (Emeritus), Juan Fernández de la Mora, Alessandro Gomez, Robert Gordon, Shun-Ichiro Karato, Amable Liñan-Martinez (Adjunct), Marshall Long, Daniel Rosner, Ronald Smith, Mitchell Smooke, George Veronis, Peter Wegener (Emeritus), Forman Williams (Adjunct)

Associate Professors
Jerzy Blawzdziewicz, Jacek Cholewicki, Corey O’Hern, Ainissa Ramirez, Jan Schroers, Udo Schwarz

Assistant Professors
Eric Dufresne, David LaVan, John Morrell, Hong Tang

Lecturers
Beth Anne Bennett, Kailasnath Purushothaman

Fields of Study

Mechanics of Fluids: Dynamics and stability of drops and bubbles; dynamics of thin liquid films; macroscopic and particle-scale dynamics of emulsions, foams, and colloidal suspensions; electrospray theory and characterization; combustion and flames; computational methods for fluid dynamics and reacting flows; laser diagnostics of reacting and nonreacting flows.

Mechanics of Solids/Material Science: Mechanisms of deformation, mass transport, and nucleation within material systems through experimental, analytic, and computational studies; mechanical testing of small-scale structures; characterization of microscale inhomogeneities in plastic flow; impact loading of materials; diffusion of dopants within semiconductor films; evolution of surface roughness during plastic deformation; ion implantation-induced disorder in crystalline films; incorporation of microstructural information into constitutive laws; electromigration in metallic interconnects; transient nucleation in multicomponent systems; jamming in particulate systems such as glasses, colloids, granular materials; materials science of thin films; phase transformations; MEMS materials; atomic-scale investigations of surfaces, surface interactions, and surface properties (nanomechanics); nanotribology (atomic mechanisms of friction); and nanoelasticity.

For admissions and degree requirements, and for course listings, see Engineering and Applied Science.

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