Mechanical Engineering

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

Chair
Marshall Long

Professors
Robert Apfel, Ira Bernstein, Boa-Teh Chu (Emeritus), Juan Fernández de la Mora, Alessandro Gomez, Robert Gordon, Amable Liñan-Martinez (Adjunct), Marshall Long, Lisa Pfefferle, Daniel Rosner, Ronald Smith, Mitchell Smooke, Katepalli Sreenivasan, George Veronis, Peter Wegener (Emeritus), Forman Williams (Adjunct)

Associate Professor
Udo Schwarz, Wei Tong

Assistant Professors
Jerzy Blawzdziewicz, David Wu, Bjong Yeigh (Adjunct)

Lecturers
Beth Anne Bennett, Natalie Jeremijenko, Kailasnath Purushothaman, Glenn Weston-Murphy

Fields of Study
Mechanics of Fluids: Acoustics and bioeffects of ultrasound; bulk and surface properties of liquids (including metastable liquids, radiation-induced bubble formation, and surfactant-induced effects); dynamics and stability of drops and bubbles; experimental, theoretical, and computational studies of turbulence; chaos; fractals; aerodynamics; kinetic theory of gases and mixtures; electrospray theory and characterization; combustion and flames; computational methods for fluid dynamics and reacting flows; laser diagnostics of reacting and nonreacting flows; atmospheric turbulence, climate, theoretical and laboratory modeling of large-scale ocean circulation.

Mechanics of Solids/Material Science: Mechanisms of deformation, mass transport, and nucleation within material systems through experimental, analytic, and computational studies. Examples of projects include 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; biomechanics of the heart; electromigration in metallic interconnects; and transient nucleation in multicomponent systems.

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

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