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Mechanical & Materials Engineering

Advanced Materials and Manufacturing

Expertise in this area includes:

Faculty in this area:

Metals processing
Additive manufacturing
Cold spray
Fatigue
Nanotechnology and nanomaterials
Artificial intelligence
Nanostructured thin film materials
Transport phenomena in moist porous media

Energy

Expertise in this area includes:	Faculty in this area:
Drying Batteries and electrochemistry Solar cell materials Multiphase flows Computational fluid dynamics Microfluidics	Aswin Gnanaskandan Yuxiang Liu Pratap Rao Ahmet Sabuncu Yan Wang Jamal Yagoobi

Health & Biotechnology

Our research in this area includes:	Faculty in this area includes:
Tissue mechanics On-chip disease diagnosis Biomechanics and medical devices Photoconductive devices and biomedical nanotechnology Middle ear mechanics of cartilage tympanoplasty Biomedical acoustics Sports engineering	Christopher Brown Cosme Furlong-Vazquez Aswin Gnanaskandan Yuxiang Liu Balaji Panchapakesan Yihao Zheng

Sensors & Metrology

Expertise in this area includes:	Faculty in this area:
Photonics and optomechanics Fiber optic sensing systems Surface metrology Photoconductive devices and nanotube-CTC-chips Printed electronics	Christopher Brown Robert Daniello Cosme Furlong-Vazquez Shawn Liu Zhu Mao Balaji Panchapakesan Pratap Rao

Space Exploration

Expertise in this area includes:	Faculty in this area:
Electrohydrodynamics Electronics cooling	Jamal Yagoobi

Autonomous Vehicles

Expertise in this area includes:	Faculty in this area:
Vehicle dynamics Advanced mechanical Artificial intelligence Cybernetics Mechatronics Vehicle drivetrain system engineering	Robert Daniello Lee Moradi Pradeep Radhakrishnan

Food and water

Expertise in this area includes:	Faculty in this area:
Drying Food safety technologies Ultrasonic dehydration Potable water production from air Innovative reattachment nozzles Dielectrophoretic dehydration	Robert Daniello Lin Cheng Aswin Gnanaskandan Yuxiang Liu Jamal Yagoobi

Engineering Education

Expertise in this area includes:	Faculty in this area:
Social impact of engineering implementation K-12 engineering outreach for girls Faculty development and mentoring Women's academics in STEM	Chrys Demetry Pradeep Radhakrishnan Ahmet Sabuncu Sarah Wodin-Schwartz

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