Merge - Research Areas

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For more information about these research areas, click a department name to visit their website. 

Aerospace Engineering

  • Aeroacoustics
  • Aeroelasticity
  • Aerospace materials
  • Aerospace structures
  • Aerospace systems design and simulation
  • Applied aerodynamics
  • Astrodynamics
  • Combustion and propulsion
  • Computational fluid dynamics
  • Controls, dynamical systems and estimation
  • Experimental fluid mechanics
  • Flow control
  • Hypersonics
  • Laser and optical diagnostics
  • Satellite design and manufacturing
  • Space systems
  • Uncrewed aerial vehicles

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

  • Bioenvironmental engineering
  • Biological engineering
  • Food and bioprocess engineering
  • Off-road equipment engineering
  • Soil and water resources engineering

Bioengineering

  • Bioimaging at multi-scale
  • Bio-micro and nanotechnology
  • Synthetic bioengineering
  • Molecular, cellular and tissue engineering
  • Computational and systems biology
  • Research in BME education

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

  • Energy and sustainability
  • Biomolecular engineering
  • Soft matter and advanced materials
  • Computational engineering

Civil & Environmental Engineering

  • Construction engineering management
  • Construction materials
  • Energy-water-environment sustainability
  • Environmental engineering and science
  • Geotechnical engineering
  • Societal risk and hazard mitigation
  • Structural engineering
  • Sustainable and resilient infrastructure systems
  • Transportation engineering
  • Water resources engineering and science

Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Biomedical imaging, bioengineering, and acoustics
  • Circuits
  • Communications and control
  • Computing systems hardware and software
  • Data science and signal processing
  • Electromagnetics, optics, and remote sensing
  • Microelectronics and photonics
  • Nanotechnology
  • Networking and distributed computing
  • Power and energy systems
  • Reliable and secure computing systems

Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering

  • Data analytics
  • Decision and control systems
  • Design and manufacturing
  • Financial engineering
  • Operations research

Materials Science and Engineering

  • Energy and environment
  • Health and medicine
  • Mechanical properties and materials for extreme conditions
  • Nanoscale science and technology

Mechanical Science and Engineering

  • Fluid mechanics
  • Solid mechanics and materials
  • Thermo and heat transfer
  • Applied physics
  • Chemistry
  • Dynamics and controls
  • Computation and applied math

Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering

  • Materials science
  • Nuclear power
  • Plasma physics and fusion
  • Radiologic science
  • Reliability and risk

Physics

  • Atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) physics
  • Astrophysics, relativity, cosmology
  • Biological physics
  • Condensed matter physics
  • High energy physics
  • Nuclear physics
  • Physics education research
  • Quantum information science

Siebel School of Computing and Data Science

  • Architecture, compilers, and parallel computing
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Bioinformatics and computational biology
  • Computers and education
  • Data and information systems
  • Interactive computing
  • Programming languages, formal methods, and software engineering
  • Scientific computing
  • Security and privacy
  • Systems and networking
  • Theory and algorithms