Merge - Research Areas
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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