DEPARTMENTS
See also Degree Programs for information about degrees and majors offered.
Aerospace
Engineering
Atmospheric flight and aircraft — structures and materials, aerodynamics
and flight and aircraft — structures and materials, aerodynamics and flight
mechanics, dynamics and control of spacecraft.
Biological
and Agricultural Engineering
Environmental air quality, optimization and design of food
processing systems, application of information technologies in agricultural
production, site-specific crop management, soil and water engineering.
Biomedical Engineering
Cardiovascular mechanobiology and biomedical sensing and optics. Instrumentation and signal processing, medical device system safety, and orthopedic biomechanics.
Chemical Engineering
Biomedical and biomolecular, complex fluids, environmental, materials,
microelectronics, microfluidics, modeling and simulation,
nantotechnology, process safety, process systems engineering, reaction
engineering and thermodynamics
Civil Engineering
Civil engineering, coastal engineering, construction engineering, engineering mechanics, environmental engineering, geotechnical engineering, infrastructure management, materials engineering, ocean engineering, structural engineering, transportation engineering, and water resources engineering.
• Ocean
Engineering
Computer Science
Software, software engineering, systems, information, human centered systems, foundations of computing, and intelligent systems and robotics. Multidisciplinary research in bioinformatics, security, computational science, brain networks and humanities informatics.
• Computer
Engineering
Electrical
and Computer Engineering
Biomedical engineering, computer engineering, control systems, electromagnetics and microwaves, electric power and power electronics, solid state electronics, electronic materials and electrooptics, telecommunications and signal processing, VLSI and microelectronics.
• Computer Engineering
Engineering Technology & Industrial Distribution
Electronics, telecommunications, manufacturing and mechanical engineering technologies and industrial distribution.
Industrial
and Systems Engineering
Manufacturing and production systems modeling and analysis of probabilistic systems; modeling and analysis of manufacturing control; knowledge-based systems; automated and integrated modeling; concurrent engineering; manufacturing control systems; supply chain management; electronics manufacturing; human-computer interaction; and human factors in transportation systems.
Mechanical Engineering
Energy systems, turbomachinery performance, rotodynamics, tribology, combustion and laser diagnostics, precision motion control, polymer science and engineering, materials, aerosols, cooling of micro-electronics, robotics, fuzzy systems, automated highways, composites, magnetic bearings, active control, manufacturing and computational mechanics.
Nuclear Engineering
Nuclear energy, nuclear forces and related areas, including ion/solid interactions, nuclear reactor design and operation, reactor safety, fusion technology, plasma science and pulsed power, health physics, two-phase flow and heat transfer, computational fluid dynamics, intelligent computer-aided reactor systems design, knowledge-based systems for reactor diagnostics and operation, and "aerosols and clusters" in health physics and materials technology.
• Radiological Health Engineering
Petroleum Engineering
Hydraulic fracturing, reservoir description, artificial intelligence, reservoir management, well control, offshore drilling technology, multi-phase flow, pumping and measurement, well testing, enhanced oil recovery, determination of ultimate oil and gas reserves, and artificial lift.
