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Major Research Areas<br />
Design and Manufacturing<br />
Automation<br />
• Mechanical design and manufacturing automation<br />
lie at the heart of mechanical engineering in which<br />
engineers conceive, design, build and test innovative<br />
solutions to “real world” problems.<br />
• Areas of research include: geometric modeling;<br />
intelligent design and manufacturing process<br />
optimization; in-process monitoring and control<br />
of manufacturing processes; servo-system<br />
control; robotics;<br />
mechatronics; primemover<br />
system control;<br />
sensor technology<br />
and measurement<br />
techniques; biomedical<br />
systems<br />
design and<br />
manufacturing.<br />
Energy/Thermal Fluid and<br />
Environment Engineering<br />
Research areas include: fuel cells and<br />
batteries; advanced renewable energy<br />
storage systems; thermoelectric materials<br />
and devices; nanoscale heat and mass<br />
transfer; transport in multi-component and<br />
multiphase systems; innovative electronics<br />
cooling systems; energy efficient<br />
buildings; contaminant transport in indoor<br />
environments and control.<br />
Materials Technology<br />
Microsystems and Precision Engineering<br />
• Materials engineering focuses on<br />
characterizing and processing new<br />
materials, developing processes for<br />
controlling their properties and costeffective<br />
production, generating<br />
engineering data necessary for design, and<br />
predicting the performance of products.<br />
• Research studies include: smart materials;<br />
biomaterials; thin films; composites;<br />
fracture and fatigue; residual life<br />
assessment; materials issues in electronic<br />
packaging; materials recycling; plastics<br />
flow in injection molding; advanced powder<br />
processing; desktop manufacturing;<br />
and instrumentation and measurement<br />
techniques.<br />
• Micro ElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) is a multidisciplinary research field which<br />
has been making a great impact on our daily life, including various microsensors used in<br />
personal electronics, transportation, communication, and biomedical diagnostics.<br />
• Fundamental and applied research work is being conducted in this area, with studies on<br />
basic micro/nanomechanics, such as fluid and solid mechanics, heat transfer and materials<br />
problems unique to micro/nanomechanical systems. Exploration of new ideas to produce<br />
microsystems for energy, biomedicine and nanomaterials, microsensors and microactuators.<br />
Technology issues related to the micro/nanofabrication of these devices are also being<br />
addressed.<br />
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