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The Department of Mechanical Engineering engages
in a broad range of teaching and research activities that
support the B.S. degree program and lead to the M.S. and
Ph.D. degrees. Research on the fundamentals of engineering
and at the cutting edge of technology carries national and
international acclaim. In
the last fiscal year, the department’s research expenditures
were over $10 million.
About 160 graduate students are enrolled in mechanical
engineering, and over the past three years we have averaged
27 M.S. and 7 Ph.D. graduates per year. Two faculty
have active NSF CAREER Awards and seven are Fellows in
professional societies. This speaks well of the
educational quality and research productivity of the
mechanical engineering faculty at Iowa State.
Multidisciplinary collaboration is
fostered through faculty associations with the various
centers at Iowa State including the US Department of
Energy's Ames Laboratory, the Center for Nondestructive
Evaluation, the Center for Advanced Technology Development,
the Iowa Energy Center, the Industrial Assessment Center,
the Virtual Reality Applications Center, and the Center for
Sustainable Environmental Technologies. Faculty in the
department are also engaged in research supporting the
following multidisciplinary Presidential Initiatives: Human
Computer Interaction, Combinatorial Discovery, Bioeconomy,
and Information Infrastructure.
Research at Iowa State’s Department of
Mechanical Engineering covers a broad range of topics, from
thermal systems to mechanical systems, plus virtual reality
applications and micro/nano systems. The reputation of the
ME department's faculty has attracted support for research
at the cutting edge of technology from federal, state and
industrial sources. There are currently active research programs in building energy utilization, combustion, computer integrated design and manufacturing, computational fluid mechanics and heat transfer, dynamic systems and control, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, internal combustion engines, laser applications, multiphase flow, polymeric materials and composites, radioactive waste, robotics, solid modeling, sustainable technologies, tribology and surface engineering, vehicular dynamics, and virtual reality.
Links can be found below
which
will take you to descriptions of the various active research
areas in the department.
Thermal Systems
Mechanical Systems
Micro/Nano Systems
Virtual Reality Applications
The Mechanical Engineering Department
also participates in the following interdisciplinary
graduate programs:
Human Computer Interaction
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Biorenewable Resources and Technology
Systems Engineering
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