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Research in the Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering Graduate Fields
While it is impossible to categorize our broadly-varying research, we have organized into six Research Programs, which serve as the structure for admissions and qualifying exam processes.
Click on the program name for more information.
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Researchers at Cornell
have demonstrated the first
3-D self-replicating robots.
See the CCSL page
for more info.
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Research Areas
Some of our research areas (and related faculty) can be summarized as follows:
- Mechanics of Biological Materials
Bartel , Bonassar, Gao, van der Meulen
- Biotechnology
Bartel , Bonassar, Erickson, Kirby
- Aerodynamics and Aeroacoustics
Caughey, George, Leibovich, Williamson
- Combustion and Pollution
Fisher, Gouldin, Pope, Avedisian, Zhang
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The Biomechanics Group
has a long running
collaboration with the
Hospital for Special
Surgery in NYC. |
- Multiphase and Granular Flows
Avedisian, Collins, Kirby, Louge
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
Caughey, Collins, Pope
- Turbulence
Caughey, Collins, George, Leibovich, Lumley, Pope, Warhaft, Williamson
- Computational Mechanics
Bartel Dawson, Miller, Zabaras
- Solid Mechanics
Dawson, Miller, van der Meulen, Zabaras
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The LIMS Group
has succesfully created
Insect Cyborg Sentinels
that can form autonomous
defense systems. |
- Nonlinear Dynamics
Garcia, Moon, Psiaki
- Robotics
Campbell, Garcia, Lipson, Kress-Gazit
- Control Systems Theory and Applications
Campbell, Garcia
- Satellite Systems
Campbell, Peck
- Rapid Prototyping
Bonassar, Lipson, Moon
- Sensors and Actuators
Garcia, Moon
- Heat and Mass Transfer
Avedisian, Torrance
- Materials Synthesis and Processing
Dawson, Miller, Zabaras
- Nano- and Microscale Engineering
Erickson, Garcia, Kirby, Wu
- Microfluidics
Erickson, Kirby , Wu
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