Mechanical Engineering
Field Description
The program emphasizes basic mechanical sciences to prepare students for the diversity found at the frontiers of research and industrial development. The faculty is particularly strong and active in biomechanical engineering, fluid dynamics, turbulence, combustion, thermal systems engineering, multiphase flows, energy and power systems, transport processes in microgravity, mechanical systems and design, control and robotics, dynamics and control of space structures, mechanics of materials and materials processing, materials microgravity sciences and computational mechanics.
The Ph.D. programs provide advanced levels of training suitable for students pursuing careers in research and development, education, or advanced engineering analysis and design. The field does not admit students into an M.S.-only degree program; applicants may apply for the Ph.D. program directly from a bachelor's degree. Doctoral degree candidates must take a qualifying examination in addition to the examinations required by the Graduate School. Teaching experience for two semesters, normally satisfied by a teaching assistantship, is required of Ph.D. students.
The professional degree of Master of Engineering (Mechanical) provides a one-year course of study for those who want to develop a high level of competence in current technology and engineering design and who plan to practice engineering in industry or professionally. The program has a thirty-credit curriculum and requires an engineering design project.
Though the M.Eng. curriculum is flexible, many students choose to specialize within one of the the following MAE focus areas:
- Astronautics
- Biomechanics
- Dynamics, Controls and Robotics
- Energy and Sustainability
- Mechanics of Materials
- Thermal-Fluid Sciences
The formal requirements for obtaining an M.Eng. degree are outlined here. The M.Eng. degree is typically self-funded by the student. There are a handful of fellowships at the college level (typically one per field, or one out of ~80 students). There is also partial support as a TA for a small percentage of students.
Application:
Applicants should hold a bachelor's degree in engineering or the physical sciences. All applicants must submit GRE general test scores. Submission of GRE subject test scores in engineering, mathematics, or physics is strongly recommended. Admission is offered only for the fall semester, except in unusual cases. A field brochure is available on request from the graduate field office.
Contact Information
Website: https://www.mae.cornell.edu/maeEmail: maephd@cornell.edu
Phone: 607 255-5250
107 Upson Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
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Subject and Degrees
Mechanical Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering (M.Eng.) (Ithaca)
- Mechanical Engineering (M.S.) (Ithaca)
- Mechanical Engineering (Ph.D.) (Ithaca)
Concentrations by Subject
Mechanical Engineering
- biomedical mechanics
- dynamics and control
- energy and sustainability
- fluid dynamics
- micro- and nanoscale engineering
- solid mechanics and materials
- thermal science
Faculty
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: fluid dynamics; thermal science
- Research Interests: the development of a comprehensive understanding of the exchange rates of mass (e.g. water and C02), energy, and momentum between the land and atmosphere
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: biomedical mechanics
- Research Interests: the structural and regulatory function of the tendon ECM
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: fluid dynamics; thermal science
- Research Interests: heat transfer; fluid mechanics; combustion
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: biomedical mechanics; micro- and nanoscale engineering; solid mechanics and materials
- Research Interests: mechanical behavior of materials for structural, nano-scale, and biological applications
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: energy and sustainability; fluid dynamics; thermal science
- Research Interests: Wind energy resources and wind turbine wakes within and downwind of large wind farms both on- and offshore
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: biomedical mechanics; solid mechanics and materials
- Research Interests: generation and characterization of muscoloskeletal tissues; mechanical regulation of cartilage
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: solid mechanics and materials
- Research Interests: theoretical and computational solid mechanics
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: biomedical mechanics; dynamics and control; fluid dynamics; micro- and nanoscale engineering; solid mechanics and materials; thermal science
- Research Interests: biomechanics; tissue engineering; biomaterials
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: dynamics and control
- Research Interests: space systems; estimation and control; autonomy in aerospace systems; controlled structures
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: biomedical mechanics; solid mechanics and materials
- Research Interests: colloidal suspensions; biological tissues
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: fluid dynamics
- Research Interests: environmental fluid mechanics
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: energy and sustainability; fluid dynamics; thermal science
- Research Interests: Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: fluid dynamics
- Research Interests: environmental fluid mechanics; numerical simulation of stratified flows; modeling turbulence; interaction of hydrodynamics and biology in natural ecosystems
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: biomedical mechanics; solid mechanics and materials
- Research Interests: microstructure-property relationships in bone and tendon; disease and treatment; induced changes in the properties of bone mineral and collagen; connections between fundamental properties and clinical impact
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: energy and sustainability; fluid dynamics; micro- and nanoscale engineering; thermal science
- Research Interests: micro/nanofluidics; optical fluidics; labs-on-a-chip; nanoscale integration; single nuckotide polymorphisms
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: fluid dynamics
- Research Interests: development of computational techniques related to cardiovascular mechanics and biological flows
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: dynamics and control
- Research Interests: Design and analysis of methods and algorithms for computational intelligence and sensorimotor learning and control
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: energy and sustainability; thermal science
- Research Interests: combustion; combustion chemistry
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: energy and sustainability; fluid dynamics; thermal science
- Research Interests: acoustics; automotive engineering; fluid mechanics; aerodynamics; fluid dynamics
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: dynamics and control
- Research Interests: architecture robotics focusing on making physical surroundings interactive and adaptive
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: energy and sustainability; micro- and nanoscale engineering
- Research Interests: optoelectronic properties of semiconductor nanocrystals; solar energy conversion and energy storage devices
Seyyed Mostafa Hassani Gangaraj
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: solid mechanics and materials
- Research Interests: using experiments, analytical theory and simulations to understand the structure-property relation in structure materials with particular emphasis on extreme conditions
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: biomedical mechanics; solid mechanics and materials
- Research Interests: orthopaedic biomechanics; solid mechanics imaging
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: solid mechanics and materials
- Research Interests: fracture mechanics; mechanics of materials
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: biomedical mechanics; fluid dynamics; solid mechanics and materials
- Research Interests: continuum mechanics; biomechanics; mechanics of granular material
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: biomedical mechanics; energy and sustainability; fluid dynamics; micro- and nanoscale engineering; thermal science
- Research Interests: micro- and nanofluidics; microbioanalytical devices; laser microfabrication; interface science
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: energy and sustainability; fluid dynamics; micro- and nanoscale engineering; thermal science
- Research Interests: particulate and multiphase flows; colloids and aerosols; non-continuum gas flows
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: dynamics and control
- Research Interests: autonomous systems; hybrid systems; control; robotics
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: dynamics and control
- Research Interests: statistical signal processing, stochastic control & optimization
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: micro- and nanoscale engineering
- Research Interests: Developing concepts and technologies leading to integrated microsystems using micro and nanoscale fabrication techniques.
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: biomedical mechanics
- Research Interests: Developing and applying novel experimental techniques to investigate this important interplay between cellular structure and function, with a particular emphasis on the cell nucleus.
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: energy and sustainability; fluid dynamics; thermal science
- Research Interests: gas-solid flows; fluidized beds; gas-solid flow instrumentation; dielectric properties of snow, granular segregation; experiments in microgravity
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: dynamics and control
- Research Interests: dynamics, feedback analysis, control design primarily related to climate science
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: energy and sustainability; fluid dynamics
- Research Interests: interaction between climate and biogeochemistry through aerosols
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: solid mechanics and materials
- Research Interests: experimentally based material model development; effect of processing on properties
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: micro- and nanoscale engineering; solid mechanics and materials
- Research Interests: advanced materials and manufacturing, synthesizing novel high-performance materials
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: dynamics and control
- Research Interests: dynamics and control; spacecraft design; systems engineering
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: energy and sustainability; fluid dynamics; thermal science
- Research Interests: Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Campus: Ithaca - (Graduate School Professor)
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: energy and sustainability; fluid dynamics; thermal science
- Research Interests: combustion; fluid mechanics; turbulence; numerical methods; aerospace propulsion
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: dynamics and control
- Research Interests: nonlinear dynamics; biomechanics
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: biomedical mechanics; dynamics and control; solid mechanics and materials
- Research Interests: biomechanics; dynamics; robotics; solid mechanics
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: dynamics and control
- Research Interests: Estimation and control theory; computer vision and machine learning applications for automated optical system alignment and image processing; optimal scheduling for autonomous space observatories; and statistical analysis of astronomical data sets
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: dynamics and control; micro- and nanoscale engineering
- Research Interests: Soft Robotics, Material Intelligence for Control Systems, Microcombustion for actuation, and Concentrated particle flow through micronozzles.
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: energy and sustainability; solid mechanics and materials
- Research Interests: polymer physics, mechanochemistry, micromechanical experiments and modeling, continuum mechanics
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: biomedical mechanics; energy and sustainability; fluid dynamics; micro- and nanoscale engineering; thermal science
- Research Interests: microfluidics; biomedical engineering; transport phenomena; colloid science
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: energy and sustainability; micro- and nanoscale engineering; solid mechanics and materials; thermal science
- Research Interests: micro/nanoscale heat transfer, thermal energy conversion and storage thermal management, multiscale thermal transport in organic, inorganic and hybrid materials
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: biomedical mechanics; solid mechanics and materials
- Research Interests: orthopedic biomechanics; skeletal functional adaptation; bone structural behavior; mechanics of musculoskeletal tissues
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: fluid dynamics
- Research Interests: biological fluid dynamics; scientific computing and modeling; statistical physics
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: solid mechanics and materials
- Research Interests: Illuminating and modeling the underlying physical mechanisms that control the failure of engineering materials.
Charles Harvey Kaye Williamson
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: energy and sustainability; fluid dynamics
- Research Interests: fluid dynamics; aircraft vortex instabilities; vortex-induced vibration; wakes; turbulence; fundamental vortex interaction
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: solid mechanics and materials
- Research Interests: Interdisciplinary studies of material and biological phenomena by advancing multiscale, multi-physics computational methods and simulations
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: dynamics and control; energy and sustainability
- Research Interests: process, energy, environmental system engineering
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: micro- and nanoscale engineering; solid mechanics and materials
- Research Interests: fracture and fatigue; experimental mechanics; metal cutting; mechanics of materials
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Mechanical Engineering: energy and sustainability; fluid dynamics; thermal science
- Research Interests: air pollution; environmental nanoparticles; transportation and air quality; energy systems; climate changes