Mechanical Engineering
17 Hillhouse Avenue, 203.432.4220
M.S., M.Phil., Ph.D.
Chair
Corey O’Hern
Director of Graduate Studies
Jan Schroers (jan.schroers@yale.edu)
Professors Charles Ahn,* Ira Bernstein (Emeritus), Juan Fernández de la Mora, Aaron Dollar, Alessandro Gomez, Sohrab Ismail-Beigi,† Shun-Ichiro Karato,† Marshall Long (Emeritus), Corey O’Hern, Vidvuds Ozolins,† Brian Scassellati,† Jan Schroers, Udo Schwarz, Mitchell Smooke
Associate Professors Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio, Madhusudhan Venkadesan
Assistant Professors Ian Abraham, Yimin Luo, Amir Pahlavan, Bauyrzhan Primkulov, Daniel Wiznia†
Senior Lecturer Beth Anne Bennett
Lecturers Lawrence Wilen, Joseph Zinter
| * | A joint appointment with another department. |
| † | A secondary appointment with primary affiliation in another department or school. |
Fields of Study
Fluids and Thermal Sciences Electrospray theory and characterization; electrical propulsion applications; aerodynamic instrumentation for separation of clusters and aerosol particles; heterogeneous nucleation in the gas phase; combustion and flames; computational methods for fluid dynamics and reacting flows; interfacial flows and instabilities and transport phenomena in disordered media.
Soft Matter/Complex Fluids Jamming and slow dynamics in gels, glasses, and granular materials; mechanical properties of soft and biological materials; rheology and statistical mechanics of muscle; structure and dynamics of proteins and other macromolecules and wetting of soft solids, elastocapillarity, poroelasticity, microrheology, and scattering.
Robotics/Mechatronics Machine and mechanism design; dynamics and control; robotic grasping and manipulation; legged locomotion; multi-agent search and exploration; optimal control for learning; model-predictive control; reinforcement learning; human-machine interface; rehabilitation robotics; haptics; soft robotics; flexible and stretchable electronics; soft material manufacturing; responsive material actuators; artificial muscle; soft-bodied control; electromechanical energy conversion; biomechanics of human movement and human-powered vehicles.
Bioengineering Engineering sciences of living systems; biomechanics; motor control; animal locomotion; cell and tissue mechanics; biomaterials and therapeutics; human health and orthopaedics; bio-inspired computation and design; biomaterials and cell-material interaction.
For degree requirements and courses, see Engineering & Applied Science.