该领域的研究包括计算机辅助设计和制造，制造设计，设计优化，基于模型的设计，可靠性，动态和控制系统，基于视觉的控制机制和机器理论，机器人技术的理论和实验方面。和摩擦学。<br>当前的重点领域是多尺度材料建模和设计，计算生物工程，多物理场建模，控件和机器人技术以及设计自动化。
The technologies needed to address today's grand challenges are rooted in discovering and developing new materials and processes. Perhaps nowhere is this more important than the energy sector. Whether it be new devices to convert wasted heat into electricity, new strategies to harness the power of the sun to purify water, new approaches to creating fuels and degrading pollutants, or new technologies that enable fabricating and developing these tools, materials and thermal science and manufacturing play a critical role. Research led by our faculty spans many fields, from nanoparticle synthesis to 3D printing, and is inherently interdisciplinary, bridging traditional mechanical engineering with applied physics, chemistry, materials science, electrical engineering, and computer science. Our research is diverse and broad, with faculty working at the smallest of atomic scales to fully developed functional devices using a wide variety of theoretical, computational, and experimental tools.