机械工程学院从事生物工程，生物物理学和系统生物学领域的广泛研究。通过合作研究，结合了理论，计算和实验方法，解决了生物技术开发，生物系统分析，定量生物学和医学方面的重要问题。这项工作本质上是跨学科的，融合了工程，计算机科学，物理学，应用数学和生物学的大多数分支的方法。研究项目分为几个连贯的主题。其中一个主题是着重于了解生物系统的力学，在开发新型生物启发材料的同时提高我们对生物的基本知识。通过结合物理学，固体力学，材料科学和MEMS的关键概念和方法，可以获得对各种生物系统的活性和调控的新见解。这项研究不仅试图
Faculty in mechanical engineering pursue a wide spectrum of research in the areas of BioEngineering, Biophysics and Systems Biology. Through collaborative research, important problems in biotechnology development, biosystems analysis, quantitative biology and medicine are tackled using a combination of theoretical, computational and experimental approaches. This work is inherently interdisciplinary incorporating approaches from most branches of engineering, computer science, physics, applied math and biology. Research projects are organized into several coherent themes. One such theme focuses on understanding the mechanics of biological systems, to advance our fundamental knowledge of living matter while developing of new classes of bio-inspired materials. By incorporating key concepts and methods from physics, solid mechanics, materials science, and MEMS, new insight into the activity and regulation of a variety of biological systems can be achieved. This research seeks to not only characterize biomaterials properties, but to connect macroscale responses to molecular and microscale properties through multiscale modeling and experimentation.