About the Department
The Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering enrolls over four hundred undergraduate students and one hundred graduate students. There are twenty three full-time faculty members. The core technical areas in the department are: Design of Mechanical Systems, Dynamics & Control, Industrial Engineering & Operations Research, Materials & Manufacturing and Thermodynamics & Fluids. Faculty, students, and staff, working in these areas have an impact in three sectors of modern society: energy & environment, healthcare, and transportation & aerospace.
In energy & environment, there is emphasis in wind energy, energy conservation, and climate-change policy. Specific areas in healthcare include assistive and therapeutic technologies, analysis & design of biological systems and biomedical devices, and modeling & analysis of health care delivery systems. Work in the five core areas help advance transportation and aerospace research. The Thermodynamics & Fluids group works on advanced simulation and experimentation to solve fundamental and applied problems in turbulence, multiphase flows and Non-Newtonian fluid mechanics. Our Materials & Manufacturing and Dynamics & Control groups conduct research in high temperature materials, as well as sensing, control and condition monitoring of vehicle and manufacturing systems. Faculty in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research investigate innovative logistics, supply chain and network design concepts in transportation and aerospace. A state-of-art driving simulator facility is used to advance traffic safety research.
The department offers fully-accredited B.S. degree programs in both Mechanical Engineering (B.S.M.E.) and Industrial Engineering (B.S.I.E.) and has an honors option for qualified students. In addition, the department has Ph.D. and Master's programs in M.E. and I.E.
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Location:
UMass Amherst College of Engineering
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 220 ELAB,
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003-2210
(413) 545-2505
