Why Choose UB MAE?

First-rate faculty

The UB Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering faculty, working closely with our advanced graduate students, conducts leading-edge research in a number of disciplines, funded by government agenc ies and industry.

In recent years, our faculty have earned:
2 NSF Presidential Faculty Fellows awards
4 NSF CAREER awards
1 NSF Accomplishment-based Creativity award
1 NSF Presidential Young Investigator award

National ranking

The National Research Council (NRC) Effectiveness Ratings for Research-Doctorate Programs in Mechanical Engineering place UB's department just below that first quartile (31 percent) in program effectivene ss.

The NRC ranks us alongside University of California-Santa Barbara and Virginia and ahead of Duke, Michigan State, Iowa State, Johns Hopkins, Colorado, and Florida.

UB has the top rated public mechanical and aerospace program in New York State.

Low cost, good department support

UB graduate tuition is an exceptional bargain. If you look at the top three rated Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering programs in New York State, only UB's has low tuition

The department supports all its fulltime PhD students—with stipends and tuition scholarships—and some students in its master's program.

Bottom line: where our graduates go

The following is a selection of the labs and companies where recent UB MAE graduate degree recipients are working:

Our Ph.D. graduates have joined the faculties of:

Clarkson Clemson Cornell Kansas State Louisiana State University Michigan State University Purdue Rochester Institute of Technology RPI

Texas A&M UC-Berkeley University of Florida University of Hawaii University of Houston University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign University of Minnesota University of South Florida Vanderbilt Virginia Tech

Our graduates are excellent

In the past few years, our Ph.D. graduates have received:
4 NSF CAREER awards 1 NSF Presidential Young Investigator award 2 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator awards 1 Presidential Faculty Fellow award 1 NSF Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

Research at UB mechanical and aerospace

Our research is focused in five basic areas and one interdisciplinary area:
Dynamics, control, mechatronics
Design and optimization
Fluids and thermal science
Materials and mechanics
Bioengineering (interdisciplinary)

Our faculty have attracted more than $3 million in external research funding during 2002.

Research interests of the faculty include:

School and university

UB's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences offers graduate degrees in chemical engineering; civil, structural and environmental engineering; computer science and engineering; electrical engineering; and industrial engineering in addition to m echanical and aerospace engineering.

The school either houses or has strong research affiliations with such nationally known UB research centers as the Center for Advanced Photonics and Electronic Materials, Center for Computational Research (currently running one of the world's fastest supe rcomputing clusters), Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics, National Center for Geographic Information Analysis, Center for Multisource Information Infusion, Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, and a great many others .

As a research-intensive university, UB supports and houses a wide array of research institutes, centers, and laboratories. These organized units, and the research projects of individual faculty members, accounted for more than $300 million in grants from federal and state agencies, foundations, and industrial research partners in 2002.

We have available an online application and downloadable supporting forms.

Bioengineering

• Hemodynamics and vascular biomechanics

• Biomaterials, medical devices, and implants

• Musculoskeletal biomechanics

• Musculoskeletal simulation

• Biomedical simulation and visualization

Design and Optimization

• Scientific visualization

• Optimization in design

• Virtual reality/haptics

• Design theory

• Mechatronics

Dynamics, control, and mechatronics

• Robotics / Mechatronics

• Transportation

• Guidance, navigation and control

• Virtual reality/Haptics

• Robust vibration control of maneuvering structures

Fluids and Thermal Sciences

• Advanced laser flow diagnostics

• Combustion

• Computational fluid dynamics

• Thermal / Chemical / Mechanical systems modeling

• Particulate light scattering

• Theoretical fluid dynamics

• Experimental Fluid Mechanics

Mechanics and materials

Materials

• Composite materials

• Smart and multifunctional materials

• Magnetic data-storage materials

• Electronic packaging and thermal management materials

Mechanics

• Computational mechanics

• Experimental mechanics

An overview of why UB Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering might be right for you.

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