About Message from the Chair
The Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science (MEMS) provides the solid fundamentals, critical thinking, and the inventive spark that provides the foundation for our graduates to develop the future. Our undergraduate program graduates approximately 100 mechanical and materials science engineers each year, with virtually all of them being placed in excellent careers with industry and research facilities around the globe. The department houses faculty who are world-renowned researchers and devoted teachers, individuals of substance who seek to inspire and encourage their students to succeed. Our students have access to nearly twenty five laboratory facilities that enhance the learning process through first-rate technology and hands-on experience. In addition, we have a long history of industrial partnerships in the rich technological environment around the southwestern Pennsylvania regions and across the country. That experience is integrated into every aspect of the education we offer. The department is actively involved in the Cooperative Education (Co-Op) Program, bringing students together with industry for three terms of professional work before graduation. Our graduate program enrolls approximately 100 students, mostly pursuing doctoral degree in Mechanical Engineering or Materials Science. Graduate students working with faculty on a wide range of externally sponsored research projects in advancing significant and timely technologies. With the annual research expenditures exceeding $5 million dollars, we have enormous research strength in high-temperature materials, computational mechanics and fluid dynamics, materials at multiple length scales, energy technologies, functional nano/micro/bio fluidics, advanced ceramics, smart structures and biomechanics. Our graduate education outreaches the Pittsburgh community beyond our campus, offering on-site professional master’s degrees and certificates in mechanical engineering, materials science, and nuclear engineering. I hope to see you in the future, whether as a student, a collaborator, or to learn more about what our department can do for you. Minking K. Chyu |
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