Department of Mechanical Engineering

Welcome to the Vibration and Noise Control Laboratory’s web site.

Research projects combine physical modeling, analysis, and measurement with a view towards understanding fundamental phenomena in the dynamics of engineered systems.  The laboratory maintains a full range of research and development capabilities in mechanical vibration, noise control, and applied mechanics, including sensors, instrumentation, test equipment, and computer simulation.  Theoretical topics that arise in the Laboratory’s work include the dynamics of continuous systems, gyroscopic systems, modal analysis, dynamic stability, perturbation techniques, and multi-field coupling phenomena.

Often interdisciplinary in nature, research projects are supported by industry and government, and they address machine design issues in several technological applications:

• High-density computer data storage

• Design of automotive disk brakes

• Manufacture of sheet metal, fiberglass and polymer materials

• Machine dynamics

Members of the Laboratory include undergraduate students, graduate M.S. and Ph.D. students, and occasional post-doctoral researchers and visiting scholars.  Feel free to review this site for additional information, and inquire if you should have further questions or are interested in participating in a research project.