Department of Mechanical Engineering

Facilities

The department is housed in the H. M. Black Engineering Building, which was completed in 1985, and in the Nuclear Engineering Laboratory.

The department's research facilities include laboratories for controls, robotics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, unsteady viscous flows, fluidized bed heat and mass transfer and combustion, powder combustion, electrostatic precipitation, laser applications, material properties, computer-aided manufacturing processes, shock tube studies, thermal/environmental studies, tribology, and turbomachinery components.

The Ames Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy is located on campus.

Research Laboratories Associated with the ME Department