Research at Iowa State’s Department of Mechanical Engineering covers a broad range of topics:
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There are currently active research programs in the following:
- building energy utilization
- combustion
- computer integrated design and manufacturing
- computational fluid mechanics and heat transfer
- dynamic systems and control
- fluid mechanics
- heat transfer
- internal combustion engines
- laser applications
- multiphase flow
- polymeric materials and composites
- radioactive waste
- robotics
- solid modeling
- sustainable technologies
- tribology and surface engineering
- vehicular dynamics
- virtual reality