Research

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Areas of Research

Biosystems & Health

Mechanical engineering plays a significant role in the development of a fundamental understanding of the biomechanics of diseases in order to find novel solutions for treatment and new methodologies for drug delivery.

Active Research Areas

• Robotics for rehabilitation from neurological injury
• Bio-inspired sensing technologies (haptics, vibrissal sensing, flow sensing, electrolocation)
• Sensing algorithms (network topologies, minimal sensing models)
• Bio-inspired robots
• Biomaterials
• Biosystems manufacturing
• Protein folding mechanics in disease
• Drug delivery
• Nanoscience
• Computational fluid dynamics for biology
• Nanoscale manipulation of bio-molecules

Faculty Active in this Research

• L. Catherine Brinson
• J. Edward Colgate
• Horacio Dante Espinosa
• Sandip Ghosal
• Mitra Hartmann
• Yonggang Huang
• Sinan Keten
• Sridhar Krishnaswamy
• Seth Lichter
• Chang Liu
• Wing Kam Liu
• Kevin M. Lynch
• Malcolm MacIver
• Todd Murphey
• Neelesh A. Patankar
• Michael A. Peshkin