The Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science (MEMS) is the largest in the Swanson School, with more than 40 primary faculty whose expertise spans advanced manufacturing, energy and power systems, solid and fluid mechanics, smart materials, robotics, controls, acoustics, computational engineering, and nanotechnology.
Faculty are active researchers who bring current work directly into the classroom, and the department emphasizes critical thinking and hands-on problem solving at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Learn more about our faculty and their work through the spotlight series.
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News
Beyond Probabilities
On March 11, 2011, the devastating magnitude 9.1 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami struck Japan, leading to a catastrophic...
The Many Shapes of Sabbaticals
Sabbaticals come in many shapes and sizes. Some involve crossing oceans and cultures, others U.S. states and...
Slick Science
Oily floors are slippery, costly, and one of the leading causes of workplace injury. Predicting just how slippery...
From Westinghouse to Now
The Advanced Magnetics for Power and Energy Development (AMPED) Consortium and the University of Pittsburgh Swanson...
Pitt’s Soumik Chakraborty Receives SMART Scholarship
Soumik Chakraborty, a fourth-year honors mechanical engineering student at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School...