The Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering has been on the rise through strategic hiring. As the department rises, a conducive environment has provided a platform for people to work hard and work happily. The addition of 24 new tenured/tenure-track faculty members over five years, with no attrition to other universities, has propelled multiple research clusters in the department toward excellence. In parallel with the tenured/tenure-track faculty hires, the addition of 11 teaching faculty members over four years has enabled educational excellence to advance even further.
Supporting the fast rise is the growing financial resource. The department has started large-scale collaborations with major industrial companies including General Electric, Raytheon, and Northrop. The industrial collaborations augment multiple governmental supports secured by our faculty, such as the $20M contract order from the US Army Research Office and $125M contract order from the US Veterans Health Administration.