UCR Mechanical Engineering Graduate Program

Department of Mechanical Engineering

RESEARCH EXCELLENCE AND RANGE

RESEARCH GROWTH AND MENTORSHIP

27 Faculty members 13 Fellows of professional organizations

$5.2M Research award funding (2017)

4.1 Graduate student to faculty ratio

Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Graduate Program

966 Graduate students 129 Faculty members RESEARCH EXCELLENCE AND RANGE

600+ Areas of research $313,000 Average research expenditure per faculty member

90+ Fellows of Professional Societies

OUTSTANDING PROFILE

U.S. News and World Report: One of the top three ranked

public engineering colleges of its size in the country

8th CWTS Leiden Ranking

Mechanical Engineering Paul Talavera, (951) 827-2115 | me-gradprogram@engr.ucr.edu

About the Mechanical Engineering (ME) Graduate Program Mechanical Engineering graduate students take part in an interdisciplinary, nationally and internationally recognized program that conducts innovative research in a challenging, yet collaborative environment.

Becoming a ME graduate student provides access to benefits including:

• M.S. in Mechanical Engineering • B.S. + M.S. in Mechanical Engineering • Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering

• Competitive financial support packages, including fellowships • Interdisciplinary collaborations across campus and with other national and international institutions • Personal attention from faculty members who are dedicated to student success • First-class facilities including a machine shop providing instruction, research support, and services

• Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT) • Winston Chung Global Energy Center (WCGEC) • UCR Stem Cell Center

Faculty Members and Research Areas Bio-applications

Materials Properties & Processing

Nano & Micro Scale Engineering

Multiphase Flow & Combustion

Computation & Design

Air Quality & Fire Engineering

Energy Processing

Reza Abbaschian Distinguished Professor

Peter Alexander Greaney Assistant Professor

Monica Martinez Assistant Professor

Tom Stahovich Professor

Solidification, high-pressure temperature growth of diamond crystals, and electromagnetic levitation processing of alloys

Gecko adhesion, battery materials, photocatalysis, creep in superalloys, thermal transport in molecular framework materials

Hydrodynamics of collective motion and small-scale ocean transport

Intelligent design software and sketch understanding

Heejung Jung Professor

Cengiz Ozkan Professor

Aerosol science, ambient/roadway particle monitoring and atmospheric chemistry related to vehicle emissions

Nanomaterials synthesis and processing, graphene, III-V and II-VI materials, energy storage and photovoltaic devices

Guillermo Aguilar Chair and Professor Biomedical optics, medical lasers and transport phenomena for biomedical applications

Sinisa Coh Assistant Professor Nanostructures, oxides, layered materials, magnetic materials, topological insulators, superconductors, and optical properties

Sandeep Kumar Assistant Professor Micro/nano fabrication methods, high resolution microscopy, and mechanics of materials methods to explore material behavior at nanoscale

Chen Li Assistant Professor

Fabio Pasqualetti Assistant Professor Multi-agent, large-scale, and networked systems, such as power grids, water distribution networks, and cooperative robotic systems

Shayne Cybart Assistant Professor

Thermal dynamics and temperature-induced phonons behaviors

Marko Princevac Professor

High-transition temperature Josephson devices, superconducting electronics, and multiferroic and magnetic oxides

Christopher S. Lynch Dean and Professor

Fundamental and applied fluid mechanics research, and the application of fundamental turbulence concepts to studies in environmental flows

Mona Eskandari Assistant Professor Experimental characterization and computational modeling of biological systems, pulmonary mechanics

Elisa Franco Assistant Professor Molecular dynamical systems and controllers, and active nucleic acid materials

Multifunctional materials design,characterization, and modeling

Lorenzo Mangolini Associate Professor Plasma synthesis of novel functional materials for energy related applications like batteries and direct light-tochemical conversion

Suveen Mathaudhu Associate Professor Fundamental processing-microstructure-propertyperformance relationships in metallic and composite materials

Bhargav Rallabandi Assistant Professor Flow-structure interactions, complex fluids, acoustics, sea ice

Masaru Rao Associate Professor MEMS-based process technologies, devices, and instruments addressing needs in public health

Hideaki Tsutsui Assistant Professor Stem cell control, biomedical microdevices, and selfassembling biomaterials

Kambiz Vafai Distinguished Professor Electronic cooling, biomedical applications, transport and multiphase transport through porous media, and nanofluid modeling

Akula Venkatram Professor Air quality systems models, small-scale dispersion theory and micrometeorology, and models of complex systems

Luat T. Vuong Assistant Professor Optical and thermal behavior of metal nanofluids, pattern formation and self-assembly

Richard Wilson Assistant Professor Phonon, spin and electron interactions in complex heterogeneous materials and systems

Guanshui Xu Professor Solid mechanics, mechanical behavior of materials, geophysics and computational models