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Mission

The mission of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering is to provide high-quality engineering education at the Bachelor's, Master's and PhD levels, appropriate to the discipline and consistent with our status as first-rate research university.

Goals

To educate students at all levels to apply concepts and principles of mathematics, science and engineering to solve important technological and scientific problems, as they practice engineering with technical skill, professionalism and societal awareness
To perform and disseminate disciplinary and interdisciplinary research that advances applied science and technology while preparing future researchers for industrial, academic and government positions
To continuously advance our educational and research reputation in the eyes of prospective students, employers, government bodies and other institutions of higher learning, in the United States and abroad

Research Spotlight

MAE researchers have developed advanced computational techniques for Fire Simulation and multi-phase reacting turbulent flows.
Research Spotlight

UB MAE researchers in computational mechanics have developed a high fidelity volcanic landslide simulator to aid geologists in mapping the hazard areas at locations such as the island of Montserrat.
Research Spotlight

A Level Set Embedded Interface Method has been developed at Compuational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory to simulate Conjugate heat transfer for irregular geometries
Research Spotlight

MAE's Laser Flow Diagnostic Laboratory is a leader holographic particle image velocimetry, a three-dimensional, next generation flow diagnostics tool.
Research Spotlight

MAE's Automation, Robotics, and Mechatronics Laboratory is conducting research both on the theoretical formulation and experimental validation of such novel mechatronic systems as multi-robot collaboration.
Research Spotlight

The nonlinear estimation group is developing techniques for propagating uncertainties through nonlinear dynamical systems for better forecasting and output uncertainty characterization.
Research Spotlight

Study of Non-premixed flame-wall interaction using vortex ring configuration is done for the first time at the Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.