The UB Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering faculty, working closely with our advanced graduate students, conducts leading-edge research in a number of disciplines, funded by government agenc ies and industry.
In recent years, our faculty have earned:
The National Research Council (NRC) Effectiveness Ratings for Research-Doctorate Programs in Mechanical Engineering place UB's department just below that first quartile (31 percent) in program effectiveness.
The NRC ranks us alongside University of California-Santa Barbara and Virginia and ahead of Duke, Michigan State, Iowa State, Johns Hopkins, Colorado, and Florida.
UB has the top rated public mechanical and aerospace program in New York State.
UB graduate tuition is an exceptional bargain. If you look at the top three rated Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering programs in New York State, only UB's has low tuition.
The department supports all its fulltime PhD students—with stipends and tuition scholarships—and some students in its master's program. | Read More >>
The following is a selection of the labs and companies where recent UB MAE graduate degree recipients are working:
Our Ph.D. graduates have joined the faculties of:
In the past few years, our Ph.D. graduates have received:
Our research is focused in five basic areas and one interdisciplinary area:
Our faculty have attracted more than $3 million in external research funding during 2002.
UB's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences offers graduate degrees in chemical engineering; civil, structural and environmental engineering; computer science and engineering; electrical engineering; and industrial engineering in addition to m echanical and aerospace engineering.
The school either houses or has strong research affiliations with such nationally known UB research centers as the Center for Advanced Photonics and Electronic Materials, Center for Computational Research (currently running one of the world's fastest supe rcomputing clusters), Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics, National Center for Geographic Information Analysis, Center for Multisource Information Infusion, Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, and a great many others.
As a research-intensive university, UB supports and houses a wide array of research institutes, centers, and laboratories. These organized units, and the research projects of individual faculty members, accounted for more than $300 million in grants from federal and state agencies, foundations, and industrial research partners in 2002. | Read More >>
