Research
The College of Engineering has over 240 tenured/tenure-track faculty, each bringing complementary areas of research expertise to address pressing global challenges. Their state-of-art-research looks at critical issues in materials, processes, systems, infrastructure, hardware and software at every scale—nano to macro to global—grounded in a translational approach that integrates the values of fundamental and applied research.
Our faculty boldly innovate by collaborating across engineering disciplines and the university, as well as with government, academia, and industry. The College of Engineering has more than 20 multidisciplinary research centers and institutes with funding from eight federal agencies. Our commitment to conducting transformative research to better the world can be seen by our growth in external research funding, which exceeds $100 million annually, and by an investment in research facilities such as our 223,000 square foot, six-story Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex and 367,000 square foot, eight-story EXP facility for teaching and research.
Research At-A-Glance
External Research Funding (FY2024)
Research Centers and Institutes
Young Investigator Awards (as of Aug. 2024)
Patents 2018-Aug. 2024
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Recent News
Sturdier Motion Sensors Built to Survive Shock and Vibration
Research conducted by ECE Associate Professor Cristian Cassella, Assistant Professor Benyamin Davaji, Professor Matteo Rinaldi, and ECE/MIE Professor David Horsley titled “Toward Enhanced Inertial Sensing via Dynamically Soft Topological States in Piezoelectric Microacoustic Metamaterials” was published in Advanced Functional Materials.
Exploring How K-12 Service-Learning Shapes First-Year Engineering Identity Formation
Kathryn Schulte Grahame, teaching professor and associate director of First Year Engineering, in collaboration with co-PIs Merredith Portsmore of Tufts University and David A. Delaine of Florida International University, was awarded a $200K NSF grant for “Engineering Identity Formation Through K-12 Service-Learning: Understanding How Recognition from Young Learners Supports First-Year Engineering Identity”.
Innovative Magnonic Resonator Design Advances Compact and Energy-Efficient Microwave Signal Platforms
ECE Assistant Professor Xufeng Zhang’s research on “Generation of ultra-broadband frequency comb in strongly bistable nonlinear magnonic resonator” was published in Nature Communications.
Leveraging Operations Management to Address Healthcare Inequalities and Drug Development for Rare Diseases
MIE Associate Professor Tugce Martagan published her research on “Rare diseases are not rare: Challenges and opportunities for OM research” in Production and Operations Management.