Mechanical Engineering

Even when robotics technologies were relatively primitive, their potential role in boosting the productivity and competitiveness of the United States was foreseen in the evolving global marketplace. The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University was established in 1979 to conduct basic and applied research in robotics technologies relevant to industrial and societal tasks. Seeking to combine the practical and the theoretical, the Robotics Institute has diversified its efforts and approaches to robotics science while retaining its original goal of realizing the potential of the robotics field.

In the heart of New York Citys Little Italy, Honeybee Robotics creates robots, flight subsystems, automated drills and other machines destined for work on Earth, Mars, and beyond. Founded in 1983 as a systems integrator using off-the-shelf robots, the company quickly gained a reputation for its innovative design skills and creative problem solving. Honeybee received its first NASA contract in 1986 and has subsequently worked on more than 90 others in addition to completing projects for the Department of Defense and companies such as Coca Cola, Con Edison, 3M, Nike, and IBM. Honeybee is a privately held company that is headquartered in New York City. Honeybee Chairman, Stephen Gorevan, was named Co-Investigator for the Athena Science Payload on NASAs 2003 Mars Exploration Rover Mission. He will be stationed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, along with five other Honeybee engineers, to operate the Rock Abrasion Tool for the length of the mission. Honeybee Robotics is a NASA-approved provider of space flight hardware.

The Center for High Performance Buildings (CHPB) at the Ray W. Herrick Laboratories was established in 2013 through a construction grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Its mission is to partner with industry to develop, demonstrate, and evaluate new technologies and analysis tools that can enable dramatic improvements in the performance of buildings in terms of energy, environmental impact, and occupant satisfaction and productivity. The CHPB is a multi-disciplinary effort involving researchers from Mechanical, Civil (Architectural), and Electrical Engineering and Human Factors in Psychological Sciences.

Founded in 1957, Herrick Labs at Purdue University supports world-class Mechanical Engineering research for students, faculty, and industry. Among the facilities available are HVAC and indoor air quality labs; advanced engine test cells; acoustics, noise, and vibration testing; and unique perception-based engineering labs. Herrick Labs is also home to the Center for High Performance Buildings, which partners with industry to develop new technologies in sustainable building systems, indoor environments, human perception and comfort, and high performance equipment.

The Zucrow Laboratories research facilities occupy a 24 acre site adjacent to the Purdue University Airport. The Laboratory's research capability encompasses many disciplines: unsteady aerodynamics of turbo machinery, aeroacoustics, combustion, measurement and control, computational fluid mechanics, particle flow heat transfer, and atomization processes.

The Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Lab focuses on the marriage of mechanical design theory and user-centered product design to create simple, elegant technological solutions for use in highly constrained environments. Our technologies are aimed at making a positive impact on the world and elucidating novel scientific/engineering knowledge. GEAR Lab is directed by Prof. Amos Winter in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT.

The MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering researches and teaches at the interfaces of ideas, where several disciplines such as physics, math, electronics, and computer science, and engineering intersect in the nimble hands of broadly trained MIT mechanical engineers.

Urbanism. What is it? Planners evaluate and define urbanism with diverse criteria: vehicle-miles traveled, density, transit viability, jobs-housing balance, etc. But ultimately urbanism is about life. It's about the vitality and opportunities possible when people live together in neighborhoods, villages, towns and cities. We create visions of pedestrian-friendly, socially-interactive communities by transforming photographs with photo-editing software. The results are photo-realistic visualizations that make development visions palpably real and understandable. We help cities, community groups, non-profit organizations, developers, property owners, and transit agencies effectively communicate possibilities.

The Waterways Experiment Station (WES) is headquarters for the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC). Part of the Department of Defense laboratory system, the ERDC has as its mission to conceive, plan, study and execute engineering investigations and research and development studies in support of the civil and military missions of the Corps of Engineers and other federal agencies. Four of seven ERDC laboratories are located at the WES site in Vicksburg, Miss. Coastal and Hydraulics, Geotechnical and Structures, Environmental, and Information Technology.

The Ohio Coal Research Center, a unit within the Department of Chemical Engineering in the Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ College of Engineering and Technology at Ohio University, brings together multidisciplinary teams to research fuel diversity and the production of environmentally safe and reliable electric power. The center also manages the Ohio Coal Research Consortium for the State of Ohio's Air Quality Development Authority.

The Office of Fossil Energy is responsible for several high-priority Presidential initiatives including implementation of the Administration's $2 billion, 10-year initiative to develop a new generation of environmentally sound clean coal technologies, the $1 billion FutureGen project to develop a pollution-free plant to co-produce electricity and hydrogen, and the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve and Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve, both key emergency response tools available to the President to protect Americans from energy supply disruptions. Areas of research include coal and natural gas power systems, carbon sequestration, hydrogen and other clean fuels, oil and gas supply and delivery, natural gas regulation, electricity regulation, and petroleum reserves.

MIT's Biological Engineering Division was established in 1998 to provide a multidisciplinary approach to the solution of challenges at the interface of modern biology and engineering. Molecular and cellular biology are integrated with core principles from chemical, electrical, mechanical engineering & computer science to create the new intellectual discipline of Biological Engineering. Biological Engineering addresses scientific and technological questions across the full breadth of scales in biology: molecular, cellular, tissue, organism, and systems. The educational programs in the Biological Engineering Division reflect this emphasis on science and engineering approaches to biological problems, with opportunities for graduate studies in either Applied Biosciences or Bioengineering.

The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) is the flagship scientific computing facility for the Office of Science in the U.S. Department of Energy. As one of the largest facilities in the world devoted to providing computational resources and expertise for basic scientific research, NERSC is a world leader in accelerating scientific discovery through computation. NERSC is located at Berkeley Lab in Berkeley, California. The more than 2000 computational scientists who use NERSC perform basic scientific research across a wide range of disciplines. These disciplines include climate modelling, research into new materials, simulations of the early universe, analysis of data from high energy physics experiments, investigations of protein structure, and a host of other scientific endeavors. A survey of scientific research performed at NERSC can be found in the NERSC Annual Reports. NERSC is known as one of the best run scientific computing facilities in the world.

In operation since 1949, the INL is a science-based, applied engineering national laboratory dedicated to supporting the U.S. Department of Energy's missions in nuclear and energy research, science, and national defense. The INL is operated for the Department of Energy (DOE) by Battelle Energy Alliance (BEA) and partners, each providing unique educational, management, research and scientific assets into a world-class national laboratory.

EST is Brookhaven Laboratory's focal point for applied energy research, development, demonstration and deployment (RDD&D) activities for renewable, fossil and nuclear systems. Our mission is to perform basic science, analyses and technology development that provide innovative solutions to some of the world's most important energy challenges. We draw on the broad and deep expertise of our staff and resources, who work with other experts at BNL and government laboratories, industry and academia to support Department of Energy strategic goals.

The FAA operates the safest, most complex, and most efficient air navigation system in the world. We will continue to develop technologies that will utilize the airspace in safer, more efficient, and more environmentally sound ways. These investments involve modernize existing systems and introducing new capabilities.

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The CAES mission is to address critical science and engineering issues that will help resolve the grand challenges associated with providing an appropriate mix of energy technologies needed to address critical U.S. and global energy needs. Although CAES will have an emphasis on nuclear energy, it will also address other energy areas that are critical to ensuring U.S. energy security, including affordability, limited environmental impacts, and leadership in the global energy arena. Energy technologies to be addressed include those for nuclear, hydrogen, and fossil fuels (coal, oil, and gas) and the full spectrum of renewable energy sources. CAES is part of the Idaho National Laboratory of the US Department of Energy.

The Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA) is a campus-wide program involving faculty from the Departments of Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science, Biology, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and Mechanical, Electrical, and Biological Engineering, as well as the Media Laboratoryall working at the boundary between physical science and computer science. The research program spans from the experimental investigation of molecular mechanisms to digitize fabrication (analogous to the earlier digitization of communications and computation), to the theoretical study of mathematical principles to program enormously complex engineered systems, with practical application in personal fabrication around the world. CBA was launched in 2002 by a $13.75 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), which has enabled the creation of a unique facility for input and output from nanometers to meters. Along with the NSF support, CBA receives funding from partner government agencies and from its industrial sponsors.

The California Energy Commission is the state's primary energy policy and planning agency. Created by the Legislature in 1974 and located in Sacramento, the Commission has five major responsibilities: Forecasting future energy needs and keeping historical energy data; Licensing thermal power plants 50 megawatts or larger; Promoting energy efficiency through appliance and building standards; Developing energy technologies and supporting renewable energy; Planning for and directing state response to energy emergency.