Overview

The Department of Mechanical Engineering at U-M is consistently ranked among the top five graduate programs nationwide. In the recent National Research Council (NRC) assessment of U.S. PhD programs, U-M ME earned exceptional marks, leading to an overall #2 ranking among large institutions by the website PhDs.org, using their default weightings on the NRC data:
http://graduate-school.phds.org/rankings/mechanical-engineering/rank/larger

Faculty and students conduct research that ranges from cutting edge basic science to solving the most important problems facing society today. Current efforts within Mechanical Engineering are in the research areas of:

• Automotive & Transportation
• Biomechanics & Biosystems Engineering
• Controls
• Design
• Dynamics and Vibrations
• Energy
• Fluids
• Manufacturing
• Mechanics & Materials
• Mechatronics & Robotics
• Micro/Nano Engineering
• Multi-scale Computation and Computational Mechanics
• Thermal Sciences

Be sure to review our directory of eminent faculty and researchers as well as the labs and facilities they work in.

ME is home to five fully-funded world-class centers:

• Automotive Research Center
• NSF Engineering Research Center for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems
• GM/U-M Institute of Automotive Research and Education
• Ground Robotics Research Center
• SM Wu Research Center