Research in Mechanical Engineering

The Department of Mechanical Engineering at U-M is consistently listed among the top five graduate programs nationwide, and for good reason. Faculty, researchers, and students conduct research that ranges from cutting edge basic science to the solving the most important application problems facing society today.

The Department is home to four fully-funded world-class centers (Automotive Research Center, NSF Engineering Research Center for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems, GM Collaborative Research Laboratory, SM Wu Research Center). For more information, browse our complete index of centers and labs, which can be searched by discipline or alphabetically. Also, see the following topical organization that highlights some of our research efforts:

Also be sure to review our directory of eminent faculty and researchers.