| Description: | The graduate program offers study in manufacturing and materials, controls and robotics, combustion, fluid mechanics and dynamics, heat transfer, refrigeration, energy systems, and microelectromechanical systems. Instrumentation, design of experiments, and computational methods may be applied to any of these areas. The program is 30 credits. It has a thesis and non-thesis option.
Research at Iowa State covers a broad range from thermal systems to mechanical systems, plus virtual reality applications and micro/nano systems. The reputation of the department's faculty has attracted support for research at the cutting edge of technology from federal, state and industrial sources. |