Introduction Historically, the study of mechanics has made significant and fundamental contributions to the growth of science and technology. Its role is even more vital today in view of the rapid technological and societal intricacy. For instance, the modern mechanician may be called upon to design safer vehicles, to model human hearing mechanisms, to determine the cause of a mechanical failure, or to develop models for the motion of the atmosphere or interplanetary plasmas. To deal with such complex and often multidisciplinary problems, the engineer must have a thorough knowledge of analytical, computational, and experimental methods and a deep understanding of underlying physical principles. To achieve these goals, graduate curricula in Applied Mechanics are offered with core work in solids, fluids and computational mechanics, dynamics, automatic control and biomechanics.
Course work is supplemented with research work in the student's specialized area of interest.