Research programs are conducted in air pollution and aerosol science, catalysis, zeolite synthesis, inorganic membranes, ceramics and electronic materials processing, statistical mechanics, dynamics of complex fluids, polymer rheology and polymer physics, biochemical engineering, multiphase flow, dynamics of gas-surface interactions, and nanoscale structures. Advanced work is offered in structural engineering, earthquake engineering, hydrology, and coastal engineering. Computation and Neural Systems. The program encourages interdisciplinary approaches to problems in neurobiology, engineering, and information theory that share a common deep structure at the computational level. This approach is combined with an appropriate depth of knowledge in the particular field of thesis research.
Students take classes in neurobiology, electrical engineering, and relevant mathematics.
Ph.D. students only. Research projects frequently involve connections with other disciplines such as biology, mathematics, mechanics, control systems, and electrical engineering. Control and Dynamical Systems. In this interdisciplinary graduate program, theoretical research is conducted in all aspects of control and dynamical systems, with emphasis on robustness, multivariable and nonlinear systems, optimal control, decentralized control, modeling, and system identification for robust control. Programs are designed for students of subjects that might be called classical and semiclassical physics and mathematics, and engineering subjects that form the core of the new interdisciplinary sciences.