The School of Engineering faculty's research is widely known in such diverse areas as:

Biomedical Engineering - Bioinstrumentation, biomechanics, home care technologies, rehabilitation engineering and telemedicine, and medical imaging.

Civil Engineering - infrastructure systems management, geotechnical engineering, earthquake engineering, composite structures, fluid and solid mechanics, physical oceanography and underwater acoustics.

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - bacteriorhodopsin, cancer prevention, digital watermarking, networking, network security, signal/image processing, communication and control and molecular imaging.

Mechanical Engineering - heat transfer biological systems, biomechanics, imaging technologies, combustion, environmental engineering, controls, smart materials, air-conditioning and refrigeration, fluid dynamics, heat transfer, applied thermodynamics, advanced and non-linear dynamics, robotics, mechanics of materials, MEMS, nanotechnology and magnetohydrodynamics