Luke Qualey, 1st year Microbiology graduate student, works with samples in test tubes under a Fume hood in a Marine Microbiology Lab in the Science and Engineering Research Facility (SERF)

Departmental

Research

Each of the college’s departments maintains an active research portfolio across a wide range of disciplines that often merge for impactful interdisciplinary approaches in the areas of basic and applied engineering and science. Biosystems engineering is housed within the UT Institute of Agriculture.

Biosystems Engineering

The department’s six main areas of research focus are soil conservation and health; hydrology and water management; waste management; bioprocessing and biomass conversion; power and machinery; and instrumentation, sensors, and control systems.

Chemical and Biomolecular

The department’s three main research areas are advanced materials, biomolecular engineering, and sustainable energy, with multiple specialty research thrusts within.

Civil and Environmental Engineering

The department conducts research in the areas of construction and management, environment and water resources, geotechnical and materials, structural, and transportation.

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Main research areas across the three distinct disciplines include intelligent systems; high-performance computing; microelectronics and electromagnetics; power systems and power electronics; sensors, networked, and embedded systems; communications and signal processing, control, and robotics; software engineering and systems; and cybersecurity.

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Research areas include logistics, transportation, and supply chain; optimization; and engineering management.

Materials Science and Engineering

Research areas include functional materials, quantum materials, structural materials, and computational materials science and machine learning.

Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering

Research areas cut across three distinct disciplines and include aerospace; automotive; biomedical and biomechanics; computational engineering sciences; mechanics of composite materials; robotics, automation, and manufacturing; structures and vibrations; and thermal fluid sciences.

Nuclear Engineering

Research areas include advanced modeling and simulation; nuclear fusion technology; instrumentation and control, reliability, and safety; reactor fuels and materials; detection and measurement; and radiological science and health physics.

UT Space Institute

Current areas of research excellence are focused on materials and propulsion, specifically in the areas of hypersonics, laser application, materials processing, applied fluid dynamics, flight systems, advanced carbon fiber, and computational mechanics.