Mechanical Engineering Research
The Department of Mechanical Engineering accepts around 200 new undergraduate students and 100 graduate students a year.
It currently has 21 full-time professors and four emeritus professors, who are actively pursuing research in cutting edge laboratories and supervising graduate students in six strong research programs: advanced materials and manufacturing engineering, biomedical engineering, solid mechanics and design engineering, dynamics, controls, automation and robotics, aeronautical engineering, thermal and fluids engineering.
Research chairs
Isabelle Catelas
Canada Research Chair in Bioengineering and Orthopaedics for the Study of Musculoskeletal Diseases
Catherine Mavriplis
Endowed and Sponsored Research Chairs NSERC - Pratt & Whitney Chair for Women in Science and Engineering (Ontario Region)
Stavros Tavoularis
Endowed and Sponsored Research Chairs HPCVL - Sun Microsystems Chair in Computational Science and Engineering