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The undergraduate curriculum is designed to provide hands-on-design experiences as well as undergraduate research experiences.
Current research opportunities in the department include:
- Aerospace: Design, logic and control of nanosatellites
- Aerodynamics and control: Fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft
- Biomechanics: Dynamics of the human brain during impacts, aortic and cellular tissue
- Materials: Metals, ceramics, fiber-reinforced concrete and composites
- Complex fluids
- Seismic analysis, design and structural control
- Computational structural mechanics; multi-scale and multi-physics modeling
- Molecular scale environmental research
Primary Labs & Centers
Graduate Research Highlights
GK12 Fellowship - This program supported by the National Science Foundation. Fellows spend ten hours each week teaching engineering, math, and science at K-12 schools. Graduate students, undergraduate teaching assistants and faculty members work together to design teaching modules that educate, motivate and excite students in 6th through 8th grade in St. Louis.
GAANN - The Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) Fellowship Program provides fellowships to assist graduate students with excellent records who demonstrate financial need and plan to pursue doctoral degrees in civil engineering in one of the relevant research areas.
Undergraduate Research Highlights
Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU Program) - Supported in part by the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense, this program offers research opportunties for developing strategies to enhance a structure’s ability to withstand severe dynamic loading. This includes effects from natural and man-made hazards, effective utilization of advanced materials to increase the safety and ductility of structures, appropriate assessment and management of structures and highways, and the innovative use of composite materials to improve durability.
Research in Complex Fluids for Undergraduates - This program is designed to introduce and educate the participants about the basic difference between conventional Newtonian fluids and complex fluids by examples, show them the micro-scale devices in laboratory, teach them the tools (both experimental and analytical) for analysis of the behavior of these fluids, and then provide them research experience in applying those tools in independent research projects with assigned faculty members. All participants will choose a research topic that contributes to the goals of an on-going research project of one of the participating faculty, who will serve as the student’s advisor.
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