Welcome

The Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering (AME) at Boston University provides students with a strong grounding in fundamental aspects of the discipline while providing ample exposure to interdisciplinary frontiers in nanotechnology, mechatronic systems and intelligent machines, and biomedical applications involving ultrasonic imaging, lithotripsy (therapeutic use of high-energy sound waves), distraction osteogenesis (programmed bone growth), and robotic surgery. Students learn the foundations and the most advanced technologies in both aerospace and mechanical engineering.

AME faculty members have special interests and expertise in acoustics (waves, vibrations, and aeroacoustics); fluid mechanics (experimental, theoretical,and CFD); dynamics, control, and mechatronic systems; micro- and nano-electromechanical systems (MEMS and NEMS); and biomedical aspects and applications of mechanical engineering.

The department offers degree programs in aerospace engineering and mechanical engineering. Graduates are well prepared to work successfully as practicing engineers in a wide range of fields, including structures, dynamics, control, thermal and fluid sciences, aeronautics and astronautics, and propulsion. The department has a long history of sending its graduates on to leadership roles in industry and government organizations as well as to the world’s top universities for advanced training.

AME’s mission is to produce graduates who not only possess the technical skills required for immediate entry into industry or graduate school, but who also continue to educate themselves and who will have the intellectual resources he/she will need to prosper in a society whose problems require increasingly multidisciplinary solutions.

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News

12/17/2007     Acoustical Society of America honors Tyrone Porter

10/31/2007     Under a Microscope, Kamil Ekinci Speeds up the Nanoscale

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