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With 23 core faculty members and additional research engineers and 20 laboratories, the UIC Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering is involved in a wide variety of industries including energy, the environment, transportation, heavy equipment, biomedical engineering, consumer products and building sciences. We have partnered with small and large corporations including Abbott, Baxter Healthcare, Carrier, Caterpillar, Ford, Gas Technology
Institute, General Electric, General Motors, Goodrich, International, John Deere,
Lockheed, McDonnell Douglas, Motorola, Nissan, Pratt & Whitney, Texaco,
Trane, Volkswagen and many others. Through our specialty outreach arm, the
Energy Resources Center, we also consult with smaller businesses, cultural institutions and government agencies. Our feasibility studies, energy audits, and other services allow you to evaluate your concepts and designs more costeffectively than with competing consulting services.
Mechanical Systems Design, Solid Mechanics, and Failure Analysis
Best practices in mechanical systems design require not only fundamental grounding in mechanics, reliability, and failure at the macro-, micro-, and nanoscales, but also attention to the social setting of mechanical systems and to the decisions and dynamics of the entire design process. As an integrated industrial and mechanical engineering department, we support a holistic design approach.
Faculty Experts
Professors: Farid Amirouche, Prashant Banerjee, Sabri Cetinkunt, Thomas
Royston, Ahmed Shabana; Associate Professor: Michael Scott; Assistant
Professors: Elisa Budyn; Carmen Lilley, Laxman Saggere
EXPERT SERVICES
Computer-aided design (CAD)
● Finite element methods ● Mechanical design ●
Design methodology ● Decision theory ● Interdisciplinary product design ●
Ergonomics ● Biomechanics ● Surgical instrument design ● MEMS ●
Mechatronics
● Robotics ● Sensors and actuators ● Thin films and nanomaterials ● Fracture mechanics
LABS and SPECIAL EQUIPMENT
Biomechanics Laboratory (Instron 5569 mechanical tester; custom-made prosthetic test rigs)
Computational Mechanics Laboratory
Engineering Design and Decision Laboratory (Stratasys FDM 3000 rapid prototyping machine)
Gear Research Center
Mechatronics Laboratory (electro-hydraulic motion control system; microcontrollers for prototyping; steer-by-wire interface R&D stands; adaptive

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Sharpe three axis measurement table)
Microsystems and Devices Laboratory (Polytech Micro Scanning Vibrometer
MSV-300)
MEMS Test and Characterization Laboratory
Dynamics and Control Systems
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Faculty Experts
Professors: Farid Amirouche, Sabri Cetinkunt, Ahmed Shabana
EXPERT SERVICES
Multi-body dynamics ● Vehicle dynamics, including active suspension systems ●
Human body vibration ● Floating body dynamics ● Controls and automation ●
Finite element methods
LABS and SPECIAL EQUIPMENT
Dynamic Simulation Laboratory
Vehicle Technology Laboratory
Noise and Vibration Analysis and Control
We have comprehensive capabilities in noise and vibration studies, from determining compliance with industry codes and standards to measurement and evaluation of the acoustic or vibratory dynamics of complex facilities or products, including biomedical applications. Techniques include modal analysis, sound intensity mapping and viscoelasticity mapping.
Faculty Expert
Professor Thomas Royston
EXPERT SERVICES
Workplace noise evaluation
● machinery vibration isolation ● instrument site placement in high-precision facilities (micro- and nanotechnology) ● vibroacoustic detection of flaws and imminent failure in metallic, polyethylene, and ceramic matrix composite structures
● ultrasonic tool design ● medical instrument design ● gear noise analysis ● microscopic magnetic resonance elastography for mapping viscoelasticity in small material samples.
Acoustics and Vibrations Laboratory
High fidelity data acquisition and DSP (Agilent and B&K systems); Laser vibrometry
—single point and microscopic scanning (Polytec systems); Color
Doppler Ultrasound Imaging System (Acuson 128xp10); Custom-made acoustic testing facilities (anechoic chamber and sound-proof chamber); wide range of

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FEA, modal analysis)
Energy Systems and Environmental Quality
The transportation sector and the residential, commercial, and industrial building sector are two major end-users of energy in the United States. We do research and applications engineering in these and other areas with a particular emphasis on the built environment. This includes not only energy conservation in homes and offices but also energy-intensive industrial processes. In addition to helping energy conversion companies with product development, we also perform lowcost industrial energy audits and feasibility studies for various industries. Our research professors are joined by our hands-on professional engineers, architects, and economists in our 30-year-old Energy Resources Center.
Faculty Experts
Professors : Suresh Aggarwal, Kenneth Brezinsky, Soyoung Cha, Farzad
Mashayek, William Worek (Department Head and Director, Energy Resources
Center); Research Professor: Alexi Saveliev; Principal and Senior Engineers ,
Energy Resources Center: Michael Chimack, David Chojnowski, John Cuttica,
Douglas Kosar, William Ryan, Christine Walker; Principal and Senior Research
Economists: Athanasios Bournakis; Steffen Mueller
EXPERT SERVICES
Energy efficiency and renewable energy, including solar, wind, and biomass ●
Thermal and economic modeling of energy systems ● Building energy and environmental analysis
● HVAC ● Indoor air quality and filtration efficiency ●
Industrial energy audits ● Combined heat and power applications ● Combustion chemistry and emissions modeling and control ● Air pollution control ● Heat and mass transfer
LABS and SPECIAL EQUIPMENT
Air Cleaning Technology Laboratory (custom-built rig to test for removal of gaseous contaminants from indoor air, such as volatile organic compounds, according to ASHRAE standard 145.2P)
Energy Systems Laboratory (Pulsed plasma reactors with thyratron 15 kV, 2 kHz pulsed power supply; Supercritical fluid reactor with high pressure pump;
Opposed flow flame burner with diagnostic system; Varian CP-3800 gas chromatographs; Princeton Instrument nanosecond imaging system; Bruker
IFS-66 FTIR spectrometer; Acton Research imaging spectrometer SP-500i)
Flow and Combustion Simulation Laboratory
Heat and Mass Transfer Laboratory
High Pressure Shock Tube Laboratory (single pulse, high temperature, high pressure shock tube for combustion species detection and measurement by advanced gas chromatography and mass spectrometry analysis)

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Fluid Systems
Fundamental understanding of fluid dynamics and mechanics is vital to the efficient design and development of an increasing number of commercial applications in diverse fields such as automotive and aerospace, energy systems, and biomedical engineering. Our fundamental and applied work in this area relies on experiments in our five fluids laboratories and computer simulations using the best available hardware and software for Computational
Fluid Dynamics.
Faculty Experts
Professors: Suresh Aggarwal, Subrata Chakrabarti, Soyoung Cha, Farzad
Mashayek, Constantine Megaridis, Alexander Yarin; Associate Professor:
Francis Loth
EXPERT SERVICES
Computational fluid dynamics ● Laser experimentation and instrumentation for fluid and particle flows
● High-speed imaging ● Electron microscope characterization and analysis ● Biofluids, including rheology and cranial fluids ●
Micro- and nanofluids for enhancement of heat and mass transfer ● Plasma ●
Fluid-particle transport
● Fluid-structure interaction ● Free-surface flow ●
Turbulence ● Single and multiphase systems ● Droplet/spray processes ●
Electrospinning of fibers
LABORATORIES and SPECIAL EQUIPMENT
Biofluids Laboratory (Laser-Doppler velocimeter and anemometer)
Computational Multiphase Transport Laboratory
Droplet and Particle Technology Laboratory (calorimetry, electron microscopy)
Micro- and Nanofluidics Laboratory (Barnstead programmable furnace; Olympus
BX 51 microscope; Brookfield DV-II+ programmable viscometer)
Opto-Mechanical Technology Laboratory (High-speed high-resolution CMOS
Cameras, Canadian Photonics Labs, Model MS80K; X-Y Precision Motorized
Translation Stage, Aerotech, Model ATS200015; Ng-Yag Diode-pumped cw
Laser, 220mw, Lightwave Electronics; Double-Pulsed Ruby Laser, 1J/pulse,
Laser Photonics)
Industrial Engineering
Complex systems such as hospitals, transportation networks, production shop floors or aircraft need the best industrial engineering and operations research to analyze and optimize their reliability, maintainability, and operating efficiency.
Our experience in modeling, analysis and development of a wide variety of mechanical and industrial systems, including for example helicopters and supply chains, enables us to offer low-cost consulting services to almost any industry or application.

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Faculty Experts
Professor: Prashant Banerjee; Associate Professors: Houshang Darabi, David
He; Assistant Professor: Elodie Adida
EXPERT SERVICES
Manufacturing information systems ● Data mining and analysis ● Equipment health diagnostics and prognostics
● Supply chain modeling and dynamics ●
Radio Frequency Identification in supply chains
● Production planning ●
Optimization ● Quality control ● Industrial automation ● Discrete event simulation
● Safety engineering ● Failure and reliability analysis of manufacturing systems
LABS and SPECIAL EQUIPMENT
Discrete Event Systems Control Laboratory
Intelligent Systems Modeling and Development Laboratory
Virtual Reality
Virtual Reality (VR) simulations and technology can assist almost any industry in diverse areas such as design, manufacturing, processing, logistics, transportation and distribution. At UIC we have developed several proprietary VR systems, including ImmersiveTouch TM , the first system that coordinates a haptic device with a head tracking system for fully realistic stereoscopic display.
Collaborative work across the scientific, medical, and engineering fields occurs in the Industrial Virtual Reality Institute.
Faculty Expert
Professor Prashant Banerjee
EXPERT SERVICES
Factory and process models
● Remote engineering ● Product simulation ● collision detection ● Real-time inverse kinematics ● Medical and surgical simulations, including neurosurgery ● Manipulation of objects using sensor data and real-time control inputs in a CAVE, C-Wall or ImmersaDesk4 environment
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Integration of factory layout, material handling, and manufacturing equipment control models