Mechanical & Aerospace
Engineering Department
Tsu-Chin Tsao
Professor and Department Chair
HENRY SAMUELI SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE
Department Mission Statement
• Our mission is to educate the nation's
future leaders in the science and art of
mechanical and aerospace engineering.
Further, we seek to expand the frontiers of
engineering science and to encourage
technological innovation while fostering
academic excellence and scholarly
learning in a collegial environment.
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Students
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Faculty
Ladder Faculty:
32
Recognitions
Society Fellows: 24
CAREER or Young Investigator
Awards:
10
NAE members:
7
Faculty Research Areas
– Dynamics, Systems and Controls
– Fluids, Heat/Mass Transfer
– Structure & Solid Mechanics
– Manufacturing & Design
– Micro and NanoTechnoloy
– Plasma Physics, Applied Mathematics
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Research Groups, laboratories, Centers
HENRY SAMUELI SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE
Sponsored Research Budget & Expenditure
35
30
25
Federal
20
Endowment
Industry
State
15
Total Budget
Expenditure
10
5
0
2005-2006
2006-2007
2007-2008
2008-2009
2009-2010
2010-2011
2011-2012
2012-2013
Amounts in Millions
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Department Ranking
US News & World Report Graduate Rankings
10
15
AE
20
ME
ENG
Faculty Head Count
25
30
35
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MS Online Ranking
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Retirement and Recruitment
• New hires:
– Jonathan Hopkins (design, July 2012),
– Xiaochun Li, Raytheon Chair in Manufacturing
Engineering (August 2013)
– Dennis Hong (robotics, Jan. 2014),
– Jacob Rosen (robotics, July 2014)
• This year’s recruitment plan
– Complete hiring of last year’s Robotics search
– Search in thermal science
HENRY SAMUELI SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE
Initiative on Robotics
• Robotics education and research programs
– Cluster faculty hires
– New UG and G courses
– Interdisciplinary projects with other fields
– Collaboration with medical school, NASA JPL, local
industry, etc.
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Initiative Design & Prototyping Studio
Develop handson trajectory
• Sophomore:
CAD/design
prototyping
• Junior: Basic
ME&AE Lab.
• Senior:
Capstone
design,
mechatronics,
product
prototyping
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Initiative Design & Prototyping Studio
– Support our vibrant extracurricular student projects
HENRY SAMUELI SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE
Initiative on Design & Prototyping Studio
– We have faculty expertise and experienced supporting
staff
– We have space
HENRY SAMUELI SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE
Design & Prototyping Studio initiative
• We need
– 3D printers for plastics and metals
– CNC machining and laser cutting machine
tools
– Mechatronics Kits (sensors, actuators,
controllers
– Coordinate Measurement Machine
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Industrial Partnerships
• Industrial Advisory Board
Gaurang Choksi (Intel), Philip Conners (LM), Natalie
Crawford (RAND), Patrick Fitzgerald (Raytheon), Ingo
Foldvari (NI), Timothy Frei (NGC), Wayne Goodman
(Aerospace, IAB Chair), Jim Hardy (Conoco-Phillips,
Luke Haylock (Alcoa), Eugene Lavretsky (Boeing),
Geoffrey McKnight (HRL), Bryan McEnerney
(Rocketdyne), Shawn Phillips (AFRL), Lance Richards
(NASA Dryden), Mat Schacht (Honeywell), Steve Toner
(NGC), Steven Yahata (Boeing)
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Industrial Partnerships
• Industrial Affiliates
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Alcoa (joined this year)
Boeing
Chevron
Conoco Phillips
Exxon Mobil Corporation
Honeywell Engines, Systems & Services
Lockheed Martin Corporation
National Instruments(joined last year)
Northrop Grumman Space Technology
Aerojet Rocketdyne
Raytheon Electronic Systems
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Suggested Discussion Topics for IAB
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Improve curricula
Improve ranking
Increase number of student fellowships
Increase research collaboration with
industry
• Assist creating Design Prototype
Studio
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Thank You !
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