The Department of Mechanical Engineering offers graduate programs leading to Master of Science and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering.  Current areas of research include Biomedical Engineering, Biomimetics, Composite Materials and Structures, Computational Mechanics, Design Optimization, Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer, Marine Renewable Energy, Offshore Engineering, Reduced-Order Modeling, Robotics, Smart Materials, Solid Mechanics, Thermal Sciences, Uncertainty Quantification,