Yale engineering faculty are world leaders in research areas of critical importance to solving 21stcentury problems.
Research areas are primarily organized by department, though nearly every effort includes interdisciplinary collaborations.
Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical ImagingBiomedical imaging encompasses efforts in magnetic resonance imaging, magnetic resonance spectroscopy, nuclear medicine, optical light microscopy and image processing and analysis. |
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Biomolecular EngineeringBiomolecular Engineering's express purpose is developing novel molecular tools, materials and approaches that are the focal point of applied and basic research within academia, industry and medicine. |
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Drug DeliveryYale biomedical engineers work to develop alternate strategies for drug delivery, based on physical targeting, or placement of the delivery system at the target site, limiting its activity to that site. |
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Tissue EngineeringWe are working to develop functional engineered tissues for vascular grafts and arteries, spinal cord repair, liver transplantation, and immune engineering. |
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Physical and Engineering BiologyResearch is organized around one of the grand challenges for science in the twenty-first century--understanding how molecular, cellular and ultimately human behavior emerges from the myriad of decision events that occur within biological systems. |
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Chemical & Environmental Engineering
NanomaterialsNanomaterials research at Yale focuses on controlling material structure and spatial placement through the synthesis and assembly of new hard and soft materials. |
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Interfacial PhenomenaThe boundary between two phases, the interface between the phases, has very different properties from that of the bulk phase and are important in a variety of chemical engineering processes. |
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Soft Matter & Complex FluidsSystems whose physical and mechanical properties are comparable to thermal energy at room temperature and thus easily deformed by thermal forces are considered soft materials. |
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Biomolecular EngineeringBiomolecular Engineering's express purpose is developing novel molecular tools, materials and approaches that are the focal point of applied and basic research within academia, industry and medicine. |
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EnergyA strong interdisciplinary environment encourages the integration of science and engineering with economics and policy to ensure the sustainable development of new energy technologies. |
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WaterYale’s Environmental Engineering Program is at the forefront of efforts to develop sustainable and culturally appropriate technologies for low quality source water reclamation in the developing world. |
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SustainabilityCurrent research targets the development of green solvents, biobased materials, safer nanotechnology, and systems optimization for reduced environmental impact and enhanced economic competitiveness. |
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CombustionThe burning of a broad range of fuels will pose new challenges to the clean and efficient implementation of their combustion, which necessitates fundamental studies in well-defined and well-controlled environments. |
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AirResearch at Yale focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to critical problems related to air quality, energy production/use, human health, and climate. |
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Computer EngineeringThe research focuses on reliable architectures and computing platforms that can sense and process physical data and generate semantical output events. |
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Electronic, Photonic & NanodevicesResearch focuses on the various physical phenomena that arise from novel material systems or novel device structures, with a goal toward possible applications in future generations of electronics and photonics. |
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SystemsResearch in the systems group covers the fundamental science and technological aspects of a broad range of areas related to complex control, communication, biological, and social systems. |
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Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
CombustionThe burning of a broad range of fuels will pose new challenges to the clean and efficient implementation of their combustion, which necessitates fundamental studies in well-defined and well-controlled environments. |
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Robotics, Mechatronics, and Human Machine InterfaceWe conduct research in areas that synthesize the fields of robotics, machine design, human factors, and dynamic control. |
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Amorphous MaterialsTypically, metallic melts crystallize when cooled from above their melting temperature, but some exhibit a low desire and ability to crystallize, hence they don’t crystallize but freeze into a glass during solidification. |
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Soft Matter & Complex FluidsSystems whose physical and mechanical properties are comparable to thermal energy at room temperature and thus easily deformed by thermal forces are considered soft materials. |
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Physical and Engineering BiologyResearch is organized around one of the grand challenges for science in the twenty-first century--understanding how molecular, cellular and ultimately human behavior emerges from the myriad of decision events that occur within biological systems. |
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NanomaterialsNanomaterials research at Yale focuses on controlling material structure and spatial placement through the synthesis and assembly of new hard and soft materials. |
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Physics of Novel MaterialsA key feature of our program involves understanding structure at the atomic scale using advanced spectroscopic techniques, in combination with insights provided by the results of first principles calculations. |
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Interfacial PhenomenaThe boundary between two phases, the interface between the phases, has very different properties from that of the bulk phase and are important in a variety of chemical engineering processes. |
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