Yale engineering faculty are world leaders in research areas of critical importance to solving 21st century problems.
Research areas are primarily organized by department, though nearly every effort includes interdisciplinary collaborations.
Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical Imaging
Biomedical imaging encompasses efforts in magnetic resonance imaging, magnetic resonance spectroscopy, nuclear medicine, optical light microscopy and image processing and analysis.
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![representative image of biomedical imaging](/sites/default/files/imce/research/biomed_imaging.jpg)
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Biomolecular Engineering
Biomolecular 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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![representative image of biomolecular engineering](/sites/default/files/imce/research/biomolecular.jpg)
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Drug Delivery
Yale 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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![representative image of drug delivery](/sites/default/files/imce/research/drug_delivery.jpg)
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Tissue Engineering
We are working to develop functional engineered tissues for vascular grafts and arteries, spinal cord repair, liver transplantation, and immune engineering.
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![representative image of tissue engineering](/sites/default/files/imce/research/tissue_eng.jpg)
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Physical and Engineering Biology
Research 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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![representative image of physical and engineering biology](/sites/default/files/imce/research/phys_eng_biology.jpg)
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Chemical & Environmental Engineering
Nanomaterials
Nanomaterials 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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![representative image of nanomaterials](/sites/default/files/imce/research/nanomaterials.jpg)
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Interfacial Phenomena
The 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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![representative image of interfacial phenomena](/sites/default/files/imce/research/interfacial.jpg)
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Soft Matter & Complex Fluids
Systems 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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![representative image of soft matter and complex fluids](/sites/default/files/imce/research/softmatter.jpg)
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Biomolecular Engineering
Biomolecular 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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![representative image of biomolecular engineering](/sites/default/files/imce/research/biomolecular.jpg)
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Energy
A 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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![representative image of energy research](/sites/default/files/imce/research/energy_ra.jpg)
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Water
Yale’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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![representative image of water research](/sites/default/files/imce/research/water.jpg)
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Sustainability
Current 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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![representative image of sustainability research](/sites/default/files/imce/research/sustainability.jpg)
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Combustion
The 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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![representative image of combustion research](/sites/default/files/imce/research/combustion.jpg)
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Air
Research at Yale focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to critical problems related to air quality, energy production/use, human health, and climate.
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![representative image of air research](/sites/default/files/imce/research/air.jpg)
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Electrical & Computer Engineering
Computer Engineering
The research focuses on reliable architectures and computing platforms that can sense and process physical data and generate semantical output events.
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![representative image of computer engineering research](/sites/default/files/imce/research/computer_eng.jpg)
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Electronic, Photonic & Nanodevices
Research 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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![representative image of electronic, photonic and nanodevices research](/sites/default/files/imce/research/electronic.jpg)
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Systems
Research 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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![representative image of systems research](/sites/default/files/imce/research/systems.jpg)
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Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
Combustion
The 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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![representative image of combustion research](/sites/default/files/imce/research/combustion.jpg)
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Robotics, Mechatronics, and Human Machine Interface
We conduct research in areas that synthesize the fields of robotics, machine design, human factors, and dynamic control.
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![representative image of robotics research](/sites/default/files/imce/research/robotics.jpg)
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Amorphous Materials
Typically, 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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![representative image of amorphous materials research](/sites/default/files/imce/research/amorphous.jpg)
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Soft Matter & Complex Fluids
Systems 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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![representative image of soft matter and complex fluids research](/sites/default/files/imce/research/softmatter.jpg)
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Physical and Engineering Biology
Research 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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![representative image of physical and engineering biology research](/sites/default/files/imce/research/phys_eng_biology.jpg)
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Nanomaterials
Nanomaterials 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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![representative image of nanomaterials research](/sites/default/files/imce/research/nanomaterials.jpg)
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Physics of Novel Materials
A 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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![representative image of physics of novel materials research](/sites/default/files/imce/research/phys_novel_materials.jpg)
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Interfacial Phenomena
The 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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![representative image of interfacial phenomena research](/sites/default/files/imce/research/interfacial.jpg)
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