Mechanical engineering in American universities introduces energy specialty, mainly involving energy, friction, combustion and fluid;
Material major, mainly involving nano-micron materials, polymerization engineering and bio-machinery in the mechanical field;
Major in manufacturing, mainly including design and manufacturing;
Control major, including computer-aided engineering, system and automatic control, MEMS, acoustics.
1. Energy major?
1. Main research directions of energy:
Energy and fluid mainly include energy conversion of wind energy and water energy, design and manufacture of energy conversion system and equipment, energy system and thermodynamics, energy application (energy for heating/ventilation/air conditioning and refrigeration), energy and environment, environmental energy technology assessment, thermophysics, solar energy, clean energy and clean energy technology.
2. The main research direction of friction.
The energy conversion in the friction process is closely combined with thermophysics and the development of new materials, and the related friction properties of some materials are studied.
3. The main research direction of combustion
Combustion, combustion and propulsion, combustion and energy, energy conversion, combustion and heat transfer, electric propulsion, turbine and propulsion, combustion research of internal combustion engine in automobile engineering, etc.
4. The main research direction of fluid
Mainly aimed at two main directions: the aerospace field and the energy field. The former has aerodynamics, propulsion and space exploration systems, while the latter has fluid energy conversion based on water power and wind power. In addition, there are specialties such as environment and biofluid mechanics, fluid dynamics, fluid physics, thermodynamics and materials.
Second, the material specialty
1. Main research direction of nano-micron mechanical materials
The continuous development of nanotechnology provides new possibilities for material selection in the mechanical field. At present, the research fields intersecting with machinery mainly focus on: advanced materials science, materials and solid mechanics, materials and mechanical systems, materials processing, mechanical properties of materials, materials mechanics, materials mechanics and manufacturing;
2. The main research direction of polymerization engineering
Mainly through molecular polymerization technology to provide new materials for the mechanical field;
3. The main research direction of bio-machinery
Biomechanics, Biomechanics, Biomechanical Engineering, Biomaterials and Equipment, Material Mechanics, Biosensors, Nanotechnology, Living Cell Packaging, Engineering Biomechanics, Biomedical Mechanical Engineering, Neuroengineering, Plastic Surgery Engineering, Sensory and Nervous System Research, Sports Biomechanics, Artificial Heart.
Third, manufacturing.
Main research directions of 1. design
Mechanical design, product design, design methodology, computer aided design, engineering design;
2. The main research direction of manufacturing industry
Computer aided manufacturing, product realization, advanced manufacturing, manufacturing science, manufacturing system, nano-manufacturing.
3. Control class
Including computer-aided engineering, system and automatic control, microelectronic system and computer-aided engineering.
Computational fluid mechanics, computational engineering and information technology, computational mechanics, computational science and engineering, computer-aided engineering, computer-aided design, mechanical modeling, mathematical computational modeling, digital propulsion, digital methods, digital simulation and virtual reality applications;
Fourth, the system control major
1. Main research directions of system and automatic control
System control, control/design/manufacturing, control and dynamics, control/robot/instrument, power system and control, power system/control and robot, rotating machinery dynamics, dynamics/vibration/acoustics, system dynamics and control, system identification and control, system/measurement/control, intelligent mechanical system, intelligent transportation system, mechanical system, nonlinear dynamics and adaptive control, nonlinear flight control. Robotics and dynamics, robotics and autonomous systems, robotics and human-computer interaction, rotor dynamics, automation, automatic propulsion system, automatic cruise system;
2. The main research direction of this system:
MEMS, nano-manufacturing, micro-mechanical and nano-mechanical devices, ultrasonic micro-jet and micro-scale motor, nano-scale heat flow, micro-fluid, microgravity, micro-scale heat transfer, micro/nano-system, nano-tribology and nano-mechanics.