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Research at Yale’s School of Engineering & Applied Science (SEAS) spans across all of the most pressing, promising, and engaging topics underpinning our technologically-driven world. Many of these research areas, highlighted below, are interdisciplinary and benefit from the myriad expertise that exists at Yale. Collaboration is often a cornerstone for successful research and exists not only amongst Engineering faculty, but also across all of Yale University and its Professional Schools. At the same time, we also recognize that certain problems require the expertise and focused efforts that originate from the single laboratories of world-renowned scholars who are defining new fields. We invite you to explore all of the research opportunities in our diverse portfolio by visiting faculty homepages as well as the Areas of Research featured by each department (see links on left).
Tissue Engineering: The field of tissue engineering developed to address the shortage of tissues available for repair and transplantation strategies…
Robotics, Mechatronics, and Human Machine Interface: We conduct research in areas that synthesize the fields of robotics, machine design, human factors, and dynamic control. Our human-machine interaction laboratories explore the physical human…
Energy: Greater than 80% of our global energy demand is met by the combustion of fossil fuels. By the year 2030, this energy demand is expected…
Physics of Novel Materials: Research on the fundamental physics and device aspects of novel materials is conducted by several Applied Physics faculty in collaboration with faculty…
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…
Electronic, Photonic & Nanodevices: Research on the basic and applied sciences as well as technology aspects of electronics, photonics, and nanodevices is conducted by several…
Soft Matter and 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…
Drug Delivery: The practice of medicine has changed dramatically in our lifetimes, and even greater changes are anticipated in the next 20 years…
Amorphous Materials: Typically, metallic melts crystallize when cooled from above their melting temperature. Some combinations of metals, however, exhibit a low desire and ability to crystallize, hence they don’t crystallize but freeze into a glass during solidification.
Optics: The Applied Physics optics research effort aims at understanding and controlling linear and nonlinear optical processes, and their interactions with modern nanostructured…
Water: Vital for life, critical for economic productivity, and fundamental to environmental processes, water is simultaneously an essential molecule and a resource commodity.…
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.…
Biomolecular Engineering: Biomolecular Engineering is an emerging discipline at the interface of molecular biology, biophysical chemistry, and chemical engineering – whose express purpose is developing…
Combustion: More than 80% of the world’s energy consumption involves some form of combustion. From a global warming perspective, combustion remains the most challenging technology until carbon capture and sequestration become feasible.…
Computer Engineering: The Computer Engineering group at Yale University research focus is on reliable architectures and computing platforms that can sense and process…
Biomedical Imaging: Research in Biomedical Imaging brings together engineers, physicists, biologists and chemists engaged in the development of methodology for the examination of biological structure and function through imaging…
Physical and Engineering Biology: Faculty from the School of Engineering & Applied Science and the Departments of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemisty…
Sustainability: Concerns regarding population growth, global warming, resource scarcity, globalization, and environmental degradation have led to an increasing awareness that current engineering design…
Nanomaterials: Nanomaterials represent a new class of materials, where ever-smaller length scales (<100 nm) impart altered or enhanced properties…
