People with a mechanical engineering degree are involved in designing, building and testing essentially every product of modern society. Students with a mechanical engineering major can customize their program to meet their unique interests and career goals by choosing concentrations in biomechanical engineering, engineering mechanics, global engineering or manufacturing engineering. Teaching labs include a full-service Engineering Machine Shop and Industrial Project Lab, and labs providing hands-on experience in vibrations and controls, heat transfer, fluids and experimental mechanics. Research labs focuses on cardiovascular and tissue mechanics, thermal engineering, biomechanical design and research within the Composite Vehicle Research Center and the Energy and Automotive Research Lab.<br>Leonardo DaVinci reportedly described the study of mechanics as the paradise, the Garden of Eden of mathematics, for therein it bears its fruit. The engineering mechanics<br>concentration is designed to provide undergraduate students with a more thorough understanding of analytical, computational and experimental methods for investigating the response of structures and fluids to external forces, pressures, thermal effects and other environmental loads. These skills have applications in all areas of mechanical engineering as well as in many interdisciplinary fields, and they are the key to modern mathematics-based design processes that are used by all major engineering firms. This concentration is also well suited for preparing students for graduate study in mechanical engineering or engineering mechanics.