工程科学哲学博士-材料科学与机械工程

机械工程研究的范围从固体和流体力学的基础工作到材料，机械系统和生物力学的各种研究。表征此类系统的性能通常取决于对行为的理解，例如对位错和其他缺陷，晶界，界面和材料异质性的理解。研究的关键领域包括：研究材料结构的力学，探索涉及诸如弹性，可塑性，屈曲，断裂和波动等现象的地球物理和生物系统，了解生物控制或生命系统的自组织行为，特别是大脑，以开发新颖的控制策略和受生物启发的机器，并开发生物医学仪器，遥控机器人和智能传感器。机械工程涵盖了广泛的活动，包括动力学，流体，材料，固体和热力学方面的研究。研究是跨学科的，与
Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering at Harvard School of Engineering ranges from fundamental work in solid and fluid mechanics to diverse studies in materials, mechanical systems, and biomechanics. Characterizing the performance of such systems often depends on understanding behavior at several scales, requiring, for example, the mechanics of dislocations and other imperfections, grain boundaries, interfaces, and material heterogeneity. Materials scientists and mechanical engineers at Harvard are pursuing work in the mechanics of materials structures, geophysical and biological systems involved in phenomena such as elasticity, plasticity, buckling, fracture, and wave motion, biological control, or the self-organizing behavior of living systems, in particular the brain, to develop novel control strategies and biologically-inspired machines, and biomedical instrumentation, teleoperated robots, and intelligent sensors. Mechanical engineering covers a wide range of activities, including research in dynamics, fluids, materials, solids, and thermodynamics. Research is strongly interdisciplinary, with many connections to Applied Mathematics, Applied Physics, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Chemistry and Chemical Biology.