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Fields of Study
We offer degrees in applied physics, biomedical engineering, chemical engineering, electrical engineering, environmental engineering, and mechanical engineering. (See what topics our graduate students have chosen for their Ph.D. theses).
These are our major areas of study:
Applied Physics
Theoretical and experimental condensed-matter physics, optical and laser physics, and materials physics theory. Specific programs include surface science, microlithography and quantum transport, superconductivity, quantum computing optical properties of micro-cavities, spectroscopy at the nanoscale, near-field microscopy, atomic force microscopy and ferro-electric materials, molecular beam epitaxy, magnetic resonance imaging, and medical instrumentation.
Biomedical Engineering
Physics of image formation (MRI, ultrasound, nuclear medicine, and X-ray), digital image analysis and processing, computer vision, biological signals and sensors, biomechanics, physiology and human factors engineering, biotechnology, biochemical engineering, and tissue engineering.
Chemical Engineering
Combustion, separation processes, catalysis, statistical mechanics of adsorption, high-temperature chemical reaction engineering, convective heat and mass transfer, colloidal phenomena, complex fluids, adsorption of biomolecules, aerosol science and technology, surface science, and synthesis of nano-structures.
Electrical Engineering
Adaptive Control and learning; neural networks; communications, signal processing, and wireless systems; biomedical image processing; computer engineering, VLSI design and testing; low power, high performance vision systems; intelligent sensors and sensor networks; microelectronic materials and devices; nanoelectronic science and technology; optoelectronic materials and devices; MEMS materials and devices.
Environmental Engineering
Physical and chemical processes for water quality control, aquatic and environmental chemistry, fate of microbial pathogens in aquatic environments and engineered systems, emerging organic contaminants, wastewater reuse, advanced oxidation processes, membrane separation processes, transport and fate of chemical substances in the environment, colloidal and interfacial phenomena, environmental engineering microbiology, industrial ecology, flows of materials within the industrial ecosystem, contaminant hydrogeology, geochemistry and bio-geochemistry.
Mechanical Engineering
Atomic-scale investigations of surfaces and surface interactions; experimental micromechanics of materials and small-scale structures; development and characterization of materials and devices for MEMS; biological applications of MEMS; theory of phase transformations, including grain growth in metals; statistical mechanics of nonequilibrium systems such as glasses and granular materials; theory and numerical simulations of complex fluids; analysis and production of ultrafine aerosols; electrical propulsion, electrospray ionization, mass spectrometry, volatile analysis; experimental and computational studies of chemically reacting flows; mesoscale combustion; laser diagnostics for reacting and nonreacting flows.
Interdisciplinary Research Study
In addition to research in the fields mentioned above, students engage in interdisciplinary research with Applied Mathematics, Chemistry, Computer Science, Geology and Geophysics, Physics, various departments in the School of Medicine (a M.D./Ph.D. degree is a possibility), the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, and the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
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