Research 

Advanced manufacturing is an interdisciplinary focus at SoE with broad impact within aerospace, healthcare, tooling, automotive, energy, and materials industries. The New Jersey Advanced Manufacturing Initiative at Rutgers includes sensing network (e.g., 5G), machine learning, and advanced control. 

Energy storage encompasses complex devices with fundamental electronic transport phenomena such as batteries and  semiconductors. Rutgers researchers are advancing the development and understanding of next generation energy storage materials and energy storage devices.

As a USDOT-designated University Transportation Center (UTC) since 1998, we are addressing some of the country’s most pressing infrastructure challenges, especially those that are endemic to the Northeast. Other issues of focus include the sustainability of infrastructures, the impact of transportation on the environment, 3-D geospatial mapping, deploying emerging concepts and technologies in the construction of new facilities, and much more.

As one of the growing fields of biotechnological research, the development of biomaterials, tissues and regenerative medicine therapies transforms basic science and engineering principles to life-changing medical discoveries. Faculty in this research area perform studies on every scale, from developing a fundamental understanding of microscopic cellular phenomena to improving the scale-up of stem cell production.

Providing security to cyber systems and their communication links with the users, including physical systems being observed, monitored, or supervised, is one of the primary tasks of the U.S. national economy and industry, U.S. health system, and people’s safety. There is an enormous need to develop and employ corresponding software and devices for numerous entities that are either part of or connected to the U.S. cyber system. 

SoE is advancing drone-related research and next generation air transportation systems, including manufacturing and testing/validation of smart-material based multi-physics system, flight control and protection, and fluid dynamics and microfluidics. Emil Buehler Aerospace Lab is a two-story testing space for drones and aerospace projects.

Research in this area involves developing fundamental physicochemical understanding of biological processes and translating the knowledge into the efficient design of therapeutically and industrial important products and processes. 

Research in this area focuses on developing a fundamental understanding of pharmaceutical and particulate based processes from a process and systems engineering perspective. 

We are solving reliability, security and privacy problems arising from communicating, storing and processing large amounts of data in distributed systems. Applications of interest include wireless communications, networking, radar systems, and biomedicine.