4 UVA Engineering Faculty Receive US DOD DURIP Grants
New funded projects will create world-class facilities and systems for impactful research at UVA.
Mechanical engineering is one of the largest, broadest, and oldest engineering disciplines. Mechanical engineers use the principles of energy, materials, and mechanics to design, analyze, optimize, and manufacture machines and devices of all types.
Aerospace engineers are involved in such varied and exciting activities as enabling hypersonic flight, sending a spacecraft to Mars, designing an artificial heart, and improving tomorrow’s automobiles.
Mechanical engineers use the principles of energy, materials, and mechanics to design, analyze, optimize and manufacture machines and devices of all types and scales. They create the processes and systems that drive technology and industry, while aerospace engineers develop innovations and technologies for use in aviation, defense systems, and space exploration.
In Memoriam: Roger Alan Rydin
Prasanna Balachandran
Associate Professor
Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (Courtesy)
My interests are in materials informatics, density functional theory, machine learning, bayesian inference, and optimal design methods applied to accelerate the search and discovery of novel 2D materials, metallic alloys, ferroic and electronic materials.
Sean R. Agnew
William G. Reynolds Professor of Materials Science
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (Courtesy)
Our research is focused primarily on metals analysis, including magnesium alloy formability, intermetallic behaviors, and aluminum alloy fatigue.