Understand scientific and engineering challenges. Realize the computational theories and methods behind the solutions. Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) at Michigan Technological University is a PhD program engaging faculty and students in interdisciplinary research and teaching, focusing on computational aspects of science and engineering.
Tackle Emerging Problems
According to a recent conference of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, "Computational Science and Engineering (CS&E) is now widely accepted, along with theory and experiment, as the critical third pillar of scientific discovery."
This distinctive degree tackles emerging problems in engineering and science through the investigation and application of current software and hardware technologies. This degree's flexibility, unique status as interdisciplinary breadth gives students the resources and environment to explore challenges in:
- Energy efficiency—combustion processes and emissions
- Environmental studies—ground, water, and air pollution
- Molecular Dynamics, Density Functional Theory—simulation of atomic, molecular, and mechanical behavior
- Computational Chemistry—simulation of chemical processes
- Bioinformatics—genetic sequencing and recombinant studies
- Social simulation
- Weather forecasting
- National Defense—bio/chemical terrorism, intelligence
Projects include mechanical behavior of aerospace-grade polymer composites and aluminum alloys, modeling and control of hybrid electric vehicles, 3-D simulation of flow in ceramic injection molding, computational simulations of forced and natural convection turbulent flows, complex embedded electronic systems, land-use modeling, advanced programming, seismic source mechanisms of tectonic and volcanic earthquakes, mining of large-scale biological data, atmospheric chemistry, finite element analysis, and so much more.
Computational Science and Engineering Research Institute
CSERI was created in 2002 as a home for researchers to collaborate on computational problems and techniques of common interest, to facilitate the development of long-range research programs, to support the CS&E PhD program. CSERI provides access to medium- and large-scale computational facilities that would not otherwise be available.