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Energy Systems

We are making significant advances in the way we power our homes, vehicles, and infrastructure.

Our faculty work to improve batteries, fuel cells, power generation, and propulsion. Through the Battery and Energy Storage Technology (BEST) Center faculty and students work with advanced materials used to manufacture batteries as well as energy storage systems. Additional labs range from large-scale combustion and turbomachinery facilities to computational facilities for wind energy research or atomistic and system level simulations.

Labs, Centers, and Groups

Battery and Energy Storage Technology (BEST) Center

Battery and Energy Storage Technology Lab
Chris Rahn, Chao-Yang Wang, Donghai Wang

Computational Reacting Flows Lab

Computational Reacting Flows Lab
Yuan Xuan

Electrochemical Engine Center

Electrochemical Engine Lab
Chao-Yang Wang

Energy Nanostructure Lab

Energy Nanostructure Lab
Donghai Wang

Environmental and Biological Fluid Mechanics Lab

Environmental and Biological Fluid Mechanics Lab
Margaret Byron

Fluid Dynamics Research Consortium

fluid dynamics reseach consortium
Robert Kunz, Laura Pauley

Heat Transfer and Multiphase Flow Lab

Rau Lab
Matthew Rau

High Pressure Combustion Lab

high pressure combustion lab
Richard Yetter

Interfacial Phenomena Lab

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Bladimir Ramos-Alvarado

Multiscale Thermal Fluids and Energy Lab

Multiscale Thermal Fluids and Energy
Alex Rattner

Nanomechanical Systems Laboratory

nanomechanical systems lab
Aman Haque

Pangborn Advanced Controls Lab

Computational Biomechanics
Herschel Pangborn

Penn State Center for Combustion, Power, and Propulsion

Center for Combustion Power and Propulsion Lab
Dan Haworth (director), Adri van Duin, Jackie O’Connor, Yuan Xuan, Richard Yetter

Reacting Flow Dynamics Lab

Reacting Flow Dynamics Lab
Jacqueline O’Connor

Smart City Laboratory

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Satadru Dey

Nanoscale Thermography and Electronics Reliability Lab

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Sukwon Choi

Turbine Heat Transfer and Aerodynamics Group

Turbine Heat Transfer and Aerodynamics Group
Steve Lynch, Karen Thole

Wong Laboratory for Nature Inspired Engineering

Wong Laboratory for Nature Inspired Engineering
Tak Sing Wong

Linxiao Zhu Group

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Linxiao Zhu

 
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About

With more than 60 faculty members, 330 graduate students, and 800 undergraduate students, the Penn State Department of Mechanical Engineering embraces a culture that welcomes individuals with a diversity of backgrounds and expertise. Our faculty and students are innovating today what will impact tomorrow’s solutions to meeting our energy needs, homeland security, biomedical devices, and transportation systems. We offer B.S. degrees in mechanical engineering as well as resident (M.S., Ph.D.) and online (M.S.) graduate degrees in mechanical engineering. See how we’re inspiring change and impacting tomorrow at me.psu.edu.

Department of Mechanical Engineering

137 Reber Building

The Pennsylvania State University

University Park, PA 16802-4400

Phone: 814-865-2519