Graduate engineering students can choose from many research opportunities both on and off campus —
- Assist a School of Engineering faculty member on a long-term basic or applied research assignment.
- Align yourself with one of the 250 full-time professional researchers at the University of Dayton Research Institute conducting sponsored research that solves a problem for government or industry.
- Work side-by-side with an engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory facilities at nearby Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
Graduate students performing collaborative research for government, industry and other universities have access to 88 laboratories on campus in the six-story Kettering Laboratories building —
- Aerospace, instrumentation and fluid mechanics
- Arc plasma
- Civil engineering
- Digital systems
- Electronics
- Electro-optics
- Energy conversion
- Environmental engineering
- High-temperature materials
- Holographics
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- Man-machine simulation
- Manufacturing
- Materials
- Materials analysis
- Metallurgy
- Microwaves
- Soil mechanics
- Spectroscopy
- Structural mechanics
- Systems and human performance
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Each graduate department and program focuses on major research emphases. The depth and breadth of UD's research base guarantees you'll find a challenging project in your area of interest. For more information, contact the
Office of Graduate Engineering Programs and Research.