At URI, our faculty in the Department of Mechanical, Industrial, and Systems Engineering are recognized as world-class leaders in research areas such as experimental mechanics, structural response under extreme conditions, health monitoring, mechatronics and autonomous systems, renewable energy, heat transfer, undersea vehicle technologies, human factors, voting systems, cyber-physical security, Industry 4.0, and machine learning.
Undergraduate students work side-by-side in research laboratories with faculty and graduate students, complete internships with industry leaders both nationally and abroad, and compete in national student competitions. All students undertake a culminating, year-long senior capstone experience where they collaborate in teams to tackle real-world problems defined, funded, and mentored by industry and government partners. Additionally, students have the opportunity to pursue minors in entrepreneurship, robotics, or nuclear engineering.
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URI team creates tabletop blast device to study long-term consequences of traumatic brain injury - Molecular biologists pair with mechanical engineers for URI-built experimental model offering new way to look at TBI-related neurodegenerative disease.
How one URI professor found his way from F1 to Engineering Education - Having spent years as a race engineer, Borme now brings that same sense of urgency and design precision into the classroom. He uses his real world experience with how fast parts can be produced, tested and ultimately used on race day, in the classroom.- URI STEM for Elections Network launching 2025-26 workshop series with fall event - The workshop, which launches the network’s 2025-26 workshop series, will be hosted by the Engineering for Democracy Institute based in the URI College of Engineering, with guests from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Election Data & Science Lab, the Center for Civic Design, as well as state-level election officials from around the country.