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.
Recent News
Industrial and Systems engineering professor working to make voting processes run smoothly - ‘Election administrators everywhere want to make sure their system works,’ says associate professor Gretchen Macht.
URI off to successful start in partnership in nuclear engineering with Australian university - The University of Rhode Island and Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, have established a groundbreaking partnership in nuclear engineering.
URI mechanical engineering professor awarded NSF, DARPA early career honors - University of Rhode Island mechanical engineering assistant professor Yang Lin has been awarded a U.S. National Science Foundation Early Researcher Initiation and a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Young Faculty Award.