Mechanical Engineering Graduate Program
Admission to PhD program
Application Deadline for Fall 2024: The priority deadline for Fall 2024 admission is February 15, 2024, however, we will continue to evaluate applications after that date on a rolling basis.
All admitted students will be offered full financial support through Research Assistantship and/or Teaching Assistantship. Please contact faculty advisor who you are interested in working with to see if there is an opening in the lab. Websites for faculty advisor and the list of active research projects can be found in the below.
Supporting Documents Required for Application: Statement of purpose, Official transcripts from all colleges/universities attended, Resume or Curriculum Vitae, 3 letters of recommendation from faculty, and official GRE score report from ETS.
GRE requirement is suspended for Spring/Fall 2024 application.
The applicants' scholastic record must show a minimum average of B (e.g., 3/4, 60/100, or 13/20).
Applicants from countries where English is not the primary language must also take TOEFL. Minimum TOEFL Scores: 533 (PBT), 73 (IBT).
Please see Admission FAQs for more information.
For any inquiries, please contact PhD program advisor Prof. Taehun Lee.
Online Application (use for both Spring and Fall applications)
Admission to Master's program
Application Deadlines for degree student: The deadline for Fall admission is May 1 and the deadline for Spring admission is November 15.
Application Deadline for non-degree student: Applications will be evaluated on a rolling basis. Please contact MS advisor.
Supporting Documents Required for Application: Statement of purpose, Official transcripts from all colleges/universities attended, Resume or Curriculum Vitae, and 2 letters of recommendation from faculty
The applicants' scholastic record must show a minimum average of B (e.g., 3/4, 60/100, or 13/20).
Applicants from countries where English is not the primary language must also take TOEFL. Minimum TOEFL Scores: 533 (PBT), 73 (IBT).
Please see Admission FAQs for more information.
Link to MS degree requirements
For any inquiries, please contact MS program advisor Prof. Niell Elvin.
Online Application (use for both Spring and Fall applications)
Faculty advisor website; Research lab; Publications; Research areas
Zeev Dagan; ; ResearchGate; Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer
Feridun Delale; ; Google Scholar, ResearchGate; Fracture Mechanics, Composites
Niell Elvin; ; Google Scholar, ResearchGate; Smart Materials, Energy Harvesting, Sensing, Non-destructive Evaluation and Biomechanics
Jing Fan; Lab; Google Scholar, ResearchGate; Microfluidics, Transport Phenomena in Porous Media, Soft Materials, Tissue-on-chip, Foams and Emulsions
Peter Ganatos; ; ResearchGate; Low Reynolds Number Hydrodynamics, Heat Transfer
Masahiro Kawaji; Lab; Google Scholar, ResearchGate; Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer, Thermal-hydraulics, Microfluidics, Energy
Taehun Lee; Lab; Google Scholar, ResearchGate; High-Performance Computing, Multi-phase Flows, Contact Line Dynamics, Thermal-hydraulics
Jackie Li; ; ResearchGate; Materials Engineering, Polymer Chemistry, Nanotechnology, Materials Chemistry
Yang Liu; Lab; Google Scholar; Impact of Blast Waves on UAV Aerodynamics, Multiphase Flows, Anti-/De-icing Technologies, Icephobic Coatings, Heat Transfer in Aircraft Icing
Prathap Ramamurthy; Lab; Google Scholar, ResearchGate; Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Urban Sustainability, Building Energy Use, CFD, Boundary Layer Turbulence
Ali Sadegh; Lab; Google Scholar, ResearchGate; Solid Mechanics, Biomechanics, Design and Manufacturing
Inigo Sanz-Pena; Lab; Google Scholar, ResearchGate; Wearable sensors, Biomechanics, Orthotics, Exoskeletons, Gait Analysis
Ioana Voiculescu; ; Google Scholar, ResearchGate; MEMS, Biosensors, Chemical Sensors, Cell-based Lab on a Chip
Bo Wang; Lab; Google Scholar; Nonlinear Control Theory, Underactuated Systems, Nonholonomic Systems
Honghui Yu; ; ResearchGate; Materials Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, Fracture Mechanics
Title of active external project; Funding agency; Duration; Total amount ~$22M (POC/PI)
Stem Cell Maturity Evaluation and Promotion with Intelligent Lab-on-Chip Framework; National Science Foundation (NSF); 2024-2027; $467,202 (I Voiculescu)
Capillary-Controlled Thermal Diode using Heterogeneous Nanostructures; National Science Foundation (NSF); 2024-2027; $571,367 (T Lee)
Design & Techno-Economic Assessment Tool for ASHP Systems for Cooling, Heating and Hot Water; BEST; $60,000 (P Ramamurthy)
Capacity Building to Catalyze Collaborations to Address Climate Change Impacts on Human Health (C2H2); National Science Foundation (NSF) AGS; 2024-2027; $105,000 (P Ramamurthy)
Fundamental Study of the Dynamic and Thermal Behaviors of Supercooled Droplet Interacting with Plasma Discharge; Department of Energy (DOE); 2023-2026; $800,000 (Y Liu)
Exascale Simulation of Thermal-Hydraulics Phenomena in Advanced Reactors and Validation using High Resolution Experimental Data; Department of Energy (DOE); 2023-2026; $1,499,999 (T Lee)
Static and Ballistic Testing of Ambient Cure Adhesive: Effect of Primer and Adhesive Thickness; PPG/US Army; 2023-2024; $83,703 (F Delale)
Understanding the Dynamic and Thermal Behaviors of Colloidal Droplets toward a Novel Freezing-based Inkjet Additive Manufacturing Concept; National Science Foundation (NSF); 2022-2024; $199,918 (Y Liu)
CCNY Nuclear Research Fellowship Program; Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC); 2022-2026; $399,168 (T Lee)
Static and Ballistic Testing of Ambient Cure Adhesion; PPG/US Army; 2022-2024; $101,863 (F Delale)
High-throughput Production and Screening of Protein Crystals using Microfluidics in Microgravity; Air Force Research Lab (AFRL); 2022-2024; $250,000 (J Fan)
Convective Clouds Urban Boundary-layer Experiment; National Science Foundation (NSF); 2021-2024; $663,301 (P Ramamurthy)
Nonlinear Energy Dynamics of Aerodynamically Coupled Oscillators; National Science Foundation (NSF); 2022-2025; $396,807 (N Elvin)
Center for Building Energy Smart Technologies; National Science Foundation (NSF); 2021-2024; $749,995 (P Ramamurthy)
CUNY Initiative to Promote the Academic Success to STEM (CiPASS); US Department of Education; 2021-2026; $5,000,000 (F Delale)
Sustainable Heat Pump Systems for Electrified Transitions in Winter Markets; MSRDC; 2021-2024; $750,000 (P Ramamurthy)
CAREER: Microfluidic Development of Dual-gel Culture Matrices for Studying Effects of Interstitial Flow on Cellular Behavior; National Science Foundation (NSF); 2021-2025; $546,000 (J Fan)
CiPASS - ExL; US Department of Education; 2021-2025; $2,985,211 (F Delale)
Resolving the Interactions in the Urban Boundary Layer; Department of Defense (DOD); 2020-2024; $360,000 (P Ramamurthy)
Building Capacity: CCNY STEM Communities; National Science Foundation (NSF); 2018-2024; $1,500,000 (F Delale)
PIRE: Multi-scale, Multi-phase Phenomena in Complex Fluids for the Energy Industries; National Science Foundation (NSF); 2017-2024; $5,199,276 (M Kawaji)