Report summary

Michigan State University Department of Mechanical Engineering in 2015-2017 reads as a 27-PI network with 15 internal PI collaborations. The dominant subject mix is Engineering as the leading field (47% of slots across 21 PIs; 21 labels), Biomedical Engineering as the leading subfield (13% of slots across 9 PIs; 9 labels), and Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies as the leading topic (4% of slots across 3 PIs; 3 labels). Overall the pattern is balanced: there is enough structure to identify active groups, while the field mix still leaves room for multiple research identities. The leading PI names are Michael Feig (14.4 weighted works; Protein Structure and Dynamics, Enzyme Structure and Function). The most visible ties are Hassan K. Khalil and Ranjan Mukherjee (7 shared works, weight 3.9); Roger C. Haut and Feng Wei (5 shared works, weight 3.6). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 12 internal connections, weight 15.3, around Control and Systems Engineering, Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes, Computational Mechanics, led by Guoming Zhu, Hassan K. Khalil, Elisa Toulson.