Report summary

The 2018-2020 picture for Northwestern University Department of Mechanical Engineering is a 34-PI network with 34 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Engineering as the leading field (48% of slots across 30 PIs; 30 labels), Biomedical Engineering as the leading subfield (14% of slots across 12 PIs; 12 labels), and Ultrasonics and Acoustic Wave Propagation as the leading topic (4% of slots across 4 PIs; 4 labels). That is a nice sign for applicants and collaborators, because the network has both density and separable local groups. The leading PI names are John A. Rogers (27.9 weighted works; Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials, Tactile and Sensory Interactions). The clearest collaboration lines are Jian Cao and Kornel F. Ehmann (45 shared works, weight 21.1). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 11 internal connections, weight 42.9, around Mechanical Engineering, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, led by Jian Cao, Wing Kam Liu, Wei Chen.