Report summary

Princeton University Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2015-2026 reads as a 73-PI network with 100 internal PI collaborations. The dominant subject mix is Engineering as the leading field (33% of slots across 52 PIs; 52 labels), Computational Mechanics as the leading subfield (12% of slots across 22 PIs; 22 labels), and Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows as the leading topic (4% of slots across 8 PIs; 8 labels). That is promising: collaboration is not just one large hairball, and the leading breakdown groups cover 24 PIs across distinct clusters. The leading PI names are Howard A. Stone (108 weighted works; Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies, Electrostatics and Colloid Interactions). The most visible ties are Richard B. Miles and Arthur Dogariu (28 shared works, weight 19.9); Andrey Starikovskiy and Mikhail N. Shneider (25 shared works, weight 18.7). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 13 internal connections, weight 105.1, around Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, led by Emily A. Carter, Andrey Starikovskiy, Yiguang Ju; group 2 with 10 PIs, 9 internal connections, weight 65, around Computational Mechanics, Biomedical Engineering, Condensed Matter Physics, led by Howard A. Stone, Craig B. Arnold, Luc Deike.