Report summary

The 2018-2020 picture for The Ohio State University Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering is a 48-PI network with 19 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Engineering as the leading field (54% of slots across 43 PIs; 43 labels), Computational Mechanics as the leading subfield (12% of slots across 13 PIs; 13 labels), and Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows as the leading topic (4% of slots across 6 PIs; 6 labels). That is a thin collaboration pattern, useful for spotting individual pairs but less persuasive as a broad departmental network. The leading PI names are Ryan L. Harne (25.1 weighted works; Advanced Materials and Mechanics, Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials). The clearest collaboration lines are Vilas Shinde and Datta V. Gaitonde (7 shared works, weight 4.8); Jack J. McNamara and Vilas Shinde (7 shared works, weight 4.3). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 7 PIs, 6 internal connections, weight 9, around Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, led by Jonathan W. Song, David J. Hoelzle, Hai‐Jun Su.