Report summary

University of Colorado Boulder Department of Mechanical Engineering in 2015-2017 reads as a 34-PI network with 36 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Engineering as the leading field (36% of slots across 25 PIs; 25 labels), Biomedical Engineering as the leading subfield (11% of slots across 10 PIs; 10 labels), and Osteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms as the leading topic (4% of slots across 4 PIs; 4 labels). That is promising: collaboration is not just one large hairball, and the leading breakdown groups cover 16 PIs across distinct clusters. The most prominent PIs by weighted works are Patrick Weidman (26.1 weighted works; Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows, Nanofluid Flow and Heat Transfer). The strongest pairings are Stephanie J. Bryant and Franck J. Vernerey (8 shared works, weight 4.8). The strongest breakdown groups are group 1 with 6 PIs, 6 internal connections, weight 11.2, around Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering, led by Ronggui Yang, Ryan Lewis, Congliang Huang.