Report summary

The 2015-2026 picture for University of Maryland, College Park Department of Mechanical Engineering is a 84-PI network with 125 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Engineering as the leading field (45% of slots across 76 PIs; 76 labels), Mechanical Engineering as the leading subfield (11% of slots across 23 PIs; 23 labels), and Heat Transfer and Optimization as the leading topic (3% of slots across 7 PIs; 7 labels). That is a nice sign for applicants and collaborators, because the network has both density and separable local groups. The top weighted PIs are Ashwani K. Gupta (101.3 weighted works; Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes, Combustion and flame dynamics); Siddhartha Das (93.5 weighted works; Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies, Electrostatics and Colloid Interactions). The strongest pairings are Yunho Hwang and Reinhard Radermacher (63 shared works, weight 23.4). The standout breakdown groups are group 1 with 8 PIs, 7 internal connections, weight 30.1, around Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Control and Systems Engineering, Materials Chemistry, led by Balakumar Balachandran, Mohammad Modarres, Katrina M. Groth.