Report summary

The 2015-2017 picture for University of Washington Department of Mechanical Engineering is a 29-PI network with 7 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Engineering as the leading field (46% of slots across 26 PIs; 26 labels), Biomedical Engineering as the leading subfield (19% of slots across 13 PIs; 13 labels), and Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials as the leading topic (3% of slots across 3 PIs; 3 labels). That is a thin collaboration pattern, useful for spotting individual pairs but less persuasive as a broad departmental network. The top weighted PIs are Dwayne Arola (21.6 weighted works; Dental materials and restorations, Dental Erosion and Treatment); Jiangyu Li (17.3 weighted works; Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films, Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices). The strongest pairings are Jiangyu Li and Peiqi Wang (6 shared works, weight 4.2). The standout breakdown groups are group 1 with 4 PIs, 4 internal connections, weight 2.7, around Mechanics of Materials, Orthodontics, Mechanical Engineering, led by Dwayne Arola, M. Ramulu, Junlan Wang.