Report summary

University of Wisconsin–madison Department of Mechanical Engineering in 2015-2026 reads as a 71-PI network with 89 internal PI collaborations. The dominant subject mix is Engineering as the leading field (47% of slots across 60 PIs; 60 labels), Mechanical Engineering as the leading subfield (12% of slots across 20 PIs; 20 labels), and Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies as the leading topic (3% of slots across 6 PIs; 6 labels). That is promising: collaboration is not just one large hairball, and the leading breakdown groups cover 17 PIs across distinct clusters. The leading PI names are Lih‐Sheng Turng (112.2 weighted works; Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications, Polymer Foaming and Composites); Dane Morgan (81.4 weighted works; Nuclear Materials and Properties, Fusion materials and technologies). The most visible ties are John Pfotenhauer and Franklin G. Miller (27 shared works, weight 12.6). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 6 PIs, 5 internal connections, weight 29.4, around Civil and Structural Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, led by Xiaoping Qian, Mark Anderson, John Pfotenhauer; group 2 with 6 PIs, 5 internal connections, weight 14.5, around Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes, Computational Mechanics, Automotive Engineering, led by Rolf D. Reitz, Sage Kokjohn, David Rothamer.