PhD in Engineering Sciences - Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering in Cambridge United States | Harvard University

Harvard School of Engineering's Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering program spans from foundational research in solid and fluid mechanics to varied investigations in materials, mechanical systems, and biomechanics. Evaluating these systems' performance frequently involves analyzing multi-scale behaviors, necessitating expertise in areas like dislocation mechanics, grain boundary dynamics, interface phenomena, and material non-uniformity. Harvard researchers explore material structure mechanics, geophysical and biological processes involving elasticity, plasticity, deformation, cracking, wave propagation, biological regulation, and emergent behaviors in living organisms—especially neural networks—to create innovative control methods and bio-inspired devices, along with medical instruments, remote-controlled robotics, and smart sensors. The mechanical engineering field encompasses diverse specialties such as dynamics, fluid mechanics, material science, solid mechanics, and thermal physics, with extensive cross-disciplinary collaborations linking to Applied Mathematics, Applied Physics, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Chemistry and Chemical Biology.