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The Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) offers graduate programs culminating in M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in engineering sciences, with focus areas including aerospace engineering, applied mechanics, applied ocean sciences, chemical engineering, computational science, engineering physics, and mechanical engineering. These academic and research initiatives foster interdisciplinary collaborations with departments such as Bioengineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry, as well as with affiliated campus research centers like the California Space Institute, Center for Magnetic Recording Research, Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials, Center for Molecular Genetics, Institute for Pure and Applied Physical Sciences, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD Center for Energy and Combustion Research, Fusion Energy Research Program, and Institute for Nonlinear Science.