Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering Annual Report Annual Report 2016 | Page 6

ME Thrust Areas RADS Data taken from Goodwin Hall, the most sensored building in the world, shows how the building shifts as a result of vibrations and wind. Robotics, Autonomous & Dynamical Systems Professor Saied Taheri RADS Coordinator In 2016, Mechanical Engineering reorganized faculty and research around five Graduate Thrust Areas to more efficiently delineate how ME research areas relate to each other and how an area’s research focus relates to its application potential. AREAS OF RESEARCH AND STUDY Acoustics and Noise Control | Dynamics | Kinematics and Mechanisms | Multibody Dynamics | System Dynamics and Control | Vibrations