Research @ UVA Engineering

Engineering for a Sustainable Future

Engineering a better future will require the best work of researchers collaborating along the spectrum from the tiniest building blocks of materials through the complex workings of entire societal systems. We work at the micro- and nano-scale in fields like heat transfer, catalysis and 2-D materials to identify fundamental properties of matter. Our goal is not simply to conduct research, but to pursue research with positive global impact.

Research Area

Optics, Photonics and Sensing Energy, Transportation and the Environment Materials Engineering & Nanotechnology
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  • UVA-led Research Team Pursues Next Big Leap in Radar and GPS

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  • Class of 2022: Emiko Gardiner

    Gardiner Has Earned a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Science with a Double Major in Physics and a Minor in Computer Science

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  • Class of 2022: Duane Armell Tungpalan Macatangay

    Macatangay Has Earned a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering

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  • Ph.D. Candidate Ho Lun Chan Earns Scholarship and Two Top Poster Awards for Corrosion Science

    A National Science Foundation graduate research fellowship program award supports Chan's research.

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  • Airman Magazine: Hypersonics

    Associate Professor Christopher P. Goyne is featured in Airman Magazine. His lab is providing valuable data to help develop technologies for the extreme environment of hypersonic flight.

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  • UVA Researchers Advance Bioprinting

    Rsearcher’s paper, Digital Assembly of Spherical Viscoelastic Bio-ink Particles, termed DASP, is featured as a cover article in Advanced Functional Materials. 

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  • UVA Multifunctional Thin Film Group Lends Expertise to Electric Vehicle Battery Challenge

    Ian Brummel studies materials that will make the lithium battery safer and allow it to charge faster. 

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  • UVA Joins Multi-University Team to Design New Class of Semiconductor Materials

    Avik Ghosh joins multi-university initiative to model the physics of materials for infrared opto-electronic systems.

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  • Say Goodbye to the Memory Wall

    Researchers in the University of Virginia’s Department of Computer Science and Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering are leading a $29.7 million research effort to remove.

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  • A Brain Trust Approach

    Decarbonizing heavy freight trucks won’t be easy; no technology today has the power and efficiency to replace diesel engines for moving goods over long distances.

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  • Construction Practice: Grad Students Learn Industry Via Alderman Library Renovation

    A new graduate-level course called “Construction Practice” allows students to shadow construction team members who are working on the Alderman Library renovation. 

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  • Test Kitchens for Solar Cells

    Researchers use machine learning to tap perovskites’ potential to lower the cost of solar energy.

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