MEM Ranks Fourth in Nation

The Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics department’s scholarly productivity is ranked among those at Ivy League universities and some of the largest engineering mechanics institutions in the nation. MEM was ranked #4 out of 375 Ph.D. granting institutions in the nation in the 2007 Academic Analytics rankings by The Chronicle of Higher Education.

The top ten universities for ME are:

1. Northwestern University
2. Brown University
3. Cornell University
4. Drexel University (Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics Department)
5. University of Wisconsin at Madison
6. Columbia University
7. Pennsylvania State University at University Park
8. Georgia Institute of Technology
9. Iowa State University
10. University of Arizona

This is one of the most comprehensive ranking systems, as it considers critical metrics that constitute the strength of a program based on data obtained on scholarly accomplishments from many different sources. Faculty members can be judged on as many as five factors, depending on the most important variables in the given discipline: books published; journal publications; citations of journal articles; federal-grant dollars awarded; and honors and awards. The index examines faculty members who are listed on a Ph.D. program's Web sites, and includes a total of 217,254 names. Our ranking was based on the evaluation of the work of our 39 faculty who are active in this important interdisciplinary area.