Cancer Detector

This fiber optic array, developed by Professors Pogue and Jiang and a Thayer student, is used for breast cancer imaging at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

"The open environment is an important part of the Thayer experience. It leads to the curiosity of 'What are you doing?' and 'I saw you were doing this experiment...' and 'What's that mean to you?'. Engineering is essentially the integration of many ideas."

—Terrence McGuire Th'82
Thayer School Overseer

Research

Engineering for society

Researchers keep one eye on the big picture while fostering excellence in highly focused projects aimed at improving the present and shaping the future of society.

Dartmouth's single unified department of engineering is a close-knit community of scholars with a broad range of expertise. The culture of collaboration extends across the hall, across campus, and beyond. Projects often engage researchers from Dartmouth Medical School (DMS), Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC), Tuck School of Business, and Graduate Arts and Sciences, as well as partners from industry and government.

Focus areas

Thayer School is advancing innovation in three focus areas that crosscut traditional engineering disciplines and address critical human needs.

research matrix

Engineering in Medicine

Engineering in medicine addresses today's technology-driven healthcare system. Advances depend not only on clinical expertise, but also on those trained to look at the technical side of patient care. Close collaboration between Dartmouth engineers, medical researchers, and clinicians speeds the testing and implementation of technological advances. Projects relevant to engineering in medicine are listed in one of three research categories:

Energy Technologies

Energy technologies are crucial to the future stability of human society. Research at Thayer School includes a range of projects—from biomass processing to power electronics optimization. Investigators synthesize ideas and expertise from biochemical and chemical, electrical, and materials engineering as well as physics, chemistry, and microbiology. Projects relevant to energy technologies are listed in one of three research categories:

Complex Systems

Complex systems permeate technology in the 21st century. The goal is to analyze and design complex systems so that their behavior can be predicted and controlled. Dartmouth engineers are working together to meet the challenges of large, complex engineered systems such as computer networks, social networks, smart robots, living cells, energy infrastructure, and the near-Earth space environment. Projects relevant to complex systems are listed in one of three research categories:

Browse by discipline

Current research projects are also listed here, although most combine knowledge and expertise from more than one specific discipline: