To be a world-leading, open, diverse, creative, and collaborative center of excellence, in which the brightest minds – from undergraduate students to professors – continuously push and responsibly redefine the frontiers in mechanical and process engineering education, science and technology, while developing solutions for the societal challenges of our time.

By leveraging our core competencies in mechanics and materials; energy, flows and processes; robotics and control; and design and manufacturing, our mission is to address the pressing societal problems of our time through education, research and innovation with a particular focus on (i) reinventing manufacturing for the digital age and a circular economy, (ii) revolutionizing mobility and transportation across scales by pioneering autonomous systems, human-machine interactions and robotics, (iii) providing sustainable energy solutions on local and global scales, and (iv) ensuring healthy lives by merging engineering and life sciences.

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