Top institutions in the United States for Mechanical Engineering & Transports

43 institutions · Mechanical Engineering & Transports · United States

Search institutions

Which institutions in the United States have the most top-cited scientists in Mechanical Engineering & Transports?

488 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Mechanical Engineering & Transports are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 0.7% of all listed authors in the United States, and 2nd of 79 countries in the subfield. 180 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). College of Engineering has the most (44), followed by George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering (10) and Cockrell School of Engineering (9). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

488

0.7% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

180

36.9% of them

Country rank in the subfield

of 79 countries in Mechanical Engineering & Transports

Highest-ranked

#509

Reddy, Junuthula Narasimha

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	College of Engineering	44	17	#3	Reddy, Junuthula Narasimha #509
2	George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering	10	3	#29	McDowell, David #11,945
3	Cockrell School of Engineering	9	5	#40	Kyriakides, Stelios C. #44,819
4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	8	3	#45	Wierzbicki, Tomasz #6,629
5	The Grainger College of Engineering	7	1	#60	Ostoja-Starzewski, M. #22,356
6	UCLA Samueli School of Engineering	7	4	#62	Faghri, Amir #27,732
7	School of Engineering	7	2	#46	Bower, Allan Francis #44,777
8	Stanford University	6	2	#74	Majumdar, Arun K. #2,066
9	Department of Mechanical Engineering	6	2	#57	Prasher, Ravi S. #7,419
10	MIT School of Engineering	6	2	#81	Anand, Lallit #8,415
11	Stanford Engineering	6	4	#82	Moffat, Robert J. #8,921
12	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	6	2	#93	Abueidda, Diab W. #51,462
13	Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science	5	2	#105	Huang, Younggang Young #5,965
14	University of California, Berkeley	5	3	#111	Finnie, Iain #31,422
15	College of Science and Engineering	5	3	#114	Sparrow, Ephraim M. #35,557
16	A. James Clark School of Engineering	5	2	#125	Kim, Jungho #59,130
17	Virginia Tech College of Engineering	5	0	#138	Ahmadian, Mehdi #109,309
18	Texas A&M University	4	3	#142	Erdemir, Ali #2,190
19	Michigan State University	4	1	#144	Wang, Changyi #11,138
20	College of Engineering and Applied Science	4	1	#145	Barthelat, François #11,141
21	School of Engineering and Applied Science	4	2	#158	Paulino, Gláucio Hermogenes #34,845
22	Northwestern University	4	2	#166	Qu, Jianmin #54,663
23	California Institute of Technology Division of Engineering and Applied Science	4	1	#172	Caughey, Thomas K. #63,971
24	Samuel Ginn College of Engineering	4	2	#173	Khodadadi, Jeyhoon M. #69,600
25	Michigan Engineering	4	1	#176	Kaviany, Massound #78,510
26	Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering	4	1	#178	Phelan, Patrick E. #90,027
27	Cornell University College of Engineering	4	1	#180	Hui, Chung Yuen #99,367
28	Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences	3	2	#199	Rice, James R. #556
29	Argonne National Laboratory	3	2	#200	Choi, Stephen U.S. #2,843
30	Pennsylvania State University	3	1	#216	Webb, Ralph L. #17,979
31	California Institute of Technology	3	2	#218	Brennen, Christorpher Earls #20,225
32	Cornell University	3	1	#221	Ruina, Andy L. #22,167
33	College of Engineering and Computer Science	3	1	#224	Vajravelu, Kuppalappalle #23,063
34	The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science	3	1	#230	Boyce, Mary C. #28,334
35	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	3	1	#231	Dong, P. S. #28,623
36	Molinaroli College of Engineering and Computing	3	2	#236	Sutton, Michael Albert #34,772
37	Bobby B. Lyle School of Engineering	3	1	#239	Gao, Xin Lin #39,517
38	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	3	1	#241	Bergles, Arthur E. #43,392
39	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	3	0	#277	Qu, Jun #109,862
40	Southwest Research Institute	3	0	#281	Anderson, Charles E. #117,025
41	NASA Glenn Research Center	3	0	#285	Hartwig, Jason William #128,302
42	National Institute of Standards and Technology	3	0	#299	Munro, Ronald G. #158,481
43	Purdue University	3	0	#316	Marconnet, Amy M. #226,523

The top 100 in Mechanical Engineering & Transports in the United States, in order

1
Reddy, Junuthula Narasimha
College of Engineering
2
Rice, James R.
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
3
Bhushan, Bharat
College of Engineering
4
Bejan, Adrian
Duke University
5
Suo, Zhigang Igang
Harvard University
6
Silling, Stewart A.
Nearforce LLC
7
Eringen, A. Cemal
Princeton University
8
Mudawar, Issam A.
College of Engineering
9
Hutchinson, John W.
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
10
Majumdar, Arun K.
Stanford University
11
Erdemir, Ali
Texas A&M University
12
Kandlikar, Satish G.
Kate Gleason College of Engineering
13
Choi, Stephen U.S.
Argonne National Laboratory
14
Kalman, R. E.
Stanford University
15
Yarin, Alexander L.
College of Engineering
16
Mindlin, Raymond D.
Grantham
17
Kuznetsov, Andrey V.
NC State College of Engineering
18
Huang, Younggang Young
Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
19
Needleman, Alan
College of Engineering
20
Wierzbicki, Tomasz
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
21
Prasher, Ravi S.
Department of Mechanical Engineering
22
Vafai, Kambiz
Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering
23
Anand, Lallit
MIT School of Engineering
24
Moffat, Robert J.
Stanford Engineering
25
Han, Jechin
College of Engineering
26
Wang, Changyi
Michigan State University
27
Barthelat, François
College of Engineering and Applied Science
28
Patankar, Suhas V.
Innovative Research, Inc. Plymouth
29
McDowell, David
George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
30
Rajagopal, Kumbakonam Ramamani
College of Engineering
31
L Menezes, Pradeep Lancy
College of Engineering
32
Bunker, Ronald S.
Consultant
33
Ahmadi, Goodarz A.
Clarkson University
34
S, Sujatha V.
College of Engineering
35
Voller, V. R.
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
36
Michaelides, Efstathios E.Stathis
Texas Christian University
37
Nemat-Nasser, Siavouche C.
University of California, San Diego
38
Greitzer, Edward M.
MIT School of Engineering
39
Madenci, Erdogan
The University of Arizona
40
Schapery, Richard A.
The University of Texas at Austin
41
Webb, Ralph L.
Pennsylvania State University
42
Khonsari, Michael M.
LSU College of Engineering
43
Shah, Mirza Mohammed
Engineering Research Associates
44
Wang, Evelyn N.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
45
Brennen, Christorpher Earls
California Institute of Technology
46
Grady, Dennis E.
Applied Research Associates Incorporated
47
Reissner, Eric
University of California, San Diego
48
Ruina, Andy L.
Cornell University
49
Ostoja-Starzewski, M.
The Grainger College of Engineering
50
Elishakoff, Isaac E.
FAU College of Engineering and Computer Science
51
Fatemi, Ali
University of Memphis
52
Vajravelu, Kuppalappalle
College of Engineering and Computer Science
53
Roache, Patrick J.
Consultant
54
Sarpkaya, Turgut Sarp
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc.
55
Kachanov, Mark L.
Tufts School of Engineering
56
Modest, Michael F.
UC Merced
57
Jazar, Reza Nakhaie
Tarleton State University
58
Blau, Peter J.
Blau Tribology Consulting
59
Goldstein, Richard J.
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
60
Plesset, Milton S.
University of California, Los Angeles
61
Mei, Renwei
Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
62
Faghri, Amir
UCLA Samueli School of Engineering
63
Weng, G. J.
Rutgers University–New Brunswick
64
Boyce, Mary C.
The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
65
Dong, P. S.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
66
Bobaru, Florin
College of Engineering
67
Johnson, Gordon R.
Honeywell International Inc.
68
Gorla, Rama Subba Reddy
AFIT Graduate School of Engineering and Management
69
Khanafer, Khalil M.N.
University of Michigan-Flint
70
Finnie, Iain
University of California, Berkeley
71
Erdoǧan, Fazil F.
P.C. Rossin College of Engineering & Applied Science
72
Tryggvason, Gretar
Whiting School of Engineering
73
Suh, Nam Pyo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
74
Zhang, Yuwen
University of Missouri
75
Bons, Jeffrey P.
College of Engineering
76
Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan
The Enrico Fermi InstituteNobel laureate
77
Sutton, Michael Albert
Molinaroli College of Engineering and Computing
78
Paulino, Gláucio Hermogenes
School of Engineering and Applied Science
79
Eslami, Mohammadreza
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
80
Sparrow, Ephraim M.
College of Science and Engineering
81
Bhattacharya, Kaushik
California Institute of Technology
82
Budiansky, Bernard
Harvard University
83
Kalnins, Arturs
Henry B. Tippie College of Business
84
Batra, R. C.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
85
Espinosa, Horacio Dante
Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
86
Voyiadjis, George Z.
Louisiana State University
87
Ericksen, Jerald Laverne
College of Science and Engineering
88
Newman, James C.
Bagley College of Engineering
89
Mahanthesh, Basavarajappa
Texas A and M International University
90
Gao, Xin Lin
Bobby B. Lyle School of Engineering
91
Blevins, Robert D.
Independent Consultant
92
Steigmann, David J.
University of California, Berkeley
93
Dontsov, E. V.
ResFrac Corporation
94
Tzou, Dayu
University of New Mexico School of Engineering
95
Gad-el-Hak, Mohamed
Virginia Commonwealth University
96
Ligrani, Phillip M.
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
97
Sih, George C.
Lehigh University
98
Bergles, Arthur E.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
99
Speziale, Charles G.
Boston University
100
Dhir, Vijay Kumar
UCLA Samueli School of Engineering

488 listed scientists in Mechanical Engineering & Transports in the United States

See all 488 in the interactive table →