对于大多数学生和家长来说，都是第一次接触留学申请这一繁杂的程序，不免存在很多疑问和顾虑。在咨询过程中，有不少理工科学生对于美国学校的专业的细节分支都不甚了解，导致很难定下自己究竟该选择申请哪个专业。
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确实由于国内外专业设置上的差异，导致学生在申请专业的选择上很难一一对应起来。其实仅仅了解专业的大方向是远远不够的，因此我们将美国各类工科专业的细节分支参照美国理工科的经典名校的设置并详列出来，方便学生在申请时进行一一对照，从而准确定位适合自己的专业。
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1.&&& Department of Aeronautics Astronautics/Aerospace/Aeronautical/Astronautical (AE)
—Aero Fluid Mechanics Laboratory
—Aerospace Computing Lab
—Aerospace Design Lab
—Aerospace Robotics Laboratory
—Aircraft Aerodynamics and Design Group
—GPS Laboratory
—Gravity Probe B Project (GP-B)
—Hybrid Systems Lab
—Multidisciplinary Aerospace Simulation
—Space and Systems Development Laboratory
—Space Environment and Satellite Systems
—Structures and CompositesLaboratory
—Unsteady Flow Physics and Aeroacoustics Lab
[参考自 Stanford U&斯坦福大学&https://aa.stanford.edu/research/index.php]

2. Department of Biomedical/Bioengineering (BME)
—Cell and Tissue Engineering
—Cardiovascular Systems
—Medical Imaging
—Systems Neuroscience
—Molecular and Cell Systems
—Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
—Computational Modeling
[参考自 Johns Hopkins U&约翰霍普金斯大学&https://www.bme.jhu.edu/research/areas.htm]

3. Department of Chemical Engineering (ChE)
—Bioengineering
—Catalysis Reaction Engineering
—Electrochemical Engineering
—Environmental Engineering
—Polymers Soft materials
—Microelectronics Processing MEMS
—Theory, Multiscale Modeling, and Computer Simulation
[参考自 UC Berkeley&加州大学伯克利分校&https://chemistry.berkeley.edu/faculty/faculty_interest.php]

4. Department of Civil / Architectural Engineering (CE)
—Architectural Engineering
—Building Energy and Environments
—Construction Engineering and Project Management
—Environmental and Water Resources Engineering
—Geotechnical Engineering
—Structural Engineering, Mechanics, and Materials
—Technical Communications
—Transportation Engineering
[参考自 U of Texas-Austin 德州奥斯汀分校&&https://www.ce.utexas.edu/faculty-directory/faculty-areas.html]

5. Department of Computer Science (CS)
—Computer Science Department (See Faculty Research Guide)
Algorithms and Complexity
AI: Planning, Knowledge Representation, and Game Theory
Computational Molecular Biology
Computational Neuroscience
Computer Architecture
Formal Methods
Graphics
Human-Computer Interaction
Large-Scale Distributed Systems
Machine Learning
Mobile and Pervasive Computing
Networking
Principles of Programming
Robotics
Security
Scientific Computing
Software Engineering
Technology and Society
Vision, Speech, and Natural Languages
—Robotics Institute (See Faculty Research Guide)
Artificial Intelligence
Graphics Visualization
Human-Computer Interaction
Manipulation
Manufacturing Inspection
Medical Applications
Mobile Robotics
Other Areas
Space Robotics
Systems Control
Vision, Perception Sensors
No subject
—Institute for Software Research
Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organization Systems (CASOS)
Data Privacy Laboratory
e-Supply Chain Management Laboratory
IT Services Qualification Center (ITSqc)
Mobile Commerce Laboratory
Software Industry Center
Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory (CUPS)
Universal Digital Library
Selected Faculty Research
—Human-Computer Interaction Institute (See All HCII Projects )
Cognitive Modeling
PACT Center
Project LISTEN
Designing Interfaces to Support Human Attention
Interaction Design
Interactive Systems Laboratories (ISL)
Societal Impacts of ComputingSpeech
Usability Analysis
User Interface Design
—Language Technologies Institute (See All LTI Projects)
Machine Translation
Speech
Information Retrieval
Knowledge Representation, Reasoning, and Acquisition
Language Technologies for Education
Dialogue
Computational Biology
Natural Language Processing / Computational Linguistics
Interdisciplinary Projects
—Machine Learning Department (See Research Guide)
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&[参考自 CMU卡耐基梅隆大学&&https://www.cs.cmu.edu/research/areas/index.html ]

6. Department of Electrical/Electronic/Communication Engineering (EE)
—Integrated Electronics Systems Technology
—Photonics/EM/Quantum
—Hardware/Software Systems
—Information Systems
—Bio-EE
—Energy/Environment
—Biomedical Devices and Bioimaging
—Environmental and Remote Sensing: sensor nets, radar systems, space
—Graphics, HCI, Computer Vision, Photography
—Web Applications, Data Management, Security/Privacy
—Systems Software: OS, compilers, languages
—Systems Hardware: architecture, VLSI, embedded systems
—Network Systems and Science: next gen internet, wireless networks
—Communication Systems: wireless, optical, wireline
—Information Theory and Coding: image and data compression, denoising
—Control, Learning, and Optimization
[参考自 Stanford U斯坦福大学&&https://ee.stanford.edu/research_areas.php ]
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7. Department of Geography Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering
—Pollutant fate and transport
—Water resources engineering
—Environmental chemistry
—Geomorphology
—Drinking water and wastewater treatment
—Environmental microbiology
—Ecosystem dynamics
—The interplay between technology, society, and environmental changes
&[参考自 Johns Hopkins U&&https://engineering.jhu.edu/~dogee/research/ ]

8. Department of Industrial/Manufacturing Engineering (IE)
—Economic Decision Analysis
—Health Systems
—Human-Integrated Systems
—Logistics
—Manufacturing
—Natural Systems
—Optimization—Statistics
—Stochastics
—Simulation
—System Informatics Control
&[参考自 Georgia Inst. of Tech.乔治亚理工&https://www.isye.gatech.edu/people/interest-groups/ ]

9. Department of Materials Science Engineering (MSE)
—Biomaterials
—Cement / Concrete
—Ceramics
—Composites
—Computational MS
—Electrical Properties
—Electron Ion Microscopy
—Energy
—Materials Design
—Materials Processing
—Materials Theory
—Mechanical Properties
—Metals
—Molecular Synthesis
—Nanomaterials
—Optical Properties
—Phase Transformations
—Polymers
—Scattering Diffraction
—Self-assembly
—Semiconductors
—Surfaces Interfaces
—Thin Films
[参考自 Northwestern U&&https://www.matsci.northwestern.edu/facultyint.html]

10. Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME)
—Mechanics: Modeling, Experimentation, Computation
—Design, Manufacturing, Product Development
—Controls, Instrumentation, Robotics
—Energy Science Engineering
—Ocean Science Engineering
—Bioengineering
—Micro Nano Engineering
&[参考自 MIT 麻省理工学院&&https://meche.mit.edu/research/ ]
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11. Department of Nuclear Engineering Radiological Science
—Fission Systems and Radiation Transport
—Nuclear Materials
—Radiation Measurements and Imaging
—Plasmas and Nuclear Fusion
—Scientific Computing
—Mathematics
[参考自 U of Michigan&&https://www-ners.engin.umich.edu/areas ]

12. Department of Petroleum Engineering—Drilling Engineering
—Center for Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
—Center for Subsurface Modeling
—Center for Petroleum Asset Risk Management
[参考自 UT-Austin 德州奥斯汀分校& &https://www.pge.utexas.edu/research/index.cfm ]

13. Department of Food Science Technology
—Food Chemistry, Structure, and Function
—Food for Health
—Food Safety Microbiology
—Food Processing Technology Development
[参考自 Purdue U&普度大学&https://ag.purdue.edu/foodsci/Pages/research.aspx ]
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