Villanova offers a wide variety of research areas from Automotive Cycle-by-Cycle Variation to Structural Design.

Research Areas:

• Unmanned boats for homeland security and defense
• Mobile robots on wheels, legs, and tracks
• Automotive emission control with a model-based systems approach
• Smart materials for sensors and actuators
• Nanoceramic tools for manufacturing applications
• Robotic actuators for industrial and medical applications
• Electromagnetic bearings for friction free operation of machinery
• Conception, analysis and testing of novel materials for structural design
• Seismic design and strengthening of structures
• Control of highly nonlinear chemical and biochemical processes
• Diagnostics and prognostics of machinery health