Engineering Research

LSU Mechanical Engineering Professor Guoqiang Li will serve as the new Associate Dean for Research in the College of Engineering where he will work closely with Dean Vicki Colvin to grow the college's research enterprise across every department. He will also lead the College of Engineering Research Working Group, support faculty as they develop competitive proposals and new partnerships and help faculty teams pursue large center-scale research.

LSU Engineering researchers are partnering with Our Lady of the Lake Health to tackle some of Louisiana’s most pressing health challenges through cutting-edge projects in artificial intelligence, digital health, biomedical engineering, and precision medicine.

LSU Engineering faculty have secured major funding from the National Institutes of Health to advance transformative research in cancer biology, medical imaging and mental health technology, highlighting the university's growing national research impact across engineering, biomedical science and digital health. The newly funded projects, totaling more than $5.5 million in NIH support, span disciplines ranging from cancer therapeutics and MRI imaging to virtual reality-based behavioral interventions for ADHD.