考虑机械工程的硕士申请，同时表现出申请者对本专业有明确的研究方向，我们将研究方向细化为五个项目：
Biomechanical Engineering (BME) Program 生物机械工程
The Biomechanical Engineering (BME) Program has teaching and research activities which focus
primarily on musculoskeletal biomechanics, neuromuscular biomechanics, cardiovascular biomechanics, and rehabilitation engineering. Research in other areas including hearing, ocean, plant, and vision biomechanics exist in collaboration with associated faculty in biology, engineering, and medicine. The Biomechanical Engineering Program has particularly strong research interactions with the Mechanics and Computation and the Design groups, and the departments of Functional Restoration, Neurology, Radiology, and Surgery in the School of Medicine.
生物机械工程学首要的是研究肌肉骨骼，神经肌肉，心血管工程方向以及相关复原工程。在其他领域包括听力，海洋，视力等生物力学存在于与生物，工程，以及医学等。生物机械工程学与流体物理学和计算工程有很强的相关性。同时与包括骨骼恢复，神经病学，放射学，外科医学等相关。
Design Group 总成设计
The Design Group emphasizes cognitive skill development for creative design. It is concerned with automatic control, computer-aided design, creativity, design aesthetics, design for manufacturability, design research, experimental stress analysis, fatigue and fracture mechanics, finite element analysis, human factors, kinematics, manufacturing systems, microcomputers in design, micro-electromechanics systems (MEMS), robotics, and vehicle dynamics. The Design Group offers undergraduate and graduate programs in Product Design (jointly with the Department of Art and Art History) and is centrally involved in the founding of Stanford's new Hasso Plattner Institute of Design.
总成设计注重于创造性设计。侧重于自动控制，计算机辅助设计，创造性，设计美学，可造性设计，试验压力分析，设计研究，机械磨损以及损耗，有限的元素分析，人为因素，产业体系，微电子系统，机器人，车辆动力学等。总成设计部为本科生和研究生提供产品设计(与艺术设计学院是联合项目)项目，并且属于斯坦福普拉特纳设计学院的核心开发项目。
(FPCE)流体物理学和计算工程
The Flow Physics and Computational Engineering Group (FPCE) is developing new theories, models, and computational tools for accurate engineering design analysis and control of complex flows (including acoustics, chemical reactions, interactions with electromagnetic waves, plasmas, and other phenomena) of interest in aerodynamics, electronics cooling, environment engineering, materials processing, planetary entry, propulsion and power systems, and other areas. A significant emphasis of FPCE research is on modeling and analysis of physical phenomena in engineering systems. FPCE students and research staff are developing new methods and tools for generation, access, display, interpretation and post-processing of large databases resulting from numerical simulations of physical systems. Research in FPCE ranges from advanced simulation of complex turbulent flows to active flow control. The FPCE faculty teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in acoustics, aerodynamics, computational fluid mechanics, computational mathematics, fluid mechanics, combustion, and thermodynamics and propulsion.
流体物理学和计算工程用于发展新理论，模型，计算机化的工具来做复杂的空气动力学，电子冷却，环境工程，材料加工等的的精确设计，，电子加速器，推进与能量系统和其他领域。一个明显的有关(FPCE)研究的是建模与分析工程系统中的物理现象。(FPCE)的学生以及科研人员开发出新的方法和工具用来计算生成，进入，展示，混成，后期处理等统计于物理系统的数值模型的数据库。(FPCE)的研究延伸至对仿真的紊流进行控制。FPCE的老师教授研究生和本科生声学，空气动力学，计算流体力学，计算数学，流体力学，燃烧学，热力学和动力学等。
Mechanics and Computation Group 力学与计算工程
The Mechanics and Computational Group covers biomechanics, continuum mechanics, dynamics, experimental and computational mechanics, finite element analysis, fluid dynamics, fracture mechanics, micromechanics, nanotechnology, and simulation based design. Qualified students can work as research project assistants, engaging in thesis research in working association with the faculty director and fellow students. Projects include analysis, synthesis, and control of systems; biomechanics; flow dynamics of liquids and gases; fracture and micro-mechanics, vibrations, and nonlinear dynamics; and original theoretical, computational, and experimental investigations in the strength and deformability of elastic and inelastic elements of machines and structures.
力学与计算主要包括生物力学，连续介质力学，动力学，实验计算力学，有限元方法，流体力学，断裂力学，