Research areas in mechanical engineering

helloooo
Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:22:56 +0000

In mechanical engineering grad app, it seems that one needs to circle

general area of research (right now interested in mechanical design or control systems)
Then the next item requires the applicant to choose one of the following:

type of topic (analytical, computational or experimental).
This is where I am very confused. What do each type of topics do?
Then the application requires people to write (as opposed to circling) topics of interest. I am confused on that too. Do they want specific sub-topics under the general area?

The part I need the most help with is the distinction of analytical, computational or experimental topics. Thanks in advance for your help.