Aaron Mazzeo

Aaron Mazzeo is an Associate Professor and Aerospace Engineering Undergraduate Director in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Prior to joining the faculty at Rutgers, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, and he completed his undergraduate (S.B.) and graduate degrees (S.M. and Ph.D.) at MIT. The Mazzeo Research Group, or Rutgers Lab for Machines, Manufacturing, and Mechatronics, focuses on flexible and disposable electronics for mechanical and biological sensing, elastic robotics, cold plasma-based processing, scrubbing and cleaning, and in-space manufacturing. Aaron has received an NSF CAREER Award, NASA MSFC Summer Faculty Fellowships, an A. Walter Tyson Assistant Professorship Award through the School of Engineering, a Rutgers Engineering Governing Council’s (EGC) Professor-of-the-Year Award, a Rutgers EGC Teaching Award in Excellence, and a Rutgers Presidential Fellowship for Teaching Excellence. He was also a Faculty Fellow with the Rutgers-New Brunswick Honors College, where he and his family resided.

•    Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009
•    M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005
•    B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003