News from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering News

Jonathan P. Singer and Steven Berg are the recipients of the highly competitive two-year Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, Young Faculty Award (YFA).

 The funding will spark innovations in plant growth from urban areas to outer space

Professor Bagchi received a multi-PI five-year NIH R01 grant for a project entitled "Mechanisms of cognitive impairment caused by atherosclerosis and red blood cell released ATP".

MAE graduate student Chunchu Zhu received the 2023 Best Robotics Student Paper Award from the Robotics Technical Committee of ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division (DSCD).

MAE graduate student Chunchu Zhu won the Best Conference Paper award at the 2024 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM 2024).

Packaging engineering enables Sarah Mah to combine her passion for engineering and the visual arts.

Profs. Demokritou and Singer's project "Electroponics" aims to revolutionize crop growth with precision delivery of water and agrichemicals, particularly benefiting urban and space agriculture where resources are limited.

Michael Grzenda receives research funding in support of innovative spray technology developed in Associate Professor Jonathan Singer's lab.  

Tom Matlock, whose Skills for Success elective course has been guiding students for ten years, shares his tips for landing an internship next summer.