News from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering News

Graduate Fellowship Awarded to Doctoral Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Student

Aerospace engineering major Sarah Terracina is passionate about space and has complemented her classroom experiences and developed her knowledge of extreme environment engineering with summer internships at Northrop Grumman and Boeing.

Mechanical and aerospace engineering doctoral student recognized with the Best Design Process award at the 19th Annual Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) held in Boulder, Colorado.

The Office of Naval Research, which sponsors research and development for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, has provided funding to MAE assistant professor Amin Reihani to develop microbolometers for measuring infrared radiation. 

Multidisciplinary collaboration involving three schools and multiple departments will combine efforts of environmental and marine scientists as well as engineers

Steven Berg is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) with research interests in spacecraft and rocket propulsion, propellants and energetics, spacecraft environments and operations, and general applications of plasma chemistry.

MAE undergraduate Arielle Gamboa joins professor's research team and contributes to published material.

Assistant professor of mechanical engineering Rajiv Malhotra discusses the Advanced Manufacturing Sciences Laboratory (AMSL) and his research and work.

MAE Master's student Tamar Leiser has won a 2023-2024 New Jersey Space Grant Consortium Graduate Fellowship. Tamar is advised by Professor Laurent Burlion. The award will support Tamar as she completes her master's thesis focusing on hexapod-enabled investigation into sloshing control techniques.