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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.

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David Garner earned his BS in mechanical engineering in 2023 and expects to receive his MS in 2024. A summer internship before starting grad school led to the prospect of a full-time post-graduate job for this former SoE student ambassador and Engineers without Borders president.

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A lacrosse player from Morristown, New Jersey, Jack Thompson plans to earn his master’s degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering. Here he shares highlights of his Rutgers experience along with his hopes for the future.

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Professor Laurent Burlion, PI, was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for a 3-year project entitled “Collaborative Research: Designs and Theory for Interval Contractors and Reference Governors with Aerospace Applications."