ME senior Catherine Nachtigal was selected as an MIT AeroAstro Distinguished Scholar. Catherine recently completed her J. J. Slade Honors Thesis, titled "In-air Polymerization and Crosslinking of Monomers during Electrospray Deposition," in the lab of Prof. Jonathan P. Singer.
Jeremy Cleeman (MAE UG '20, 2nd yr. PhD) won a prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. This competitive fellowship recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines who are pursuing research-based graduate degrees at US institutions.
Daulton James, an MAE senior, has recently been awarded the prestigious DOD SMART Scholarship. Daulton will spend his summers as an intern at the U.S. Army Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland.
Two MAE undergrads, Maxim Arkhipov (MAE ‘24) and Sriya Bapatla (MAE 24’), win New Jersey Space Grant Consortium 2022-2023 Academic Year Internships.
During the beginning of March, The AIAA Rutgers Rocket Propulsion Lab (RRPL) flew a rocket to about 7,000 feet at the Maryland-Delaware Rocketry Association (MDRA).
Parameshwaran Pasupathy, a fourth year Ph.D. student won 3rd place in the student poster competition held during the Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering (MICDE) symposium at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor on March 24th, 2023.
MAE Master’s student, Luke Brennan (ME '22), has won a 2022-2023 New Jersey Space Grant Consortium Graduate Fellowship. Luke is advised by Associate Prof. Jonathan P. Singer. The award will support Luke as he completes his master’s degree project focusing on acoustic optimization of launch structures.
MAE undergraduate Noah McAllister’s (AE '24) poster titled “Non-Destructive Measurement of Optically Scattering Polymer Films Using Image Processing,” won 3rd place at the National Science Foundation (NSF) Student Poster Competition at the 2022 IMECE meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
Jonathan Singer, an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, recently co-authored paper in the Journal of Chemical Education, “Virtual Research Group Modules: Scalable Simulations of STEM Research,” details the results of a multi-year collaborative study that engaged high school and college students in simulated in-lab research experience.
