News from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering News

Professor Edward DeMauro Receives a 2024 Presidential Fellowship for Teaching Excellence

In April 2024, RU Airborne traveled to Wichita, Kansas to compete in the 28th Annual AIAA Design/Build/Fly Competition, hosted by Textron Aviation.

2024 Board of Trustees Award

A new grant titled, "Machine Learning-Enabled Data Assimilation for Understanding and Forecasting the Variation of Thermospheric Neutral Density," funded by NASA’s Space Weather Science Applications Research-to-Operations-to-Research program awarded to Professor Bai.

Mechanical engineering major and mathematics and psychology minor Allison Chen, who juggles three jobs and a full course load, is an acknowledged leader.

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.

Annual Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN) awards recognize people, programs, and organization for achievements that advance inclusion and diversity in education and professions.  

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.