News from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering News

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) associate professor Jonathan Singer was recently awarded the Mary W. Raisler Distinguished Teaching Chair in Mechanical Engineering.  

Onur Bilgen, an associate professor in the School of Engineering’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE), has been elected a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, or ASME. 

Rutgers SoE professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering F. Javier Diez-Garias and Marco Maia who earned his bachelor's and doctoral degrees at SoE received the Defense Award for “Unmanned Air And Underwater Vehicle” patent. 

The 11th Annual Rutgers Packaging Engineering Career Fair and Banquet brought all sectors of the packaging industry together to connect with Rutgers Engineering packaging major students and with one another.

Rutgers is among 30 universities chosen to participate in Phase 1 of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) 2023 Collegiate Wind Competition (CWC).

The 13-person Rutgers RPL team traveled to New Mexico, and successfully launched a 2-stage rocket.

Evan Nastarowicz (MAE ’23) was awarded a New Jersey Space Grant Consortium (NJSGC) Summer Internship to pursue research on the scaling up 3D printing of thermoset materials in the lab of Prof. Rajiv Malhotra.

Undergraduate researcher Adeline Ripberger has been awarded a 2022-2023 E. Wayne Kay Undergraduate Scholarship from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers. 

“Your grades do not determine how good an engineer you will be. The best engineers are the ones who love building, breaking, and fixing things.” –Tilak Lal