News from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering News

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.

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.

The Rutgers Rocket Propulsion Lab (RPL) is in the final stages of preparation for the launch of their single-stage rocket, Excalibur 2.

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.