News from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering News

Prof. Z. James Guo has been appointed as the Editor-in-Chief for Heat Transfer Research, a journal that has been in publication for 54 years.

Assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering Laurent Burlion has been focusing his research interests on non-linear control systems, safe control of UAVs, spacecraft attitude control, and flight control and protection since he joined the Rutgers University School of Engineering faculty in 2019.

MAE PhD candidate, Robert Green-Warren, has been awarded a 2023 SMART Graduate Scholarship.

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."

Prof. Onur Bilgen discusses his work to advance technologies for floating offshore wind turbines 

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.