News from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering News

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. 

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.