Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

sunlight reflects off the water on a large lake

Jun 24, 2025

Why The Sun Is So Good At Evaporating Water

The key factor turns out to be the oscillating electric field inherent to sunlight itself.

Jun 18, 2025

MAE’s Lee Receives NSF CAREER Award

Andrew Lee has received a highly competitive Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation to support groundbreaking research on the behavior of deployable shell structures

Jun 9, 2025

Set It and Forget It

Dynamic structures leap into the air on a predetermined schedule without intervention from computers or external stimuli.

laser lights in blue and purple shine at angles in front of a black background

May 29, 2025

Laser Technique Revolutionizes Ultra-High Temperature Ceramic Manufacturing for Space, Defense Applications

The new technique uses lasers to create ceramics that can withstand ultra-high temperatures, with applications ranging from nuclear power technologies to spacecraft and jet exhaust systems.

Perovskites show superfluorescence—quantum coherence from solitons—emerging at high temperatures. Image: Ella Maru Studios

May 28, 2025

Solitonic Superfluorescence Paves Way for High-Temperature Quantum Materials

A new study describes both the mechanism and the material conditions necessary for superfluorescence at room temperature.

diagram illustrates physical forces that allow users to concentrate particles in liquid using ultrasound

May 22, 2025

Physics Advance Details New Way to Control Solid Objects in Liquid

The discovery will allow researchers to engineer technologies that make use of the technique to develop applications in fields such as biomedical testing and drug development.

Veronica Augustyn, left, looks on as a research assistant explains test results on a computer.

May 19, 2025

COE Launches Battery and Energy Storage Systems Initiative

NC State University’s College of Engineering launched a new initiative that will lead efforts to advance research in battery and energy storage systems and develop new courses and curricula in support of North Carolina’s growing energy sector.

The Belltower is framed with spring flowers on a warm May afternoon.

May 15, 2025

2025 Scholar of the Year Awards Celebrate Graduate Student Achievements

Students were nominated by their respective departments for their outstanding scholarly achievements, community impact and dedication to NC State.

May 13, 2025

Anna Haskins ’25: Engineering a Career with Honda

A double major in mechanical and textile engineering: if you haven’t heard of that path before, it’s because Anna Haskins is the first student at NC State to take it.