Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
![Dale Hopkins](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Dale-Hopkins-1.jpg)
‘The right thing to do’: MAE alumnus gives back to WMEP
![Aerospace engineering students work in the nearly completed hypersonic wind tunned lab. The students are working under Dr. Venkat Narayanaswamy. Photo by Marc Hall](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Hypersonic-tunnel-header.jpg)
Long-duration hypersonic research facility will be first in Southeast
![Summer camp students participate in competition.](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/MAH8008-cropped-resized.jpg)
Summer on campus
![NC State Belltower](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/belltower-1.jpg)
Inspiring Engineers event series promotes NC State engineering excellence
![Wolf Plaza during fall. Two bronze sculptures of wolves, one head down, the other howling.](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/MAH0128.jpg)
Young alumni board adds 10 new members
![Students work inside the Entrepreneurship Clinic on Centennial Campus.](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/MAH4456.jpg)
NC State becomes part of KEEN to improve entrepreneurial thinking in engineering
![Several images showing examples of printing of curved circuits including tube, contact lens and sculpture.](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Zhu-curved-circuit-printing-HEADER-1500.jpg)
From contact lenses to latex gloves, technique prints flexible circuits on curved surfaces
![Closeup composite image of butterfly bot: left side shows diagram, right side shows 3 different butterfly stroke swimming positions and how the robot mimics them.](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Jie-Yin-Butterfly-HEADER.png)
‘Butterfly Bot’ is fastest swimming soft robot yet
![NASA's Artemis 1 rocket begins its launch.](https://engr.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Artemis-1-beginning-of-launch.jpg)