mechanical and aerospace engineering

Christina Koch and Madison Maloney in front of NASA shuttle.

Mar 14, 2019

A dream takes flight

Madison Maloney aspires to follow friend and mentor Christina Hammock Koch into space. Thanks to a prestigious Knight-Hennessy Scholarship, the NC State senior begins graduate studies in astronautics at Stanford this fall.

Feb 20, 2019

Bryant receives NSF CAREER Award

Dr. Matthew Bryant, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at North Carolina State University, has received a Faculty Early Career Development award, also known as the CAREER Award, from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Oct 17, 2018

Ph.D. graduate balances research, minority mentorship — and wins game show

Four years out of her Ph.D. program at NC State, Dr. Makita Phillips is forging her own, unique path toward making impactful, accessible change.

Sep 28, 2018

Questions for Madison Maloney

Madison Maloney is a senior aerospace engineering major from Greenville, NC, and a 2018 Goldwater Scholar. Chosen twice as an Astronaut Scholar, Maloney is pursuing her passion for space exploration and hopes to follow in the footsteps of a fellow female NC State engineer with her eyes on the stars.

Dr. Michael Kudenov and graduate student work in Optical Sensing Lab.

Sep 28, 2018

In our labs

A helium neon laser, Nikon imaging lenses, Horiba micro-HR motorized monochromator, and a DLP-based arbitrary spectrum generator. These are just some of the optical sensing and spectral measurement tools you will find in the Optical Sensing Lab (OSL).

Two printed silver nanowire patterns, horseshoe and Peano curve, with high resolution.

Sep 28, 2018

New technique allows printing of flexible, stretchable silver nanowire circuits

Silver nanowires have drawn significant interest in recent years for use in many applications, ranging from prosthetic devices to wearable health sensors, due to their flexibility, stretchability and conductive properties. While proof-of-concept experiments have been promising, there have been significant challenges to printing highly integrated circuits using silver nanowires.

Dr. Afsaneh Rabiei examines composite metal foam in her lab.

Sep 28, 2018

Lightweight metal foam blocks blastwave, debris from high-explosive rounds

New research from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) and the U.S. Army’s Aviation Applied Technology Directorate shows that stainless steel composite metal foam (CMF) can block blast pressure and fragmentation at 5,000 feet per second from high explosive incendiary (HEI) rounds that detonate only 18 inches away.

Dr. Jerome Lavelle, associate dean of academic affairs in the College, and senior Kristen Manchette

Sep 28, 2018

Program places students in internships across rural North Carolina

Kristen Manchette is a senior from Charlotte, NC, studying materials science and engineering. This summer, though, she learned the ins and outs of storm water best management practices when she participated in Rural Works!, an NC State internship program.

Sophomore Nyawira Nyota (left) and her mother, Professor Lynda Nyota, say the Employee Dependent's Tuition Scholarship has helped ease some of the financial burden of attending college.

Sep 26, 2018

Scholarship benefiting Wolfpack families continues to grow

The Employee Dependent’s Tuition Scholarship can provide up to $2,000 annually to all dependents of current full-time employees who have been successfully admitted to the university as first-degree undergraduate students and meet regular academic requirements. The scholarship is helping more employees’ children to earn their degrees from NC State while serving as a “thank you” for employees’ hard work.