MAE: A YEAR IN REVIEW 2018–2019 Howard A. Stone, Chair

MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING 2 FROM THE CHAIR: About the Department of 4 YEAR IN REVIEW Mechanical and Aerospace 8 IN PROFILE: STUDENTS OF MAE Engineering at Princeton University 16 MEET THE PEOPLE OF MAE: FACULTY AND LEADERSHIP

17 FACULTY COMMITTEES rinceton’s Department of Mechanical for future leadership in areas of rapidly RESEARCH Pand Aerospace Engineering (MAE) evolving technologies. EXPENDITURES has played a leading role in propulsion, combustion, aerospace dynamics, and As a result, the people of MAE are providing 18 FACULTY AWARDS, HONORS fluid dynamics over the past half century, engineering solutions to address the world’s & RECOGNITION, DEPARTMENT with expansion in recent decades into challenges in the areas of biotechnology, PERSONNEL dynamics and control, applied physics, energy production and distribution, 19 SEMINAR SERIES and materials science. sustainability, transportation, communication, and health, safety and security. 20 UNDERGRADUATES: ENROLLMENT, Our multi-disciplinary focus and attention SENIOR INDEPENDENT WORK to both engineering fundamentals and Together, we take on future challenges, today. 21 OPERATING EXPENDITURES, groundbreaking research helps us train SPONSORED RESEARCH graduate and undergraduate students 22 GRADUATES: DEGREES, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, MAE is: ENROLLMENT Applied Physics • Dynamics and Controls • Fluid Mechanics • Materials Science Propulsion & Energy Sciences Challenges: CONTENTS Space Exploration • Satellite Technology • Pollution and Alternative Fuels • Energy Usage • Battery Technology • Novel Optical Systems • Propulsion Systems • Mechanics MAE Distinctive Characteristics of Fluids and Solids • Stability and Control of Vehicles • Aircraft Performance B Y T H E of the Department of Mechanical Instrumentation NUMBERS & Aerospace Engineering (MAE): Cross-disciplinary Collaboration:

The department concentrates its research activities in five broadly defined Astronautics • Bio-Inspired Design • Bioengineering • Medical Applications areas with many faculty involved with two or more areas. The five areas are: Combustion and Energy Conversion • Computational Engineering • Environmental 71 Applied Physics and Energy Technologies • Laser-Matter Interactions • Security • Vehicle Sciences Dynamics & Controls Visiting & Fluid Mechanics and Applications Professional Propulsion & Energy Sciences Researchers Materials Science 164 375 Undergraduate & INDIVIDUALS Exchange Students Administrative & 97 15 Technical Staff Graduate Research & Active Students 4 Emeritus Faculty

MAE Report 2019 • Page 1 PRINCETON MAE 2018-19 YEAR IN REVIEW: BEYOND BOUNDARIES Our active, world-leading research programs Our faculty conduct active, world-leading range from uncovering basic principles to research programs in many areas, including testing innovative theories in and beyond some research topics that stretch the the traditional MAE realm of topics. For Capitalizing traditional boundaries of MAE. As such, example, we are actively involved in: collaboration is one of our greatest n Robotics and dynamical systems, and its strengths. Our MAE faculty work with modern variants of cyberphysical systems colleagues around the globe and in many n Materials sciences—including problems on Synergy departments at Princeton in areas as from engineering materials to biomechanics By Howard A. Stone, MAE Chair and Donald R. Dixon ’69 and Elizabeth W. Dixon Professor diverse as: n Propulsion and combustion n Chemical and Biological Engineering n Fluid mechanics—including studies n Civil and Environmental Engineering of turbulence, environmental flows, and Welcome to the 2018-19 edition of the annual report of the Department n Computer Science complex fluids of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE). Each year, we n Ecology and Evolutionary Biology n Several areas of applied physics—including celebrate the accomplishments of the people of MAE and share how we n Mathematics fundamental studies of laser-material are meeting the challenges faced in our field to develop a better, safer, n Molecular Biology interactions, electric propulsion, and n Neuroscience fusion energy and more productive world. n Operations Research and Financial Engineering We hope you enjoy learning through this n Physics publication about our community of faculty, Photo by Frank Wojciechowski Frank by Photo Looking back at the 2018-19 accomplishments and milestones set n Woodrow Wilson School of Public researchers and students who explore new ideas and challenge old ones every day, Wout in these pages, one theme continues to be evident: our faculty and International Affairs contributing to science and real-world and students are capitalizing on synergy to advance knowledge and applications from mechanical to aerospace discoveries not only in our own disciplines but also in other fields, engineering — and beyond. © at Princeton and around the world.

MAE operates under the auspices of Princeton University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) and supports two of Princeton’s five ABET-accredited undergraduate degree programs in SEAS. We are unique in that MAE represents a variety of disciplines recognized at most universities in separate departments.

The driving force of our department and its accomplishments is our faculty. We have 22 faculty members and one lecturer (19 FTEs total). Together, we build on a long history of academic success and societal impact. For example, five regular or emeriti faculty (Carter, Law, Miles, Smits, and myself) are members of the NAE and/or the NAS.

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Page 2 • MAE Report 2019 Each year, many stories about student and Laboratory in Department October 2018 November 2018 faculty achievements grace the pages of the of Aerospace Engineering. Video shows a particle surfing Prof. Ju wins 2018 See a video of the fish- in its own wave International Prize of the MAE website. Here is a summary of some submarine here: https:// Check out this video (at Combustion Society of Japan highlights in one easy-to-read place. To read youtu.be/TTxS19EofQ0 https://engineering.princeton. Yiguang Ju, the Robert Porter more details about the stories below, please edu/news/2018/10/02/ Patterson Professor of visit the MAE news pages at August 2018 riding-wave) showing a Mechanical and Aerospace MAE alumni gathering marble-sized sphere falling Engineering and Director, https://mae.princeton.edu/about-mae/news. in California through a tank of silicone oil, Program in Sustainable Energy, E MAE alums, who are a viscous, honey-like liquid, was honored for making all engineers at Virgin alongside a thin rubber distinguished contributions July 2018 Aerospace Engineering, Space Companies, sheet. At the beginning, the to the international and Foam offers greener option and Chair, Department of gathered for dinner in sheet and marble are almost Japanese combustion for petroleum drillers Mechanical and Aerospace Los Angeles: (from touching, but as the sphere research communities. Princeton researchers, led Engineering. left) George Whitesides falls, the two grow further by Prof. Howard Stone, (WWS) and MAE’s apart. This behavior (a At the intersection of nonlinear described in the July 2018 Building fish-inspired robots Josh Ellis ’15, Brittany particle surfing its own wave) dynamics and improvisational edition of the journal PNAS Former MAE graduate Ilardi ’16, Daphne Rein- was identified by a team of dance how a compressible foam student Derek Paley ’07 has Weston ’12, Isabel Cleff ’18, researchers from Prof. Prof. Leonard and her team can reduce the amount of long been fascinated by how Carter Green ’20, and Scott Stone’s MAE lab, along collaborated with Princeton fresh water and resulting fish flap their way efficiently Ostrem ’89. with their counterparts at dance and music colleagues wastewater typically involved through water and how they the Flatiron Institute in to study how a collective, in the hydraulic fracturing swim cohesively in a group September 2018 New York and the Center in-the-moment creative (fracking) process. Lead by using a strip of sensors Leonard presents 2018 for Soft Matter Research at process such as improvisational author Ching-Yao Lai, PhD on their sides to detect water Marsden Memorial Lecture New York University. The dance is a valuable model for ’18, reported that foam flow and obstacles. He is Naomi Ehrich Leonard, the team hopes this research studying social decision- fracking would use only leading researchers at the Edwin S. Wilsey Professor will help measure elastic making. The rule-based about 10 percent of water by University of Maryland in of Mechanical and Aerospace properties of biological improvisational work was volume. Additional authors developing a fish-inspired Engineering, gave the annual membranes or help learn entitled, “There Might Be include Princeton researchers submarine to explore fish- award lecture at the Pacific how to separate particles. Others.” Her team uses Bhargav Rallabandi, Antonio sensing and propulsion in Institute for the Mathematical mathematical model-based Perazzo, Zhong Zheng, the context of developing Sciences in Vancouver, Passing of Professor investigations of complex and Samuel Smiddy (an autonomous robots. He is British Columbia. Her topic Emeritus Lam group dynamics to explain undergraduate in Chemical UMD’s Willis H. Young Jr. was nonlinear dynamics for Sau-Hai (Harvey) Lam, and explore collective and Biological Engineering). Professor of Aerospace distributed decision-making who developed influential behavior in nature and art Stone is the Donald R. Dixon Engineering Education and that derive from principles theories in fluid mechanics, and to inform the design ’69 and Elizabeth W. Dixon the Director, Collective of symmetry and bifurcation. combustion and plasma of control systems for robot Professor of Mechanical and Dynamics and Control Her work is inspired by dynamics and helped shape teams operating in challenging studying animal groups engineering education at environments. The research such as house-hunting Princeton, died Oct. 29 in was published in the Nov. 20, August 2018 Glassman receives the 2018 Daniel Guggenheim Medal honeybees and schooling Plainsboro, N.J., at age 87. 2018 edition of the journal fish to demonstrate how He served on the University Interdisciplinary Science Irvin Glassman, the Robert H. Goddard they can be both flexible faculty for four decades and Reviews. It represents a new Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace and stable in response to was the Edwin Wilsey ’04 application of an evolutionary Engineering, Emeritus, was recognized for his a changing environment. Professor Emeritus of theory examining this tension work as a legendary combustion expert who Mechanical and Aerospace in the context of different has enhanced understanding of fundamental Engineering. He earned his survival strategies within a combustion processes. His contributions PhD in aeronautical population of individuals. have enabled engineers and scientists to engineering from Princeton Learn more here: improve the performance of propulsion and in 1958. https://doi.org/10.1080/030 power generation systems, while minimizing 80188.2018.1544806

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Page 2 • MAE Report 2019 MAE Report 2019 • Page 5 December 2018 apprentice in her native Majumdar receives Amazon in Science for pioneering in turbulent flow. These Modeling how New Mexico Turkey, which resulted in Research Award the development of directed can have applications for harvester ants collectively weigh a sculpture project. While Assistant Prof. Anirudha protein evolution. This environmental and industrial the cost of losing water while at Princeton, for her senior Majumdar’s research focuses discovery allowed chemists to situations such as oil spill foraging for food thesis she developed a device on the control of highly agile engineer biological catalysts mitigation, air entrained The research, published to help individuals with robotic systems such as that mimic natural evolution in bow waves of ships and in the Dec. 4, 2018 edition physical and mental unmanned aerial vehicles in a laboratory setting, thus submarines, and ocean- of the journal PLOS disabilities build objects with formal guarantees on enabling greener, less energy- atmospheric interactions Computational Biology, was on an assembly line at an their safety and performance. intensive and less polluting associated with breaking written by lead author Renato Pagliara Vasquez, the MAE Easter Seals workshop. manufacturing processes. waves. His research represents graduate student who spent two summers conducting (Read more here: MAE alumnus honored as She received the 2018 Nobel an innovative and valuable research in the New Mexico desert. He worked with MAE https://www.seas.harvard. Distinguished Lecturer at AIAA Prize in Chemistry and is tool for designing engineering Prof. Leonard in collaboration with a team from Stanford edu/news/2019/01/grad- Science and Technology Forum the Linus Pauling Professor solutions as well as ocean University that has been studying the ants for the past student-profile-buse-aktas) Virginia Tech Prof. Joseph of Chemical Engineering and and climate modeling. The three decades. The model is a tool for investigating how Schetz (Princeton MAE ’62) Biochemistry at the California award will also support ant colonies respond to a changing environment and how gave the 2019 American Institute of Technology. educational activities for behavioral differences among colonies affect their long-term Institute of Aeronautics and elementary school students, survival and reproductive success. The team published their Astronautics (AIAA) Dryden Kokmanian receives Excellence undergraduates, and results here: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006200 Lecture in Research on in Teaching Award graduate students. Software “Truss-Braced Wing Designs Katherine Kokmanian developed through this December 2018 January 2019 for High-Speed Transport (MAE 222) received an work will be open source Dying bacteria absorb antibiotic, From mechanics and materials Falcone ’74, MAE’s Advisory Aircraft.” He currently is the Excellence in Teaching and available to the public allowing others to survive to robots and rocks, MAE has Council Chair, talks about Fred D. Durham Endowed Award presented by the and other researchers and grow an outsized “intellectual women in science on Princeton’s Chair in the Kevin T. Crofton Undergraduate and Graduate interested in modeling MAE Assistant Prof. Andrej breadth and impact” “She Roars” podcast Department of Aerospace Engineering Councils. multiphase flows. Kosmrlj collaborated with a MAE Chair Stone gave an At the forefront of women and Ocean Engineering at team from California State update about the department’s in science since her Virginia Tech. MAE Jacobus Fellow’s swimming May 2019 University-Northridge innovative faculty and students, undergraduate days on research has propulsion Prof. Ju selected as plenary (CSUN) to develop a as well as research bridging campus and as one of the system applications lecturer for the 38th mathematical model to more many fields in science and first Princeton women to Doctoral student Daniel International Symposium fully explain the “self-sacrifice” engineering. (Read more here: major in engineering, Patricia Floryan was named a on Combustion in 2020 phenomenon and aid further https://engineering.princeton. Falcone now oversees strategic Princeton’s Porter Ogden Yiguang Ju will present on investigations. They created edu/news/2019/01/04/ development as deputy Jacobus Fellow at the annual “Cool Flames” at the biennial the model by observing what mechanics-and-materials- director of science and Alumni Day. His work symposium to be held happens when a population robots-and-rockets-department- technology for Lawrence employs experimental and in Adelaide, Australia, of E. coli bacteria is treated outsized-intellectual-breadth) Livermore National computational methods to in July 2020. with a particular antimicrobial Laboratory. On the podcast, February 2019 better explain how fish swim molecule and discovered How making brooms is like she discussed the importance Prof. Stone gives inaugural most effectively, which could Zhao honored with the Karl H. that some dying cells robot engineering of college mathematics, early lecture at the Leeds Institute lead to applications in human- Walther Award absorbed large amounts of Buse Aktas, who graduated research experience, and for Fluid Dynamics made propulsion systems. Hao Zhao, graduate student the antibiotic, allowing their with a Princeton BSE in clearer communications. He spoke on fluid dynamics in Prof. Yiguang Ju’s group, neighbors to survive and 2014, was profiled by Harvard (Listen to the interview here: at the new cross-disciplinary March 2019 was recognized for his article, continue growing. The University’s School of https://sheroarspodcast. institute in at University Prof. Deike receives NSF entitled, “A Supercritical results were published in Engineering and Applied princeton.edu/) She is chair of Leeds in Leeds, West Career Award for modeling Jet-stirred Reactor,” the Dec. 18, 2018 edition Sciences, where she is of the Advisory Committee Yorkshire, England. bubble fragmentation considered the best article of eLife. pursuing her PhD. As an for MAE. The National Science published from May 2018 engineer and artist, she Former MAE student named Foundation (NSF) award to February 2019 in the noted the similarities between 2019 Franklin Institute Laureate cites Luc Deike’s series of quarterly journal, Fusion, working on her engineering Frances H. Arnold (MAE state-of-the-art numerical by The American Scientific degree and the two years ’79) won the Bower Award and experimental studies of Glassblowers Society. she spent as a broom-maker’s and Prize for Achievement the fragmentation of bubbles continued on page 25

Page 6 • MAE Report 2019 MAE Report 2019 • Page 7 Diego Fierros: “My specialty is sound design, setting He developed procedures for injection up speakers in the performance space, molding low-cost sensor interfaces for Bringing engineering programming the sound board, and making medical fluid tubing. sure that every actor’s microphone is working to the world stage properly,” he explains. “Plus, I mix in the His internship at the Siemens Corporate music from our pit orchestra so that every Technology Future of Automation Lab gave DEGREE: BSE SPECIALTY: DYNAMICS AND CONTROLS sound is balanced in the theater. My goal him experience learning practical robotic is for the audience to hear every line and programming using the Robotic Operating have the best possible time at our shows.” System and Linux. He collaborated Diego Fierros knew he wanted to be an engineer with a team of researchers to develop early on. Fierros’ love of theater carried over to an autonomous robotic farming system. Princeton, where he joined the Triangle He is now pursuing certificates in Computer Club in 2016. Founded in 1891, the Triangle Science and Robotics and Intelligent “As a kid, I loved television shows like ‘MythBusters’ and Club is America’s oldest touring college Systems along with his degree. ‘How It’s Made,’” he says. “By watching the Discovery musical-comedy theater group, with Channel, I learned what engineering was in an ideological productions written and performed by In Prof. Daniel Cohen’s bioengineering lab, sense—which is taking the world into your hands and the students. Fierros uses advanced theater he studied how the shape of wounds affects changing it for the better. That really spoke to me.” hardware to create and adjust a live theater how fast they heal. He also started pondering soundscape. He has directed several teams how to create a device that maps asymmetric Fierros pursued his interest in science of technicians in setting up and breaking strain fields onto wounded tissue to determine in middle school and high school, even Diego is very personable, down the theater sound system at tour how the cells act when subjected to these spending a summer as a high school “well organized and willing venues and is mentoring incoming students conditions. researcher on Villanova University’s to go the extra mile to about theater sound design. Autonomous Surface Vehicle Team. help. His personality is Under the supervision of Prof. Luigi His team competed in the AUVSI multifaceted. And from When Fierros was considering universities Martinelli, Fierros also volunteers as an Roboboat competition and later in the our talks about CAD and to attend, he visited many institutions, Interactor, a resource for undergraduate international RobotX competition and robotics in particular, I including schools that were purely technical. engineers or those interested in the he gained an appreciation for the work find him to be technically “However, they seemed like competitive BSE program. that goes into designing and building knowledgeable and pressure cookers where people have robotic systems, he says. engaging. learned to become addicted to the stressful “I talk to them about my experiences, —Prof.” Luigi Martinelli environment,” he notes. “Princeton is hoping it will help them as they are starting In high school, he also discovered competitive as well, but by contrast, the out,” he says. “It can be daunting, especially another passion: technical theater. atmosphere is more relaxed. Plus, it provides during the first two years in engineering, a good liberal arts education, which is to get all the classes under your belt while important for STEM majors. A great acclimating to what Princeton expects engineer who can’t properly express their of you as a student. It’s important to me, ideas is doomed to failure.” even in a minor way, to help alleviate some of that stress and let them know that In his freshman year, one of his courses someone cares.” involved authenticating and repairing two antique Triumph motorcycles. “I learned Looking ahead, Fierros is weighing his a lot about mechanical design and how to options for the future, which could include machine things,” says Fierros. a master’s degree. “But I may want to get some industry experience first, just to get an Later, he participated in the Fluid Mechan- idea of what that scene is like. I’m interested ics Transport Phenomena Group, where he in learning more about automation and used PTC Creo design software to develop robotics, particularly as it relates to laboratory equipment such as a sensor test autonomous vehicles,” he says. “I think bench and a wind tunnel pitot traverse. robotics is an aspect of engineering that has the potential to do a lot for our society.” © STUDENT PROFILES MAE Report 2019 • Page 9 Zirui Liu: Blowing Stuff Up in Life and the Lab DEGREE: PHD SPECIALTY: PROPULSION AND ENERGY SCIENCES

Zirui Liu has always been interested in rockets, space, travel and “blowing stuff up,” he says with a laugh. In fact, the likable third-year PhD student initially became interested in the engineering and aerospace fields as a result of his voracious reading habit. Zirui’s discovery and analysis on the structure and “propagation of laminar and turbulent flames, with As a child, he loved science biographies: He also inherited his parents’ sense of honor and without the occurrence of cells over the flame Isaac Newton inspired his love of mathematics and duty to country. His mother works in surface, not only is a major advance in flame theory, and science, while Albert Einstein and China’s environmental protection department, but it also offers strategies towards increasing the Marie Curie deepened his interests in physics which safeguards forests and wild animals. combustion efficiency and reducing the undesirable and chemistry, respectively. Somewhere Her appreciation for nature seeped into emissions from burning petroleum fuels. along the way he read about combustion. family life and gave Liu his fondness for ” — Prof. C.K. Law He began conducting experiments while the outdoors. reading M.M. Pattison Muir’s page-turner “The Story of the Chemical Elements,” While Liu and his classmates were hard which mentioned using flame to heat up salt at work studying for the very competitive “This is the leading research department As for his research, his project for Prof. and bones. It was a great idea—until his college entrance exams, he eagerly followed with a long history of studies into combus- C.K. Law’s group is called “Laminar parents found out, that is. the news about SpaceX launching the first tion. Combustion is very important if you and Turbulent Flame Propagation Under flight of the reusable cargo spacecraft called are interested in space.” the Effect of Flame Instability,” which His interest in fire goes back to around age 8. the Dragon. This solidified his desire to has application to automobile and “I would buy matches and light the grass on combine his interests in math, science, At Tsinghua University, he took second airplane engines. fire in the lot near my house,” Lui explains. combustion, and space into a major. His place in the Aeronautic and Aerospace “My parents weren’t very happy about that.” hard work paid off when he was accepted Design Competition and won the National “I am trying to see the interaction between But, he did it a few more times after that. into the Aerospace Engineering program Academic Scholarship, also in China. flame instability and turbulence,” says Liu, How else is a budding scientist supposed at Beijing’s Tsinghua University. who would like eventually to teach at a U.S. to learn about combustion, right? At Princeton, Liu was awarded the MAE university to continue his combustion He still found time to satisfy his wanderlust Second Year Fellowship in 2017. Humble research or work at a national lab or in Liu comes from Fuxin, China, also called during his undergraduate years, traveling by nature, he wanted to share his knowledge industry. “This could be applied to real the “Agate City,” since roughly 90 percent t o Tibet, Beijing and Shanghai. “We saw and spent the Fall 2018 semester as a engines because the flame instability of the country’s agate products are mined in many beautiful mountains, lakes, and went Teaching Assistant helping students with appears when the pressure is high and in the agricultural region. “Fuxin is a nice city into the sacred mountains of Mount Nojin Mathematical Methods of Engineering engines the flow is turbulent.” with mountains, rivers, and one main street, Kangsang. It was a life-changing experience Analysis I (MAE-APC 501). similar to Princeton,” he says. to see new cultures and become immersed For now, this talented young man is sharing in them,” he says. He has continued his passion for sightseeing his curiosity and insights at Princeton…by Liu traveled frequently in China with his since arriving in the Western Hemisphere. blowing things up in a lab. © parents and caught the sightseeing bug. So, how exactly does one from China hear He’s been to Iceland and Alaska, where he He enjoyed the skyscrapers in the big city about Princeton University in New Jersey? missed seeing the Aurora Borealis because it of Shanghai and the desert and mountains “It’s the best school for combustion and the was snowing. “But the mountains were very of western China. professors are the best,” he says, noting that beautiful,” he adds. Since starting at Princeton, the university’s reputation is world-renowned. he’s been to New York several times and also drove from LA to San Francisco.

Page 10 • MAE Report 2019 MAE Report 2019 • Page 11 Nikita Dutta: Neutrino Observatory and the DM-Ice 17 properties for use in a device and make dark matter detector. Her goal was to reduce them work better. In particular, she works From Childhood background noise for both experiments and with chalcogenide glasses, which are very it was the first time she saw herself pursuing responsive to light and are used in fiber Inventor to Materials a research career. optic networks, chemical sensors, and other applications that transmit information or Scientist “Repairing implies an endpoint,” she explains. store energy using light. “When the job is done, the device works DEGREE: PHD SPECIALTY: MATERIALS SCIENCE one way, and there is nowhere to go from Previous approaches have involved solution there. Research, on the other hand, builds processing of materials, seeing what happens, off existing science, but there is no fixed and then going back to tweak the process. When Nikita Dutta was a child, she invented a cutter that sliced endpoint. Even after a successful study, Instead, Dutta developed a process that through her EGGO waffle ridges faster, crafted a penny and nickel there is somewhere new to go.” creates a solution with parameters that lead to a certain structure with desired properties. sorter from a cereal box to organize her loose change, and created a Also, projects that make people’s daily lives long straw that reached from her room to the sink, to avoid the walk better appealed to her, as did materials “This gives you more control than the downstairs for a drink of water. science, which seemed a nice combination reverse technique [where you] go backwards of fundamental science and impactful, to tweak your result without really real-world applications. understanding how the properties arose,” “I always liked inventing and creating phenomena,” she explains. “Physics creates she says. things,” says Dutta. “It combines my order for the entire world. It gives you uni- “In any kind of engineering you need enjoyment for making projects with my fying laws that explain things seemingly materials that behave efficiently and with “Solution processing is useful because hands and my need to make life around disconnected. I really like when things can the right kinds of properties. Materials it is very simple — you do not need high the house more efficient.” be packaged up neatly or follow some kind science often fuels innovation in other areas. temperatures or expensive equipment. You of pattern.” Some of my work can be used in solar can simply add things to the solution that During childhood, she took apart old toys energy, some in medicine for laser surgery, change the structure of the material. It is and sifted through the recycling to find In a junior year particle physics project, she and some in information storage,” she says. also very flexible, so it allows for a variety spare parts. Today, as a materials scientist, developed an algorithm to reconstruct muon of deposition methods, like inkjet printing she finds ways to repurpose materials by events coincident between the Ice-Cube Dutta is developing new ways to understand or filling a mold,” she says. changing their properties and structures and control how processing materials in to make them work in new or more We believe her methods and approaches can various solvents will generate desired Her research has developed new efficient ways. “be adapted to other amorphous materials, characterization methods, notes Prof. Craig which would be truly transformative for a Arnold, that have “revealed the first-ever When she started her undergraduate major branch of materials science. experimental validation of the molecular studies at Yale University, her first — Prof.” Craig Arnold structure of this material in solution. This preference was to be a biology major, is an initial stage to the formation of bulk which required an introductory physics material and a critical missing link in our class. She considered placing out of the current understanding of amorphous class but changed her mind when she materials.” called her mom for advice.

Even today, Dutta’s mind is always conceiving “My parents always taught me never to new inventions, including a focus on how take the short route to anything — that I material science could be applied to should take everything slow and use it as women’s health issues. “What I love most an opportunity to learn more,” she says. about science is that it is never stagnant,” she says. “Science is constantly evolving and Her parents were right, and, much to growing. It is a real privilege to be a part Dutta’s surprise. she fell in love with of this field and know that you can have a physics. “I started to see how physics practical impact on the world around you.” © explains everything around you and how through math you could derive natural

Page 12 • MAE Report 2019 MAE Report 2019 • Page 13 Vivian Steyert: noise and drift in the self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) used A Love of Learning, by firefighters for Honeywell.

Teaching, and But it was an internship at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center that first exposed her Modeling to the working world of coding and software analysis. Today, at Princeton, she uses DEGREE: PHD SPECIALTY: DYNAMICS AND CONTROL, FLUID MECHANICS computational modeling to find ways to better understand and control fluid systems.

Vivian Steyert’s lifelong passion for learning — and imparting that It has been such a pleasure for me to work knowledge to others — was evident from the start. From twirling “with Vivian. In addition to being a creative pirouettes and viola scales to science fair experiments and algebra and meticulous researcher, she is also a equations, she has long been enamored with both the arts and sciences. terrific teacher, and she has been an invaluable help to me in teaching the undergraduate But, figuring out puzzles and finding ways to demonstrate concepts controls course. ultimately captivated her extensive curiosity. ” — Prof. Clarence W. Rowney

“From very early on, I loved school and was The wonderment Steyert sees so often in her The overarching idea of Steyert’s research interested in learning everything,” she recalls. students’ eyes reminds her of a defining “Growing up I spent a lot of free time pursuing personal moment. Her fluid mechanics is to develop simplified models and algorithms my interests in ballet and viola. I loved the professor asked the class to describe what that can explain and control natural processes artistry and teamwork involved in orchestra would happen to an adiabatic subsonic flow and allow predictions to be made. For and ballet performances. I was also a voracious in the presence of friction. They all assumed example, researchers obtain a copious reader. Over the years, my interests gradually it would slow down. Even though Steyert amount of velocity data when studying narrowed more towards math, physics, understood every step, she didn’t predict the flow of fluids within a system. Her engineering, and computer science.” the result. approach separates the data about structured behavior from the random, chaotic behavior, letting her develop a simple model and As a child, she “taught” her younger sister in “Situations like this one, where the mechanical algorithm that can explain the flow, which pretend art or math school, later helping her world is shown to be more complicated than can ultimately help control the fluid in sibling with homework. She was a teen SAT I had previously imagined, are exciting. a desired way. tutor for the National Honors Society and Understanding why and how the strange continued tutoring in college. As a fourth-year physical behavior occurs is thrilling to me,” PhD student at Princeton, Steyert was an she explains. “If we better understand the limits and assistant instructor for the undergraduate capabilities of these algorithms, we can automatic control systems lab course. Observing the physical world was a common develop new, more efficient methods,” says topic of conversation in her Maryland home Steyert, whose approach could be applied not just in fluid mechanics but also in “Teaching has been a great way for me to growing up. Both Steyert’s mother and father disease modeling or even finance. help other students and, at the same time, have PhDs in chemistry and microbiology, Steyert pursued a broader engineering deepen my understanding of the material,” respectively. degree at Harvey Mudd College and gained says Steyert. “My favorite part of teaching exposure to as many disciplines as possible While teaching has been a defining part of is watching a concept click into place for a “My mother would always talk about work at through internships and research opportunities. the researcher Steyert has become, she says student. It is an incredible process to witness.” home. It gave me insight into what it was like She got a taste of civil engineering at the she will likely pursue a career in industry to conduct research,” says Steyert. “They University of Washington’s Structures first, where there will undoubtedly be countless opportunities to fuel her first love Steyert’s favorite part of the course is the were very hands-on with my science fair Laboratory, constructing welded connections — learning — and perhaps even become culminating pendulum project, in which projects and made me think more deeply that could be used to build more sound a mentor and teacher again someday. students piece together the concepts they about the subjects, while still giving me the structures. She presented this work at the © have learned all semester and balance an space to make the experiment my own.” Northridge 20 Earthquake Symposium. upside-down pendulum using a control Steyert also investigated ways to reduce system they design.

Page 14 • MAE Report 2019 MAE Report 2019 • Page 15 Luigi Martinelli EEO Officer: Class of 2020 Meet the People Julia Mikhailova Michael Mueller Daniel Cohen Alex Glaser, Ex-officio Mikko Haataja of MAE Chemical Hygiene Officer Marcus Hultmark Seminar Committee: Michael Vocaturo Yiguang Ju Yiguang Ju, Chair Andrej Kosmrlj Marcus Hultmark Department Safety Manager Michael Littman Every day, the people of MAE harness their Mikko Haataja Jonathan Prevost Ani Majumdar vast expertise and insatiable curiosity to Egemen Kolemen Daniel Nosenchuck improve how human beings interact with the SEAS Lab Safety Committee Honors and Awards Committee: Representatives Class of 2021 world through the creative science of engineering. Howard Stone, Chair Michael Littman Craig Arnold Our faculty cultivate the unique matrix of C.K. Law Jonathan Prevost Michael Littman lessons and research through which both Naomi Leonard Michael Vocaturo Gigi Martinelli Daniel Nosenchuck discoveries and student potential can thrive. Teaching Schedule Student Organization E Coordinators: Representatives: Faculty Leaves Professor Associated Faculty Michael Littman AIAA: Michael Mueller Fall 2018: Ed Law Craig Arnold Ilhan Aksay, Chemical & Alex Glaser SAE: Yiguang Ju Spring 2019: Naomi Leonard Emily Carter Biological Engineering Jill Ray, Ex-officio MRS: Craig Arnold Edgar Choueiri Amir Ali Ahmadi, Operations Jo Ann Love, Ex-officio Mikko Haataja Research & Financial Tau Beta Pi (SEAS-wide): Yiguang Ju Engineering Climate & Inclusion Committee Michael Mueller, Howard Stone N. Jeremy Kasdin Elie Bou-Zeid, Civil & Michael Mueller, Co-chair Chung (Ed) Law Environmental Engineering Julia Mikhailova, Co-chair Freshman Advisors: Naomi Leonard Nathaniel Fisch, Astrophysical Daniel Floryan Marcus Hultmark Michael Littman Sciences Courtney Kohut Michael Mueller Clarence Rowley Bruce Koel, Chemical & Katherine Kokmanian Andrej Kosmrlj Robert Stengel Biological Engineering Leonid Pogorelyuk Gigi Martinelli Howard Stone, Chair David Spergel, Astrophysical Suin Shim Dan Nosenchuck Sciences Deanna Spoth Associate Professor Salvatore Torquato, Chemistry Tyler Van Buren Class of 2019 Alexander Glaser Robert Vanderbei, Operations Chuck Witt Craig Arnold Marcus Hultmark Research & Financial Howard Stone, Ex-officio Luc Deike Luigi Martinelli Engineering Jenn Widdis, Ex-officio Yiguang Ju Michael Mueller Claire White, Civil & Jill Ray, Ex-officio Michael Littman Daniel Nosenchuck Environmental Engineering Dan Nosenchuck Daniel Steingart Clancy Rowley DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEES Daniel Steingart Assistant Professor Graduate Committee: Daniel Cohen Alex Glaser, Chair Faculty Research Expenditures Distribution FY19 Luc Deike Edgar Choueiri Egemen Kolemen Marcus Hultmark 5.0 Andrej Kosmrlj Ani Majumdar Anirudha Majumdar Michael Mueller 4.0 Julia Mikhailova Director of Graduate Studies: 3.0 Lecturer Alex Glaser, Chair Lamyaa El-Gabry 2.0

Ankur Gupta (part-time) Undergraduate Committee: Number of Faculty Glenn Northey (part-time) Michael Littman, Chair 1.0 Suin Shim (part-time) Craig Arnold Marcus Hultmark 0.0 Yiguang Ju 500 1000 1500 2000 Andrej Kosmrlj Research Expenditures (In 1,000s) FACULTY Page 16 • MAE Report 2018 MAE Report 2019 • Page 17 FACULTY AWARDS, HONORS AND RECOGNITION Craig Arnold (Professor) Naomi Leonard (Professor & Director of the Council n 2019 named the Susan Dod Brown Professor on Science & Technology) The MAE Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering n 2018 Marsden Memorial Lecture Prize, Pacific Institute Emily Carter (Professor & Dean) for Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) n Seminar Series 2018 CME Leadership Award for Interdisciplinary Anirudha Majumdar (Assistant Professor) Innovation, New York Section of the American Chemical n 2019 Amazon Research Awards Society Richard Miles (Professor, Emeritus) Beyond the classroom, student learning is enhanced through an n 2018 C. R. Mueller Distinguished Lecturer, Purdue n 2019 Elected Senior Member of the National Academy University of Inventors (NAI) expanding program of lectures, seminars, colloquia and conferences n 2019 Dow Foundation Distinguished Lecturer, University Michael Mueller (Associate Professor) brought to the University. Leading scholars from outside the of California, Santa Barbara n 2018 Invited Lecture, 71st Annual Meeting of the APS n 2019 Mildred Dresselhaus Memorial Lecturer, Division of Fluid Dynamics Princeton community give lectures about exciting, leading-edge Ras Al Khaimah Centre for Advanced Materials, United n 2019 Invited Lecture, AIAA SciTech Forum Arab Emirates Clarence Rowley (Professor) research in fields related to mechanical and aerospace engineering. n 2019 Eyring Lecturer in Molecular Sciences, Arizona n 2020 Selected as a Sectional Lecturer for the 25th State University International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus, University of Bielefeld Anya Jones, University of Maryland, Fundamentals n 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award, California Institute Mechanics (Milan) Crocco Colloquium—Burning Issues and Bright of vortex formation on high advance ratio rotors of Technology Alexander Smits (Professor, Emeritus) Eva Kanso n 2019 Graduate Mentoring Award, McGraw Center Concepts: Some Aspects in Combustion Chemistry , University of Southern California n 2018 Plenary Lecture, 15th International Conference B for Teaching and Learning, Princeton University on Fluid Dynamics Research Cilia-driven Flows: from Mechanics to Biological n 2019 18th NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecturer, L’École Howard Stone (Professor & Chair) Molly Stevens, Imperial College London Function Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland n 2019 Elected APS Councilor, representative for the Baetjer Colloquium—Bio-responsive hybrid Scott Kemp, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Luc Deike (Assistant Professor) Division of Fluid Dynamics and the Topical Group on Climate materials for regenerative medicine and biosensing How Do You Solve a Problem Like North Korea? n 2019 NSF CAREER award n 2019 Arthur Newell Talbot Distinguished Lecturer, Chris Kliewer, Sandia National Laboratories Yiguang Ju (Professor & Director of the Program Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, in Sustainable Energy) University of Illinois Lydia Bourouiba, Massachusetts Institute of Ultrafast Nonlinear Optical Diagnostics: Cross- n 2018 International Prize, The Japanese Society of n 2019 Endowed Distinguished Lecturer in Fluid Mechanics, Technology, Unsteady fluid fragmentation Cutting Innovations for the Study of Combustion, Combustion Department of Chemical Engineering, University Pierre-Thomas Brun, Princeton University Fluid Dynamics, and Catalytic Materials n 2019 Fellow of School of Engineering, The University of Florida Building with Fluids, Lazy Design of Functional Amy LaViers, University of Illinois at Urbana- of Tokyo n 2019 Jan D. Achenbach Lecture, Civil and Environment Materials Champaign, Dancing With Robots: Expressivity n 2019 Karl H. Walther Award, from the American Scientific Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern Glassblowers Society University YuFeng Chen, Harvard University, Manipulating in Natural and Artificial Systems n 2019 Plenary Lecturer (Selected) for the 38th International n 2019 Berkeley Lectures in Chemical and Biomolecular interfacial physics for novel multimodal and Tian Li, University of Maryland, Wood for energy Symposium on Combustion, 2020, in Adelaide, Australia; Engineering, UC Berkeley multiphase insect-scale robots and high temperature emerging technology The Combustion Institute (International) Claire White (Associated Faculty, Assistant Professor David J Cleary, Aramco Services, Detroit Vicky Nguyen, Johns-Hopkins University Andrej Kosmrlj (Assistant Professor) of Civil & Environmental Engineering) Global Energy Demand and Opportunities to The thermomechanical behavior of glassy polymers: n 2019 Alfred Rheinstein Faculty Award, SEAS n 2019 Gustavo Colonetti Medalist (RILEM) Reduce the Carbon Footprint of Transportation applications to modeling shape memory behavior n 2019 Paper in Emerging Investigators issue of Soft Matter Laura Collins, Cornell University and 3D-printed polymers The Role of Atmospheric Turbulence on Cloud Celia Reina, University of Pennsylvania Processes Multiscale Modeling and Simulation: Some Chiara Daraio Department Personnel (as of September 1) , California Institute of Technology Challenges and New Perspectives Morphing materials in freeform objects, at the Nicole Sharp, FYFD, From Memes to Molasses micro- and macro-scales Floods: Adventures in Science Communication 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 Derek Dunn-Rankin, University of California, Irvine Alexandra Techet, Massachusetts Institute of Faculty Electric Field Effects on Laminar Diffusion Flames Technology, Jumping Archer Fish Hydrodynamics Professor 15 16 15 13 12 11 V. Reggie Edgerton, University of California, Los in 3D Associate 322346 Angeles, How can neuromodulation immediately Patricia Schuster, University of Michigan Assistant 677676 transform the physiological state of the spinal cord New Strategies in Radiation Detection for Nuclear Other 211from complete to incomplete paralysis? Arms Control and Nonproliferation Patricia Falcone ’79, Lawrence Livermore National Feifei Shi, Stanford University, Structural and Subtotal 26 25 24 22 24 24 Laboratory, Engineering and National Security interfacial challenges in energy storage systems Professional Researchers 44 45 50 52 43 50 Daniel Goldman, Georgia Tech, Robophysics: Jie Zhao, Northwestern University Visiting Researchers 13 13 12 13 19 17 robotics meets physics Interfacial materials for electrochemical and Technical Research 6.5 6.5 5.5 5.5 44 Cheng Gong, University of California, Berkeley biomedical devices Technical Teaching 444444 2D Magnets: Discovery, Challenges, and Administrative 12 12.5 11.5 12 11 11 Opportunities TOTAL 105.5 106 107 108.5 105 110

Page 18 • MAE Report 2019 MAE Report 2019 • Page 19 Jacob Lisner, Development of an Economical Device MAE Operating Expenditures Class of 2019 to Perform Automated Venipuncture Central Allocation Total Expenditures Larry Loprete, Two Degree of Freedom Motion Senior Projects Simulator Design, Fabrication, and Analysis 3,000,000 Jackie Macharashvili, Measuring the Acoustics 2,500,000 of the Interior of a Tesla 3 Automobile Coleman Merchant, Princeton SpaceShot: Analysis, 2,000,000 Design & Construction of a High Performance Senior Thesis Projects are the culminating 1,500,000 Two-Stage Sounding Rocket experience for the undergraduate mechanical Nicholas Nelsonwood, One-Axis Tracking for 1,000,000 and aerospace engineering programs. They Roof-Mounted Residential Solar 500,000 participate, in teams, groups or individually, Caleb Owens, Reconstructing the Past: Analysis, Design and Assembly of Arago’s Disk 0 in a research or engineering project that Kendall Ratter, TAG Lens Laser Experimentation ’10 ’11 ’12 ’13 ’14 ’15 ’16 ’17 ’18 ’19 includes elements of engineering design. Jorge Reyes, An Affordable Navigation and Weed Detection System for Farming Robot MAE Sponsored Research Volume Beni Snow, Design, Simulation, and Testing MAE only MAE (in other depts) The Class of 2019 completed the following S of an ABS/GOX Hybrid Rocket Engine 180,000 interesting and exciting year-long projects. Nikita Turley, ElectroMagnetic Intake Valve Actuation 160,000 Using a Subwoofer 140,000 Nicolas Viglucci, Design and Construction of an 120,000 Individual Thesis Projects Energy-Efficient Living Space 100,000 Emily Achterkirch, Analysis of Hockey Skate Blade Holders: An Michael Whitmore, Analysis and Closure of Dissipation 80,000 Investigation into Broken Skates by Reverse Engineering Rates in a Physically Derived Reduced-Order 60,000 Billy Andrews, Aerodynamic Analysis and Simulation of Drag Racing Manifold for Turbulent Combustion 40,000 Motorcycle Bodywork David Wu, Intelligent Audio Beam Locking for 20,000 Dylan Baroody, Analysis of Soft Phononic Crystals: Using Machine Source-Listener Isolation (one-semester) 0 ’10 ’11 ’12 ’13 ’14 ’15 ’16 ’17 ’18 ’19 Learning to Predict Compression using Transmission Data Mrudhula Baskaran, A Study of Flow Separation in Micro and Team or Group Projects Milli-Channels Ashley Barnes, Adele Dimitui, & William Kittler, Fixed- Sami Belkadi, AgriFlow: The Application of Elastic Filament Velocimetry Wing UAV Autonomous Deployment for Search to Water Flow Measurement and Control in Hydroponic Vertical Farms and Rescue Applications Nora Bradley, Injection Molding: Process and Design Principles for 3D Tammy Benjapibal & Victoria Ou, One Light Touch: A Printed Molds Simulation of the Sensory Cell Network in the Finger Daniel Chao, Investigation into Computational Performance Robert Buline, Robbie Cohen, & Fred Zheng, reOcean: of a Multi-Modal Turbulent Combustion Model An Active System for Removing Waste from Katherine Denner, Identification of Lithium Deposition and Characterization the Oceans Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering of State of Charge and State of Health in Extreme Fast Charge Cells Will Hess &Alexander Hsia, Parameter Identification Undergraduate Actual Enrollment using Ultrasonic Methods and Adaptive Control of a Fixed-Wing UAV in the by Concentration by Class Year William England (Oxford), Investigating the Effect of Separation Longitudinal Mode Whitney Huang & Ramesh Gayatri/ELE, of Row Aligned Wind Turbines on Power Production Controlling Mechanical Mechanical and Aerospace 80 Diego Fierros, A New Method for Inducing Strain in Living Tissue Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in High Wind Speeds Aerospace Total 70 Teresa Irigoyen-Lopez, using Nano-Scale Thermal Anemometry Probes Vertical Axis Wind Turbines: Analysis of Experimental 60 Data at Full Dynamics Similarity Spencer Kyrczka, Connor Roettig, Joshua Teves, & Max 50 Suren Jamiyanna, Phosphor Crystal Materials: A Design of an Veronneau, Hybrid Performance Golf Cart: Examining 40 Anti-Counterfeiting Feature the Feasibility of Low-Budget Hybrid Engines 30 20 Bartek Kaczmarski, Mario Liu & Nadir Noordin, Autonomous Quadcopter Mechanical Behavior of Pressurized Rods: 3D 10 Shape Transformations of Rod Networks via Local Curvature Control Navigation using Depth Camera and Real-Time 0 ’12 ’13 ’14 ’15 ’16 ’17 ’18 ’19 ’20 ’21 ’22 Hemani Kalucha, Detecting Life on Mars – Analysis of Deep UV Kinematic GPS Raman Spectrometer with Organics in Martian Soil Matrix Curtis Merrill, Joseph Puryear, & Serg Zhelezniak, MAE supports the education of 179 undergraduate students William Kelly, Gene Ark Design Dynamic Thrust and Vector Control of a Small from the U.S. and around the world, preparing them for a career Lydon Kersting, xPLOR: An Expandable Pack for Lightweight Scale Turbojet Engine or further study. In addition to getting exposure to vast learning Outdoor Refuge Jeremy Spiezio & Matias Supervielle, The Sound of resources through our faculty and research staff, students also Tanner Kliewer, EMITD3D: A Laser Diode Array Approach to Metal Silence: A Preliminary Investigation into the have the chance to apply their discipline to their own projects Additive Manufacturing Effects of Blade Row Spacing in Counter-Rotating and/or collaborate with MAE classmates and students in other Propellers on the Sound Intensity in the Near-Field disciplines. UNDERGRADUATE Page 20 • MAE Report 2018 MAE Report 2019 • Page 21 Remi Kahwaji, MEng Bruce Perry, PhD Graduate Programs Advisor: Alexander Glaser Advisor: Michael Mueller Position: Engineering Project Manager, Dassault Thesis: Computationally Efficient Large Eddy in MAE Falcon Jet Corporation, Little Ferry, New Jersey Simulation of Multi-Stream Partially Premixed Ching-Yao Lai, PhD Turbulent Combustion Advisor: Howard Stone Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, National The majority of outstanding technical problems Thesis: Fluid-Structure Interactions for Energy Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado in today’s science and engineering fields require a and the Environment Christopher Reuter, PhD multi-disciplinary research approach at the intersection Position: Lamont Postdoctoral Fellow, Lamont- Advisor: Yiguang Ju (Michael Mueller will comment) Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Thesis: Chemistry and Dynamics of Counterflow of engineering, physics, chemistry, biological science, Earth Institute, Palisades, New York Cool Flames and applied mathematics. Our 101 graduate students, Peter Landgren, PhD Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Air Force Research Lab, Advisor: Naomi Leonard Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio who can earn a PhD or MSE, stand at the center of Thesis: Distributed Multi-agent Multi-armed Bandits Sandra Sowah, MSE these challenges. Through their research and study, Position: Software Development Engineer, Advisor: Howard Stone, Michael Mueller they contribute new knowledge in mechanical and Amazon.com, Inc., Seattle, Washington Thesis: Laminar and Turbulent Secondary Flow T Weiyu Li, MSE Profiles for Curved Pipes of Constant Radius aerospace engineering to answer the challenges to Advisor: Yiguang Ju of Curvature important societal, scientific, and industrial problems. Thesis: Flame Dynamics in Supercritical Conditions Emre Turkoz, PhD MAEMS Mark Miller, PhD Advisor: Craig Arnold 2018-19 Graduate Students Advisor: Marcus Hultmark Thesis: High-Resolution Printing of Complex Qiang Chen, PhD Thesis: High Reynolds Number Horizontal and Fluids Using Blister-Actuated Laser-Induced Advisor: Szymon Suckewer Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Experiments Forward Transfer Thesis: Stimulated Raman Back-Scattering and Self-Guiding Position Assistant Professor of Aerospace Position: Research Physicist, Exxon Mobil of Femtosecond Laser Pulses Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University, Corporate Strategic Research, Clinton, William Coogan, PhD University Park, Pennsylvania (8/2019); New Jersey Advisor: Edgar Choueiri Postdoctoral Research Associate, Mechanical and Joseph Tylka, PhD Thesis: Thrust Scaling in Applied-Field Magnetoplasmadynamic Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University Advisor: Edgar Choueiri Thrusters Cody Nunno, PhD Thesis: Virtual Navigation of Ambisonics-Encoded Position: Project Manager, Orbital Transfer Vehicle, Firefly Advisor: Michael Mueller Sound Fields Containing Near-Field Sources Aerospace, Cedar Park, Texas Thesis: Reduced-Order Manifold Models for Elizabeth Davison, PhD Non-Adiabatic Turbulent Combustion (5/14/2019) Advisor: Naomi Leonard Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Argonne Thesis: Synchronization and Phase Locking in Networks National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois of Heterogeneous Model Neurons Graduate Student Fellowships and Awards Position: Data Scientist, The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, California DEPARTMENTAL: Yingxian (Estella) Yu, PEI Mary and Randall Matthew Edwards, PhD Anastasia Bizyaeva, Phillips Second Year Fellowship Hack Fellowship Advisor: Julia Mikhailova Xiaohan Du, Guggenheim Second Year Fellowship EXTERNAL: Thesis: Ultrafast Sources of Intense Radiation Kerry Klemmer, Guggenheim Second Year Fellowship Claudia Brunner, National Defense Science and Position: Lawrence Fellow, Lawrence Livermore National Katherine Kokmanian, Harari Post Generals Fellowship Engineering Graduate Laboratory, Livermore, California Udari Madhushani, Athena-Feron Award Danielle Chase, National Science Foundation Daniel Floryan, PhD Udari Madhushani, Summerfield Second Year Fellowship Elizabeth Davison, National Science Foundation Advisors: Clarence Rowley, Alexander Smits Alex Novoselov, Crocco Award for Teaching Excellence David Feng, National Defense Science and Thesis: Hydromechanics and Optimization of Fast and Efficient He Sun, Harari Post Generals Fellowship Engineering Graduate Swimming Nan Xue, Harari Post Generals Fellowship Kelly Huang, National Defense Science and Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Wisconsin, Omar Yehia, Harari Post Generals Fellowship Engineering Graduate Madison, Wisconsin Yingxian (Estella) Yu, Larisse Rosentweig Klein Award Justice Mason, GEM Fellowship Matthew Fu, PhD Hongtao Zhong, Sayre Award for Academic Excellence Samuel Otto, National Science Foundation Advisor: Marcus Hultmark UNIVERSITY: Bruce Perry, National Science Foundation Thesis: Measuring and Modifying the Near-wall Behavior of Daniel Floryan, Porter Ogden Jacobus Graduate Aric Rousso, National Defense Science and Wall-bounded Turbulence Honorific Fellowship Engineering Graduate Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Melbourne, Ying Liu, Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Graduate Anthony Savas, National Defense Science and Melbourne, Australia (7/2019); Postdoctoral Research Associate, Honorific Fellowship Engineering Graduate Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University Tasman Powis, PEI-STEP Fellowship Vivian Steyert, National Science Foundation GRADUATE Page 22 • MAE Report 2018 MAE Report 2019 • Page 23 Graduate Program Professional Development Year in Review continued from page 7 Complementing academic offerings, the department provides programming to promote student success in research, June 2019 teaching, career development and professionalism. Students can participate in a number of workshops to Princeton team participates in NASA’s Micro-g NExT Competition develop skills in areas such as public speaking, writing, research and explore post-graduation possibilities. The annual NASA design competition challenges undergraduate Alumni Career Panel students to design, build and test a tool or device to function Jing Du ’12, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Penn State University; Sandeep Mulgund ’94, in microgravity environments over the course of a year. The Principal Scientist, The Mitre Corporation; Gunter S.Schemmann ’00, Project Development Manager in the Princeton Rocketry Team, which is competing in the Mini-Arm Battery Storage Group, Con Edison Clean Energy Businesses; Barry Zhang ’94, CEO Princetel, Inc.; End-Effector challenge, designed and built a device that Anastasia Bizyaeva, Graduate Student, Flexible Task Allocation Dynamics for Multiple Agents; Claudia uses a granule-filled bag that can go between malleable and Brunner, Graduate Student, Dynamic Effects on Airfoil Performance Under Unsteady Inflow Conditions rigid states to achieve grip. It is designed to interface with a at High Reynolds Numbers; Christopher Burger, Graduate Student, Solid-gas Reactions of Copper-Oxide robotic arm that has been designed by NASA Jet Propulsion Particles with Hydrocarbons; Wesley Chang, Graduate Student, Understanding Structural Development Laboratory (JPL) scientists and engineers. The winning Danielle Chase of Electrodeposited Lithium Metal; , Graduate Student, Fluid Driven Fracture in a Porous device will be used to handle samples underwater on missions to ocean worlds like Europa Medium; Xiaohan Du, Graduate Student, Modeling and Optimization of the TAG lens; Daniel Dudt, and Enceladus. The team is comprised of team leader Nina Arcot (MAE) and Alex Rogers Graduate Student, Definition of Stellarator Equilibrium with Minimal Unknowns and its use for (MAE), Whitney Huang (MAE), Kyle Johnson (ELE), Cindy Li and Hoang Le Numerical Applications; Nicholas Fasano, Graduate Student, Particle-in-cell Simulations of Electron Bunch Formation During Relativistic Laser Plasma Interactions; Alexander Glaser, Associate Professor, (Prospective ELE ’22), Alexander Essig (Woodrow Wilson), Jacob Essig and Elizabeth Trying to Save the World from the Nuclear Apocalypse: Research Opportunities in MAE’s Laboratory Petrov (Prospective COS ’22), Thomas McBride, Shaylee McBride, and Andrew Xu for Science and Global Security; Susanne Killian, Ph.D., Senior Associate Director of Graduate Student (Prospective MAE ’22). Career Development, Career Services, Virtual Career Panel; Mapping Your Skills to Careers and Job Descriptions; Brandt Belson, PhD, Tonal, Senior Data Scientist; William Coogan, PhD, Firefly Aerospace, Witt wins the 2019-B MolSSI Smits receives 2019 Fluid Project Manager; Elena Krieger, PhD, Physicians, Scientists and Engineers for Healthy Energy, Director, Seed Software Fellowship Dynamics Prize Clean Energy Program; Kerry Klemmer, Graduate Student, Uncertainty Quantification of RANS Closure Chuck Witt, PhD, was Alexander Smits, the Eugene Models Using Model Error Transport; Courtney Kohut, Business Manager, MAE Business Center: named one of the Molecular Higgins Professor of Traveling and Getting Reimbursed; Andrej Kosmrlj, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Instabilities in Growing Biological Systems: Wrinkling and Branching; Jinyoung Lee, Graduate Student, Unified Sciences Software Institute’s Mechanical and Aerospace Manifold-Based Approach to Modeling Turbulent Combustion in LES; Jason Liu, Graduate Student, seven fellowship winners. Engineering, Emeritus, was Confined Crystallization of Polymers; Udari Madhushani, Graduate Student, Multi-agent Dynamics in Recipients receive six months recognized by the American Multi-armed Bandit Problem with Heterogeneous Stochastic Interactions; Gigi Martinelli, Professor, CFD: of support and mentoring Physical Society for his Engineering at the Intersection of Numerical Mathematics, Scientific Computing and Fluid Dynamics; by the MolSSI’s Software “transformative contributions Julia Mikhailova, Assistant Professor, Waveforms of Light; Michael Mueller, Associate Professor, So You Scientist team. Technology to Competitive to the measuring and Want to be a Professor...; Alberto Padovan, Graduate Student, Understanding and Modelling Nonlinear Market Force?” She will understanding of wall Mechanisms in Flow Separation; Juliane Preimesberger, Graduate Student, Piezoelectrochemical Effect in Rousso receives first prize for xamine the federal policies turbulence in extreme Commercial Lithium Ion Batteries; Amy Pszczolkowski, Assistant Dean for Professional Development, the best oral presentation at the supporting the establishment Reynolds and Mach number Graduate School, PhD. Long-term Career Outcomes – Where do grad alumni go? How can I find them?; 24th International Symposium and growth of this energy regimes, for pioneering Daniel Ruth, Graduate Student, Bubble Dynamics in Turbulence; Robert Stengel, Professor, Project Apollo: on Plasma Chemistry resource as well as the sector’s research on bio-inspired Origins, Missions, and the Legacy; Nic Vog, Senior Associate Director, ULP, McGraw Center for Teaching potential for success. propulsion, and in recognition and Learning, Productivity and Time Management; Madeline Vorenkamp, Graduate Student, Aerospike MAE graduate student Aric Rocket Nozzle; Jessica Wilson, Graduate Student, Electrolyte Diffusiophoresis in One-Dimensional Salt Rousso, who is advised by of exemplary technical Gradients; Hongtao Zhong, Graduate Student, Plasma-Assisted Low-Temperature Combustion: Kinetics Prof. Ju, spoke on “Kinetic Madhushani wins President’s leadership, mentoring, and and Stability Effect of Hydrocarbon Award for Scientific Research community service.” He will Oxidation on Filamentary Doctoral student Udari give his award lecture in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Instabilities in Nanosecond- Madhushani was given the Seattle at the Annual Graduate Actual Enrollment by Year (PhD) pulsed Plasma Discharges” award by the National Division of Fluid Dynamics at the symposium held in Research Council of Sri Meeting, November 2019. First Year Third Year Fifth Year Total DCE Naples, Italy. Lanka, which recognizes Sri Second Year Fourth Year Total Program Lankan scientists whose Brunner awarded 2019 PEI- 100 97 94 94 96 97 research is published in Step Graduate Fellowship 80 top-ranked journals. Graduate student Claudia 60 Brunner’s topic is “Offshore 40 Wind Energy in the United 20 States — From Burgeoning 0 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19

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