Fall 2020 MAETRIX 04 08 21 Researchers Develop MAE COVID-19 Response Women in Engineering: Underwater Kite Systems Team Meets the Need for Q&A with for Energy Harvesting Healthcare Workers Dr. Jennifer Rhatigan MAE AT A GLANCE 2019-20 QUICK FACTS IN THIS ISSUE RESEARCH EXPENDITURES UNDERGRADUATE 02 Update from the Department Head $13 MILLION PER YEAR More than $7 million in external funding 1264 3.4 341 04 Research Highlights (Federal, State and Industry) 02 § MAE Researchers Develop Underwater Total number of Average Degrees Kite Systems for Energy Harvesting undergraduate undergraduate conferred TENURED AND TENURE-TRACK § Multirotor, Rolling-Flying, Mobile Robots students GPA FACULTY MEMBERS 45 for Subterranean Exploration 21 Full; 13 Associate; 11 Assistant 974 ME / 290 AE Undergraduate students 343 MAE intended engineering first-year undergraduates 04 08 Feature Story 6 FULL-TIME NTT TEACHING FACULTY MEMBERS § MAE COVID-19 Response Team Meets the Need for Healthcare Workers GRADUATE PART-TIME TEACHERS AND 6 RESEARCHERS 413 102 163 08 10 Student Spotlight § Year of Accomplishments with Trisha Hess and Alina Creamer RESEARCH CONCENTRATIONS Total number Degrees Ph.D. of graduate conferred students § 2020 Engineering Student Awards AND FACULTY MEMBERS students § Senior Design Aerodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Propulsion and Space Explorations Systems 82 Aerospace graduate students 10 Bryant, Echekki, Edwards, Ewere, Ferguson, Gopalarathnam, Gould, Granlund, Hall, Kleinstreuer, 13 Faculty and Staff Mechanical graduate students Luo, Lyons, Mazzoleni, Narayanaswamy, Narsipur, 331 § New Staff Reyhanoglu, Saveliev, Silverberg, Subbareddy, Vermillion 139 Master's degree students § Awards and Honors Dynamics, Vibrations, Controls and System Design on campus § Staff Spotlight Bryant, Buckner, Ewere, Ferguson, Granlund, Hall, Jing, 111 Online master's graduate students 1311 Keltie, Mazzoleni, Peters, Reyhanoglu, Saul, Silverberg, Strenkowski, Tran, Tu, Vermillion, Wu, Xu, Yuan 16 Program Updates Structural Mechanics, Materials and Manufacturing RANKINGS § Undergraduate Dow, Eischen, Ewere, Huang, Jiang, Keltie, Mazzoleni, Muller, Ngaile, O'Connor, Pankow, Peters, Rabiei, Ryu, ■ U.S. News and World Report: § Graduate Silverberg, Strenkowski, Tu, Wu, Xu, Zhu, Zikry ME ranked 37th of 184 graduate programs; th Thermal Sciences and Energy Systems AE ranked 29 of 66 graduate programs 16 Echekki, Ewere, Fang, Gould, Kribs, Kuznetsov, Liu, ■ College Choice: 17 Alumni Corner Lyons, Mazzoleni, Moore, Narayanaswamy, O'Connor, ■ ME graduate program ranked 22nd of Saveliev, Silverberg, Terry, Tu, Vermillion 35 for Best Master's in ME § Alumni Corner: Q&A with Dr. Basil Hassan Biomedical and Biological Systems ■ ME ranked 5th of 15 for Most Affordable § Women in Engineering: Q&A with Dr. Jennifer Rhatigan Buckner, Huang, Jiang, Kleinstreuer, Kuznetsov, Online Master's § 2019 Alumni Hall of Fame Mazzoleni, Muller, Saul ■ SR Education Group’s Top 25 Best Online § Advisory Board Nanoscale Science and Engineering Master’s: ME master's program ranked 14th 17 Chang, Jiang, Jing, Liu, Ryu, Zhu DEAR FRIENDS AND ALUMNI OF MAE, reporting sites across the state and country. The department is and will now be director of aerospace research programs. Dr. 02 these are strange times. The world is facing glad that our resources and expertise have been instrumental in Jeff Eischen has also stepped down from his role as director for UPDATE a challenge and we are all adjusting to a new this massive effort. undergraduate advising which will now be filled by Ms. Cheryl normal. As expected, MAE and NC State The MAE Department has continued to focus on developing Tran. Dr. Yong Zhu also steps into a new role as director of FROM THE University are also facing similar challenges to the infrastructure for the future of the department. The MAE mechanical research programs. serve our students and community in the best West Annex building development has moved forward with The department undergraduate (UG) and graduate programs way possible. All our classes went suddenly online many test rigs relocated from EB III to create a new state-of- continue to draw the best of students from inside and outside DEPARTMENT in March and that has continued through summer. the-art research lab space. The supersonic tunnel is one of the state. Our UG programs are the first choice of engineering We have slowly and carefully opened up research the test rigs that is now operational at MAE West. In addition, first-year students. We have applications for our graduate labs over the summer. Many graduate students several combustion, high flow, and wind tunnel rigs have been programs from all over the world. We expect that our program HEAD and faculty have resumed research operations. On moved to the new space. The NC State Motorsports teams are will continue to be strong even after this virus crisis. The August 10th, the classes on-campus resumed and now housed in the High Bay building behind EB III. This location department takes pride in the way we prepare our students to students are back on-campus for face-to-face or makes the motorsports team activities more accessible to our be productive engineers for the world. We will continue to use hybrid classes. All the faculty, staff, and students students and also builds on increasing connectivity between the new means and ways to educate our students and build their are wary and eager at the same time as to how our senior design machine shop and our motorsports activities knowledge for the future of our society and world. Our faculty this scenario will unfold. Students and faculty are that includes the Formula SAE, Mini Baja SAE, and Solar Car are committed to maintaining excellence with empathy and required to wear masks when in class. All campus Competition teams. There will also be a new MAE space called understanding as we navigate this new normal. buildings have safety plans to protect occupants Student Design Activity Center across from our senior design We hope you continue to remain updated with our MAE news. during this crisis. However, human behavior will fabrication shop in the near future. The department is looking for We regularly update our website and utilize this newsletter to tell decide how successful we are to create the on- external support to provide this unique space as a collaborative, a few in-depth stories. If you ever want to learn more about our campus experience for our students. high-tech space for our students. We hope that many of our programs and what kind of support we need, please email me at Since March, your MAE Department has alumni will step forward to help us achieve this goal. [email protected]. been moving forward. Our faculty and graduate The department continues to attract excellent new faculty. students together with department resources This year, we are bringing in Dr. Edmon Perkins from Auburn such as the machine shop and technical staff, University as an assistant professor, Dr. Hooman Tafreshi from have fabricated over 15,000 face shields and over VCU as an associate professor, and Dr. Steve Berg as a teaching 100 intubation cases for North Carolina hospitals. assistant professor. We are excited to have them on our This group has been able to work over 10 weeks team. There is a short introduction to each one of them in the together to innovate, fabricate, and manufacture newsletter. Best Regards, Dr. Srinath V. Ekkad PPE for a variety of health service organizations. Dr. Jack Edwards, who has been our associate department Srinath V. Ekkad The effort has been the feature of many news head for undergraduate programs, steps down from that role Department Head and R.J. 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