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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Mechanical and Aerospace engineers at Princeton have played leading roles in combustion, fluid flow modeling and measurement, laser technologies and materials, propulsion, environmental science, and aerospace dynamics over the past half century. With ties to many other areas of science and engineering, MAE faculty also have a major impact in control and dynamical systems; materials science; satellite technology and propulsion; stability and control of vehicles; robotics; aircraft performance; pollution and alternative fuels; energy conversion and storage; nuclear security; biomechanics; and instrumentation.

News

Collage of a hand holding a pair of scissors cutting smokestacks of a power plant.

EPA regulations cut power sector emissions but miss opportunities for deeper reductions

Leading the charge to better batteries

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The hidden webs that sustain life on Earth, revealed

New Ph.D. program leverages Princeton’s broad strength in materials science and engineering

Lynn Loo and Philip Holmes.

Two professors, four alumni elected to National Academy of Engineering

Three faculty members honored by the White House

Events

March 21

10:00 am

Where the rubber meets the code: Realizing soft robots through better sensor design

March 21

3:00 pm

Low Temperature Plasmas in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering: Quo Vadis?

March 28

3:00 pm

The Era of Autonomy in Space Exploration – It’s Finally Here!

April 04

3:00 pm

Solar Simulations in the Shadows of Racial Capitalism

April 11

3:00 pm

Rethinking Problems in Thermal Science and Engineering: From Atoms to Applications

May 01

12:30 pm

Solid-state Batteries – Toward High-energy and High-power Cells

Faculty

Christine Allen-Blanchette

Craig Arnold

Ryne Beeson

Emily A. Carter

Edgar Choueiri

Daniel J. Cohen

Luc Deike

Michelle DiBenedetto portrait

Michelle DiBenedetto

Portrait of Alison Ferris

Alison Ferris

Alexander Glaser

Mikko Haataja

Kelsey Hatzell

Marcus Hultmark

Jesse Jenkins

Yiguang Ju

Portrait of Egemen Kolemen

Egemen Kolemen

Andrej Kosmrlj

Chung Law

Naomi Leonard portrait

Naomi Ehrich Leonard

Michael Littman

Anirudha Majumdar

Luigi Martinelli

Julia Mikhailova

Michael Mueller

Radhika Nagpal

Daniel Nosenchuck

Clarence Rowley

Aditya Sood portrait

Aditya Sood

Howard Stone

Aimy Wissa portrait

Aimy Wissa