Faculty
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Six New Faculty Members Join MAE Department in 2026
Four new faculty members have joined MAE starting in the fall 2026 semester, bringing with them a range of expertise in various areas.
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Capolungo Brings Structural Mechanics Expertise to TCE
Laurent Capolungo, an award-winning researcher with a focus on structural mechanics modeling for extreme environments, is joining the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) as a tenured professor this fall.
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Baccarella Wins $750,000 NASA Early Career Faculty Award
Assistant Professor Damiano Baccarella has received a $750,000 NASA Early Career Faculty Award to further his research on the extreme environments that hypersonic spacecraft and missiles encounter during atmospheric re-entry.
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Faculty, Staff, and Students Honored at MAE Awards Banquet
On April 30, the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering hosted its annual awards banquet to celebrate the achievements of its outstanding faculty, staff, and students.
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UT Selected for EcoCAR Innovation Challenge
UT has been selected to participate in the EcoCAR Innovation Challenge, a four-year collegiate competition aimed at developing next-generation, energy-efficient and intelligent mobility solutions.
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Trinh, Zhang Awarded Chancellor’s Innovation Fund Awards
Professors Cong Trinh and Feng-Yuan Zhang have received Chancellor’s Innovation Fund awards for projects involving the biomanufacturing of natural butyl acetate and the development of a new electrode technology.
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Biomimetics Progress Gains International Attention
Sarles Speaks in Switzerland Three years ago, Andy Sarles embarked on a $4 million grant from the United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research to push the frontiers of biotechnological integration. “Our main goal is to understand how to design new types of sensing and computing technologies from material interfaces that can process information the same way the cells in…
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Advancing Hydrogen Generation and Energy Storage Through Next-Generation Electrolyzers
MAE Professor Feng-Yuan Zhang and Research Assistant Professor Weitian Wang are re-engineering the proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer to its electrode core.
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TerMaath, Martinez Awarded AIAA ICME Prize for Groundbreaking Research
Associate Professor Stephanie TerMaath and B.H. Goethert Professor Marcias Martinez were part of a multi-disciplinary project that received the 2026 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) Prize for groundbreaking work on adhesively bonded composite and metallic joints, which are critical for naval and aerospace applications. The AIAA ICME Prize is a biennial award given to the best aerospace-focused ICME project. TerMaath and Martinez were honored at the AIAA SciTech award ceremony…
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Singh Named Associate Editor of ASME Journal
Assistant Professor Prashant Singh has been named an associate editor for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications. The bimonthly journal focuses on the dissemination of information of permanent interest in applied thermal sciences and engineering, emphasizing new and emerging technologies, significant questions, pressing problems and concerns, and new methods and approaches that can be applied to industrial…