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    Tickle College of Engineering

    Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

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    • Biomimetics Progress Gains International Attention

      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…

    • Advancing Hydrogen Generation and Energy Storage Through Next-Generation Electrolyzers

      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. 

    • TerMaath Awarded AIAA ICME Prize for Groundbreaking Research

      TerMaath Awarded AIAA ICME Prize for Groundbreaking Research

      Associate Professor Stephanie TerMaath was 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 was honored at the AIAA SciTech award ceremony in January for…

    • 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…

    • Compton Highlights Physics Priorities of Direct-Ink Writing in Top Journal

      Writing the Future of 3D Printing  Stewart McCorkle Faculty Fellow Brett G. Compton coauthored a comprehensive review on the physics of direct-ink writing (DIW), a highly versatile type of 3D printing, which was published on January 5th in Volume 58 of the journal Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics.   Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics is the world’s most impactful research journal covering fluid physics…

    • Kanhere Acquires Critical Analysis Tool Through Raffle Win

      Assistant Professor Sagar Kanghere acquired a state-of-the-art thermal analysis tool to accelerate research in polymers and composites.

    • Baccarella Elected AIAA Associate Fellow

      Baccarella Elected AIAA Associate Fellow

      Assistant Profesor Damiano Baccarella was elected to the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Associate Fellow: Class of 2026

    • TCE Faculty Awarded AI TechX Seed Funding

      TCE Faculty Awarded AI TechX Seed Funding

      Tickle College of Engineering faculty are leading six of nine AI TechX projects, advancing AI research, workforce training, and innovation across Tennessee.

    • MAE Welcomes New Faculty Members

      The Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering welcomes six new faculty members for the 2025-26 academic year.

    • Undergrads Rise to Research Challenges with IREAAMU

      Undergrads Rise to Research Challenges with IREAAMU

      This summer, nine undergrads participated in interdisciplinary advanced air mobility research through an NSF-REU program run by Devina Sanjaya and Zhenbo Wang.