MAE Highlights
June 10, 2020
Jan Kleissl elected Fellow of the American Solar Energy Society
MAE Professor Jan Kleissl was named a fellow by the American Solar Energy Society (ASES). Kleissl has been very active within ASES in the solar resources area, participated in many conferences, and chaired the 2017 ASES National Conference...

May 21, 2020
2019 ASMA FELLOWS SCHOLARSHIP WINNER - Lonnie Petersen
Congratulations to prof. Lonnie Petersen who is the 2019 ASMA FELLOWS SCHOLARSHIP WINNER!
Dr. Lonnie Grove Petersen was the 1st place winner ($2,000) for her presentation and publication of a manuscript “Mobile Lower Body Negative Pressure Suit as an Integrative Countermeasure for Spaceflight.”
March 6, 2020
Nick Gravish and Mike Tolley receive ONR grant
Nick Gravish and Mike Tolley receive an ONR grant for, "SanD-Worm: a soft bodied Swimming & Digging robot". The grant is for three years to develop a soft-bodied robot for ocean floor inspection and burrowing.
March 6, 2020
Nick Boechler and Sheng Cai received MURI award
Nick Boechler and Sheng Cai receive MURI award for Triggering Outstanding Properties via Mechanical Adaptive Topologies (TOPMAT): Towards Dynamically Self-Amplifying Omniphoric Multiscale Metamaterials