In partnership with NASA, seven seniors from Rutgers’ Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering are working to create an airplane-drone hybrid delivery system, where the drone is carried over long distances by airplane and undocks temporarily to deliver packages to doorsteps. The success of this project would improve access to rural addresses, ease road traffic in urban areas, and even transform the sharing of basic necessities, particularly for hospitals and emergency aid groups after natural disasters.
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January 2022
January 26, 2022
January 21, 2022
Prof. James Guo, as an International PI for a SPARC project sponsored by the government of India, coordinated an International e-Workshop on Radiation Transport and Applications, January 21-22, 2022, together with other five PIs on the project. This workshop was organized virtually by Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar. The workshop compromised of 32 invited lectures of eminent speakers, including 18 renowned scholars from USA, Australia, UK, France, Turkey, Canada, China, etc. and 14 from India.
December 2021
December 21, 2021
December 17, 2021
Hao Lin, a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE), has been appointed undergraduate director of the Packaging Engineering Program. After leading the program for more than 10 years, Professor Hae Chang Gea will continue serving as a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
November 2021
November 23, 2021
Professor Yogesh Jaluria was co-chair of the 8th International Symposium on Advances in Computational Heat Transfer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 15-19, 2021. It was a virtual conference with around 150 participants from over 25 countries, 105 contributed papers, 13 keynote talks, a short course, and a workshop on publications. This is a major international conference held around the world every 2-3 years. The 6th conference was held at Rutgers University in 2015 and the 7th one at Napoli, Italy, in 2017, with Professor Jaluria as the chair/co-chair for both.
November 18, 2021
Professor Jonathan Singer receives the Presidential Fellowship for Teaching Excellence award for the year 2020-2021. This award honors newly-promoted and tenured (as of July 1, 2021) members of the faculty who have made truly outstanding contributions to teaching during their early years at Rutgers. More details can be found here.
November 16, 2021
Rutgers researchers studying COVID-19 have created a new way to deliver DNA molecules into skin cells, using a suction technique similar to the ancient healing practice of cupping that increases blood circulation and promotes healing.
November 12, 2021
Prof. German Drazer, Prof. Edward DeMauro and students win EPA Cleaner Indoor Air During Wildfires Challenge. The proposal is a novel application of existing industrial technology that would be modified and scaled down for residential use. The team proposes to develop a two-phase air filtration device. The first phase uses a wet-scrubber method to capture particles within aerosolized water droplets followed by a second phase involving a series of stainless-steel wire filters, which are removable and washable.
November 11, 2021
In a recent work published by Science Advances on Friday, November 5th, a team of researchers from MAE and BME, in collaboration with sponsor GeneOne Life Science, found that a suction technique similar to traditional Chinese or Middle-eastern Hijima cupping, is able to boost the immune response of a DNA vaccine by 100 fold. This work has caught worldwide attention and has been reported in news outlet and online platforms in the US, UK, China, Korea, India, Australia, and Arabic speaking countries.
November 11, 2021
Dr. Peter Balogh, a recent PhD graduate (2018) of the MAE Department and advised by Prof. Prosenjit Bagchi, has joined NJIT's Mechanical Engineering Department as a tenure-track assistant professor from September 1, 2021. Dr. Balogh's area of interest includes computational fluid dynamics, biofluid mechanics, and high-performance computing. He was the 2019 recipient of the Acrivos dissertation award from the American Physical Society.