Dr. Singer was named to a three year term as the Mary W. Raisler Distinguished Teaching Chair of Mechanical Engineering by the Rutgers Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. This chair was established to "recognize and foster excellence in teaching and scholarly activity’s in the MAE department." You can read more about this award here.
HMNL PhD candidate Sarah Park won a Materials Research Society (MRS) Graduate Student Silver award for her talk titled "Hierarchal coatings of biological building blocks via self-limiting electrospray deposition" that was presented at the 2022 Fall meeting of the MRS. The honored research involved achieving high efficiency in electrospray deposition of targets smaller than the characteristic length scale of the spray plume.
Congratulations to HMNL Master's student Luke Brennan who has won the 2022 New Jersey Space Grant Consortium Graduate Fellowship. The award will support Luke as he completes his masters degree project which focuses on acoustic optimization of launch structures.
HMNL undergraduate Noah McAllister’s poster titled “Non-Destructive Measurement of Optically Scattering Polymer Films Using Image Processing,” has won 3rd place at the NSF Student Poster Competition at the 2022 IMECE meeting of the ASME. This research was part of NSF Award 2019849.
Congratulations to HMNL undergrads Maxim Arkhipov and Sriya Bapatla on winning a New Jersey Space Grant Consortium 2022-2023 Academic Year Internship. This award will support their work on the mechanical composites manufactured by self-limiting electrospray deposition and combinations of self-limiting electrospray deposition and additive manufacturing, respectively.
Professor Singer was recognized as an Early Career Materials Researcher by MRS Communications. The so-recognized letter discusses application of focused laser spike (FLaSk) thermocapillary dewetting as a tool for measuring the properties of thin films. This research, led by former lab member Tianxing "Tim" Ma and conducted in collaboration with the lab of Zahra Fakhraai of UPenn Chemistry, demonstrated that FLaSk can uncover properties related to molecular weight and shear-induced ordering in nanoscale soft matter films.
HMNL seniors Darrel Dsouza, Charm Nicholas, and Catherine Nachtigal presented their senior thesis research at the J. J. Slade Symposium as 3 of only 18 graduating seniors across all engineering departments to be honored as J. J. Slade Scholars.
Published: 11/16/2021
Published: 10/26/2021
Congratulations to HMNL undergrad Noah McAllister on winning a New Jersey Space Grant Consortium 2021-2022 Academic Year Internship. This award will support his work on the mechanical characterization of samples manufactured by self-limiting electrospray deposition.
Published: 5/4/2021
Congratulations to undergraduate HMNL member, Catherine Nachtigal, for winning the Research Excellence Award at the 6th Annual Chancellor’s Student Leadership Gala. The award sought students who "demonstrate high-quality research which exhibits critical thinking, analysis, and creativity." Catherine has done exemplary work on a wide range of projects in electrospray deposition and aerospace acoustics. She will soon begin an internship with Northrop Grumman continuing aspects of her work with the group.