Starshade deploys for first time

By On September 26, 2013 · In mechanical and aerospace

Check out this awesome stop-motion video of a starshade. Our own Jeremy Kasdin, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, is one of the principal researchers on the project, which will aid in the search for planets outside our own solar system.

“This is the first time we’ve actually seen this thing deploy,” Kasdin […]

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Ice cream social August 9 to feature vintage technology

By On July 29, 2013 · In engineering education, mechanical and aerospace, School of Engineering and Applied Science

The School of Engineering and Applied Science is hosting an ice cream social Friday, August 9, at 4:30 p.m. in the Friend Center Atrium on the Princeton University campus. Professor Michael Littman will do a show and tell with antique motorcycles, telephones, phonographs, radios, and more from his marvelous collection of […]

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Saving lives, gathering data: Laura Ray’s ‘cool robot’

By On March 12, 2013 · In mechanical and aerospace

Engineering alumna Laura Ray, now a professor of mechanical engineering at Dartmouth, and her students helped create Yeti, a robot that is making Arctic and Antarctic exploration safer and more effective.

Yeti uses ground-penetrating radar to map crevasses, the deadly gaps hidden in ice fields that have been the bane of […]

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Mike McAlpine named one of ’20 mightiest minds’

By On January 30, 2013 · In innovation, mechanical and aerospace

Red Bulletin magazine has named Mike McAlpine one of the world’s 20 mightiest minds. He is in good company:  Stephen Hawking and Tim Berners-Lee also made the cut.

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Princeton Fung Global Forum contemplates the future of the city

By On January 29, 2013 · In civil engineering, mechanical and aerospace, School of Engineering and Applied Science

The Princeton Fung Global Forum conference on the future of the city takes place January 30 to February 1 this year in Shanghai, China.  The conference showcases the work of a number of Princeton Engineering faculty and affiliated faculty, including Howard Stone, James Smith, Sigrid Adriaenssens, Branko […]

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New Yorker features Choueiri’s 3D sound

By On January 23, 2013 · In innovation, mechanical and aerospace, Princeton Engineering alumni

Adam Gopnik, writing in the current New Yorker, features the redoubtable Edgar Choueiri *91 and his “quest for 3-D recording and other mysteries of sound.” You have to be a subscriber to read the whole piece. Here is an abstract.

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Spring Berman ’05 wins Grolier poetry prize

By On January 22, 2013 · In mechanical and aerospace, Princeton Engineering alumni

Spring Berman ’05 has won the Grolier Discovery Award for her book of poetry “All Time Acceptable.” The award is bestowed by the venerable Grolier Poetry Book Shop at Harvard Square. Naomi Ehrich Leonard, Berman’s mentor in mechanical and aerospace engineering, reports that the book […]

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Holmes, Massey named inaugural AMS fellows

By On November 12, 2012 · In mechanical and aerospace, Operations Research and Financial Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science

Princeton Engineering professors Philip Holmes and William Massey have been named to the inaugural class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, the world’s largest and most influential society dedicated to mathematical research, scholarship, and education.

Holmes is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical […]

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Dream team of materials scientists wins DOE grant to tackle fusion challenges

By On July 30, 2012 · In Andlinger Center, chemical engineering, energy, mechanical and aerospace, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Uncategorized

Princeton engineers have won a highly competitive grant of $1.2 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to collaborate with the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab in order to tackle materials science challenges in the creation of fusion energy.

One key challenge is how to contain the hot plasma that fuels fusion power […]

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