Making a National Impact

The Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering is proud to attract some of the world's brightest young researchers to the University at Buffalo.

Our faculty have been honored with National Science Foundation CAREER Awards and Young Investigator Awards, which are awarded to the most promising and talented researchers in the country. These faculty are building a foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research.

Recipients

Role of Energy in Continuous Dielectrophoretic Molecular Separations 
Program: DOE Early Career Research Program
Award year: 2024

Understanding Dielectrophoretic Molecular Transport
Program: National Science Foundation CAREER
Award year: 2024

Phoretic Transport of Membrane-Bound Biological Colloids in Complex Environments
Program: National Science Foundation CAREER
Award year: 2023

Reliable Superinsulated Building Envelopes via Predictive Multiphysics Modeling
Program: National Science Foundation CAREER
Award year: 2022

Automated Design of Decentralized Robust and Explainable Swarm Systems (ADDRESS)
Program: National Science Foundation CAREER
Award year: 2021

Metamaterials as Elastic Rectifiers: Exploiting the Non-reciprocal Mechanics of Time-Periodic Structures
Program: National Science Foundation CAREER
Award year: 2019

A Multiscale Morphing Continuum Analysis on Energy Cascade of Compressible Turbulence
Program: U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator
Award year: 2017

Electrohydrodynamics of Vesicles
Program: National Science Foundation CAREER
Award year: 2013

Flapping-Wing Propulsion Characterized Using Optimal Vortex Formation
Program: U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator
Award year: 2010

High Fidelity Numerical Modeling and Simulation of Fire Suppression
Program: National Science Foundation CAREER
Award year: 2004

Development of Design Decision Support Methods for Large-Scale Systems
Program: National Science Foundation CAREER
Award year: 1999

Program New Approaches of Holographic Particle Velocimetry for Studying Turbulence
Program: National Science Foundation CAREER
Award year: 1999