MAE News & Announcements

Department News and Announcements

Retirement Party for Dr. Sung P. Lin after 43 1/2 years of service was a success. (group)

We have two new faculty hires coming on board in the Fall 2009.

     Dr. Ajit Achuthan
     Dr. Laurel Kuxhaus

2009-2010 Awards

Dr. Douglas Bohl, Assistant Professor MAE Department received the NSF Career Award (read more).

Brent Pomeroy received the AIAA Foundation Dr. James Rankin Digital Avionies Scholarship

2009 Undergraduate Awards

  Sayuri Yapa received the NSF Research Fellowship (read more).  Sayuri also received the Norman L. Rea
    Award.
  Sayuri Yapa (SR) and Rebecca Dinger (JR) were inducted in Phalanx.
  Sayuri Yapa (SR); Rebecca Diner (JR) and Krystal Pomerville (JR) received Commendable Leadership Awards.
  Sayuri Yapa (SR) & Ryan Watkins (SR) received the Barry Goldwater Scholarships
  Kristopher Renedette (SR) received the Career Center Award
  Farshad Madhi (SR) received the Physics Dept. Award
  Farshad Madhi (SR) & Sayuri Yapa (SR) received the Institutional Diversity Initiatives Award
  Mark Czajkowski (SR) & Ryan Watkins (SR) received the Albany Undergraduate Research Exposition Award
  Jonathan M. Holla (SR) received 3rd place at the AIAA NE Region 1 Student Paper Competition (read more)
  Emily A. Stefano and Elsbeth D. Adams, both Mechanical Engineering students at Clarkson University were
      recently selected as 
recipients of $2,500 scholarships from the Society of Women Engineers (SWE)

Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering Staff Awards:

   Junior (Mechanical) - Benjamin Sittner

   Junior (Aeronautical) - Clara M. Helm

   Senior (Aeronautical) - Laura Bear

   Senior (Mechanical) - James W. Snover

2009 MAE Graduate Awards

  Joshua Butler received the AIAA Abe Zarem National Award in Aeronautics
  Nathaniel Barlow received the Outstanding Teacher Award


Former MAE Graduate Student - Air Vehicles Directorate honors annual award winners

University Recognition Day 2008 Faculty & Staff Awards
Brian Helenbrook, Associate Professor - The Tau Beta Pi Faculty Award;
Rhonda Sharpe, Administrative Secretary - The Commendable Service Award

Find out about the new faculty hire, Dr. Kevin Fite....more

Shuttle Flight Director Gives AIAA Student Paper Competition Keynote at Clarkson - Michael Sarafin, Class of 1994 and the lead space shuttle flight director for the recent Atlantis STS-122 mission, gave the keynote presentation at the AIAA Region 1 NE Student Paper Conference, held at Clarkson on April 4-5....more (announcement)

Dr. Pier Marzocca wins 2007 Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award ....more

CSOE Dean Ahmadi speaks in Holland....more

What are MAE Students Up To?

coffinPeter Coffin, MAE Undergraduate Student, spent the summer of 2008 at the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffet Field California. At left is Coffin in the National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex 80 x 120 ft wind tunnel with mentors in front of the Mars Science Laboratory Parachute being tested in the   From Left to Right: Joe Sacco (NASA), Roseleigh Taylor (MIT), Jeff Johnson (Jacobs Engineering), Peter Coffin (Clarkson).

Clarkson University Undergraduate Student Robert Franklin received a Summer 2008 internship at the Constellation Energy - Nine Mile Point Nuclear Station

Clarkson University participate in the National Science Foundation Nucleation in Forests (NIFTY) project.

Clarkson University Graduate Student Joshua Butler wins AIAA Aeronautical Abe Zarem Award.

Professor Liviu Librescu Memorial Sessions at the ESM 2008 Mechanics Conference (click here for more info)

University Recognition Day 2008 Students Awards
Steven Caron - The Commendable Leadership Award and Inducted into Phalanx

Mark Czajkowski - The Commendable Leadership Award, The Mechanical Engineering Senior Staff Award and Inducted into Phalanx
Farshad Madhi - The James E. Fassett Memorial Scholarship

Andrew W. MacDougall - The Robert E. Rosati '52 Award for Excellence in Mechanical Engineering

 Ryan C. Harrington - The Aeronautical Engineering Senior Staff Award

 Ryan T. Watkins - The Aeronautical Engineering Junior Staff Award

 Sayuri D. Yapa - The Mechanical Engineering Junior Staff Award 

 Astri Roman - Institutional Diversity Initiatives Award


MAE Department wins two Goldwater scholars for 2008-09.  Sayuri Yapa (Mechanical) and Ryan Watkins (Aeronautical).  (click here).

Clarkson, UW-Madison Win Clean Snowmobile Challenge (click here)

Clarkson students present research at Albany legislative building
 - Six Clarkson students travelled to Albany to present their undergraduate research to other students, educators and members of the legislature...more

First Robotics Champs Students from Massena and Salmon River High Schools, mentored by Clarkson University's SPEED team, took first place in the Long Island Regional of the First Robotics Competition in Hempstead, N.Y. ....more

Clarkson University participated in the RASC-AL 2007 Forum on May 20-24, 2007, at Moody Gardens Hotel, Spa and Convention Center in Galveston, Texas....more

MAE undergraduate student makes the news (click here)