Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Newsletter: August 2023
Message From the Chair
National research grants awarded this year to Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering faculty by the NIH and NSF are enabling both our undergraduate and graduate students to engage in groundbreaking research and scholarship. From cutting-edge biomedical research to studying the solar birthplace of space weather, our students are performing the hands-on research at the center of the Clarkson experience.
— Brian Helenbrook, Professor/Chair of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering/Paynter-Krigman Endowed Professor in Engineering Science Simulation
Vocal Hyperfunction
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering students will perform cross-disciplinary biomedical research along with more than 25 researchers from more than 13 universities and institutions around the world. Associate Professor Byron Erath is a co-investigator in the National Institutes of Health grant which is making this possible.
Glowing Opportunity
Clarkson has a strong history of welcoming socio-demographically diverse students to our campus. A National Institutes of Health grant will launch the BOREALIS Scholars program, which will prepare a diverse cadre of students for careers in biomedical research by creating a pathway to bioengineering graduate study.
Solar Convection
The sun’s convection zone is the birthplace of space weather. Through a National Science Foundation grant, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Chunlei Liang will teach graduate, undergraduate and high school students how to become computational engineers and scientists who can make faster and more accurate predictions of turbulent convection in the sun.
Top ROI
Clarkson is consistently named a best-value college known for giving students a great return on their investment. We recently placed in the Top 40 on Stacker’s list of the 100 colleges whose grads go on to earn the most. The Stacker rankings, compiled using PayScale data, also highlighted that Clarkson grads report salaries more than 10% higher than the national average.