Awards

Awards in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

MAE receives local and national recognition for its outstanding students, faculty, department, and research. 

National Design Competitions

 

Other awards and recognition

MAE faculty members Heng Ban and David Geller received the College of Engineering 2010 Outstanding Advisor and Outstanding Teach or the Year, respectively.

Nine students on the USU Getaway Special Team, primarily from MAE and co-advised by Dr. Heng Ban, were selected by NASA to conduct experiments in NASA's Microgravity University aboard the "Vomit Comet."

Dr. Tony Whitmore was selected as the 2009 Utah Engineering Educator of the Year. He was nominated again for 2010 by the ASME Utah Section. 

Dr. Wenbin Yu was selected as the 2009 Utah State University Technology Entrepreneur of the Year and the 2009 College of Engineering Outstanding Researcher of the Year. 

Dr. Leijun Li received the American Welding Society Adams Memorial Award in 2006. 

MAE students, mentored by Dr. Tony Whitmore, received the Grand Prize from NASA at the annual University Student Launch Initiative in Alabama in both 2009 and 2008.  

Dr. Barton Smith was named Entrepreneur of the Year in 2008 by USU's Technology Commercialization Office. 

Dr. Wenbin Yu received the Ferdinand P. Beer and E. Russell Johnston, Jr., Outstanding New Mechanics Educator Award from the Mechanics Division of the American Society of Engineering Education at the 2007 ASEE Annual Conference in Honolulu.

Dr. Heng Ban was selected as organizer for the International Thermal Expansion Symposium. 

Several MAE Faculty are invited to sit on National Review Boards for NASA, AFRL, DOE, and other government agencies’ projects.

MAE considers it a tremendous award that our students are competitively employed and interned by Idaho National Laboratories, AFRL Labs, Johnson Space Center, Draper Laboratory, ATK, Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and many other industry leaders.