Facts & Figures

(updated November 2010)

• MAE is the fifth largest department (700+ students)  at USU.
• Two thirds of the 18 MAE professors have been hired since 2001.
• The new (August 2003) engineering building has proven to be an exceptional student centered teaching facility.
• Faculty have developed world class research programs.
• The David G. Sant Innovation Engineering Building (June 2008) provides new state-of-the-art research space.
• MAE Students are competitive with the very best in national competitions.

• They won 1^st place in the 2008 & 2009 NASA Rocket Launch competitions.
• They placed 1^st in Society of Manufacturer Engineers 2008 Innovative Deign competition.
• They took 1^st place out of 20 teams in a NASA sponsored space mission design competition in Orlando, FL (May2005).
• They won the NASA Great Moonbuggy Race against 28 university teams (May2005).
• They took 6^th place out of 44 teams in the AIAA sponsored design build and fly competition in Baltimore, MD (May 2005).
• They took 13^th place out of 139 teams in the SAE sponsored Mini Baja competition in Tucson AZ (June 2005).
• They won 1^st place for zero emission vehicles at the 2006 SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge, Houghton, MI (Mar 2006).
• Recent MAE graduates are in PhD programs at Notre Dame, Penn State, Georgia Tech, Purdue, MIT, George Washington, UC Davis Medical School, U of Washington-Seattle, UC Boulder, Virgina Tech, U of Michigan.

• Modeling and testing of composite materials properties
• Spacecraft Relative Navigation Sensors for Rendezvous and Docking
• DSMC Simulations of Aerodynamic Effects on Sounding Rockets
• Autonomous Optical Navigation at Jupiter - A Linear Covariance Analysis
• Center for Thermal Management Technologies
• Center for Control of Flow In Manufacturing
• USTAR Phototrophic Microbial Biofuels and Bioproducts (Shared with three USU departments)
• Laser Based Metal Deposition of Medical Grade Alloys for Orthopedic Implants
• Buried Structures Research and Testing Lab
• CFD Simulation: Hydrodynamic Model of the Circulation within the South Arm of the Great Salt Lake
• A New Paradigm for Multiphysics Modeling of Advanced Materials and Structures
• Bulk Mechanical Alloying as a Nanoscale Particle Processing Method
• Analysis and Experiment of Long-term Reliability of Thermal Switches for James Webb Space Telescope
• Heat Flow and Plastic Deformation during Ultrasonic Bonding: Theory for Ultrasonic Consolidation of Metal-Matrix Composites
• Thermophysical properties of radioactice materials and Thermal Fluid studies for Advance Nuclear Power Plants