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Spencer Zimmerman

Positioning Wind Turbines for Greater Energy Output

Assistant Professor Spencer Zimmerman received an Ørsted award to develop models to better predict turbulent flows of air over / through wind turbine arrays. The project aims to determine how the flow of air is modified by the positioning...

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SBU ASME Student Chapter Wins Marketing Award

Congratulations to the SBU Student Chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) on earning the Best Marketing 2025 for a Student Chapter award at the ASME Student Leader Weekend in Philadelphia! In addition to....

Karina Torres-Castro

International Collaboration Targets Costly Livestock Diseases

Congratulations to Research Assistant Professor Karina Torres-Castro on the publication of her paper, “Microfluidic Dielectrophoretic Platform for the Manipulation of Brucella abortus Bacteria: Toward Rapid Diagnostic Solutions.” This marks her first...

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Professor Spencer Zimmerman

Professor Zimmerman Named Top Reviewer of 2024 for the Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Assistant Professor Spencer Zimmerman has been named a 2024 Top Reviewer for the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, the leading journals in the field. This distinction, introduced in 2023, recognizes the top 1% of expert reviewers worldwide...

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MotionGen Scotch Yoke Mechanism

Leveraging AI to Streamline intelligent Mechanism Design

Professor Anurag Purwar recently received a SUNY Technology Accelerator Fund (TAF) Class of 2025 (Mission) award for his project: MotionGen: An AI Platform for Intelligent Mechanism Design...

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Professor Jon Longtin

Professor Jon Longtin Appointed Chair of ASTFE Executive Committee

After three years of serving as the inaugural Vice-Chair of the American Society of Thermal and Fluid Engineers’ (ASTFE) Executive Committee, Professor Jon Longtin was selected to serve a two-year term as Chair. Formed in 2022...

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Professor Jie Gao

Professor Jie Gao Receives NSF Award

Associate Professor, Jie Gao, received a 3-year award from the U.S. National Science Foundation, (NSF), for her project titled "2D Chiral Fingerprint Metasensor Empowered by Machine Learning for Chiral Molecule Sensing."

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Expanding Pathways to Careers in Semiconductors and Nanomanufacturing

Stony Brook University, Professors Carlos Colosqui (Mechanical Engineering) and Surita Bhatia (Chemistry) have been awarded a $1 million National Science Foundation grant to launch a new learning initiative designed to broaden access...

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Professor Jeff Ge

ASME Honors Mechanical Engineering Professor

Professor Jeff Ge recently received both the Lifetime Achievement for Machine Design and the A.T. Yang Memorial Award for Theoretical Kinematics from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)....

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Professor Chen and his Student Receive the ASME Compliant Mechanism Award

Professor Shikui Chen Receives ASME 2025 Compliant Mechanisms Award

Professor Shikui Chen and co-authors Ran Zhuang, Chander Sadasivan, and Xianfeng David Gu have been awarded the ASME 2025 Compliant Mechanisms Award at the International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE) in Anaheim, California...

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Professor Dimitris Assanis

Powering Up Long Island’s Power Grid with World’s First 100% H2-Fueled Commercial Linear Generator

The world’s first commercially-deployed, 100% hydrogen-fueled linear generator, (LGen), is coming to Long Island. In partnership with National Grid Ventures (NGV), the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority...

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Scott Carney visits the Office of Navel Research

Strengthening Research Connections

On July 15, the incoming Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dr. Carney, visited the Office of Naval Research (ONR) in Arlington, VA, to explore collaborative opportunities between Stony Brook and ONR program officers...

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