RPI Alumnus, Riley Bulso, was featured in the Winter 2024 Nuclear Criticality Safety Division newsletter. Riley obtained his bachelor's degree in nuclear engineering in 2019 from RPI, and he then went on to complete a semester at Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) . Riley is now a nuclear criticality safety analyst and deputy group leader at LANL, where he provides support to the pyrochemical and aqueous processing NCS team.
MANE News and Events
Announcements
MANE students, Nishan Parvez and Osama Raisuddin, have both received the Belsky Award for Computational Sciences and Engineering.
Robert Niemiec Lecturer in MANE has been awarded the Young Person’s Award as lead author for the paper titled ‘Relative rotor phasing for multicopter vibratory load minimisation’.
Institute News
Antoinette Maniatty ’87, Ph.D., has been named head of the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering (MANE) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). MANE is one of the largest academic departments at RPI, with 53 faculty members and over 1,400 students.
There are more than 80,000 sheep and lambs living on over 2,000 farms in New York State. Their wool has many uses including clothing, carpets, furniture, bedding, insulators, fertilizers, and more. However, about 10-15% of wool is wasted during the sorting and cleaning processes. Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are aiming to turn that waste into a new profit source for farmers, and produce an eco-conscious, high-performance yarn in the process.
Building on novel experiments with amyloid fibrils — a type of protein aggregate associated with diseases like diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s — a new set of experiments using serum albumins, the primary constituents of blood protein, was sent to the International Space Station (ISS) in March aboard SpaceX 27. This is the fourth time the experiment is being conducted on the ISS.
CeFPaC graduate student, Samantha Gildersleeve, has been selected to receive a travel subsidy grant to attend the 69th Annual APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting in Portland, Oregon in November 2016.
The first issue of RPI's MANE Student Research and Design Journal includes submissions for CeFPaC members, Annika Lindstrom and Jason Roman, undergraduate and co-terminal students, under the direction of graduate student mentor, Marianne Monastero and Professor Michael Amitay, Director of the Center for Flow Physics and Control.
The 4th AAWE workshop addressed ongoing research in several fields regarding wind engineering including hurricane destruction patterns, tornado modeling, and downburst simulations.
CeFPaC members recently attended the 8th AIAA Flow Control Conference in Washington DC on June 13-17, 2016. Michael Amitay, Professor and CeFPaC Director, and four of his graduate students: Haley Dell'Orso, Samantha Gildersleeve, Marianne Monastero and Thomas Rice presented their research in four technical presentations.
Fixed-term Lecturer and Professor of Practice Opportunities
The School of Engineering is pleased to invite applications for Lecturer and Professor of Practice openings in several areas including Biomedical Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering.