Instagram story viewer> @syracusemae> Posts

SU MAE

@syracusemae

647

followers

34

following

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Syracuse University

POSTS STORIES REELS TAGGED

by @syracusemae

9

0

2 days ago

Over 400 Central New York high school students got to see where an engineering and computer science education can take them during Engineering Exploration Day at Syracuse University! Thank you to everyone who attended! by @syracusemae

134

0

4 days ago

This Friday at 12:45 PM, join us for the MAE Graduate Seminar featuring Professor Antoinette Maniatty of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute!

Dr. Maniatty will present “Computational Crystal Plasticity for the Design of Materials and Processes”. by @syracusemae

5

0

5 days ago

The best way to start the week! Thank you to all the high school students and familes who came to campus to learn about our programs! #BeOrange 🍊 by @syracusemae

89

0

6 days ago

Precision over power! First year mechanical engineering students looking to hit the mark with their mini-racecar designs. #FastAndStudious 🏁🏎 by @syracusemae

81

0

9 days ago

This Friday at 12:45 PM, join us for the MAE Graduate Seminar featuring Professor Sachin Velankar of University of Pittsburgh!

Dr. Velankar will present “Non-Elastic Effects on Mechanical Instabilities”. by @syracusemae

10

0

13 days ago

This Friday at 12:45 PM, join us for the MAE Graduate Seminar featuring Assistant Professor Jifu Tan of Binghamton University!

Dr. Tan will present “Multiphysics Modeling of Complex Biological Flows”. by @syracusemae

5

0

20 days ago

by @syracusemae

11

0

23 days ago

New research by Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Professor Anupam Pandey, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), has found that microscopic folds in soft materials can act like tiny, programmable traffic gates for liquid droplets.

The folds can stop droplets, let them pass, or merge them together without any surface coatings or additional hardware. Remarkably, the droplets never touch the fold. They sense it from a distance and slow down, stop short, or change course in response.

The researchers worked with “creases” – narrow, self-contacting downward folds that form when a soft, rubber-like surface is compressed. They found that these creases curve the surface around them, creating an energy barrier a droplet feels from a distance. Droplet smaller than a critical size stop in their tracks before ever touching it, while larger droplets sail right through, creating a sharp threshold.

Adjusting how much the surface is compressed changes the size cutoff, allowing the same crease to be reprogrammed on the fly to block or admit different droplets. This effect is disproportionate: squeezing 15 percent harder quadruples the threshold size.

“What we did not expect is that drops of different sizes are not sensing the same thing,” says Pandey. “The large ones respond to how steep the fold is, the small ones to how quickly that steepness changes.”

#SyracuseU #STEM by @syracusemae

88

1

25 days ago

This Friday at 12:45 PM, join us for the MAE Graduate Seminar featuring Assistant Professor Chris Roh of Cornall University!

Dr. Roh will present “A Centimeter-scale Autonomy at the Water Surface: Whirligig Beetle's Locomotion and Perception”. by @syracusemae

5

0

a month ago

by @syracusemae

7

0

a month ago

Mechanical and aerospace engineering researchers have received $1.35 million to build a pipeline that trains students from elementary school through college for careers in battery and energy storage technology.

The three-year grant is funded through the National Science Foundation's Energy Storage Engine Scholars Initiative program and administered by the Griffiss Institute. Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department Chair Quinn Qiao, will serve as principal investigator. Professor Zhenyu Gan is co-principal investigator. Anthony Terrinoni, director of Orange Works is also a co-principal investigator.

The initiative, called "Charged for the Future: Building Central New York's Battery Workforce," runs from July 2026 through June 2029 and is designed to give students a continuous path from grade school to college that uses energy storage as a common theme.

#SyracuseU #STEM 🍊 by @syracusemae

83

0

a month ago