AEM News

Candler selected as McKnight Presidential Professor

AEM faculty member, Graham Candler, has been selected as a McKnight Presidential Professor. There are currently only eleven individuals holding the title that extends through the duration of their careers at the University of Minnesota. More info.

Posted November 2nd, 2009

Schwartzentruber Receives Young Investigator Award

Prof. Tom Schwartzentruber was selected by the Air Force to receive the 2010 Young Investigators Research Program. The program was created to enhance the early career development of talented young investigators. More info.

Posted October 26th, 2009

Alumnus Profile: Prof. Peter Thomson

Prof. Peter Thomson, featured in the Fall 2009 AEM Update, is an alumnus of both AEM undergraduate and graduate programs.

Thomson grew up in Colombia, South America and travelled to Minnesota for his post-secondary education culminating with his doctorate in 1996. He then returned to Colombia to continue his career in academia. More info.

Posted October 19th, 2009

Interns at Work

Growing numbers of AEM undergraduates are displaying the initiative to get ‘real world’ work experience and are securing internships within the aerospace industry as part of their academic career.   More info.

Posted October 7th, 2009

Tadmor and Elliott receive $2.0 million NSF Grant

Prof. Ellad Tadmor and Assistant Prof. Ryan Elliott, together with Prof. Jim Sethna at Cornell University, have been awarded a four year $2 million grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF).  More info.

Posted September 30th, 2009

Balas and Seiler receive $1.5 million NSF Grant

AEM department head Prof. Gary Balas, Dr. Pete Seiler along with 3 colleagues from the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department have just received a $1.5M grant from NSF's Cyber-Physical Systems(CPS) program. More info.

Posted September 25th, 2009