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The University of Minnesota's Department of Mechanical Engineering — serving the state and nation Please visit us at: http://www.me.umn.edu/

Welcome to the Department of Mechanical Engineering, part of the College of Science and Engineering, serving the state and nation as a leading center of education, research, and innovation. The Department has 43 active faculty, approximately 47 staff members, 300 graduate students, 50 postdoctoral associates, research associates and visitors, and about 550 undergraduate students.

08/19/2026

The Department of Mechanical Engineering is proud to announce that Professor Peter Bruggeman and Dr. Jae Hyun (Jae) Nam, together with Hummingbird Scientific, have received a Microscopy Today Innovation Award for the co-design of the Operando Plasma Transmission Electron Microscopy Sample Holder, an in-situ TEM platform that enables real-time, nanometer-scale imaging of materials as they react in atmospheric-pressure plasma.

Presented by the Microscopy Society of America, the award recognizes ten organizations or individuals each year who have launched or published innovations in microscopy or microanalysis.

The work at the University of Minnesota was led by Dr. Jae Hyun Nam, a former PhD student in Bruggeman's group who is now a postdoc at Northwestern University.

Full story: z.umn.edu/bhr1

08/11/2026

Researchers in the Department of Mechanical Engineering have developed a new class of microscopic particles that can swim through liquid and redirect light on command, combining mobility and sophisticated optical control in a single device.

The work, led by Professor Ognjen Ilic with research scientist Seung Yeol Lee and PhD student Yujie Luo, was published in Advanced Materials, a leading multidisciplinary materials journal.

Read more: z.umn.edu/bh28

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08/05/2026

The Department of Mechanical Engineering is proud to announce that Professors Uwe Kortshagen and Suo Yang have received a U.S. Department of Energy Genesis Mission award. Their project develops an AI-enabled autonomous workflow to reduce plasma process discovery from months to weeks, directly supporting U.S. microelectronics manufacturing.

The project brings together researchers from three University of Minnesota departments, a national laboratory, and an industry partner:

University of Minnesota: Professor Uwe Kortshagen (ME, PI), Professor Suo Yang (ME, Co-I), Professor Chris Bartel (Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Co-I), and Professor Gang Qiu (Electrical and Computer Engineering, Co-I).

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory: Dr. Igor Kaganovich, Principal Research Physicist.

Physical Electronics, Inc. (PHI): Dr. David Valley, Senior Scientist.

Full story: z.umn.edu/bgms

07/29/2026

The Department of Mechanical Engineering is proud to announce that Professor Suo Yang has been named to the 2026 Class of 40 Under 40 by the Georgia Tech Alumni Association.

The program recognizes distinguished Georgia Tech alumni under the age of 40 who have made a significant impact within their sector, among their colleagues and peers, and in the wider community. Professor Yang is recognized for authoring more than 100 publications, pioneering modeling for advanced aerospace propulsion, and receiving four Department of Defense Young Investigator awards.

Read more: z.umn.edu/bg4n

07/22/2026

The Department of Mechanical Engineering is proud to announce that graduate student Vikas Jukanti has received the AITF Best Poster Award at the 12th International Conference on Boiling and Condensation Heat Transfer (ICBCHT-12). The award recognizes outstanding work at the intersection of AI and machine learning and boiling heat transfer, selected from 115 poster submissions.

Advised by Vinod Srinivasan, his research applies AI and machine learning to predict Critical Heat Flux proximity using a low-cost sensor, with direct applications in nuclear reactors, power generation, and electronics cooling.

Read more: z.umn.edu/bfpr

07/14/2026

The Department of Mechanical Engineering is proud to announce the 2026–2027 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF) awardees! The DDF is a highly competitive university-wide fellowship awarded to outstanding Ph.D. candidates, giving them the time and funding to fully focus on finishing their research without the demands of teaching or research assistant duties.

This year's recipients are Sajjad Daroudi, Yun Kim, Akshat Mallya, Binit Singh, Lily Watkins, and Xiaotian Xu.

Read more: z.umn.edu/bf79

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07/09/2026

The Department of Mechanical Engineering is proud to announce that PhD student Shubham Dongarwar has received the Best Student Paper Award at the Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS), organized by the of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

The award recognizes outstanding student research based on originality, value to the community, and delivery.

Advised by Professor Peter Bruggeman, his research on nitric oxide (NO) reduction by plasma catalysis at low temperatures is part of his PhD work and an NSF-funded project in collaboration with Professor Aditya Bhan from the University of Minnesota Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science (CEMS).

Read more: z.umn.edu/beyg

07/02/2026

The Department of Mechanical Engineering is proud to announce that Professor Sungyon Lee has been awarded a RIO Grant-in-Aid from the University of Minnesota's Research and Innovation Office.

The award supports faculty-driven research initiatives across the University. Her research explores a non-invasive approach to treat respiratory distress syndrome in preterm infants by studying aerosolized surfactant delivery in a microfluidic lung model, in collaboration with Dr. Kari Roberts from the Department of Pediatrics.

Read more: z.umn.edu/bemd

06/25/2026

The Department of Mechanical Engineering is proud to announce that Rochak Badyal and Pauly Soulia have been selected as the 2025–2026 recipients of the Goldstein Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award. This award recognizes graduate teaching assistants who demonstrate exceptional dedication, teaching excellence, and a significant impact on student learning.

Read the full story: z.umn.edu/be5d

06/23/2026

The Department of Mechanical Engineering is proud to announce that graduate student Jae Hyun Nam has received the Silver Award in the ACS Energy & Fuels Division Student Excellent Presentation Award at the 2026 ACS Spring National Meeting.

Jae's research introduced the first-of-its-kind in-situ plasma transmission electron microscopy (TEM) platform, enabling real-time monitoring of nanomaterial morphology under plasma conditions and advancing carbon-free material processing.

Read more: z.umn.edu/bdzl

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