May 4, 2026: Congratulations to Dr. Victoria Malarczyk on a successful thesis defense!
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The FAST Lab studies many aspects of fluid mechanics and how they affect the world we live in. We work on a wide range of subjects, from drag reduction and boundary layers to wind turbines. Look around!
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May 1, 2026: Congratulations to Dr. Nick Conlin on a successful thesis defense!
Jan. 20, 2026: Congratulations to Kyle Devlin for passing his general examination!
Jan. 7, 2026: Congratulations to Jabari Lawrence for passing his general examination!
May 1, 2025: Congratulations to Dr. Nate Simon on a successful thesis defense!
Apr. 4, 2025: Congratulations to Victoria Malarczyk for winning the Excellence in Teaching Award for the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
She was awarded this prize for teaching Flight Mechanics.
Mar. 25, 2025: Congratulations to Dr. Ian Gunady for winning a Clio Hall award for his contributions to GradFUTURES!
Jan. 30, 2025: Congratulations to Dr. Lena Sabidussi on a successful thesis defense!
Jan. 15, 2025: Congratulations to Adina Fleisher for passing her general examination!
Oct. 30, 2024: Congratulations to Dr. Ian Gunady on a successful thesis defense!
Jun. 7, 2024: Congratulations to Victoria Malarczyk for receiving the 2024–2025 New Jersey Wind Institute Fellowship!
May 16, 2024: Congratulations to Nick Conlin for receiving the HMEI-Climate and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (CESEn) Graduate Fellowship!
Jan. 9, 2024: Congratulations to Victoria Malarczyk for passing her general examination!
Oct. 25, 2023: Congratulations to Nick Conlin for winning the 2023–2024 New Jersey Wind Institute Fellowship!
Sept. 8, 2023: Congratulations to Nate Simon for winning the Crocco Award for Teaching Excellence!
May 11, 2023: Congratulations to Nate Simon for winning an Outstanding Presentation Award at Princeton Research Day!
Watch the presentation, Improving Drone Performance in Wind with Novel, Fast, Sensors.
May 2, 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Alexander Piqué on a successful thesis defense!
Jan. 20, 2023: Congratulations to Nick Conlin for passing his general examination!
Nov. 11, 2022: The SuperTank has arrived!
Sept. 9, 2022: Congratulations to Nick Conlin for winning the Phillips Second Year Fellowship!
May 6, 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Claudia Brunner on a successful thesis defense!
Apr. 22, 2022: Congratulations to Dan Hoffman for winning the Spot Award!
We are all grateful for your hard work.
Jan. 21, 2022: Congratulations to Katie Wu for passing her general examination!
Jan. 20, 2022: Congratulations to Nathaniel Simon for passing his general examination!
July 8, 2021: Congratulations to Katie Wu on winning the MAE Department Fellowship and Nathaniel Simon on winning the Guggenheim Fellowship!
July 8, 2021: Congratulations to Dr. Kelly Huang on a successful thesis defense!
May 6, 2021: Congratulations to Ian Gunady for passing his general examination!
Mar. 23, 2021: Congratulations to Katie Wu for receiving the NSF GRFP fellowship!
Jan. 20, 2021: Congratulations to Lena Sabidussi for passing her general examination!
Sept. 15, 2020: Introducing the SuperTank! Our new high-pressure wind tunnel was coming to the lab soon.
Aug. 25, 2020: Congratulations to Dr. Katherine Kokmanian on a successful thesis defense!
Apr. 17, 2020: Congratulations to Ian Gunady for receiving the NDSEG fellowship!
Feb. 20, 2020: Congratulations to Kelly Huang for winning the Excellence in Teaching Award for the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
She was awarded the prize for teaching Fluid Mechanics. Job well done, Kelly!
Jan. 27, 2020: Congratulations to Simeret Genet and Alex Piqué for passing their general examinations!
Sept. 13, 2019: Congratulations to Kelly Huang for winning the Crocco Award for MAE222—Mechanics of Fluids and to Simeret Genet for winning the Guggenheim Fellowship!
June–July 2019: Claudia and Kelly were back in Utah, gathering data to improve understanding of the atmospheric boundary layer.
Utah's salt flats offered low surface roughness and favorable conditions for studying the canonical atmospheric boundary layer.
May 1, 2019: Congratulations to Katherine Kokmanian for receiving the Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowship for the 2019–2020 academic year!
Feb. 21, 2019: Congratulations to Katherine Kokmanian for winning the Excellence in Teaching Award for the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
She was awarded this prize for teaching Fluid Mechanics.
Jan. 29, 2019: Congratulations to Madeline Vorenkamp and Claudia Brunner for passing their general examinations!
Dec. 14, 2018: The FAST Lab wishes everyone happy holidays!
Dec. 13, 2018: Claudia Brunner and Kelly Huang attended the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in Washington, DC.
Nov. 1, 2018: Congratulations to Dr. Mark Miller on a successful thesis defense!
Sept. 22, 2018: Fun lab outing in New York City. Ramen plus ping pong made for a good time!
Aug. 27, 2018: Congratulations to Dr. Matthew Fu on a successful thesis defense!
July 20, 2018: Kelly, Claudia, and Katherine studied the atmospheric boundary layer using nano-scale thermal anemometry probes on meter-tall towers in the Utah salt flats.
Dugway, Utah was well suited for studying the canonical atmospheric boundary layer because of its low surface roughness.
May 30, 2018: Planting at the Forrestal Farm Share was well underway.
The farm expected tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots, onions, lettuce, beans, eggplants, radishes, peppers, strawberries, watermelons, and a variety of herbs that season.
May 16, 2018: Congratulations to Dr. Clayton Byers on a successful thesis defense!
Apr. 13, 2018: Congratulations to Claudia Brunner for receiving the NDSEG fellowship!
Jan. 17, 2018: Congratulations to Kelly Huang for passing her general examination!
Nov. 3, 2017: Congratulations to Dr. Yuyang Fan on a successful thesis defense!
Sept. 15, 2017: Congratulations to FAST Lab members who won prizes during the 2017 MAE Research Day.
Mark Miller: Crocco Award for Teaching Excellence.
Clayton Byers: First prize for best presentation.
Ting-Hsuan Chen: Second prize for best presentation.
Sept. 1, 2017: Congratulations to Tara Nealon on receiving her Master of Science degree. Best wishes in all future endeavors.
Apr. 11, 2017: Congratulations to Kelly Huang for receiving the NDSEG fellowship!
Mar. 2, 2017: Congratulations to Clayton Byers for winning the Excellence in Teaching Award for the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Feb. 15, 2017: Congratulations to Team Tendo for bringing home the bronze at the 12th Annual Princeton Innovation Forum.
Jan. 20, 2017: Congratulations to Katherine Kokmanian for passing her general examination!
Dec. 13, 2016: Graduate students Matthew Fu and Yuyang Fan visited Melbourne to take measurements with NSTAPs in the High Reynolds Number Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel at the University of Melbourne.
The work produced high-quality boundary-layer data in a facility with Reynolds number based on friction velocity up to 30,000.
Nov. 10, 2016: Learn more about the lab's sensor research from Professor Marcus Hultmark and graduate students.
Oct. 6, 2016: Congratulations to Janik Kiefer for winning the Best Poster Award at TORQUE 2016 for work on wind-turbine airfoil measurements.
Sept. 22, 2016: Professor Marcus Hultmark was featured on Celebrate Princeton Invention for work on sensors.
Read the feature here.
