LATEST NEWS:
[Jun. 7, 2024]: Congratulations to Victoria Malarczyk for receiving the 2024-2025 New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) Wind Institute Fellowship!
[May 16, 2024]: Congratulations to Nick Conlin for receiving the HMEI-Climate and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (CESEn) Graduate Fellowship!
[Jan. 11, 2024]: Our lab's LaDrone project has been featured on the front page of aps.org! You can find the article here. More info on the LaDrone itself can be found here!
[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! You can watch his presentation, "Improving Drone Performance in Wind with Novel, Fast, Sensors" below.
[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!
[April 22, 2022]: Congratulations to Dan Hoffman for winning the Spot Award! We are all so grateful for all of your hard work!
[January 21, 2022]: Congratulations to Katie Wu for passing her general examination!
[January 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!
[March 23, 2021]: Congratulations to Katie Wu for receiving the NSF GRFP fellowship!
[January 20, 2021]: Congratulations to Lena Sabidussi for passing her general examination!
[September 15, 2020]: Introducing the SuperTank! Our new high pressure wind tunnel is coming to the lab soon.
[August 25, 2020]: Congratulations to Dr. Katherine Kokmanian on a successful thesis defense!
[April 17, 2020]: Congratulations to Ian Gunady for receiving the NDSEG fellowship!
[February 20, 2020]: Congratulations to Kelly Huang for winning the Excellence in Teaching Award for the School of Engineering and Applied Science. She was awarded this prize for teaching Fluid Mechanics. Job well done, Kelly!
[January 27, 2020]: Congratulations to Simeret Genet and Alex Piqué for passing their general examinations!
[September 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 (left) and Kelly (right) are back out in Utah! Despite some unfavorable conditions, they were able to gather some valuable data to help improve the understanding of the atmospheric boundary layer in one of the flattest places on the planet.
[May 1, 2019]: Congratulations to Katherine Kokmanian for receiving the Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowship for the 2019-2020 academic year!
[February 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.
[January 29, 2019]: Congratulations to Madeline Vorenkamp and Claudia Brunner for passing their general examinations!
[December 14, 2018]: The FAST lab would like to wish everyone Happy Holidays!
[December 13, 2018]: Claudia Brunner (left) and Kelly Huang (right) are attending the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in Washington, DC.
[November 1, 2018]: Congratulations to Dr. Mark Miller on a successful thesis defense!
[September 22, 2018]: Fun lab outing in NYC. Ramen + ping pong = good times!
[August 27, 2018]: Congratulations to Dr. Matthew Fu on a successful thesis defense!
[July 20, 2018]: Kelly (left), Claudia (right) and Katherine (not pictured) studied the atmospheric boundary layer by placing nano-scale thermal anemometry probes on meter-tall towers in the Utah salt flats. Dugway, Utah was the perfect location to study the canonical atmospheric boundary layer due to its low surface roughness.
[May 30, 2018]: Planting at the FFS (Forrestal Farm Share) is well underway! We are expecting tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots, onions, lettuce, beans, eggplants, onions, radishes, peppers, strawberries, watermelons and a variety of herbs this upcoming season.
[May 16, 2018]: Congratulations to Dr. Clayton Byers on a successful thesis defense!
[April 13, 2018]: Congratulations to Claudia Brunner for receiving the NDSEG fellowship!
[January 17, 2018]: Congratulations to Kelly Huang for passing her general examination!
[November 03, 2017]: Congratulations to Dr. Yuyang Fan on a successful thesis defense!
[September 15, 2017]: Congratulations to the following members of the lab on winning 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
[September 1, 2017]: Congratulations to Tara Nealon on receiving her Master of Science Degree. Wishing her best of luck in all her future endeavours.
[April 11, 2017]: Congratulations to Kelly Huang for receiving the NDSEG fellowship!
[March 2, 2017]: Congratulations to Clayton Byers for winning the Excellence in Teaching Award for the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
[February 15, 2017]: Congratulations to Team Tendo for bringing home the Bronze at the 12th Annual Princeton Innovation Forum.
[January 20, 2017]: Congratulations to Katherine Kokmanian for passing her general examination!
[December 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 (HRNBLWT) at the University of Melbourne, to obtain high quality boundary layer data. The HRNBLWT is presently the largest zero-pressure gradient wind tunnel, with Re_tau up to 30,000.
[November 10, 2016]: Learn more about the lab's work on sensors from Professor Marcus Hultmark and a few of his graduate students in the video below.
[October 6, 2016]: Congratulations to Janik Kiefer for winning the Best Poster Award for his work entitled "Effects of finite aspect ratio on wind turbine airfoil measurements" presented at the TORQUE 2016 conference on wind energy.
[September 22, 2016]: Professor Marcus Hultmark was featured on "Celebrate Princeton Invention" for his work on sensors. Read about it here.
[May 17, 2016]: Yuyang Fan wins Performance/Art presentation category at Princeton Research Day 2016 with the video below.
[May 17, 2016]: Mark Miller and Janik Kiefer win Fan Favorite for Performance/Art presentation category at Princeton Research Day 2016 with the video below.