Assistant Professor Cristina Riso has been selected for the National Academy of Engineering's Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering 2026 Symposium, recognizing outstanding early-career engineers and fostering interdisciplinary collaboration.

STEP Camp is expanding across the state, giving high school students hands-on engineering experience through immersive, team-based challenges.

Student teams in AE’s inaugural entrepreneurship program developed solutions to improve airport and bridge safety and manufacturing efficiency.

Professor Joe Oefelein’s RAPTOR framework uses Frontier to advance simulations for supersonic propulsion.

Professor Masatoshi Hirabayashi helped select the target asteroid and developed the spacecraft’s final orientation and trajectory for the encounter.

AE 8803 redesigns a classic engineering subject by helping students first understand how cracks grow, then use theory, experiments, and AI to predict failure. 

A long-time faculty member, Ruffin has been a leader and associate dean in the College of Lifetime Learning.