Meet Dr. Daniele Vivona, Our New Assistant Professor
🎉 Welcome Dr. Daniele Vivona! 🎉 We are excited to welcome Dr. Daniele Vivona as an Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Manufacturing Engineering and the UConn Center for Clean Energy Engineering at the University of Connecticut! Dr. Vivona’s research explores atom-level energy conversion processes to develop innovative design solutions for ion […]
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MAM Graduate Students Take Top Spot at International ASME Student Hackathon
A team of graduate students from our School of MAM’s Computational Engineering and Design (CEaD) Lab won first place in the Autodesk challenge at the ASME IDETC/CIE 2025 Student Hackathon, held August 10–17 in Anaheim, California. Ph.D. students Kiarash Naghavi Khanghah and Hoang Anh Nguyen, advised by Dr. Hongyi Xu, earned the top spot and […]
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UConn Alum Wins ASME Best Dissertation Award
UConn graduate Zihan Wang (’24 PhD) has been honored with the ASME Design Automation Best Dissertation Award for his groundbreaking research in metamaterials. His dissertation, “Design, Performance Evaluation and Uncertainty Analysis of Metamaterials,” was completed under the guidance of Dr. Hongyi Xu, Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Manufacturing Engineering. Dr. Wang’s […]
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UConn Researchers Win Distinguished ASME Best Paper Award
Prof. Hongyi Xu and Prof. Farhad Imani A team of researchers from UConn has received the 2025 ASME Design for Manufacturing and the Life Cycle (DFMLC) Best Paper Award, a national honor given to only one paper each year. The award was presented at the ASME 2025 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and […]
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MAM Student Pursues In-Depth Research Project as University Scholar
Zhengyang Wei ’26, a mechanical engineering major and University Scholar, is conducting advanced research to improve the stability and efficiency of aerodynamic systems. His project focuses on analyzing shear flows, where fluid layers move at different speeds, to understand and prevent turbulence, a key challenge in fluid dynamics. Using mathematical models and stability theorems, Wei’s […]
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