The Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) is organized into four clusters:
- Additive Manufacturing and Structures
- Faculty: Qingda Yang, Emrah Celik, Ryan Karkkainen, James Coakley, Giacomo Po
- Aerodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Combustion and Propulsion
- Faculty: Gecheng Zha, Weiyong Gu, Michael Swain, Ramanthnam Narashimhan, Victor Graham, Ines Basalo
- Astrodynamics, Control, Dynamical and Space Systems
- Faculty: Victoria Coverstone, Singiresu Rao, Francesco Travascio
- Green Energy
- Faculty: Hongtan Liu, Xiangyang Zhou
