The Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) is organized into four clusters:
- Advanced Mechanics, Materials, and Manufacturing
- Faculty: Emrah Celik, Giacomo Po, Francesco Travascio, Charles Tomonto, Qingda Yang
- Aerodynamics, Combustion and Propulsion
- Faculty: Ines Basalo, Weiyong Gu, Ramanthnam Narashimhan, Gecheng Zha
- Space Science and Engineering
- Faculty: Bertrand Dano, Sivakumar Ramanathan, Ved Chirayath
- Clean and Renewable Energy
- Faculty: Jiayu Li, Hongtan Liu, Michael Swain, Chunlei Wang, Xiangyang Zhou
