News Archives - Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering /mae/category/news/ ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University Mon, 02 Feb 2026 15:43:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Faculty Hiring /mae/2026/faculty-hiring/ Mon, 02 Feb 2026 15:43:00 +0000 /mae/?p=8036 We are now accepting applications for an Assistant or Associate Professor in Aerospace Engineering. Please read the job posting for more information and instructions on how to apply. The job posting can be found under Positions Available on our website, carleton.ca/mae/positions-available

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Faculty Hiring

February 2, 2026

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We are now accepting applications for an Assistant or Associate Professor in Aerospace Engineering. Please read the job posting for more information and instructions on how to apply. The job posting can be found under Positions Available on our website,

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]]> Congrats to Prof. Eshaghi! /mae/2025/congrats-to-prof-eshaghi/ Mon, 21 Jul 2025 18:14:26 +0000 /mae/?p=7639 Congratulations to Prof. Mehdi Eshaghi on receiving the New Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award for 2025.

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Congrats to Prof. Eshaghi!

February 2, 2026

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Congratulations to Prof. Mehdi Eshaghi on receiving the New Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award for 2025.

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]]> Congrats to Jason Anstey! /mae/2025/congrats-to-jason-anstey/ Mon, 21 Jul 2025 18:10:35 +0000 /mae/?p=7472 The department would like to congratulate Jason Anstey, Laboratory Technologist as a recipient of the Excellence in Learning Support Award!

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Congrats to Jason Anstey!

February 2, 2026

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The department would like to congratulate Jason Anstey, Laboratory Technologist as a recipient of the Excellence in Learning Support Award!

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]]> Congrats to CSME Gold Medal Recipients! /mae/2025/congrats-to-csme-gold-medal-recipients/ Tue, 24 Jun 2025 13:51:41 +0000 /mae/?p=7474 The Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering awarded two students with the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME) Gold Medal at convocation last week. Congratulations to Joey Blondin (UG graduate) and Cem Kalkan (PhD graduate) on this outstanding achievement!

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Congrats to CSME Gold Medal Recipients!

February 2, 2026

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The Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering awarded two students with the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME) Gold Medal at convocation last week.

Congratulations to Joey Blondin (UG graduate) and Cem Kalkan (PhD graduate) on this outstanding achievement!

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]]> Congrats to Blackbird UAV Team! /mae/2025/congrats-to-blackbird-uav-team/ Mon, 26 May 2025 15:16:46 +0000 /mae/?p=7429 ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University’s Blackbird UAV team proudly achieved 3rd place at the 16th Annual Aerial Evolution Association of Canada Student UAS Competition, held from May 9–11, 2025, in Medicine Hat, Alberta. Read more about the Blackbird UAV team below. Photo credits to Blackbird UAV Team.  Written by Kevin Fernando, Blackbird UAV Operations Lead:  ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ the team: […]

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Congrats to Blackbird UAV Team!

February 2, 2026

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ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University’s Blackbird UAV team proudly achieved 3rd place at the 16th Annual Aerial Evolution Association of Canada Student UAS Competition, held from May 9–11, 2025, in Medicine Hat, Alberta. Read more about the Blackbird UAV team below.

Photo credits to Blackbird UAV Team. 

Written by Kevin Fernando, Blackbird UAV Operations Lead: 

ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ the team:

Blackbird UAV has been an active student design team at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University since 2008. In recent years, our team has grown significantly, with over 200 members and more than 350 participants in our online community. The team consists of students from a wide range of engineering disciplines and contains members from the Ontario Engineering Competitions 2025 Winning team. Our focus is on designing, building, and competing with UAVs. Offering students hands-on experience in aerospace/systems engineering, manufacturing, and industry-standard software applications.

ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ the competition:

The aim of the competition was to develop a fire hotspot detection and suppression system. The UAV was designed to autonomously detect multiple hotspots within a very large zone. Once the hotspots were detected, the next objective was to autonomously pick up water from a reservoir and dispense it on the hotspots.

During our time at the competition we faced many adversities which we very proudly overcame. Firstly, during testing before our first flight window we blew one of our motors and had to very quickly prepare our only spare motor for our flight window. During our first flight window we lost the spare motor as well and were now not able to complete the competition. Queens University graciously lent us one of their motors which coincidentally was the exact same motors we used. After a lot of debugging we found the issue and spent a very long time taking apart the entire drone to fix it.

Once our second flight window came around we ran into another big issue. 30 minutes before our flight time the Raspberry Pi running all of our automation system broke. All of our backup Pi’s were out of commission and so we reached out to more schools for help. Thanks to the University of Victoria, we were once again able to compete and successfully finished the mission.

A very big thank you to Queens Aerospace Design Team and UVic Aero! Without their help we would not have been able to complete the tasks. They played a huge role in our success.

ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ the UAV we designed and how we built it:

Throughout the year we went through many phases including conceptual design using solidworks to CAD all of our parts. In the manufacturing phase we worked with a lot of composites including carbon fibre and fibreglass along with aluminum machining and a lot of 3d printing. An extensive testing and revising phase was also conducted to tune the flight characteristics and test all the systems.

The drone was built in a Quadcopter configuration with a fully modular payload meaning we can easily swap out the camera and water tank systems. It also included First Person View cameras to give better precision for the pilots.

 

 

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]]> Congratulations Prof. Andrew Harris /mae/2025/congratulations-prof-andrew-harris/ Tue, 29 Apr 2025 13:14:41 +0000 /mae/?p=7405 We are proud to announce that Prof. Andrew Harris has been awarded the FED’s 2025 Teaching Excellence Award.

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Congratulations Prof. Andrew Harris

February 2, 2026

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We are proud to announce that Prof. Andrew Harris has been awarded the FED’s 2025 Teaching Excellence Award.

Photo of Andrew R. Harris

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]]> 2024-2025 Autonomous Spacecraft Robotics (DOT) Capstone Project /mae/2025/2024-2025-autonomous-spacecraft-robotics-dot-capstone-project/ Wed, 23 Apr 2025 19:27:59 +0000 /mae/?p=7392 Under the leadership of Alexander Crain, Kristian Delaney, Courtney Savytska, and Prof. Steve Ulrich, the team of 16 students enrolled in DOT developed innovative LiDAR-based computer vision, MPC guidance and control techniques as well as DIOR (Docking Interface for Orbital Refueling) – a unique docking/refueling mechanism – to enable an autonomous rendezvous, docking and refueling […]

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2024-2025 Autonomous Spacecraft Robotics (DOT) Capstone Project

February 2, 2026

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Under the leadership of Alexander Crain, Kristian Delaney, Courtney Savytska, and Prof. Steve Ulrich, the team of 16 students enrolled in DOT developed innovative LiDAR-based computer vision, MPC guidance and control techniques as well as DIOR (Docking Interface for Orbital Refueling) – a unique docking/refueling mechanism – to enable an autonomous rendezvous, docking and refueling maneuver between a servicer and a client spacecraft platform.

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]]> 2024-2025 ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University Crash Test Dummy (CUCD) /mae/2025/2024-2025-carleton-university-crash-test-dummy-cucd/ Thu, 17 Apr 2025 18:23:17 +0000 /mae/?p=7310 The CUCD Capstone Project for 2024-2025 went out with bang! With the increasing number of cyclist collisions, the project ran a crash test dummy simulation to collect collision data and run multiple crash test configurations to improve automobile safety.    

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2024-2025 ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University Crash Test Dummy (CUCD)

February 2, 2026

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The CUCD Capstone Project for 2024-2025 went out with bang! With the increasing number of cyclist collisions, the project ran a crash test dummy simulation to collect collision data and run multiple crash test configurations to improve automobile safety.

 

 

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]]> April Spotlight – Mohammad Rahman, Postdoctoral Fellow /mae/2025/april-spotlight-mohammad-rahman-postdoctoral-fellow/ Thu, 17 Apr 2025 15:58:14 +0000 /mae/?p=7278 We’re excited to announce that our Student Spotlight and Faculty Spotlight features are now being updated more frequently! These spotlights showcase innovative ongoing projects, lab news, and the outstanding work of our students and faculty across the department. You can read about the current projects ongoing in Prof Edgar Matida and Prof Tarik Kaya’s lab with […]

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April Spotlight – Mohammad Rahman, Postdoctoral Fellow

February 2, 2026

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We’re excited to announce that our Student Spotlight and Faculty Spotlight features are now being updated more frequently! These spotlights showcase innovative ongoing projects, lab news, and the outstanding work of our students and faculty across the department.

You can read about the current projects ongoing in Prof Edgar Matida and Prof Tarik Kaya’s lab with Mohammad Rahman here.

 

 

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]]> Congratulating Neil McFadyen on Retirement /mae/2025/congratulating-neil-mcfadyen-on-retirement/ Tue, 08 Apr 2025 14:14:41 +0000 /mae/?p=7246 Congratulations to Neil McFadyen on his retirement earlier this month! Neil served the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering for over 28 years as the Supervisor of Computer Services and his work contributed to the many successes that the department experienced over those years. His hard work and dedication will be missed but we wish […]

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Congratulating Neil McFadyen on Retirement

February 2, 2026

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Congratulations to Neil McFadyen on his retirement earlier this month! Neil served the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering for over 28 years as the Supervisor of Computer Services and his work contributed to the many successes that the department experienced over those years. His hard work and dedication will be missed but we wish him all the best in his future endeavours.

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