2025 has been a remarkable year, especially because the Mechatronics Lab launched in the second half of the year. Even in this short time, we built meaningful momentum in teaching, student projects, community engagement, publications, and external support. Highlights of 2025 Teaching Presentation: “How Can GenAI Foster Interdisciplinary Research on...
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A Temple University student team has received $600 in funding from the ASME Philadelphia Section to support the development of an autonomous waste collection and sorting robotic system and to help the team compete in the 2025 to 2026 ASME Student Design Competition. The student team includes Jake Scarsellato,...
A student team affiliated with cOllab and the ASME Temple University Section has been awarded $600 in project funding by the ASME Philadelphia Section to support the Drone Mounted Air Quality Sensor System initiative. The team includes Samuel Mikus, Hanna Tugado, Santiago Troya, and Allen Anthony. Through this cOllab effort,...
As part of the OWL Project, the OWL Strike: Autonomous Drone Neutralization senior design team successfully presented their work in the Fall 2025 semester. The team members are Owen Pelonero, Gavin Buce, Danny Tropeano, and Andrew Freeman, shown from left to right in the picture above. In this project, OWL...
William Tuszynski and Thomas O’Brien visited campus on September 27 to present Samira Akther with a $750 scholarship from the Philadelphia Section of the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE). Samira’s project, “Listening to Failure: The Sound of a Failing Bearing,” explores acoustic methods to monitor lubrication degradation in...
A newly designed senior-level course, Mechatronics Design, is now available in Fall 2025 in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Temple University. This course is a new section of MEE4177: Design & Realization of a Mechanical System, alongside the mechanical systems and thermofluids systems tracks. Unlike the other sections, this...
Dr. Sayginer has been awarded a ~$3,000 Innovative Teaching with Makerspace Technology Grant from Temple Libraries’ Loretta C. Duckworth Scholars Studio to expand hands-on, experiential learning in the curriculum beginning Fall 2025 and Spring 2026. The project will enhance the MEE 2305 Instrumentation and Data Acquisition Lab by upgrading crank...
We are excited to congratulate Samira Akther, a Mechanical Engineering undergraduate student, on receiving a $750 scholarship from the Philadelphia Section of the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE). This competitive award recognizes outstanding students with a strong interest in tribology, lubrication, and condition monitoring. Samira’s project, titled “Listening...
Congratulations to Henry Krumrine, a senior Mechanical Engineering student, on receiving the prestigious Creative Arts, Research, and Scholarship (CARAS) Grant from Temple University. His project, titled “Listening to Materials: A Study of Acoustic Emission Signals” focuses on analyzing acoustic emission signal features such as amplitude, frequency, energy, and rise time...
