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Multifunctional Material and Aerospace Structures Optimization Lab

Research website for the Hartl research team at Texas A&M

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News

  • MAESTRO Team Overview Video
  • Happy Valentines Day from the students of the MAESTRO lab
  • Hartl interviewed for Daily Beast article on sonic booms
  • Allen Davis becomes the latest Ph.D. graduate
  • MAESTRO student Priscilla Nizio awarded the Stanger Endowed Graduate Fellowship
  • Patrick Walgren successfully completes doctoral studies
  • Jacob L. Mingear completes his journey as a Ph.D. student
  • MAESTRO members complete conference crusade
  • MAESTRO student Zamarripa awarded two prestigious fellowships for doctoral studies
  • MAESTRO students help youth in Alaska learn about space
  • MAESTRO student creates virtual outreach opportunity for fourth graders
  • Hartl interviewed for Skytalks
  • MAESTRO “retreats” to the Ozarks
  • MAESTRO Students Take Poster Session By Storm
  • Texas A&M Featured Story: MAESTRO Lab’s Work toward Quiet Aircraft
  • MAESTRO PhD student Trent White awarded DoD SMART Fellowship
  • Founding student Pedro Leal defends his Ph.D. dissertation
  • Retro Rocket closer to completion
  • Hartl wins Association of Former Students College-Level Distinguished Teaching Award
  • MAESTRO-affiliated VR flight simulator continues to progress
  • Hartl and collaborators granted patent for liquid metal reconfigurable antenna
  • Hartl breaks 4000 citation mark on Google Scholar
  • MAESTRO researchers create origami-inspired satellite antennas that can self-fold
  • Research of former MAESTRO student Bielefeldt leads to National Research Council associateship
  • MAESTRO student Jessica Zamarripa participates in global engineering challenge
  • Students complete Summer 2020 Online Research Experience for Undergraduates (O-REU)
  • Undergraduates Kevin Lieb and Ryan Lotz present their research at the virtual SMASIS 2020 conference
  • Pedro Leal helps produce NASA University Leadership Initiative student overview video
  • Morphing drones: Hartl and team develop enabling fluid-structure interaction method
  • Retro Rocket VR Flight Simulator team advised by Hartl completes capstone design
  • MAESTRO Master Students becomes NSF Graduate Fellow
  • Brent Bielefeldt successfully completes his studies as a Ph.D. student
  • William Scholten becomes Hartl’s first independently advised Ph.D. graduate
  • MAESTRO Undergraduates place at Boeing Innovation Challenge
  • Senior design team advised by Hartl completes successful design review
  • Dr. Hartl featured on NASA morphing supersonic aircraft podcast
  • Large NASA grant to MAESTRO and collaborators helps shape-shifting metals transform lunar missions
  • MAESTRO Undergraduate Researcher Wins Scholarship
  • US patent granted for shape memory alloy morphing radiator
  • Hartl breaks 3000 citation mark
  • 2019 Global Grand Challenge Summit
  • Team members invited to play “Texas’ most intriguing and secret golf course”
  • MAESTRO researchers participate in annual Summer Retreat
  • Two MAESTRO Student Researchers win at Pitch Up! Competition
  • Take a look into the MAESTRO VR Lab
  • Maestro lab doubles down at Physics Festival
  • Hartl granted courtesy appointment in Department of Material Science and Engineering
  • MAESTRO graduate students attend COE, Walgren awarded scholarship
  • Senior graduate students launch “MAESTRO Workshop”
  • Maestro goes to San Diego for Scitech!
  • Immersive Visualization Laboratory receives university funding
  • MAESTRO Teams with Local Sculptor to Explore SMAs in Art
  • Congratulations to Maestro graduating students!
  • Graduate Student wins Simulia poster contest
  • Graduate Student Wins Best Student Oral Presentation Award at ICAST 2018
  • Maestro Lab goes to SMASIS and is awarded ‘Ephrahim Garcia’ Best Paper Award
  • Graduate Summer Retreat 2018
  • Mechanical Engineering Design Team Develops Acoustic Testing Facility for the MAESTRO Lab
  • Research on SMAs for Airframe Noise Reduction Featured in MSC Software Case Study
  • Hartl Wins 2018 Dean of Engineering Excellence Award
  • Team Hits the Links in 1st-Annual MAESTRO Masters
  • Maestro wins 2018 South ASME University Technical Competition
  • TAMU Qatar students visit the VR Studio
  • Staffers tour the Maestro Lab
  • STEM outreach week at Maestro
  • MAESTRO Team Attends AIAA SciTech in Orlando
  • Volleyball Extravaganza 2017 a Success
  • Hartl and Collaborators Featured in WIRED Article on Shape Memory Alloys
  • MAESTRO and TEES Work with Siemens to Advance Electric Aviation
  • Hartl and Scholten Invited to Share Their Work at International CFD Software User’s Conference in Tokyo
  • MAESTRO Lab recognized at 2017 Aerospace Engineering Awards Banquet
  • Hartl Wins New NSF Grant on Embedded Sensory Particles
  • MAESTRO Student Interning at NASA, Mapping Mars in Virtual Reality
  • Leo Wood Meets with NASA-Glenn Deputy Director
  • MAESTRO Undergraduates Win Student Design Competition
  • NASA-Funded Morphing Radiator Work Presented to Members of Congress
  • Hartl team goes to SMART conference at Madrid
  • Morphing Radiator Project Chosen for University-Wide Capital Campaign
  • Hartl and Coworkers Bring the Virtual World into the Classroom
  • MAESTRO Lab and Collaborators win $10M Grant to Design Supersonic Transport Aircraft That Modifies Its Shape in Real Time
  • Graduate Students Participate in a Traditional Texas “Deer Camp” Weekend
  • MAESTRO Facilities Expand to Include the new “VR Annex”
  • MAESTRO Team Attends AIAA SciTech en Masse
  • Team Plays Wiffle Ball Game to the Death
  • Edwin Peraza Hernandez successfully defends Ph.D. dissertation
  • William Scholten successfully defends masters thesis
  • Researchers work with NASA team on advanced morphing radiators
  • Hartl receives Gary Anderson Early Achievement Award
  • Team to study birds in hopes of creating shapeshifting aircraft wings

Welcome to the Multifunctional Materials and Aerospace Structures Optimization (M2AESTRO) Lab, the research team of Dr. Darren J. Hartl. For more about what we do, please see our Overview Video


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