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To acknowledge and honor the accomplishments of Maryland engineers 40 years old and younger, the Clark School and Dean Samuel Graham, Jr., are proud to announce the Early Career Distinguished Alumni (ECDA) Society and inaugural class of inductees. Established in Fall 2022, the ECDA Society launches an exclusive professional network of Clark School alums leading the next generation of innovators, entrepreneurs, and change agents.
In the first episode hosted by bioengineering student Priscilla Lee, resident sprinkler expert and Clinical Professor of Fire Protection Engineering Kenneth Isman breaks down the realities of how fire sprinkler systems really work.
Join aerospace engineering alum and Keystone Lecturer Jarred Young along with fire protection engineering student Lindsay Newman to explore the fact, fiction, and inspiration of space travel in sci-fi film, TV, and video games.
Student Accomplishments

Behind the University of Maryland's historic giving campaign is the next generation of global engineering citizens who will do good for our communities. Time and time again—in the campus communities they create and in the careers they will forge—Maryland Engineering students pay it forward. In their own words, eight students share how Fearless Ideas made a difference in their education, fortified their future, and inspired them to be engineers who create impact.

In a new spin on a classic Leonardo da Vinci design, students from the Department of Aerospace Engineering developed a working prototype of one of the master’s ideas, the “Aerial Screw”. Unveiled at the Vertical Flight Society’s 2022 Transformative Vertical Flight Conference—Crimson Spin, a small, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)—flies through the combined lift of four, red spiral-shaped blades, and garnered much media attention for its unique take on da Vinci’s design.
New World-Class Facilities

The newest building on Maryland’s College Park campus arrests attention and commands passersby to stop and stare. It seems to float despite its monolithic upper stories. From an underground quantum lab to spaces to test business ideas—not to mention advanced robots—the striking new building is a place where students and researchers can push the limits of 21st-century innovation and entrepreneurship.

The University of Maryland hosted a ceremonial groundbreaking for Stanley R. Zupnik Hall, an interdisciplinary engineering building that will play an integral role in the A. James Clark School of Engineering’s efforts to attract and develop leaders who help solve some of the world’s most pressing issues and impact society for the public good. The state-of-the-art building will feature spaces for students, faculty, and institutional partners to collaborate.
The first images from the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb)—the largest space observatory ever built—were livestreamed Tuesday, July 12 on NASA Live. The product of decades of development and testing, Webb carries contributions from a generation of University of Maryland engineering alums.

Webb’s Near Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec), a breakthrough instrument developed at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, is designed to observe up to 100 space objects simultaneously. Two Maryland Engineering alums—Wen-Hsien Chuang and Dan Kelly—played important roles in inventing and building the micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) microshutter array that controls how light enters NIRSpec. Alum Kan Yang also played a key role in determining whether Webb’s instruments would work in the extreme cold of space.
New Departmental Leadership
Sennur Ulukus Named Chair of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Alison Flatau Named Chair of Aerospace Engineering
Nii Attoh-Okine Named Chair of Civil & Environmental Engineering