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Russell Mailen

Aerospace Engineering

Associate Professor

314 Davis Hall

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Education

Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, North Carolina State University
Master of Materials Science and Engineering (MMSE), North Carolina State University
M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Baylor University
B.S. Aerospace Engineering, University of Kansas

Research Interests

Polymers and Composites
Additive Manufacturing
Finite Element Analysis
Lattice Structures
Smart Materials and Structures

In The News

Two aerospace engineering faculty honored as Outstanding Graduate Mentors

Russell Mailen, associate professor, and Vrishank Rahgav, associate professor, both in aerospace engineering were recognized as Outstanding Graduate Mentors

Auburn Engineering students well-represented at Auburn University Research Symposium

Two Auburn Engineering students earned university-wide third-place awards for graduate and undergraduate research at the annual Auburn University Research Symposium.

Senior aerospace engineering student awarded the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation’s 2024 scholarship 

Justin Littlefield, a senior in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, has been awarded the 2024 Astronaut Scholarship Foundation award.  

NSF, NIST grants boost Auburn Engineering’s prominence in polymer sustainability

Ed Davis, associate professor of mechanical engineering, is the principal investigator for two new awards — one from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the other from the National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST) — aimed at educating future polymer researchers as well as recycling industry professionals on the growing importance and evolving challenges of polymer recycling.

Auburn Engineering students recognized as graduate research fellows by National Science Foundation

Congratulations, Dylan Bowen, Marisa Kelley, Maggie Nelson, Ryan Pollard, Katie Wolfe and Robin Weaver!

Auburn Engineering faculty named to 2024 promotion, tenure list

Auburn University Provost Vini Nathan recently announced the names of faculty awarded promotion, tenure or both for 2024, including 19 faculty in the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering.

CPAC Summer Seminar Series kicks off May 30

The annual seminar series hosted by the Center for Polymers and Advanced Composites is an opportunity for graduate students to share their research and foster interdisciplinary research collaboration at Auburn.

Two Auburn Engineering honors students named Goldwater Scholars

Ayden Kemp and Maggie Nelson are just two of this year's 413 Barry M. Goldwater Scholars nationwide.

Professors selected for Research and Scholarship Travel Grant to Taiwan

Gopikrishna Deshpande and Russell Mailen are among the university's eight faculty members selected by the Office of International Programs

Multidisciplinary research team works with Toyota to explore creative safety devices

Assistant professors Russell Mailen and Chad Rose are finding means to create smart, flexible human interfaces with embedded sensors capable of relaying motorists' real-time tension to the vehicle to generate automatic safety responses

Professors earn NASA EPSCoR grant to research impact of microgravity on self-folding polymer sheets

Russell Mailen and Davide Guzzetti's research "Activiation of Self-Folding Origami in Microgravity Environment" earned a NASA EPSCoR grant

Program created to develop research writing skills among engineering students

Russell Mailen, assistant professor in aerospace engineering, is principal investigator on National Science Foundation Innovations in Graduate Education award,

Aerospace engineering lab researches polymer possibilities

The Auburn University Polymer Mechanics Research Laboratory is dedicated to improving our understanding of polymers, materials that yield endless possibilities and surround us in our daily lives.

Aerospace faculty earn NIAC award to study self-assembling space technology

Auburn University aerospace engineering faculty members have received a $125,000 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) award to explore the technology to enable kilometer-sized antenna arrays for radio astronomy that self-assemble in space.