- 09/2018: Dr. Hassanalian was an invited speaker in department of Biology at New Mexico Tech and made a talk about "Biomimetics and Bioinspired Autonomous Aerial and Aquatic Vehicles".
- 09/2018: Dr. Hassanalian's paper with title "Conceptual design and optimization of a tilt-rotor micro air vehicle" has been accepted by Chinese Journal of Aeronautics.
- 09/2018: Mr. Morelli, Mr. MacNinch, Mr. Peterson, Mr. Macias, Mr. Mooty, Mr. Guido, Mr. Hamm., Mr. Bojorquez, Mr. Maxwell, Ms. Fakhimi and Ms. Olson joined the lab as undergraduate research assistant.
- 08/2018: Autonomous Flight and Aquatic Systems Laboratory (AFASL) established a collaboration with Dr. Waldrop Laboratory at NMT Department of Biology.
- 08/2018: Four papers of Dr. Hassanalian have been accepted in the SciTech-2019 Conference which will be held in San Diego, California, USA from 7-11 January 2019.
- 08/2018: Mr. Ward joined the lab as undergraduate research assistant.
- 08/2018: Mr. Acosta and Ms. Sappington joined the lab as Master students, Advised by Dr. Grow and Co-advised by Dr. Hassanalian.
- 08/2018: Autonomous Flight and Aquatic Systems Laboratory (AFASL) established a collaboration with New Mexico Tech's Micro Electro Mechanical Systems Laboratory.
- 08/2018: Autonomous Flight and Aquatic Systems Laboratory (AFASL) established a collaboration with NMT Robotic Interfaces Laboratory.
- 08/2018: Dr. Hassanalian established his Autonomous Flight and Aquatic Systems Laboratory (AFASL) at NMT.
- 08/2018: Dr. Hassanalian joined as an Assistant Professor to the Department of Mechanical Engineering at NMT.