Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
New Mexico State University
1040 S Horseshoe St., Jett Hall 230
Las Cruces, NM 88003
Tel: 575-646-5698
Ayla Valles
PhD student, AE
Research: Muscle-driven Snake-like Robot Locomotion
James Flesner
Master's student, ME
Research: Autonomous Underwater Robots for Environmental Cleaning
Sabrina Montoya
MAE, Senior College
Research: Muscle-driven Snake Robot for Lunar Navigation
Hayden Zongker
MAE, Senior College
Research: Ag Robotics for Chile Pepper Precision Farming
David Westrick MAE, Junior College
Research: Ag Robotics for Chile Pepper Precision Farming
John Tellez
MAE, Freshman College
Research: Soft Robotic Hand Exoskeleton, Physical Reservoir Computing
Aiden Schutte
High School Intern, Arrowhead Park Early College High School
Research: Design and Prototyping Muscle-driven Snake Robot
Zoe Moreno
High School Intern, Mayfield High School
Research: learning- based robotics arm pick-and-place
Umme Kawsar Alam, ME PhD, 2025 (Postdoc at Clemson University)
Erick Morales, AE BS, 2025
Roman Langenscheidt, visiting MSc student, Technical University of Munich (TUM), 2025
Liz Ayala-Guzman, AE BS, 2024 (Manufacturing Engineer, MDP@ Cummins Inc)
Joshua Kirkland, MAE BS, 2023
Kassidy Shedd, ME BS, 2023 (MS in Robotics, Northwestern University)
Nico Mendoza, BS, IE, 2024 (SpaceX)
Christopher Sota, BS, AE, 2023 ( MS in ME, University of Washington)
Marcela Lopez, ME, MS, 2022 (Northrop Grumman)
Jordan Linford, ME, MS, 2022 (NASA White Sand Test Facility)
Eric Gauthier, MAE, BS, 2022 (Logistic Services International, Inc)
Miguel Rodriguez, ME, BS, 2023
Maria Ordonez, MAE, BS, 2022 (Lockheed Martin's WSMR and MS in IE at NMSU)
Mark Walters, ME, BS, 2022
Kayla Yaksich, ME, BS, 2022 (MS in MBA at NMSU)
Enrique Velasquez, ME, MS, 2022 (Purdue University)
Rafael Calleros-Delgado, ME, BS, 2021
Pamela Dominguez, MAE, BS, 2021 (Cummins Inc)
Joselyn Delgado, MAE, BS, 2021
Joseph Moseley, ME, BS, 2020 (Lockheed Martin's WSMR)
Jesus Chavarria, ME, BS, 2020 (Master in NMSU Industrial Eng.)
Efren Bolanos, AE, MS, 2020 (Lockheed Martin's WSMR)
David Vasquez, MAE, BS, 2019 (Master at NMSU MAE)