MAE Highlights
April 14, 2021
Professor Joe Goddard named recipient of the 2012 G.I. Taylor Medal of the Society of Engineering Science
"The prize, awarded annually for outstanding research contributions in either theoretical or experimental Fluid Mechanics or both, will be presented at the 49th annual meeting of the Society at the Georgia Institute of Technology, October 10-12, 2012.
The Society of Engineering Science is an organization of leading engineers, scientists and mathematicians from around the world which focuses upon the interface between engineering, science and mathematics."
April 14, 2021
Marc Meyers honored with 2013 TMS Educator Award
"For having taught thousands of students, written textbooks and conducted seminal research on the mechanical behavior of materials.
April 14, 2021
Professor Krstic receives the Henry M. Paynter Outstanding Investigator Award
Professor Miroslav Krstic has received the biennial Henry M. Paynter Outstanding Investigator Award at the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference. This award is given by the Dynamic Systems and Control Division of ASME to a DSCD member who has demonstrated sustained outstanding research contributions, either basic or applied, as a mechanical engineering professional to fields of interest to the DSCD.
April 14, 2021
Bishakhdatta Gayen receives the 2013 Andreas Acrivos Dissertation Award in Fluid Dynamics
Congratulations to Bishakhdatta Gayen who has received the 2013 Andreas Acrivos Dissertation Award in Fluid Dynamics!
Citation: "Turbulence and internal waves in tidal flow over topography."
April 14, 2021
Professor Marc Meyers receives the Albert Easton White Award
Professor Marc Meyers receives the Albert Easton White Award, "For inspired teaching for 45 years, and for leadership in the field of Materials Science and Engineering through research, organization of conferences and symposia, and writing textbooks used globally."
April 14, 2021
MAE Researchers Win ARPA-E Award for Advanced Battery Management Systems
Dr. Scott Moura, a UC Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, and Professor Miroslav Krstic received a highly competitive award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) to study battery estimation and control. The $4M award will fund research jointly performed between UCSD and industrial partners Robert Bosch LLC and Cobasys.
April 14, 2021
Symposium on New Developments in Defect Mechanics - a unique intellectual event
Faculty from Caltech, UC Berkeley , University of Michigan, Georgia Tech, Brown University, University of Calgary, University of Pennsylvania, UCLA, Johns Hopkins University, Imperial College, London, and UCSD and researchers from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories congregated to UCSD on January 18-19, 2014 to attend the third in a series of symposia on Multiscale Dislocation Dynamics and to honor Professor Michael Ortiz on his 60th birthday. Faculty also brought their graduate students and postdocs to engage in such a powerful intellectual activity. Read More
April 14, 2021
UCSD Flow Control & Coordinated Robotics Labs at the recent CommNexus headliner event entitled San Diego: The Hub for the New Age of Robotic Innovation
Professor Tom Bewley presented the recent work of the UCSD Flow Control & Coordinated Robotics Labs at the recent CommNexus headliner event entitled San Diego: The Hub for the New Age of Robotic Innovation. Also presenting were Professor Al Pisano, Dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering, Dr. Eugene Izhikevich, CEO of Brain Corp, and Tim McConnell, Director of Engineering at 3D Robotics. To see the video click here.