MAE Highlights
April 14, 2021
Professor Marc Meyers elected Corresponding Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences
Marc Meyers was elected Corresponding Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, in the domain of Engineering Sciences. In the photo Marc Meyers is being congratulated by Dr. Marco Antonio Raupp, Minister of Science, Technology, and Innovation of Brazil, at the ceremony in which he was inducted into the Brazilian Academy of Sciences as a Corresponding Member.
April 14, 2021
Professor Markenscoff's ENVISION Guest Lecture was enthusiatically received
Professor Xanthippi Markenscoff was enthusiastically received by a large group of high school girl-students from the extended Southern California area to whom she spoke about the exciting developments in technological innovations happening at UCSD and in MAE, and why women should be part of them. Her Guest Lecture on February 8 was part of the ENVISION 2014 event organized by the chapter of the Society of Women Engineers at UCSD.
April 14, 2021
Padmini Rangamani leads team on a $7.5 million MURI grant to study memory capacity and energy efficiency in the brain
San Diego, Calif., May 1, 2017 -- A team of researchers at the University of California San Diego and Stanford University has received a $7.5 million, five-year grant to try to answer two fundamental questions: what is the memory capacity of a brain; and how does the brain process information with maximum energy efficiency.
April 14, 2021
Farhat Beg Elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Farhat Beg, Professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department has been named an IEEE Fellow. He is being recognized for contributions to “high intensity laser matter interactions and pulsed power pinches”. The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors upon a person with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. The total number selected in any one year cannot exceed one-tenth of one- percent of the total voting membership.
April 14, 2021
Industry titans honored at UCSD Embedded Control & Robotics Industry Recognition Night
Senior executives and engineers from Cymer, Texas Instruments, National Instruments, ATA Engineering, WowWee, and Brain Corporation were honored on Dec 5 at the culmination of MAE’s newly-revamped Embedded Control & Robotics course, MAE143c. Design and robotics are major growth areas for MAE, and this momentum was evident and accelerated at this event. To view the event, click here.
April 14, 2021
“50 is the new 70” for Mechanical Engineering Professor Miroslav Krstic
Miroslav Krstic, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Associate Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California, San Diego recently received an impressive gift for his 50th birthday.
Forty-six of his colleagues in the control theory and systems field – including the most prominent scholars and scientists in his area of specialty of nonlinear control and delay systems – dedicated a new 400-page special-issue volume in his honor.
April 14, 2021
MAE Alumni Awards Recipients
MAE's Outstanding Alumni Awards were presented on Monday, November 19th to recognize the cumulative contributions of the following MAE Alumni:
Outstanding Alumna Award
Professor Chiara Daraio, California Institute of Technology with MAE Faculty Vitali F. Nesterenko
For outstanding achievements in mechanical metamaterials and materials science.
April 13, 2021
Dr. Chris McGuffey awarded Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program Grant
Dr. McGuffey's project, titled Dynamics of high-intensity laser-driven proton beam transport in solid density materials was among 42 nationwide selected for funding by the program. Dr. McGuffey is a member of High Energy Density Physics Group led by Professor Farhat Beg in the Jacobs School of Engineering. The project will investigate transport of proton beams produced by high intensity lasers.
March 15, 2021
Students' Aha Moments; How a professor, a class, even a PowerPoint presentation, can change a life
Derek Chung
Environmental Engineering, UCSD '12
"When I started college, I thought global warming was stupid, trees needed to be cut down, and everything ran on the guiding hand of the market," Derek Chung says. The 23-year-old with mussed-up hair is Skyping from a hostel in Malaysia, the 16th country he's passed through during an eight-month "soul search."
February 8, 2021
In Memoriam: Professor Juan C. Lasheras
Juan C. Lasheras, University of California San Diego distinguished professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Bioengineering, passed away on February 1, 2021 after a brief battle with cancer. He was 69 years old.