MAE Highlights

March 26, 2020

UC San Diego Engineers and Doctors Team Up to Retrofit and Build Ventilators with 3D-Printing

March 6, 2020

Nick Gravish and Mike Tolley receive ONR grant

Nick Gravish and Mike Tolley receive an ONR grant for, "SanD-Worm: a soft bodied Swimming & Digging robot". The grant is for three years to develop a soft-bodied robot for ocean floor inspection and burrowing.

March 6, 2020

Nick Boechler and Sheng Cai received MURI award

Nick Boechler and Sheng Cai receive MURI award for Triggering Outstanding Properties via Mechanical Adaptive Topologies (TOPMAT): Towards Dynamically Self-Amplifying Omniphoric Multiscale Metamaterials

March 5, 2020

Dual-angle proton radiography quantifies magnetic field in shock fronts

December 9, 2019

MAE End of Year Graduate Student Awards

MAE Graduate Student Award Recipients 2018:

Outstanding Teaching Assistant:

• Todd W. Christopher

  • Nominated by: Stefan Llewellyn Smith

• Andrei Pissarenko

  • Nominated by: Marc Meyes 

Distinguished Fellowship:

• Erfan Nozari  

  • Nominated by: Jorge Cortes 

November 15, 2019

In Memoriam: Professor Joanna McKittrick

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Professor
Joanna McKittrick on November 15, 2019. She was 65.

October 29, 2019

UC San Diego Scientists Awarded Nearly $5 Million to Study Triggers of Deadly, Toxic Algal Blooms

Padmini Rangamani receives Presidential Early Career Award

NSF funds UC San Diego plan to generate, and study, the world's first high-intensity laser pulses shaped like a corkscrew

Gordon Center for Engineering Leadership Awards

Of the six awards given out to students at the Gordon Center for Engineering Leadership on May 23rd, three of them went to MAE students. Rachel Flanagan (Ph.D. student), Eric Schnell (undergrad) and Hannah Munguia (undergrad) were recognized for their leadership and technical efforts. Congratulations!