MAE Highlights
Congratulations to MAE Faculty Andrew Lucas and Padmini Rangamani, recipients of the ONR Young Investigator Award for 2017.
Recipients of the ONR Young Investigator Award were selected from over 360 highly qualified applicants based on past performance, technical merit, potential scientific breakthrough and long-term university commitment. The awards purpose is to fund early-career academic researchers—called investigato
Juan Carlos del Alamo recipient of the "Chair of Excellence" reciprocal grant
Congratulations to Juan Carlos del Alamo who received the "Chair of Excellence" reciprocal grant, sponsored by Universidad Carlos III in Madrid (UC3M) and The Santander Bank. The Chairs of Excellence Program started at UC3M in 2007 with the goal of promoting "excellence in research by attracting leading international researchers to the University to help our departments, research institutes and research groups to strengthen and increase their international ties, as well as to impr
William McEneaney elected a Fellow of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Congratulations to William McEneaney who was recently elected a 2016 Fellow of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics “for his distinguished contributions to the disciplines of applied mathematics, computational science and related fields.”
Nate Delson awarded the 2015 Engineering Design Graphics Division Chair's Award
The 2015 Engineering Design Graphics Division Chair's Award for Outstanding Technical Paper was awarded to Nate Delson and Lelli Van Den Einde for Tracking Student Engagement with a Touchscreen App for Spatial Visualization Training and Freehand Sketching
The Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department's 2016 Outstanding Alumni Awards
The inaugural recipient of the MAE Distinguished Alumnus Award is Professor Carlos Fernandez-Pello (UC Berkeley) for contributions to advancing fire safety and combustion fundamentals. The inaugural recipients of the MAE Alumni Awards for Impact are Professor Mohammed Zikry (North Carolina State University) for contributions to computational mechanics and modeling and Dr. Bernhard Knigge for contributions to the increase in performance and storage density of hard disk drives. Awards will be presented at the MAE Alumni Awards Ceremony on Thursday, April 14, 2016.
Professor Beg & Charlie Jarrott publish an article in Nature Physics
Farhat Beg and his graduate student, Charlie Jarrott, who is currently a post doctoral fellow at LLNL, have successfully published an article in Nature Physics, "Visualizing fast electron energy transport into laser-compressed high-density fast-ignition targets".
Shengqiang Cai receives the NSF Early Career Award
Assistant Professor Shengqiang Cai receives the NSF Early Career Award for, "Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Mechanics Interacting with Electric/Optical Fields in Liquid Crystal Elastomers".
Sonia Martinez and Jorge Cortes receive an ARPA-E grant, "Distributed Grid Control of Flexible Loads and DERs for Optimized Provision of Synthetic Regulating Reserves"
A new project on the coordination of distributed energy resources that has MAE Prof. Sonia Martinez (as PI) and Prof. Jorge Cortes (as co-PI) has been selected for a competitive award of $2.34 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). Other team members include William Torre (CER, UC San Diego), Prof. Tajana Simunic-Rosing (CSE, UC San Diego), and Byron Washom (RMP, UC San Diego), Prof. Alejandro Dominguez (University of Illinois), and Prof. Peter Sauer (University of Illinois).
MAE Student Department Awards for 2014-2015
MAE is pleased to announce the MAE Student Award recipients for 2014-2015!
July 22, 2015
Drs. Richert and Han selected as inaugural recipients of the Robert E. Skelton Systems and Control Dissertation Award
Drs. Dean Richert (PhD ’14, advisor J. Cortes) and Seung Hak Han (PhD ’15, advisor William McEneaney) have been selected as the inaugural recipients of the Robert E. Skelton Systems and Control Dissertation Award, established by the Cymer Center for Control Systems and Dynamics. The dissertation award, to be given annually, is established to honor the research contributions of doctoral alumni in the Center and in recognition of Bob Skelton for his legacy as the founder of the dynamic systems and control group in UCSD’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.