MAE Highlights
Symposium on The Application of Mechanics to Geophysics January 17-18, 2015, EBUII Rm. 479
Symposium on The Application of Mechanics to Geophysics
Supported by Co-Chairs:
The National Science Foundation Yuri Fialko and Xanthippi Markenscoff
& The Green Foundation
UCSD Controls Faculty featured in IEEE Control Systems Magazine
Professors Bill McEneaney and Jorge Cortes were recently interviewed in the control field's premier professional publication - the IEEE Control Systems Magazine, whose subscription pool is about 10,000. They were asked how they chose to specialize in controls, about graduate courses they teach at UCSD, their books, and their views on the opportunities for the controls field. Read it here.
Joanna McKittrick has been named a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society
Congratulations to Joanna McKittrick who has been named a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society.
Carlos Coimbra and Alison Marsden are receipients of this year's Faculty Mentorship Award
Carlos Coimbra and Alison Marsden were selected by the Graduate Student Association 2014 Community Awards Selection Committee as the recipients of this year's Faculty Mentorship Award. Congratulations!
Miroslav Krstic elected Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
Congratulations to Miroslav Krstic who has been elected Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
IET is the successor of the UK Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), founded in 1871 (before the predecessor institutions of the USA's IEEE).
July 2, 2013
UCSD Coordinated Robotics lab wins infrared imaging competition
MAE students Daniel Yang, Yuncong Chen, and Will Warren of the UCSD Coordinated Robotics Lab won $10K for the Best Overall Project in the Student Infrared Imaging Competition sponsored by DRS technologies. There work has relevance to the deployment of small robotic vehicles for reconnaissance in burning buildings to assist in firefighting operations. For a brief description of their work, click here.
Professor Forman Williams' microgravity flame work aboard the International Space Station
June 18, 2013: Fire, it is often said, is mankind's oldest chemistry experiment. For thousands of years, people have been mixing the oxygen-rich air of Earth with an almost endless variety of fuels to produce hot luminous flame. There's an arc of learning about combustion that stretches from the earliest campfires of primitive humans to the most advanced automobiles racing down the superhighways of the 21st century.
April 22, 2013
SkySweeper Robot Makes Inspecting Power Lines Simple and Inexpensive
Mechanical engineers at the University of California, San Diego invented a robot designed to scoot along utility lines, searching for damage and other problems that require repairs. Made of off-the-shelf electronics and plastic parts printed on an inexpensive 3D printer, the SkySweeper prototype could be scaled up for less than $1,000, making it significantly more economical than the two models of robots currently used to inspect power lines.
“Current line inspection robots are large, complex, and expensive. Utility companies may also use manned or unmanned helicopters equipped with infrared imaging to inspect lines,” said Nick Morozovsky, a graduate student in mechanical engineering. “This is much simpler.” Morozovsky designed the robot in the Coordinated Robotics Lab led by mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Tom Bewley.
December 19, 2012
MAE UCSD Team accepted into NASA's Microgravity University program
This year, the UCSD Microgravity Team has been accepted into NASA's Microgravity University program to pursue research involving biofuel combustion in near zero-gravity conditions. Microgravity University, or the Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program, offers undergraduate student teams the opportunity to propose, design, and fly their own experiments aboard the "Vomit Comet" aircraft.