MAE Highlights
August 21, 2021
Faculty assistant in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering is recognized with Exemplary Employee of the Year Award
Lusia Veksler, a faculty assistant in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has received an Exemplary Employee of the Year award. Veksler is being recognized for her service to the department’s faculty, graduate students and operations.
July 30, 2021
Nate Linden: Rock climber, engineer, Sloan Scholar
Nate Linden has been curious about how things work for as long as he can remember. From a young kid pretending to be a plumber, to a high school intern developing an app to monitor blood loss during surgery, he figured out that engineering and math could help explain a lot of the mechanics behind the way the world works. After earning a degree in bioengineering and a minor in applied math at the University of Washington, Linden is now a PhD student at UC San Diego, where he found it was possible to pursue both his love of biology, as well as computational science.
May 6, 2021
2021's Most Sustainable Cities - Prof. Jan Kleissl's Answer
"Driving an electric car, drinking from compostable cups, growing food in our own gardens — making sustainable choices this Earth Day will help save our planet...
April 18, 2021
Professor Miroslav Krstic delivers the ASME Nyquist Lecture
At the 2015 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference Professor Miroslav Krstic has been awarded the Nyquist Lecture Prize, given for career-long achievements in automatic control and named after the area's pioneer Harry Nyquist, the 1930s inventor of the eponymous stability criterion taught to all MAE undergrads. Krstic delivered the lecture "Extremum Seeking and its Applications."
April 18, 2021
Professor Robert Skelton appointed 2014-2015 Fellow of the Texas Institute for Advanced Study
The Texas A&M University Institute for Advanced Study (TIAS) selects Fellows from among leading international scholars, with current Fellows who are members of national academies, Nobel laureates, and National Medal of Science recipients. Professor Bob Skelton is one of this year’s seven TIAS Fellows and is spending a part of the year in College Station conducting collaborative research with TAMU faculty and students.
April 15, 2021
Professor de Callafon helps build cyber-infrastructure to aid wildfire hazard assessment and response
Three research organizations at the University of California, San Diego, have been awarded a multi-year National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to build an end-to-end cyberinfrastructure to perform real-time data-driven assessment, simulation, prediction, and visualization of wildfire behavior. Read full story here.
April 15, 2021
Professor Miroslav Krstic Awarded Honorary Professorships from the Northeastern University (Shenyang, China) and Chongqing University
Professor Miroslav Krstic has been awarded Honorary Professorships at two universities in China. The Northeastern University in Shenyang is home to China’s #1 ranked College of Automation. The Chongqing University, in China’s seventh largest city (Chongqing has a population of over 17 million) also boasts a premier College of Automation with an enrollment of over 1,000 students and internationally prominent faculty.
April 14, 2021
Miroslav Krstic elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Professor Miroslav Krstic has been elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) " for pioneering contributions to PDE control and delay systems, nonlinear and adaptive control, extremum seeking, and applications to fluid flows and autonomous vehicles." Krstic has published 13 papers in ASME's Dynamic Systems and Control Division's (DSCD) flagship Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control and was the plenary speaker at the 2009 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference.
April 14, 2021
New Solar Power Material Converts 90 Percent of Captured Light into Heat
UC San Diego Mechanical Engineering Professor Renkun Chen spray paints a novel material designed that could significantly improve the cost competitiveness of solar energy by converting more than 90 percent of the sunlight it captures into heat. Read More
April 14, 2021
MAE 3 students compete in Robolympics
Nate Delson's MAE 3 students competed with robots that they designed and built themselves in the Robolympics.