MAE Highlights
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 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 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 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 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 14, 2021
Professor Alison Marsden is featured in San Diego's Union-Tribune
Alison is one of 7 San Diego women who is featured in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
She and others at UCSD are blazing trails for women in science:
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/jul/08/women-science/?page=2#article
Congratulations Alison!
April 14, 2021
Professor Thomas Bewley receives the MAE Best Teaching Award
Dean Pisano recently presented Thomas Bewley with the Best MAE Teaching Award for the 2013-2014 academic year.
April 14, 2021
Juan C. Lasheras Joins NIH MABS Study Section
Mechanical engineering professor Juan C. Lasheras is a new member of the NIH Modeling and Analysis of Biological Systems (MABS) Study Section, which reviews grant applications for scientific merit as a part of the NIH Center for Scientific Review. Read More..
April 14, 2021
Sungho Jin is the recipient of the 2016 Acta Materialia Gold Medal
Congratulations to Sungho Jin who is the recipient of the 2016 Acta Materialia Gold Medal. This award recognizes undisputed world leaders who have demonstrated excellence and leadership in biomaterials, including basic science and translation to practice.
April 14, 2021
Marc Meyers elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society
Distinguished Professor Marc Meyers has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society,
"For being a leading member of the international community on the dynamic response of materials for over thirty years, publishing over 330 papers. In addition to his fundamental contributions to the field, he has provided leadership through his activities in APS, MRS, and ARO, including co-founding the EXPLOMET conference."
CONGRATULATIONS MARC!