MAE Highlights
April 14, 2021
Industry titans honored at UCSD Embedded Control & Robotics Industry Recognition Night
Senior executives and engineers from Cymer, Texas Instruments, National Instruments, ATA Engineering, WowWee, and Brain Corporation were honored on Dec 5 at the culmination of MAE’s newly-revamped Embedded Control & Robotics course, MAE143c. Design and robotics are major growth areas for MAE, and this momentum was evident and accelerated at this event. To view the event, click here.
April 14, 2021
“50 is the new 70” for Mechanical Engineering Professor Miroslav Krstic
Miroslav Krstic, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Associate Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California, San Diego recently received an impressive gift for his 50th birthday.
Forty-six of his colleagues in the control theory and systems field – including the most prominent scholars and scientists in his area of specialty of nonlinear control and delay systems – dedicated a new 400-page special-issue volume in his honor.
April 14, 2021
MAE Alumni Awards Recipients
MAE's Outstanding Alumni Awards were presented on Monday, November 19th to recognize the cumulative contributions of the following MAE Alumni:
Outstanding Alumna Award
Professor Chiara Daraio, California Institute of Technology with MAE Faculty Vitali F. Nesterenko
For outstanding achievements in mechanical metamaterials and materials science.
April 14, 2021
Frank Talke to receive STLE’s International Award
Professor Frank Talke has been selected to receive STLE’s International Award for 2013. The STLE International Award is the highest technical honor of the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers, which bestows lifetime honorary membership in STLE. The award is given to Prof. Talke in recognition of his outstanding contributions throughout his industrial and academic career to the field of tribology and lubrication research.
April 14, 2021
Bob Bitmead, recipient of the 2014 Rufus Oldenburger Medal, ASME.
The Rufus Oldenburger Medal is a prestigious American Society of Mechanical Engineers award for lifetime achievements in automatic control. Inaugurated in 1968, the medal recognizes significant contributions and outstanding achievements in the field of automatic control. Such achievements may be, for example, in the areas of education, research, development, innovation, and service to the field and profession.
April 14, 2021
MAE Students tackle rocket science using a 3-D printer to create engine
UCSD engineering student Deepak Atyam holds the rocket engine in an engineering lab that he and a team of students designed that was created with a 3D metal printer.
April 14, 2021
Professor Miroslav Krstic delivers a keynote lecture "PDE Control: Designs and Applications"
Professor Miroslav Krstic delivers a keynote lecture "PDE Control: Designs and Applications" at the flagship conference in control systems, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, in Los Angeles California, on December 16, 2014, to an audience of about 1,400.
Krstic's lecture covered control design methods for nonlinear systems with delays and for systems modeled by partial differential equations, including examples of implementation of such methods in 3D printing, oil drilling, Lithium-ion batteries, and multi-vehicle deployment.
April 14, 2021
Marc Meyers receives the Charles Barrett Medal Award
Each year the Charles Barrett Medal award honors a selected outstanding engineer, scientist or professor whose contribution has had a significant impact in the materials and metallurgy development.
April 14, 2021
Three faculty members in MAE at UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Congratulations to Michael Baskes, Juan Lasheras and Robert Skelton for being elected into the National Academy of Engineering.
“Election to the National Academy of Engineering is one of the highest professional honors accorded an engineer. I am very pleased that the research contributions of four engineers affiliated with the Jacobs School have been recognized by the academy this year,” said Frieder Seible, Dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego. (PDF Announcement)
April 14, 2021
Researchers Create a Wave Frozen in Time
San Diego, CA, July 22, 2013 -- Scientists at the Universidad Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M) and the University of California, San Diego have created, in a laboratory, a static “pipeline wave,” with a crest that moves neither forward nor backward. This research, published in the journal Experiments in Fluids, could lead to improvements in boat and seaport designs as well as analyses of how carbon dioxide exchange between the ocean and the atmosphere occurs. (This story is adapted from one written by the Universidad Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M))