MAE Highlights
April 14, 2021
ASME 2013 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition Honor Professor Sia Nemat-Nasser
Sia Nemat-Nasser will be receiving the ASME Medal, "For creating micro-architectured composites to mitigate shock-wave induced traumatic brain injury; metamaterials to redirect, attenuate and manage stress waves; and original comprehensive models of deformation and failure of metallic structures with application to metal forming and failure prevention; and for excellent contributions in promoting ASME's Materials Division."
April 14, 2021
Juan Lasheras elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI)
Election to NAI Fellow status is a high professional distinction accorded to academic inventors who have demonstrated a highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society.
April 14, 2021
Model maps out molecular roots of learning and memory formation
San Diego, Calif., Sept. 7, 2016 -- A team of researchers has built a mathematical model that describes the molecular events associated with the beginning stage of learning and memory formation in the human brain. Read more
April 14, 2021
Professor Marc Meyers elected Corresponding Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences
Marc Meyers was elected Corresponding Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, in the domain of Engineering Sciences. In the photo Marc Meyers is being congratulated by Dr. Marco Antonio Raupp, Minister of Science, Technology, and Innovation of Brazil, at the ceremony in which he was inducted into the Brazilian Academy of Sciences as a Corresponding Member.
April 14, 2021
Professor Markenscoff's ENVISION Guest Lecture was enthusiatically received
Professor Xanthippi Markenscoff was enthusiastically received by a large group of high school girl-students from the extended Southern California area to whom she spoke about the exciting developments in technological innovations happening at UCSD and in MAE, and why women should be part of them. Her Guest Lecture on February 8 was part of the ENVISION 2014 event organized by the chapter of the Society of Women Engineers at UCSD.
April 14, 2021
Padmini Rangamani leads team on a $7.5 million MURI grant to study memory capacity and energy efficiency in the brain
San Diego, Calif., May 1, 2017 -- A team of researchers at the University of California San Diego and Stanford University has received a $7.5 million, five-year grant to try to answer two fundamental questions: what is the memory capacity of a brain; and how does the brain process information with maximum energy efficiency.
April 14, 2021
Farhat Beg Elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Farhat Beg, Professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department has been named an IEEE Fellow. He is being recognized for contributions to “high intensity laser matter interactions and pulsed power pinches”. The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors upon a person with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. The total number selected in any one year cannot exceed one-tenth of one- percent of the total voting membership.
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.