MAE Highlights
April 14, 2021
Marc Meyers publishes a new book, "Biological Materials Science"
"Biological Materials Science" is written by Po-Yu Chen and Professor Marc Meyers and is intended to be a text that will introduce the fertile field of Biology to Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering.
April 14, 2021
UC San Diego engineering undergraduates one step closer to lunar orbit
Congratulations to The Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) Cubesat Team for placing third in a NASA satellite design competition. Read this exciting story here.
April 14, 2021
Professor Eric Lauga receives the MAE Best Teaching Award and is the 2012 recipient of the Faculty Mentorship Award
Dean Seible recently presented Eric Lauga with the Best MAE Teaching Award for 2011.
The Graduate Student Community Awards Selection Committee has also named Dr. Lauga a 2012 recipient of the Faculty Mentorship Award.
Congratulations Professor Lauga!
April 14, 2021
UCSD Coordinated Robotics Lab Provides Key Technology for Consumer Robot
UCSD rings up sale in toy market
Thomas Bewley, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and the director of the coordinated robotics lab at UCSD, developed much of the technology that powers, balances and controls MiP, a toy robot that's being introduced by WowWee. — Howard Lipin
UC San Diego is learning that making money can be child’s play.
April 14, 2021
Former UCSD Coordinated Robotics Lab student wins BIG in DARPA Robotics Challenge
Professor Bewley's former student, Dr. Chris Schmidt Wetekam, the first PhD graduate of the UCSD Coordinated Robotics Lab, and now a member of the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC), was an integral member of the IHMC Atlas team that placed second at the DARPA Robotics Challenge in Pomona, winning $1M in prize money. 23 teams teams competed. More info here: http://www.ihmc.us
April 14, 2021
Professor Graeve elected a Fellow of The American Ceramic Society
Congratulations to Olivia Graeve who was elected a Fellow of The American Ceramic Society.
April 14, 2021
**FEATURED ON CNET!** UCSD Coordinated Robotics Lab develops new technologies for fire surveillance
The Coordinated Robotics Lab has developed new image processing techniques for characterization of structural fires by small self-righting Segway-like vehicles. This system takes the thermal data taken by the vehicle's infrared camera and maps it onto the 3d scene constructed using the vehicle's stereo RGB cameras, thereby creating a temperature-painted virtual reality as it drives through a smoky building with hot spots and people distributed within it. Click here for an explanatory video.
April 14, 2021
Bob Bitmead receives lifetime achievement award for contributions to control theory
Professor Bitmead fell in love with control theory as a third-year applied mathematics major at the University of Sydney in 1974. This fall, he will head out to San Antonio to receive the Rufus Oldenburger medal, a lifetime achievement award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, for his significant contributions in the field. Read More.
April 14, 2021
Juan Carlos del Alamo receives the NSF Career Award
Assistant professor Juan C. del Alamo received a prestigious CAREER Award in Fluid Dynamics from the National Science Foundation. The five year grant, entitled "Dynamics of anisotropic fluids: a frontier in intracellular microrheology" will support his group's research on the mechanical behavior of living soft matter.
April 14, 2021
Professor de Callafon helps build cyber-infrastructure to aid wildfire hazard assessment and response
The project, called WIFIRE, starts October 1 and is funded under a three-year grant worth approximately $2.65 million. Participants include researchers from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology’s (Calit2) Qualcomm Institute, and the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) department at the university’s Jacobs School of Engineering.