MAE Highlights
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.
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!
April 14, 2021
Professors Cortes and McEneaney elevated to IEEE Fellows
Each year, following a rigorous evaluation procedure, the IEEE Fellow Committee recommends a select group of recipients for one of the Association’s most prestigious honors, elevation to IEEE Fellow. Less than 0.1% of voting members are selected annually for this member grade elevation.
Jorge Cortes
for contributions to geometric control, nonsmooth dynamical systems, and distributed control of multi-agent systems
William McEneaney
for contributions to optimal control and estimation in nonlinear systems
April 14, 2021
Professor Bewley of the UCSD Coordinated Robotics Lab interviewed live
Professor Bewley of the UCSD Coordinated Robotics Lab was interviewed live on channel 8 (see the video here), in a promotional piece advertising for a talk he gave at the Scripps “Engineering & Our Oceans" open house on March 19 (see here). Said Bewley, “We look at dynamics and control special way at UCSD, and enable bots to do amazing things.”
April 14, 2021
Congratulations to Joanna McKittrick, recipient of the UC San Diego Faculty Research Award
Joanna McKittrick was awarded the UC San Diego Faculty Research Award on Tuesday, February 14th to honor her significant research contributions.