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Biomechanics
High-Tech Health Patient imaging data, such as CT or MRI scans, are used to build interactive 3-D computer models of the arteries and veins and to simulate blood flow in order to design customized surgeries. The collaboration among engineers, computer scientists, and doctors improves results for patients.
Energy
Powering us into the Future One of the major challenges of this century will be meeting growing global energy demand while reducing carbon emissions and other pollution from fossil fuels. The MAE department in collaboration with the Center for Energy Research (CER) brings together a multidisciplinary team of scientists, and engineers to create sustainable energy solutions.
Undergraduate Labs
A Foundation for Success Many students participate in several hours of research each week during the academic year. Students can also enroll in independent study, internships, and programs like Global TIES where they gain experience and solve real problems.
Design
Learning by Building Project-based learning involves constructing robotic contraptions, student-initiated projects in labs and computer courses, and a senior design project in which teams work to solve industry problems.
Dynamic Systems and Control
Building Better Batteries Improving the estimation of charge distribution inside lithium-ion batteries – a project undertaken by the Cymer Center – promises more efficient and reliable electronics for industry and for consumers.
Environmental Engineering
Predicting Sunshine Sky imagers, developed at UC San Diego and in use at the nation’s largest solar power plant, minimize uncertainty in solar energy generation by predicting solar power output. The imagers track cloud cover via fish-eye lenses and three-dimensional modeling.
Fluid Mechanics
Propulsive Research Research using engineering techniques to unlock some of biology’s most interesting mysteries reveals how soft surfaces, like water, can be distorted by applying small-scale forces. Applications could lead to new and efficient methods for propulsion or aquatic military uses.
Mechanics and Materials
Impressive Compression Nanoscale materials offer immense benefits for enhanced functionality and portability. Coiled carbon nanofibers synthesized through thermal chemical vapor deposition can be used in various applications, including cushioning foams, electrical inductors and metamaterials.
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2016-2017 PROPOSED MAE COURSE OFFERINGS

2016-2017 PROPOSED MAE COURSE OFFERINGS is now available.  Click here to view!  (Revised  February 2016; subject to change)
MAE Math Open House

Math got you stumped?!? Need a refresher on calculus? Want to learn some cool math facts? Come to the MAE Math Open house!
https://sites.google.com/a/eng.ucsd.edu/mae-math-open-house/
Seminars & Events  
Mechanochemistry of Wet Biological Adhesives and Their Synthetic Mimics
Monday, October 3, 2016, 11:00 to 12:00 PM, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, 479
Phillip Messersmith (University of California, Berkeley)
Sea ice stability and early warning signal
Monday, October 3, 2016, 3:00 to 4:00 PM, EBUII, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, 479
Ian Eisenman (University of California, San Diego)
Biomechanical alterations of endothelial cells induced by infectious bacteria
Thursday, October 6, 2016, 3:00 - 4:00 PM, SME, Room 248
Effie E. Bastounis (Stanford University)
A Paradigm Shift in Estimation and Control for Linear Dynamic Systems with Additive Cauchy Uncertainty
Friday, October 7, 2016, 3:00 - 4:00 PM, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, 479
Jason Speyer (UC Los Angeles)
Prestress in the Cytoskeleton of Red Blood Cells
Monday, October 10, 2016, 11:00 to 12:00 PM, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, 479
Qiang Zhu (University of California, San Diego)
Flame Assisted Fabrication of Nano-materials with Applications to Energy Storage
Wednesday, October 12, 2016, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, EBUII, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, 479
Joaquin Camacho (San Diego State University)
Spots and stripes: Isolating the building blocks of intermittent stratified turbulence in plane Couette flow
Monday, October 17, 2016, 3:00 to 4:00 PM, EBUII, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, 479
John Taylor (University of Cambridge)
News            
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
MAE 3 students compete in Robolympics

Nate Delson's MAE 3 students competed with robots that they designed and built themselves in the Robolympics.
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.

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