Physics of Surfing Class Introduces
Students to Research - May 2009
UC San Diego's 1-unit freshman seminars combine
entertainment with academic rigor. The Physics of
Surfing, for example, uses accelerometers and GPS to
examine the science behind the perfect wave. The
surfing class -- co-taught by Stefan Llewellyn Smith,
associate professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
-- meets weekly, with lectures and lab experiments.
One lecture covers the fluid dynamics of the
surfboard. Another explores what makes Black's Beach
-- just down the coast from Scripps Pier -- one of the top
surf breaks in the world. Short answer: It's the
canyon on the ocean floor. The class is part of a
program started at UC campuses in 2003, 1-unit classes
exclusively for freshmen. The classes are
academically worthy but give students a break from the
grind that comes from carrying four 4-unit classes heavy
with reading lists, term papers and exams. Read more at the LA
Times...
MAE Professor Alison Marsden Develops
Method to Combat Congenital Heart Disease in
Children - February 2009
Congenital heart defects account for five times more deaths
annually than all childhood cancers combined. Alison
Marsden, an assistant Mechanical & Aerospace
Engineering Professor at UC San Diego, has developed a
unique set of computer modeling tools that are expected to
enhance pediatric surgeons’ ability to perform
critical heart surgery on children. Marsden’s
work focuses on designing and using simulation tools to
provide a way of testing new surgery designs on the
computer before trying them on patients. Certain
severe forms of congenital heart defects leave a patient
with only one functional heart pumping chamber. These
“single ventricle” defects are uniformly fatal
if left untreated, and require a patient to undergo
multiple heart surgeries, ending with a Fontan procedure.
Read more...
MAE Professor Stefan Llewellyn Smith
Lectures at Math-for-Industry Tutorial Workshop in
Japan - March 2009
Understanding the stability of flowing fluids and plasmas
is an important scientific and technological challenge.
The traditional approach of using modal expansions
turns out to be insufficient: non-orthogonal eigenfunctions
and the existence of a continuous spectrum associated with
critical layers lead to a rich variety of complicated
phenomena in space and time. A recent workshop at the
Mathematical Research Center for Industrial Technology
(MRIT) of Kyushu University, Japan, entitled
"Math-for-Industry Tutorial: Spectral theories of
non-Hermitian operators and their application" investigated
these topics. Specialists from Japan and elsewhere
gave a series of lectures on basic mathematical notions,
current status and novel techniques to handle non-Hermitian
operators. MAE Professor Stefan Llewellyn Smith gave
two hour-long lectures titled "Fluid instability, the
continuous spectrum and asymptotic models" and "Vortex
axisymmetrization".
Former MAE Student John Taylor Receives
2008 Andreas Acrivos Dissertation Award in Fluid
Dynamics - March 2009
John Taylor, a recent Ph.D. from MAE, was awarded the 2008
Andreas Acrivos Dissertation Award in Fluid Dynamics.
This award is annually bestowed by the American
Physical Society to an individual whose dissertation is
selected to be outstanding in the area of fluid dynamics
during that year. John's thesis titled "Numerical
Simulations of the Stratified Oceanic Bottom Boundary
Layer," was advised by Prof. Sutanu Sarkar. The
selection committee commended John's dissertation for
"insight provided into the behavior of turbulence in stable
stratification that stood out as a novel contribution to
our understanding of oceanography, with considerable
potential for long-term impact." John Taylor is
currently working at MIT with Prof. Rafael Ferrari (a
fellow UCSD graduate with a Ph.D. from SIO!) as a NSF
Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow. Read more...
MAE
Student Ilenia Battiato Receives Outstanding Student Paper
Award for her Hydrology Presentation at the 2008 Fall
Meeting of the AGU - February 2009
MAE student Ilenia Battiato has been awarded the
Outstanding Student Paper Award for her presentation at the
Hydrology Section of AGU (American Geophysical Union) 2008
Fall Meeting in San Francisco. Ilenia works with
Professor Daniel Tartakovsky on hybrid modeling of reactive
transport in porous media. In the words of the AGU
Leadership Committee, "Her presentation was recognized as
among the best of a strong group of student presenters,
which sets an example for her fellow students and the
entire AGU membership." Outstanding Student Paper
Award winners will be listed in an upcoming publication of
EoS, the weekly newspaper of AGU, and she will be receiving
a formal certificate of achievement.
Twinkle, twinkle, little laser - A novel
way to save water
January 2009:
How much and how often should farmers water their crops?
MAE Professor Jan Kleissl and his colleagues at the
University of California, San Diego, think they may be able
to help. Dr Kleissl's idea is to use lasers to detect
the amount of moisture in the air above the crops, and then
use this information to decide when they need to be
watered. His system, known grandiosely as a "large
aperture scintillometer", consists of a laser on one side
of a field, a telescope on the other, and a lot of clever
computing to interpret what the telescope sees.
Read more...
While in China, MAE
Professor Marc Meyers Receives the Lee Hsun Lecture Award
and an Honorary Professorship with Harbin Engineering
University
November/December 2008:
During a November 2008 trip to China MAE Professor Marc
Meyers received the Lee Hsun Lecture Award at the Institute
for Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in
Shenyang. Professor Meyers taught a full one quarter
class on mechanical behavior of materials to a group of
enthusiastic graduate students. This institute has
approximately 600 graduate students in materials science
and engineering. The following month, Professor
Meyers visited Harbin Engineering University and was
awarded an honorary professorship, received directly from
from Professor Liu, President. HEU was founded in the
early 1950s as the premier military university in China.
Its first president was General Chen, a hero in the
liberation war who also fought in Korea and Vietnam.
The buildings represent some of the most impressive
architecture from the 50s. Today it is a broad based
university with 30,000 students. It has great
strength in Naval and Nuclear Engineering.
MAE Professor
Frank Talke to be inducted into the Academy der
Technikwissenschaften (Acatech)
March
2009:
MAE Professor Frank Talke has been elected into the Academy
der Technikwissenschaften (Acatech). Acatech brings
together the best minds in science and business. It
is the exchange between these forces that leads to
sustainable growth through innovation. Acatech, whose name
stands for the combination of academia and technology, is
made up of three governing bodies: the General Assembly,
the Senate Committee and the Supervisory Board. The members
of Acatech are admitted into the organization based on
their outstanding scientific achievements and excellent
reputation. The Academy der Technikwissenschaften is
the equivalent of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
in the US. Members have to be proposed and voted on by all
other members. At present, there are 296
members.
UC San Diego Engineers Develop Novel Method
for Accelerated Bone Growth
January 29, 2009: Engineers at UCSD have come up
with a way to help accelerate bone growth through the use
of nanotubes and stem cells. This new finding could
lead to quicker and better recovery for patients who
undergo orthopedic surgery. The researchers described
their findings in a paper published in the Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), "Stem Cell Fate
Dictated Solely by Altered Nanotube Dimension." "If
you break your knee or leg from skiing, for example, an
orthopedic surgeon will implant a titanium rod, and you
will be on crutches for about three months," said MAE
Professor Sungho Jin, co-author of the PNAS paper and a
materials science professor at the Jacobs School of
Engineering. "But what we anticipate through our research
is that if the surgeon uses titanium oxide nanotubes with
stem cells, the bone healing could be accelerated and a
patient may be able to walk in one month instead of being
on crunches for three months." Read more...
MAE
Ph.D Students Bartal and Ross Receive Lawrence Scholar
Program Award
January 2009: Two MAE students (Teresa Bartal and
Steven Ross) have been awarded the Lawrence Scholar Program
Award this year. Teresa works with Professor Farhat
Beg and Steven with Professor George Tynan. Last
year, two other MAE students (Tammy Ma and Brad Pollock
advised by Profs. Farhat Beg and George Tynan respectively)
won this award. The Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory (LLNL) grants this award to provide Ph.D
students with the opportunity to perform research at LLNL
in an effort to recruit young talent to the laboratory.
The Lawrence award consists of up to four years of
support to conduct research at LLNL. Students must be a
full time Ph.D and have a close working relationship
between their academic advisor at their home institution
and a technical mentor at LLNL.
Focused like a laser beam on water
loss
January 03, 2009: Seventy-six years after the
invention of the modern sprinkler helped revolutionize
farming, a professor of environmental engineering is
pointing a laser beam across an alfalfa crop in Southern
California's Imperial Valley, looking for a better way to
conserve the millions of gallons of water sprayed each year
on thirsty crops. MAE Professor Jan Kleissl and a
handful of his students at UC San Diego have rigged up a
contraption called a large aperture scintillometer to study
exactly how much irrigation water is lost to evaporation
and the peak times that water disappears. The hope is
to give farmers a more accurate, up-to-date reading of how
efficiently their crops are using water than current
technology allows. Read more of the LA Times
article....
MAE Professors Martinez and Cortes Win the
2008 IEEE Control Systems Magazine Outstanding Paper
Award
December 2008: MAE Assistant Professors Sonia
Martinez and Jorge Cortes, together with UCSB Professor
Francesco Bullo, have won the 2008 IEEE Control Systems
Magazine Outstanding Paper Award with the paper entitled
"Motion Coordination with Distributed
Information", published in the IEEE Control Systems
Magazine, vol 47, issue 4, Dec 2007. The award is
given to a paper published in the Control Systems Magazine
in the two calendar years preceding the award, and is based
on the impact on the field of systems and control, and the
benefit to the Control Systems Society members. In
the paper, the authors illustrate the use of systems theory
to analyze emergent behaviors in animal groups and to
design autonomous and reliable robotic networks. The
paper also presents and surveys some recently developed
theoretical tools for modeling, analysis, and design of
motion coordination algorithms, paying special attention to
the distributed character of coordination algorithms, the
characterization of their performance, and the development
of design methodologies that provide mobile networks with
provably correct cooperative strategies. The authors
received the award on December 10, at the awards ceremony
of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, held in
Cancun, Mexico.
MAE 2
"Near-Space" Project Soars High Above Salton
Sea
Fall 2008: This year the MAE 2 Introduction to
Aerospace Engineering course taught by MAE Professors Keiko
Nomura and John Kosmatka added a "near-space" project for
25 students. The students designed and built payload
boxes placed on a weather balloon and launched into near
space (85,000 feet). Experiments include evaluation
of solar cell efficiency at altitude, pictures, and the
survival of astronauts (cockroaches) to cold, vacuum, and
radiation. This was a tremendous success for the
students. View the project Picture Book here.
MAE Professor Sia Nemat-Nasser presents Sia
Nemat-Nasser Early Career Medal to Dr. Jiangyu Li at the
ASME 2008 Annual Meeting in Boston, MA
November 2008: Sia Nemat-Nasser, Distinguished
Professor of Mechanics and Materials, and Director of the
Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials (CEAM),
presented the first Sia Nemat-Nasser Early Career Medal to
Dr. Jiangyu Li, Associate Professor of Mechanical
Engineering at University of Washington, at the ASME annual
meeting held in Boston, MA, November 2-6, 2008. This
award is given to recognize research excellence in the
areas of experimental, computational, and theoretical
mechanics and materials by young investigators who are
within 10 years after their Ph.D. degree. Information
about the award may be found here.
MAE
Professor Sia Nemat-Nasser delivers the Timoshenko-Medal
Lecture at the ASME 2008 Annual Meeting in Boston,
MA
November: Sia Nemat-Nasser, Distinguished Professor
of Mechanics and Materials, and Director of the Center of
Excellence for Advanced Materials (CEAM), delivered the
after-dinner Timoshenko Lecture, Tuesday November 4, 2008,
at the Annual Meeting of the ASME, which was held in
Boston, MA. He noted that it was in June of 1958 that
he stepped on American soil with $200 in his pocket, yet
managing to finish his BS, MS, and PhD degrees by 1964, to
join Northwestern University, then UCSD, then back to
Northwestern, and finally back to UCSD in 1985, where he
created the Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials and
spearheaded the creation of the University-wide Materials
Program, serving as its Founding Director for five years.
Guided by Timoshenko’s teaching, he following
his passion for engineering education and research to
receive this great honor, the Timoshenko Medal, 50 years
later, since he arrived in the USA. For the full text
of Professor Nemat-Nasser’s remarks please visit this
website .
MAE Professor Sia Nemat-Nasser is featured
on front page of ASCE June 2008 News
June 2008: Sia Nemat-Nasser, Distinguished Professor
of Mechanics and Materials, was featured on the front page
of the June 2008 ASCE News that reaches ASCE’s
150,000 members. He spoke after receiving the
Theodore von Karman Medal in recognition of his
contributions to engineering mechanics, the highest award
of the society in mechanics.
The Sia Nemat-Nasser Early Career Medal
will be awarded at the 2008 ASME IMECE
November 2008: The ASME Materials Division awards
the first “Sia Nemat-Nasser Early Career Medal”
on Tuesday November 4th in Boston. The Medal
recognizes research excellence in the areas of
experimental, computational, and theoretical mechanics and
materials by young investigators who are within 10 years
after their Ph.D. degree, with special emphasis placed on
under-represented minorities and women. The medal
aims to honor Sia Nemat- Nasser for his life-long
encouragement of young people, particularly
underrepresented minorities and women, to pursue
mathematics, science, and engineering. The recipient
will be awarded a plaque, a certificate, a medal, and an
honorarium of $5,000, in addition to travel expenses to
allow the recipient to attend the meeting at which the
presentation is made.
MAE Professor Miroslav Krstic delivers the
Nokia Distinguished Lecture at UC
Berkeley
October 21, 2008: To celebrate the 50th anniversary
of the invention of the Smith Predictor, by Otto J. M.
Smith (UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus, 1988) who joined for
the lecture, MAE Professor Krstic presented his new
predictor feedback designs for stabilization of nonlinear
and PDE systems with long actuator delays. A video
file of the entire lecture is available here: 
MAE Professor Eric Lauga Reveals New Mode
of Propulsion Based on Water Snails
October 8, 2008: UC San Diego engineer has revealed
a new mode of propulsion based on how water snails create
ripples of slime to crawl upside down beneath the
surface.
Eric Lauga, an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering at the Jacobs School of Engineering,
recently published a paper in the journal Physics of Fluid
called “Crawling Beneath the Free Surface: Water
Snail Locomotion,” that explains how and why water
snails can drag themselves across a fluid surface that they
can’t even grip.
MAE Undergrad Goes Nano and Makes the
Cut
September 15, 2008: Michael Clark, an aerospace
engineering major at the Jacobs School, has known since the
eighth grade that he wanted to be an engineer. Last
year, he became one of the dozens of undergraduate student
engineers and researchers at the UCSD division of Calit2
when he joined Calit2’s Nano3 Cleanroom Facility
staff. Clark, an aerospace engineering major,
performs a number of tasks inside and out of the cleanroom
areas. His primary job is in back-end processing, a
lab outside the actual cleanrooms, where he operates a
precision dicing saw machine (the Disco Automatic Dicing
Saw 3220), which is used to make a variety of very precise,
micro-scale cuts into semiconductor wafers.
MAE Professor Marc A. Meyers Publishes a
new book, Mechanical Behavior of
Materials
November 2008: The new edition of Professor Marc A.
Meyers book "Mechanical Behavior of Materials" Will be
published by the Cambridge University Press. This
influential text is the most thorough and modern book
available for upper-level undergraduate courses on the
mechanical behavior of materials. The authors present
the fundamental mechanisms that operate at micro- and
nano-meter level across a wide-range of materials.
This integrated approach provides a conceptual
presentation that shows how the microstructure of a
material controls its mechanical behavior, which is
reinforced through extensive use of micrographs and
illustrations. The book also includes a balanced
mechanics/materials approach and coverage of the latest
developments in biomaterials and electronic
materials.
MAE Professor Miroslav Krstic and Dr. Andrey
Smyshlyaev publish a new book, Boundary Control of PDEs:
A Course on Backstepping Design
- June 2008: The book presents feedback design
methods for PDE systems to which control has access only
through boundary conditions. The book's coverage
includes parabolic PDEs; hyperbolic PDEs of first and
second order; fluid, thermal, and structural systems; delay
systems; PDEs with third and fourth derivatives in space
(including variants of linearized Ginzburg–Landau,
Schrodinger, Kuramoto–Sivashinsky, KdV, beam, and
Navier–Stokes equations); real-valued as well as
complex-valued PDEs; stabilization as well as motion
planning and trajectory tracking for PDEs; and elements of
adaptive control for PDEs and control of nonlinear PDEs.
The book is usable as a graduate textbook, contains
extensive problem sets, and comes with an instructor's
solutions manual.
MAE Professor Sia Nemat-Nasser presents
John E. Starrett Memorial Scholarship to four engineering
graduating seniors
June 2008: Sia Nemat-Nasser, Distinguished Professor
of Mechanics and Materials, and Director of the Center of
Excellence for Advanced Materials (CEAM), presented the
seventeenth annual John Starrett Memorial Scholarship Award
to four graduating seniors: two from MAE [Eric Haar, Warren
College and Joel Kaluzny, Sixth College], one from
Bioengineering [Kaveh Zakeri, Warren College], and one from
Structural Engineering [Andy Tran, Sixth College], during
two commencement ceremonies. [Picture: June 22nd
Warren College Commencement, presentation of two of the
awards]. The Starrett Memorial Scholarship (which carries a
$750 award) was established in 1990 to commemorate Dr. John
Starrett, UCSD Ph.D. and CEAM Principal Development
Engineer, who suddenly passed away at the age of
47.
Operating at the Interface between Science and
Society: Mechanical Engineering
- Summer 2008: Instructor Dr. Kristin Schaaf and
teaching assistant Sara Marshall (both MAE graduate
students - former and current, respectively - at the Center
of Excellence for Advanced Materials under the direction of
Dr. Sia Nemat-Nasser) taught a mechanical engineering
course entitled ‘Operating at the Interface between
Science and Society: Mechanical Engineering’, as part
of this summer’s UCSD’s Academic Connections
outreach program, which offered a unique pre-college summer
academic and residential experience to seventeen students
who took this mechanical engineering course. The goal
of the program is to provide hands-on college subject
matter courses and the opportunity to experience life and
learning at a top-ranked research university.
More
information...
MAE Professor
Sia Nemat-Nasser Speaks at the Sacramento State University
Convocation
2008: Sia Nemat-Nasser, Distinguished Professor of
Mechanics and Materials, delivered the convocation speech
at the 2008 Sacramento State University graduation
ceremony, to the graduating engineers. His comments
were focused on the pivotal role that engineering has
played in the human's cultural evolution, from tool-making
of the hunters and gatherers to the 20th century that has
witnessed many great innovations which have completely
transformed our lives. The photo includes President
Alexander Gonzalez (3rd left), Dean of Engineering, Emir
Macari (right), and Sia (center).
MAE
Professor Sia Nemat-Nasser Speaks at an NAS Symposium at
Northwestern University to Honor Two National Medal of
Science Recipients
May 2008: Sia Nemat-Nasser, Distinguished Professor
of Mechanics and Materials, delivered an invited lecture at
a National Academy of Science one-day symposium held at
Northwestern University, May 14, 2008, to honor two
National Medal of Science recipients, Chemistry Professor
Tobin Marks (left) and Mechanics Professor Jan Achenbach
(right). Professor Nemat-Nasser’s lecture
focused on his new research to create multifunctional
composites. More
information...
MAE Professor Frank Talke to Receive 2008
ASME Medal
June 2008: ASME is the home of mechanical
engineering. It includes over 130,000 members from
academia, industry, and national laboratories. This
society honors its outstanding members through symposia,
awards, medals, honorary memberships, and the society's
medal. Among these the honorary membership and the
society medal are bestowed to very few members with
exceptional educational and innovative scientific and
industrial contributions to the art and science of
mechanical engineering. This year, MAE has been
particularly and exceptionally honored. Professor
Frank Talke has been selected by ASME to receive the 2008
ASME Medal. This is truly a recognition of his
excellent contributions over many years to mechanical
engineering.
Physics of Surfing Class Introduces
Students to Research
June 16, 2008: It was a sunny Saturday morning in La
Jolla and a UCSD student was getting ready to wade in the
waves with his surfboard. But the undergraduate
wasn’t there to just have fun. He also was
trying to measure the physical forces at work when he
surfed. Two devices were snugly duct-taped to the
front and the back of his board. The experiment was
part of a class titled “The Physics of Surfing”
co-taught by Professor David Sandwell at UCSD’s
Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Professor Stefan
Llewellyn Smith at the Jacobs School of Engineering's
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
The course is part of the university’s freshman
seminars program, which allows students to explore
interesting topics and introduces them to
research.
Recent MAE Ph.D. Student Alberto Aliseda
wins NSF CAREER Award to Support Microbubble Research in
Diagnosing and Treating Cardiovascular
Disease
Spring, 2008: Alberto Aliseda, assistant professor
of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington,
has won the CAREER Award, the National Science Foundation's
highest honor for junior faculty. This award is part
of Faculty Early Career Development, which is among NSF's
most prestigious awards in support of early career
development activities. The award, $450,000 over five
years, will support Dr. Aliseda's research in the area of
microbubble dynamics in the human blood circulation.
This work is aimed at improving the clinical use of
microbubbles in the diagnostic and treatment of
cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in the
developed world. More information...
UC San Diego Unveils Cymer Center for
Control Systems and Dynamics, Founded by MAE Professor
Krstic
May 29, 2008: The UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering
has announced today that Cymer Inc. has provided major
sponsorship of a novel educational and research program
designed to train engineers to improve the performance of
wide variety of industrial products and processes.
The new Cymer Center for Control Systems and Dynamics
(CCSD), which will educate many of the finest students in
the country in the field of controls, is designed to put
UCSD's Jacobs School on the fast track to industry
partnerships in numerous high tech arenas. "The field
of controls has matured to the point where we can now apply
what we are learning from fusion reactors and magnetic
levitation trains to numerous other areas of application,
including cell biology, or traction, stability, and engine
controls in vehicles," said Miroslav Krstic, founding
director of CCSD and a professor of mechanical and
aerospace engineering in the Jacobs School. "The new center
will broaden the faculty’s exposure to practical
problems to a growing list of important industrial
applications."
MAE Professor Sia Nemat-Nasser is selected
to receive the 2008 American Society of Mechanical
Engineers (ASME) Stephen P. Timoshenko
Medal
May 2008: Sia Nemat-Nasser, distinguished professor
of mechanics and materials, will receive the 2008
Timoshenko Medal of the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers. It recognizes Sia for 'fundamental
theoretical and experimental contributions in dynamic
stability; deformation and failure modes of materials;
nano-electro-chemo-mechanical characterization and modeling
of ionic polymer metal composites; and composites with
tuned electromagnetic functionality, self-healing and
self-sensing.' The medal will be presented during the ASME
2008 International Mechanical Congress and Exposition
(IMECE), Oct 31-Nov 06, 2008, in Boston, MA.
MAE Professor Sia Nemat-Nasser receives the
2008 Sacramento State University Distinguished Alumni
Service Award
April 2008: The Alumni Association of Sacramento
State University awards Sia Nemat-Nasser, distinguished
professor of mechanics and materials, with the 2008
Distinguished Alumni Service Award. The award
recognizes Sia for exceptional, distinguished and sustained
contributions to engineering research and teaching.
The award was presented to Sia at the honors banquet
hosted by Sacramento State University's President,
Alexander Gonzalez (above photo, right), Dean of
Engineering, Emir Macari, and the Alumni Association, April
17, 2008.
MAE Professor Sia Nemat-Nasser is awarded
the 2008 American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE)
Theodore von Karman Medal
Spring 2008: The Engineering Mechanics Division of
ASCE awards Sia Nemat-Nasser, distinguished professor of
mechanics and materials, with the 2008 Theodore von Karman
Medal. The award recognizes Sia for 'exceptional,
distinguished and sustained contributions in the fields of
micromechanics, granular materials, constitutive relations
of materials, stability and dynamic behavior of solids and
structures, and experimental and analytical methods in
broad areas of engineering mechanics'. The medal will
be presented during the Engineering Mechanics Institute's
inaugural International Conference, May 18-21, 2008 in
Minneapolis, NM.
MAE Professor Xanthippi Markenscoff Named a
Russell Severance Springer Distinguished Visiting
Professor
May, 2008: MAE Professor Xanthippi Markenscoff has
been named a Russell Severance Springer Distinguished
Visiting Professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department
at UC Berkeley, for the academic year 2008-2009. As
part of her duties she will give a Departmental Lecture and
teach a short graduate course on Dislocation Dynamics, her
area of expertise. Previous Springer Professors in
the Solid Mechanics/Continuum Mechanics areas include L.B.
Freund, G.A.Maugin and K.Rajagopal.
Creating Faster Integrated Circuits by
Slowing Light
April 22, 2008: Two UCSD research groups have merged
two previously unrelated areas of cutting-edge research in
optics – slow light and Anderson localization –
and have shown in a paper published in the journal Nature
Photonics that structures being considered as prime
building blocks for nanophotonic integrated circuits are
very susceptible to the effects of disorder, including
Anderson localization. The new findings were led by
UCSD electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Shayan
Mookherjea in collaboration with UCSD Mechanical
Engineering Professor Prabhakar Bandaru.
MAE Professor Miroslav Krstic elected Fellow of
IFAC
Spring 2008: Miroslav Krstic has been elected Fellow
of International Federation of Automatic Control for
"pioneering contributions to adaptive nonlinear control,
extremum seeking, boundary control of distributed parameter
systems, and control of turbulent fluid flows." Krstic is
the the second professor at UCSD to receive this honor and
only third IFAC Fellow in the UC system (Bob Bitmead and
Petar Kokotovic were elected in 2005). Krstic will be
officially introduced as Fellow of IFAC at this year's IFAC
World Congress in Seoul, Korea, in July.
Sia Nemat-Nasser Early Career Medal
Established
Spring 2008: The Materials Division of ASME is
pleased to announce the creation of The Sia Nemat-Nasser
Early Career Medal in honor of Dr. Sia Nemat- Nasser,
Director of the Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials
at UC San Diego and Distinguished Professor of Mechanics
and Materials. This award is given to recognize research
excellence in the areas of experimental, computational, and
theoretical mechanics and materials by young investigators
who are within 10 years after their Ph.D. degree, with
special emphasis placed on under-represented minorities and
women. Information about the award may be found on
the ASME Materials Division, Honors &
Awards website.
MAE Professor Beg Wins 2008 IEEE/NPSS Early
Achievement Award
March 31, 2008: MAE Professor Farhat Beg has been
selected as the winner of the 2008 IEEE Nuclear and Plasma
Sciences Society (NPSS) Early Achievement Award. The
Early Achievement Award recognizes outstanding
contributions to any of the fields making up Nuclear and
Plasma Sciences, within the first ten years of an
individual's career. Professor Beg's citation reads: "For
contributions to the understanding of electron transport in
short pulse high intensity laser matter interactions and
the physics of pulsed power driven z-pinches.
MAE Professor Eric Lauga receives National
Science Foundation CAREER Award
Mar 7, 2008: Eric Lauga received a NSF CAREER Award
from the Division of Chemical, Bioengineering,
Environmental, and Transport Systems. Professor
Lauga's group will develop a general framework for
biological and synthetic locomotion in complex fluids;
provide theoretical evidence that swimming
microorganisms interacting hydrodynamically form a chaotic
dynamical system; propose hydrodynamics mechanisms
contributing to symmetry-breaking in the beat patterns of
oscillating biological filaments; and lead an
ambitious, integrated research and educational initiative
in biological and complex fluids.
MAE Distinguished Professor Sungho Jin is
selected as MRS Fellow
March 2008: Sungho Jin, Distinguished Professor of
Materials Science, has been selected as Fellow of the MRS
(Materials Research Society) for pioneering research on
magnetic, superconducting, environmental, nano and bio
materials, and for significant publications, patents and
industrial applications. The title of MRS Fellow honors
scientists who are notable for their distinguished research
accomplishments and their outstanding contributions to the
advancement of materials research, world-wide. The
inaugural class of Fellows will be recognized at the 2008
MRS Spring Meeting, March 24-28, in San
Francisco.
MAE Professor Meyers Receives the 2008
Distinguished Service Award from the Structural Materials
Division of TMS
March 2008: MAE Professor Marc Meyers has received
the 2008 Distinguished Service Award from the Structural
Materials Division of TMS (The Minerals, Metals &
Materials Society). The award will be presented at
the Annual TMS meeting in New Orleans in March 2008.
This award recognizes an individual who has made a
long lasting contribution to the fundamental understanding
of microstructure, properties and performance of structural
materials for industrial applications.
MAE Professor Lasheras Named to Endowed
Chair at UCSD
February 12, 2008: UC San Diego announced that Juan
C. Lasheras, a distinguished professor of Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering (MAE), has been appointed the first
holder of the Stanford S. and Beverly P. Penner Endowed
Chair in Engineering and Applied Science in the
university’s Jacobs School of Engineering.
Lasheras, an international expert on the mechanics
and computer modeling of fluid flows, including blood flow,
has won numerous “Teacher of the Year” awards
and also is an outspoken champion of UC San Diego and the
profession of engineering.
MAE PhD
Student Tammy Ma Receives Best Talk Award at 2008 UCSD
All-Grads Symposium
Feb 21, 2008: Tammy Ma, a PhD student in MAE
Professor Farhat Beg's Fast Ignition and Laser-Plasma
Interactions group won the best talk award at the 2008 UCSD
All-Grads Symposium in the Physical and Engineering
Sciences Panel for her talk entitled "Extreme Ultraviolet
Imaging of Petawatt Laser-Irradiated Targets.
MAE Graduate Student Christopher
Schmidt-Wetekam Sweeps Awards at the UCSD Jacobs School
Research Expo
Feb 21, 2008: Christopher Schmidt-Wetekam, a PhD
student in MAE Professor Thomas Bewley's Coordinated
Robotics Lab, swept up the top honors at the UCSD Jacobs
School Research Expo from the Controls Center, the MAE
Department, and the Jacobs School, for his work in
developing the highly agile autonomous robotic systems,
iHop and iLean. For more info on this activity, see
the UCSD
Coordinated Robotics Lab web site and the PBS story on this project that aired on KPBS
on Feb 22.
Jacobs School of Engineering Awards MAE Professor
Lubarda "Best Teacher" Award
Winter 2007: Jacobs School of Engineering Dean
Frieder Seible presented Professor Vlado Lubarda "Teacher
of the Year Award" in the Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering Department for 2006/2007. Professor
Lubarda was selected by popular vote by students completing
surveys. Professor Lubarda is an Adjunct Professor of
Applied Mechanics in the Department of Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering, and has been with UCSD since
1998.
Former MAE Graduate Student, Prasad
Varanasi, Shares in Nobel Prize Awarded to Gore and Climate
Change Panel
Fall 2007: Former MAE Graduate Student Professor
Prasad Varanasi, now part of Stony Brook University's
School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, has been
recognized for their contributions to the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which was awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize last Friday along with former Vice President Al
Gore for efforts to control global warming.
A Unique Way To Lower Energy
Costs
05 December 2007: UC San Diego undergraduate
students have designed, built and deployed a network of
five weather-monitoring stations as a key step toward
helping the university use ocean breezes to cool buildings,
identify the sunniest rooftops to expand its solar-electric
system, and use water more efficiently in irrigation and in
other ways. The network, which will be expanded to 20
stations in 2008, is unprecedented in the United States for
the density of weather data to be collected. Project
leaders are inviting San Diego-area schools and businesses
to make their rooftops available for additional stations to
broaden the geographic scope, scientific value, and
potential energy savings of the effort.
MAE Ph.D. graduate, Carlos Pantano-Rubino,
Receives a PECASE Award
01 November 2007: Dr. Carlos Pantano-Rubino has been
selected as a recepient of the Presidential Early Career
Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The
PECASE award is the highest honor bestowed by the US
government on researchers in the beginning stage of their
careers. The awards were given out by the White House
in a ceremony on November 1st, 2007. Dr.
Pantano-Rubino is currently an assistant professor in the
department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. His
doctoral research in MAE, advised by Professor Sutanu
Sarkar, was in the area of numerical simulation of
compressible, reacting flows. After a postdoctoral
stint at California Institute of Technology, he joined
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, where he is
currently an assistant professor in the department of
Mechanical Science and Engineering. Read more at
The
Department of Energy (DoE) Office of Science and in
this DoE Press Release.
MAE Distinguished Professor Sia
Nemat-Nasser was Honored at ASME
November 14-15 2007: MAE Distinguished Professor Sia
Nemat-Nasser was honored at ASME, November 14-15, by a
symposium, "Modeling and Experiments in Nanomechanics and
Nanomaterials – In Honor of Prof. Sia Nemat-Nasser
and his Contributions in Constitutive Equations," as part
of the 2007 International Mechanical Engineering Congress
& Exposition, Seattle Washington. This was the
fourth symposium in his honor. The first was a
special two-day international symposium on "Deformation
Characteristics and Modeling of Materials" in Sendai,
Japan, 1996, the second, a three-day symposium on
"Experiments and Modeling of Failure of Modern Materials"
in San Diego as part of the MechMat2001 Conference, June
2001, and the third at the Society of Engineering Science
39th Annual Technical Meeting, October 2002, for receiving
the Prager Medal.
MAE Undergrads Dream with
Snapdragons
18 October 2007: In response to QUALCOMM’s
Innovator Challenge, Engineering undergraduate students
envisioned a portable electronic device that looks like a
book and has two screens. You could watch TV while
you work scribble answers to math problems on the second
screen which – at that moment – would serve as
an electronic notebook. The team won first prize and
$5,000 in the QUALCOMM engineering design contest, for
their ideas for what is possible with QUALCOMM’s new
ultra powerful chip set for mobile devices, called
Snapdragon.
What Makes Teeth Cut - MAE Research on
History Channel
11 October 2007: The research of materials science
professor Marc Meyers is part of a feature to air Oct. 11
and 12 on the History Channel. The Modern Marvels:
World's Sharpest episode will focus on at the most amazing
blades in the world, including some natural slicers in the
animal world. Meyers is conducting detailed studies of
shark and piranha teeth and other cutting surfaces found in
nature as part of his research on biomimetics.
MAE Professor Xanthippi Markenscoff
co-authors a paper that finally resolves a fundamental
issue in metal plasticity that eluded a satisfactory
solution
September 2007: Plastic deformation of most metals
occur by the motion of dislocations. A dislocation is a
geometric defect in the lattice structure, and thus does
not entail an inherent mass, but displays effective mass.
The quantification of this effective mass and the
associated self-force on an accelerating dislocation has
been an unresolved issue in crystal plasticity. UCSD
Mechanical Engineering Professor Xanthippi Markenscoff and
her former graduate student, Dr. Luqun Ni, have finally
managed to provide convincing solution for this problem
using elegant mathematical techniques. The paper is
in-press in Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids and
may be downloaded at this site under 'Articles in
Press'.
MAE Engineering Dynamo Sol Penner Honored
by National Academy Of Engineering
26 September 2007: During its 2007 annual meeting,
the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) will present
awards for extraordinary achievement. NAE's Founders
Award will be given to MAE Emeritus Professor Stanford S.
"Sol" Penner, who made important advances in thermophysics,
applied spectroscopy, combustion, propulsion, and energy.
The award will be presented at a ceremony to be held
on Sunday, Sept. 30
MAE Professor Lasheras Co-authors Study on
How Cells Change the Pace of Their Steps
03 August 2007: Scientists at UCSD have discovered
how cells of higher organisms change the speed at which
they move, a basic biological discovery that may help
researchers devise ways to prevent cancer cells from
spreading throughout the body. “For the first
time, we’ve been able to make precise measurements of
the repetitive nature of the forces and strain energies
exerted by cells, and this has allowed us to better
characterize the mechanics of the cell motility
cycle,” said Juan C. Lasheras, a co-author of the
study and a professor of Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering.
Operating at the Interface between Science and
Society:
Mechanical Engineering
Summer 2007: The University of California, San Diego
offers a unique pre-college summer academic and residential
experience called Academic Connections. The program is
targeted at highly motivated, college bound high school
students entering grades 10 - 12. The goal of the program
is to provide hands-on college subject matter courses and
the opportunity to experience life and learning at a
top-ranked research university.
During the past 2007 summer session instructor Kristin
Schaaf and teaching assistant Christian Nielsen (both MAE
graduate students at the Center of Excellence for Advanced
Materials under the direction of Dr. Sia Nemat-Nasser)
taught a mechanical engineering course entitled 'Operating
at the Interface between Science and Society: Mechanical
Engineering'. The course was taught through a large variety
of activities including lectures, group projects, tours of
research labs and machine shops, field trips, guest
speakers, hands-on experience in fabricating composite test
specimens, as well as conducting mechanical tests. The
students were exposed to the broad nature and great career
flexibility associated with mechanical engineering. Most
importantly the course enhanced the students' understanding
and interest in the area of mechanical
engineering.
Jacobs School of Engineering Establishes
Department of NanoEngineering
03 July 2007: Seeking to capitalize on the potential
of a new generation of multi-functional nanoscale devices
and special materials built on the scale of individual
molecules, UC San Diego has established a new Department of
NanoEngineering within its Jacobs School of Engineering
effective July 1. Undergraduate and graduate students
will learn from an interdisciplinary team of professors who
are leaders in various fields of engineering, physics and
chemistry and a variety of new sub-disciplines where those
fields overlap.
MAE Professor Frank Talke Wins Prestigious
Humboldt Award
27 June 2007: Frank Talke, professor of mechanical
engineering in the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San
Diego, has received a 2007 Humboldt Research Award. The
prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is one of
the most prestigious scientific honors in Germany, given to
eminent foreign scholars in recognition of their lifetime
academic achievements.
MAE Distinguished Professor Sia
Nemat-Nasser awarded the B.J. Lazan
Award
5 June 2007: Sia Nemat-Nasser was awarded the 2007
B.J. Lazan Award from the Society of Experimental
Mechanics, Inc. The award recognizes Sia for his
outstanding original technical contributions to
experimental-theoretical contributions to the
characterization and multi-scale modeling of polymer-metal
composites, geomaterials, ceramics, crystalline metals, and
the creation of novel composites.
MAE Professor Cattolica leads "Wood Chips
in - Biofuel out" research effort
12 June 2007: California researchers plan to make
biofuels without using any food crops or microbial
fermentation and reduce the load on landfills in the
process. A new research effort involving three
University of California campuses (San Diego, Davis, and
Berkeley) and West Biofuels LLC, will develop a prototype
research reactor that will use steam and catalysts to
efficiently convert forest, urban, and agricultural
“cellulosic” wastes directly into alcohol that
can be used as a gasoline additive.
MAE Chair Paul Linden Elected to Royal
Society
24 May 2007: Paul Linden, a professor in UC San
Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering, has been
elected as a fellow to the United Kingdom's National
Academy of Science in recognition of his worldwide
influence on the scientific field of experimental fluid
dynamics. Linden, the Blasker Professor of
Environmental Science and Engineering and chair of the
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, is one
of 44 scientists recognized this year by the Royal Society
for exceptional contributions to society in the fields of
science, engineering and medicine.
MAE Professor Bandaru studies carbon
nanotubes and nanofibers
17 May 2007: Pasta tastes like pasta – with or
without a spiral. But when you jump to the nanoscale,
everything changes: carbon nanotubes that look like
nanoscale spiral pasta have completely different electronic
properties than their non-spiraling nanotube cousins.
Engineers at UC San Diego, and Clemson University are
studying these differences in the hopes of creating new
kinds of components for nanoscale
electronics.
MAE Professor Sonia Martinez receives
National Science Foundation CAREER Award
1 May 2007: Sonia Martinez received a NSF CAREER
Award from the Division of Civil, Mechanical and
Manufacturing Innovation, for the proposal "Efficient
Multi-Vehicle Coordination for Distributed Sensing and
Estimation". The research will focus on the
integration of control, communication, and computation
aspects of multi-vehicle systems used in remote observation
applications. In particular the project aims to
develop novel tools to analyze the complexity of these
distributed mobile systems in order to design robust
algorithms with predictable behavior.
MAE 156 Departmental award winners for
Winter 2007 Senior Design Projects
Winter 2007: It is our pleasure to announce the MAE
Departmental award winners for senior design projects in
Winter 2007. There were numerous excellent projects,
and the selection process was difficult. Each section
has been awarded a first place and second place
award.
From french fries to fuel: UCSD students
explore alternative fuel
04 Apr 2007: A team of UCSD students are turning
vegetable oil from the university's fast-food restaurants
into usable biodiesel fuel to power any diesel engine car.
Currently, 17 UCSD students, many chemical engineers,
are working to design and construct a working biodiesel
reactor, at a cost of about $2,500, which will take campus
waste vegetable oil supplied by the university's cafeterias
and convert it into useable fuel to power diesel auto
engines
Widely Used Iron Nanoparticles Exhibit
Toxic Effects on Cells
28 Mar 2007: Researchers at UC San Diego have
discovered that iron-containing nanoparticles being tested
in the treatment of several human diseases can be toxic to
nerve cells and interfere with the formation of their
signal-transmitting extensions. “Iron is
an essential nutrient for mammals and most life forms and
iron oxide nanoparticles were generally assumed to be
safe,” said Sungho Jin, a professor of materials
science at UCSD and senior author of a paper published in
the June issue of Biomaterials. “However,
there are recent reports that this type of nanoparticle can
be toxic in some cell types, and our discovery of their
nano-toxicity in yet another type of cell suggests that
these particles may not be as safe as we had once
thought.”
MAE Professor Prab Bandaru Presented
National Science Foundation CAREER Award
February 2007: Prab Bandaru was presented a CAREER
Award from the National Science Foundation (Division of
Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems), for his
proposed work on "Nonlinear Carbon Nanotube and Nanowire
Morphologies for Unique Nanoelectronics" for the years
2007-2012. This research is aimed at a detailed study of
the electrical properties of nonlinear structures, such as
junctions and coils, at the nanoscale, for developing new
types of electronic components such as electrical switches,
logic elements, frequency mixers, and nanoscale inductors.
The proposed research has the potential to usher in new
electronic technologies through the use of new physical
principles.
Eugenio Schuster Receives National Science
Foundation CAREER Award
February 2007: Eugenio Schuster, MAE PhD (2004)
advised by Miroslav Krstic and George Tynan, has received
the NSF CAREER award for the proposal "Nonlinear Control of
Plasmas in Nuclear Fusion". Eugenio is on the faculty of
the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics at
Lehigh University. His research group web page is
http://www.lehigh.edu/~eus204/schuster.html
MAE Professor Jin to Receive TMS Society's
2007 John Bardeen Award
February 2007: Sungho Jin, Iwama Professor and
Distinguished Professor of Materials Science, will receive
The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society's (TMS) 2007
John Bardeen Award, which recognizes an individual who has
made outstanding contributions and is a leader in the field
of electronic materials. The award will be presented
at the TMS Awards Dinner on February 27, 2007 in Orlando,
Florida during the 136th TMS Annual Meeting.
Researchers
Farhat Beg and John Pasley collaborate on a team studying
fast ignition for inertial confinement fusion
energy
January/February 2007: Ever since the development of
the first optical laser in 1960, researchers have
engineered ways to manipulate laser pulses. Today, with the
Titan laser, scientists are investigating matter under
extreme conditions in support of the Laboratory’s
mission within the fields of astrophysics, materials
science, and plasma physics. results from Titan laser
experiments will expand the current understanding of
different states of matter from stellar conditions to
nuclear weapons.
Cymer-Fest hosted by Center for Control Systems
and Dynamics (CCSD)
17 Jan 2007: The largest UCSD alumni-founded company,
Cymer, founded by MAE alumni Bob Akins and Rick Sandstrom,
was hosted on UCSD campus on January 17 for a high profile
seminar and job fair where one of the co-founders, Rick
Sandstrom, introduced Cymer to graduate students in control
and photonics, and the recent MAE control PhD and Cymer
engineer Wayne Dunstan spoke about the working environment
in Cymer and about numerous controls problems in excimer
lasers.
MAE Professor Buckley Helps Launch
Environmental Education Initiative to Promote Engineering
to Girls
11 Jan 2007: University of California, San Diego
(UCSD) engineering faculty and students, together with San
Diego Supercomputer staff, are launching an environmental
education initiative they hope will keep middle school
girls excited about science, and eventually, careers in
engineering. The UCSD team will help San Diego county
students monitor the air quality, solar radiation, and
other environmental factors surrounding their own schools,
and will use the environmental research concepts and
techniques to create a multi-player online science
challenge game designed specifically for 12-15 year-old
girls.
MAE Professor Nemat-Nasser Receives 2006
Robert Henry Thurston Lecture Award
November 2006: Sia Nemat-Nasser, Distinguished
Professor of Mechanics and Materials, was recognized for
distinguished contributions as a world leader in the art of
experimental, theoretical and computational applied
mechanics, including biomimetic multifunctional materials.
The Robert Henry Thurston Lecture was established in
1925 in honor of Robert Henry Thurston, the first president
of ASME, and a farseeing leader in science and engineering.
The Robert Henry Thurston Lecture was elevated to a Society
award in 2000 to encourage stimulating thinking on a
subject of broad technical interest to engineers.
MAE Professor Bandaru Named to Scientific
American 50 List
November 2006: MAE Professor Prabhakar Bandaru has
been named to the 2006 Scientific American 50, a
list of top scientists and innovators that is published
annually by the popular-science that specializes in
communicating to nonscientists. The magazine's editor
in chief John Rennie said the list pays tribute to
individuals and organizations who, through their efforts in
research, business, and policy-making, are driving advances
in science and technology that lay groundwork for a better
future.
Robin Ihnfeldt wins ICPT '06 Poster
Award
Foster City, November 2006: Professor Jan Talbot's
Chemical Engineering graduate student Robin Ihnfeldt won an
Outstanding Poster Award for the 2006 International
Conference on Planarization/CMP Technology for her poster
session submission “Copper Removal Rate Predictions
Using Alumina Agglomerate Size Distribution and Copper
Nanohardness Measurements”
Peak Performance Through
Controls
Fall 2006: When MAE Professor Miroslav Krstic isn't
devising techniques that boost the performance of
everything from fusion reactors to high speed trains that
levitate above magnetic tracks, he dreams of cars.
Not just any cars. He likes the models that are
souped-up with the types of control algorithms he and his
colleagues at UCSD have been developing for a decade.
Krstic is putting the Jacobs School on the fast track
to industrial partnerships by leading the newly organized
Center for Control Systems and Dynamics (CCSD).
Dynamic Systems and Controls Chair Awarded
to Robert Skelton
October 2006: Robert E. Skelton, a Distinguished
Professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at UC San
Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering and a leading
controls theorist, has been named the Daniel L. Alspach
Professor of Dynamic Systems and Controls. Skelton
has been involved with the country's first space station,
Skylab, as well as the Hubble Space Telescope and a wide
variety of down-to-Earth projects involving everything from
robots to red blood cells.
MAE Welcomes New Faculty
Member
October 2006: The Department of Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering recruited Assistant Professor Jan
Kleissl , who will add to the department's strength in
environmental engineering group. Kleissl's expertise is in
atmospheric boundary layer meteorology, turbulence,
integrated field measurements, numerical modeling of
evaporation, and use of sensor networks. His work has
applications to a range of environmental problems including
air quality and land-atmosphere interactions.
Michigan, UCSD take top honors at sub
races
Escondido, July 2006:- Teams from the University of
Michigan and UC San Diego took top honors in the 2006 Human
Powered Submarine Contest, organized by the local chapter
of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The
contest drew 12 entries from across the country, along with
one from Canada and one from the Netherlands. The
Michigan team took first place for speed in the two-person
category, achieving an average speed of 4.576 knots in the
Offshore Model Basin, located in the western part of
Escondido off Mission Avenue. UCSD won for the
solo-operated submarine, finishing with an average speed of
3.05 knots.
MAE Professor de Callafon Helps Find a
Better Way To Quiet Noisy Environments
April 2006: Researchers at the University of
California, San Diego (UCSD) report in the April 4 issue of
the Journal of Sound and Vibration a new
mathematical algorithm designed to dramatically improve
noise-cancellation technologies that are used to quiet
everything from airplane cabins to commercial air
conditioning systems. The new technique improves the
ability to achieve destructive interference, the generation
of anti-noise signals that combine with and destroy
unwanted sounds.
Strings as Structural Elements? Engineers
Devise Mathematics for New Age
Structures
27 Mar 2006: Scientists at UCSD have devised two
mathematical tools considered to be a major
contribution to the optimal design of a new generation of
deformable bridges, buildings, shape-controllable airplane
wings, radio antennas, and other alternatives to current
structural technologies.
Summer Science Program for High School
Students Expands Enrollment
08 Mar 2006: The COSMOS program administered by the
Jacobs School will bring nearly 50 percent more talented
high school students to the UCSD campus for a month this
summer, with a March 16 deadline for
applications.
UCSD Research on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Wins Outstanding Technical Paper Award
07 Mar 2006: Tests at the Jacobs School of
Engineering's Department of Structural Engineering
verified that the wing structure of the MQ-5B Hunter
unmanned aerial vehicle can endure a higher amount of
stress.
