MAE Highlights
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.
April 14, 2021
Ratnesh Lal named AAAS Fellow
Ratnesh Lal has been named fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Lal is an authority on biomedical applications of atomic force microscopy (AFM) and nanoscale imaging of complex biological systems. Research in his lab involves the development of nanotechnologies for, and multi-scale biophysical and system biology studies of, channels and receptors. His research on amyloid ion channel paradigm provides a new perspective on the mechanism underlying protein misfolding diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, ALS, diabetes and many systemic diseases.
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.