MAE Highlights
April 14, 2021
Krstic receives the IFAC Harold Chestnut Textbook Prize
Professor Miroslav Krstic has received the triennial Chestnut Textbook Prize of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) for the book Boundary Control of PDEs. The award is named in honor of late Harold Chestnut, the founding president of IFAC ('57), president of IEEE ('73), and member of NAE ('74).
April 14, 2021
Frank Talke elected member of the European Academy of Sciences
Congratulations to Professor Frank Talke for being invited to join this prestigious academy!
April 14, 2021
Alison Marsden receives the National Science Foundation CAREER Award
Congratulations to Alison Marsden for receiving the National Science Foundation CAREER Award!
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April 14, 2021
UCSD Coordinated Robotics Lab, WowWee, and TI publicly debut MiP and BeagleMIP at CES
Two new vehicles from the UCSD Coordinated Robotics Lab debuted at the Consumer Electronics Show (Jan 7-10).
MiP is an engaging self-balancing Segway-like toy developed via a close partnership between UCSD and WowWee.
BeagleMiP is a highly-extensible linux-based educational robotics platform developed in partnership with Texas Instruments. Both will be broadly available this summer. For a thorough video interview covering both, click here.
April 14, 2021
Professor Sia Nemat-Nasser selected a recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award for Academic Senate Members
Professor Sia Nemat-Nasser been selected as one of the 2014 – 2015 recipients of the Distinguished Teaching Award for Academic Senate Members. Congratulations!
April 14, 2021
Dynamic fragmentation of Al-W granular rings with different mesostructures on the coverpage of the Journal of Applied Physics
Po-Hsun Chiu, Karl L. Olney, David J. Benson, Chris Braithwaite, Adam Collins, and Vitali F. Nesterenko, are featured on the cover of the Journal of Applied Physics for Dynamic fragmentation of Al-W granular rings with different mesostructures, J. Appl. Phys. 121, 045901 (2017)
April 14, 2021
The newest book by Dr. Vlado A. Lubarda, Topics in Solid Mechanics: Elasticity, Plasticity, Damage, Nano and Biomechanics, has been published
The newest book by Dr. Vlado A. Lubarda, Adjunct Professor of MAE, entitled Topics in Solid Mechanics: Elasticity, Plasticity, Damage, Nano and Biomechanics (450 pages), has been published by the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts in its monograph series. This book was printed by the Obod Press (http://www.stamparijaobod.
April 14, 2021
MAE Seniors Showcase Their Innovative Designs
On Thursday, June 12th the MAE senior-level designing courses hosted a joint poster session in which Aerospace, Mechanical, and Environmental Engineering students presented the work they had accomplished in their capstone design courses. Read More.
April 14, 2021
Thomas Bewley featured in Design World Magazine
Professor Thomas Bewley and his lab’s work in inspirational and educational robotics, developed in collaboration with WowWee, is featured in the "Leadership in Engineering” segment of the January 2016 issue of Design World magazine. A link to the full story is available here:
http://www.robotictips.com/2016/01/1214/leading-through-collaboration/
April 13, 2021
Dr. Chris McGuffey awarded Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program Grant
Dr. McGuffey's project, titled Dynamics of high-intensity laser-driven proton beam transport in solid density materials was among 42 nationwide selected for funding by the program. Dr. McGuffey is a member of High Energy Density Physics Group led by Professor Farhat Beg in the Jacobs School of Engineering. The project will investigate transport of proton beams produced by high intensity lasers.