MAE Highlights

Professor Sonia Martinez elevated to IEEE Fellow

Congratulations to Sonia Martinez who has been elevated to IEEE fellow for contributions to geometric control of mechanical systems, and the control of multi-agent networked systems.

Professor James Friend elevated to IEEE Fellow

Congratulations to James Friend who has been elevated to IEEE Fellow with the following citation: for contributions to acoustics, microfluidics and microactuation.

Professor Miroslav Krstic, recipient of the ASME Rufus Oldenburger Medal

Professor Miroslav Krstic received the ASME Rufus Oldenburger Medal for lifetime achievements in automatic control at 10th ASME Dynamic Systems & Control Conference in Washington, DC. His acceptance lecture was on control of congested traffic. Krstic is MAE Department’s second recipient of the Oldenburger Medal, following Professor Bob Bitmead in 2014. Photo: Krstic (r) with Peter Meckl, Chair of ASME Dynamic Systems & Control Division.

Congratulations to Marc Meyers, recipient of the George E. Duvall Shock Compression Science Award

This award recognizes contributions to understanding condensed matter and non-linear physics through shock compression.

Mechanical Engineering at UC San Diego ranked #1 in the US and #2 in the world by the ARWU Global Ranking of Subject Areas in 2017

The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) has ranked Mechanical Engineering, at UC San Diego, #2 in the world and #1 in the United States

http://www.shanghairanking.com/Shanghairanking-Subject-Rankings/mechanical-engineering.html

Dynamic compressive strength and mechanism of failure of Al-W fiber composite tubes with ordered mesostructure featured on Advances in Engineering

The article, authored by Po-Hsun Chiu, Kenneth S. Vecchio, and Vitali F. Nesterenko was featured on Advances in Engineering.  Advances in Engineering (AIE) “highlight papers of exceptional scientific importance to a broad science and engineering audience.

Paper co-authored by Professors Cortes and Martinez makes it to the classic papers top list of Google Scholar

Google Scholar has released "Classic Papers: Articles That Have Stood The Test of Time", a collection of highly-cited papers in their area of research that have stood the test of time.  Jorge Cortes and Sonia Martinez co-wrote this paper w/ Francesco Bullo, at UCSB, and it has made it to the top 3 in Automation & Control Theory

Professor Miroslav Krstic receives the Ragazzini Education Award

Krstic received the Ragazzini Award of the American Automatic Control Council. The award is named after John Ragazzini, dean of engineering at Columbia and New York Universities in the 1940s and 1950s, who was the doctoral advisor of the giants of control engineering like Rudolph Kalman, Lotfi Zadeh (Berkeley), Eliahu Jury (Berkeley), and Gene Franklin (Stanford). Krstic received the award at the American Control Conference in Seattle.

Congratulations to the 2016/2017 MAE Distinguished Fellowship Award Winners!

Please join us in congratulating the recipients of the 2016/2017 MAE Distinguished Fellowship Award, which recognizes students for their producitvity and high-caliber of research output.    This year's winners are:  Pedro Franco Navarro (Nesterenko), Masoud Jalali (Sarkar),  Wonjae Lee (Krasheninnikov),  Lorenzo Rossini (Del Alamo; Lasheras)