MAE Highlights

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)

Congratulations to MAE Faculty Andrew Lucas and Padmini Rangamani, recipients of the ONR Young Investigator Award for 2017.

Recipients of the ONR Young Investigator Award were selected from over 360 highly qualified applicants based on past performance, technical merit, potential scientific breakthrough and long-term university commitment.  The awards purpose is to fund early-career academic researchers—called investigato

Juan Carlos del Alamo recipient of the "Chair of Excellence" reciprocal grant

Congratulations to Juan Carlos del Alamo who received the "Chair of Excellence" reciprocal grant, sponsored by Universidad Carlos III in Madrid (UC3M) and The Santander Bank.   The Chairs of Excellence Program started at UC3M in 2007 with the goal of  promoting "excellence in research by attracting leading international researchers to the University to help our departments, research institutes and research groups to strengthen and increase their international ties, as well as to impr

William McEneaney elected a Fellow of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Congratulations to William McEneaney who was recently elected a 2016 Fellow of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics “for his distinguished contributions to the disciplines of applied mathematics, computational science and related fields.”

Nate Delson awarded the 2015 Engineering Design Graphics Division Chair's Award

The 2015 Engineering Design Graphics Division Chair's Award for Outstanding Technical Paper was awarded to Nate Delson and Lelli Van Den Einde for Tracking Student Engagement with a Touchscreen App for Spatial Visualization Training and Freehand Sketching