MAE Highlights
October 9, 2023
UC San Diego Team Receives $5.7M for Climate Action Projects
A team including multiple Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering faculty members received a $5.7 million climate action seed grant from the University of California.
September 5, 2023
Celebrating Excellence: Endowed Chairs in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
The Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering takes pride in its exceptional faculty, which features three esteemed endowed chairs: Professor Carlos Coimbra, Professor Farhat Beg, and Professor Jorge Cortes, each with over a decade of dedicated service. These three faculty members lauded the department for its supportive and diverse environment, as well as its unwavering commitment to the rigorous pursuit of transformative research and education. This alignment of talent and dedication underscores the department's exceptional contributions to the academic world.
June 15, 2023
In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Alan M. Schneider
University of California, San Diego engineering professor emeritus Alan M. Schneider passed away on February 23rd, 2022, five days short of his 97th birthday.
March 17, 2023
In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Robert E. Skelton
It is with sorrow that we announce the passing of Professor Emeritus Robert (Bob) Eugene Skelton, a member of the National Academy of Engineering and recognized as the principal pioneer in the field of tensegrity, on Feb. 15, 2023, in Fairhope, Alabama. He was 84.
The breadth and depth of Skelton’s impact and his contributions in the field of tensegrity are extensive, ranging from art, to architecture, to biology, physics and medicine, as well as to the building of bridges, large telescopes, space structures, and efficient-wave energy conversion systems in the ocean.
September 14, 2022
Jacobs School faculty, lecturers named Distinguished Teachers
James Friend, a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Joe Gibbs Politz, an assistant teaching professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, received Distinguished Teaching Awards for Senate Members. Katya Evdokimenko, a lecturer in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, received a Barbara and Paul Saltman Distinguished Teaching Award, Non-Senate Members.
June 30, 2022
Distinguished Professor Emerita and Recalled Professor Xanthippi Markenscoff is awarded a Doctor honoris causa degree from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Distinguished Professor Emerita and Recalled Professor Xanthippi Markenscoff is awarded on June 30, 2022, a Doctor honoris causa degree and the Gold Medal from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, her alma mater. This is the first honorary degree awarded in the field of Mechanics by the NTUA. In the photograph she is with the Rector of the NTUA and the Dean of the School of Applied Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics.
March 4, 2022
New Undergraduate Program Video
Please check out our new MAE Undergraduate Program video!
January 26, 2022
Six UC San Diego Experts Elected AAAS Fellows in 2021
Six researchers and leaders at the University of California San Diego have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the largest general science organization in the world and publisher of the journal Science.