MAE Highlights
October 21, 2021
Arnold D. Tuttle Award - Lonnie Petersen
Congratulations to prof. Lonnie Petersen who was awarded the Arnold D. Tuttle award (Established in memory of Col. Arnold D. Tuttle, USAF, MC. Awarded annually for original research that has made the most significant contribution toward the solution of a challenging problem in aerospace medicine).
September 23, 2021
Prof. Rangamani receives the 2021 Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Scholar Mentoring
The Excellence in Postdoctoral Scholar Mentoring Award honors faculty who serve as effective advisors, advocates, role models, and colleagues for UC San Diego Postdoctoral Scholars. Postdoctoral scholars are individuals who have recently completed a doctoral degree and, under the oversight of a faculty mentor, continue research training in preparation for a career in academia, industry, government, or the nonprofit sector. Faculty mentors who provide guidance, support, and inspiration to research and career excellence are essential to the success of the postdoctoral scholar.
August 21, 2021
Faculty assistant in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering is recognized with Exemplary Employee of the Year Award
Lusia Veksler, a faculty assistant in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has received an Exemplary Employee of the Year award. Veksler is being recognized for her service to the department’s faculty, graduate students and operations.
July 30, 2021
Nate Linden: Rock climber, engineer, Sloan Scholar
Nate Linden has been curious about how things work for as long as he can remember. From a young kid pretending to be a plumber, to a high school intern developing an app to monitor blood loss during surgery, he figured out that engineering and math could help explain a lot of the mechanics behind the way the world works. After earning a degree in bioengineering and a minor in applied math at the University of Washington, Linden is now a PhD student at UC San Diego, where he found it was possible to pursue both his love of biology, as well as computational science.
May 6, 2021
2021's Most Sustainable Cities - Prof. Jan Kleissl's Answer
"Driving an electric car, drinking from compostable cups, growing food in our own gardens — making sustainable choices this Earth Day will help save our planet.
Some cities, though, are better at promoting an eco-friendly lifestyle, while others belch smoke and throw away recyclables. Which cities are the leaders and laggers of our Earth-friendly future?
LawnStarter ranked the Most Sustainable Cities by comparing the 200 largest U.S. cities across 24 key sustainability indicators. Among the metrics we looked at are the:
April 18, 2021
Professor Robert Skelton appointed 2014-2015 Fellow of the Texas Institute for Advanced Study
The Texas A&M University Institute for Advanced Study (TIAS) selects Fellows from among leading international scholars, with current Fellows who are members of national academies, Nobel laureates, and National Medal of Science recipients. Professor Bob Skelton is one of this year’s seven TIAS Fellows and is spending a part of the year in College Station conducting collaborative research with TAMU faculty and students.
April 18, 2021
Professor Miroslav Krstic delivers the ASME Nyquist Lecture
At the 2015 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference Professor Miroslav Krstic has been awarded the Nyquist Lecture Prize, given for career-long achievements in automatic control and named after the area's pioneer Harry Nyquist, the 1930s inventor of the eponymous stability criterion taught to all MAE undergrads. Krstic delivered the lecture "Extremum Seeking and its Applications."
April 15, 2021
Professor de Callafon helps build cyber-infrastructure to aid wildfire hazard assessment and response
Three research organizations at the University of California, San Diego, have been awarded a multi-year National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to build an end-to-end cyberinfrastructure to perform real-time data-driven assessment, simulation, prediction, and visualization of wildfire behavior. Read full story here.
April 15, 2021
Professor Miroslav Krstic Awarded Honorary Professorships from the Northeastern University (Shenyang, China) and Chongqing University
Professor Miroslav Krstic has been awarded Honorary Professorships at two universities in China. The Northeastern University in Shenyang is home to China’s #1 ranked College of Automation. The Chongqing University, in China’s seventh largest city (Chongqing has a population of over 17 million) also boasts a premier College of Automation with an enrollment of over 1,000 students and internationally prominent faculty.
April 14, 2021
Professor Joe Goddard named recipient of the 2012 G.I. Taylor Medal of the Society of Engineering Science
"The prize, awarded annually for outstanding research contributions in either theoretical or experimental Fluid Mechanics or both, will be presented at the 49th annual meeting of the Society at the Georgia Institute of Technology, October 10-12, 2012.
The Society of Engineering Science is an organization of leading engineers, scientists and mathematicians from around the world which focuses upon the interface between engineering, science and mathematics."