MAE Highlights
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
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 14, 2021
Professor Frank E. Talke receives the 2010 Tribology Gold Medal
Professor Frank E. Talke will be awarded the 2010 Tribology Gold Medal, "In recognition of his outstanding achievements in Tribology in particular for his meritorious work in the field of magnetic storage systems, ink jet technology and interferometric instrumentation."
Click here for more information:
http://www.stle.org/assets/document/Gold_Medal_Citation_2010.pdf