MAE Highlights

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."


April 14, 2021

Liane Matthes is a 2015 recipient of the Sheldon Schultz Prize for Excellence in Graduate Student Research

Liane Matthes, a doctorate student of Professor Frank Talke in the MAE Department, is the 2015 recipient of the Sheldon Schultz Prize for Excellence in Graduate Student Research. The Schultz Prize is intended to recognize graduate students in the Center for Magnetic Recording Research (CMRR) who have distinguished themselves through the creativity of their research and the impact of their publications. The selection of the recipient is based upon the recommendation of a committee consisting of CMRR faculty members, with input from selected experts in information storage technology.


April 14, 2021

Marc Meyers honored with 2013 TMS Educator Award

"For having taught thousands of students, written textbooks and conducted seminal research on the mechanical behavior of materials.


April 14, 2021

Bishakhdatta Gayen receives the 2013 Andreas Acrivos Dissertation Award in Fluid Dynamics

Congratulations to Bishakhdatta Gayen who has received the 2013 Andreas Acrivos Dissertation Award in Fluid Dynamics!

Citation:     "Turbulence and internal waves in tidal flow over topography."


April 14, 2021

Professor Krstic receives the Henry M. Paynter Outstanding Investigator Award

Professor Miroslav Krstic has received the biennial Henry M. Paynter Outstanding Investigator Award at the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference.  This award is given by the Dynamic Systems and Control Division of ASME to a DSCD member who has demonstrated sustained outstanding research contributions, either basic or applied, as a mechanical engineering professional to fields of interest to the DSCD.

 


April 14, 2021

MAE Researchers Win ARPA-E Award for Advanced Battery Management Systems

Dr. Scott Moura, a UC Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, and Professor Miroslav Krstic received a highly competitive award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) to study battery estimation and control. The $4M award will fund research jointly performed between UCSD and industrial partners Robert Bosch LLC and Cobasys.


April 14, 2021

Symposium on New Developments in Defect Mechanics - a unique intellectual event

Faculty from Caltech, UC Berkeley , University of Michigan, Georgia Tech, Brown University, University of Calgary, University of Pennsylvania, UCLA, Johns Hopkins University, Imperial College, London, and UCSD and researchers from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories congregated to UCSD  on January 18-19, 2014 to attend the third in a series of symposia on Multiscale Dislocation Dynamics and to honor Professor Michael Ortiz  on his 60th birthday. Faculty also brought their graduate students and postdocs to engage in such a powerful intellectual activity. Read More


April 14, 2021

Professor Marc Meyers receives the Albert Easton White Award

Professor Marc Meyers receives the Albert Easton White Award,  "For inspired teaching for 45 years, and for leadership in the field of Materials Science and Engineering through research, organization of conferences and symposia, and writing textbooks used globally."


April 14, 2021

Cleaning Solar Panels Often Not Worth the Cost, Engineers at UC San Diego Find

San Diego, Calif., July 31, 2013 -- Don’t hire someone to wash your dirty solar panels. That’s the conclusion of a study recently conducted by a team of engineers at the University of California, San Diego. Their findings were published in the July 25 online issue of Solar Energy.