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
Gleaning Clues on Sunny Days From the Clouds
CARLOS F. COIMBRA knew from the outset that he would have to crack the code of clouds. As an engineering professor new to the University of California’s campus in Merced, he led a successful drive to get 15 percent of the school’s power from an array of solar panels.
But clouds, wandering and capricious, had foiled his efforts on two occasions by casting sudden shadows, forcing the school to rely on conventional power instead. To neutralize the clouds, he would have to track them.
April 14, 2021
Symposium Honoring Marc André Meyers
A symposium honoring Distinguished Professor Marc Meyers for his 42 years of uninterrupted dedication to the field of dynamic behavior of materials as a researcher, teacher, organizer, and leader was held at the February TMS-2014 Annual Meeting & Exhibition, in San Diego.
April 14, 2021
Jacobs School of Engineering Alumini on CNN
One of the former students of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department has been featured in the CNN short documentary on fusion. Tammy is currently a staff scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). While at UCSD, she was awarded the prestigious Lawrence Fellowship to pursue her research work at LLNL. She won the outstanding MAE graduate student award in 2010. Professor Farhat Beg was her advisor.
April 14, 2021
Krstic receives the IFAC Harold Chestnut Textbook Prize
Professor Miroslav Krstic has received the triennial Chestnut Textbook Prize of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) for the book Boundary Control of PDEs. The award is named in honor of late Harold Chestnut, the founding president of IFAC ('57), president of IEEE ('73), and member of NAE ('74).
April 14, 2021
Frank Talke elected member of the European Academy of Sciences
Congratulations to Professor Frank Talke for being invited to join this prestigious academy!
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!