MAE Highlights

April 14, 2021

Professor Thomas Bewley receives the MAE Best Teaching Award

Dean Pisano recently presented Thomas Bewley with the Best MAE Teaching Award for the 2013-2014 academic year.

 


April 14, 2021

Juan C. Lasheras Joins NIH MABS Study Section

Mechanical engineering professor Juan C. Lasheras is a new member of the NIH Modeling and Analysis of Biological Systems (MABS) Study Section, which reviews grant applications for scientific merit as a part of the NIH Center for Scientific Review. Read More..


April 14, 2021

Sungho Jin is the recipient of the 2016 Acta Materialia Gold Medal

Congratulations to Sungho Jin who is the recipient of the 2016 Acta Materialia Gold Medal.  This award recognizes undisputed world leaders who have demonstrated excellence and leadership in biomaterials, including basic science and translation to practice.


April 14, 2021

Marc Meyers elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society

Distinguished Professor Marc Meyers has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society,

"For being a leading member of the international community on the dynamic response of materials for over thirty years, publishing over 330 papers.  In addition to his fundamental contributions to the field, he has provided leadership through his activities in APS, MRS, and ARO, including co-founding the EXPLOMET conference."
 

CONGRATULATIONS MARC!
 


April 14, 2021

Professors Cortes and McEneaney elevated to IEEE Fellows

Each year, following a rigorous evaluation procedure, the IEEE Fellow Committee recommends a select group of recipients for one of the Association’s most prestigious honors, elevation to IEEE Fellow.  Less than 0.1% of voting members are selected annually for this member grade elevation.

Jorge Cortes
for contributions to geometric control, nonsmooth dynamical systems, and distributed control of multi-agent systems

William McEneaney
for contributions to optimal control and estimation in nonlinear systems


April 14, 2021

Professor Bewley of the UCSD Coordinated Robotics Lab interviewed live

Professor Bewley of the UCSD Coordinated Robotics Lab was interviewed live on channel 8 (see the video here), in a promotional piece advertising for a talk he gave at the Scripps “Engineering & Our Oceans" open house on March 19 (see here).  Said Bewley, “We look at dynamics and control special way at UCSD, and enable bots to do amazing things.”


April 14, 2021

Congratulations to Joanna McKittrick, recipient of the UC San Diego Faculty Research Award

Joanna McKittrick was awarded the UC San Diego Faculty Research Award on Tuesday, February 14th to honor her significant research contributions.


April 14, 2021

Ratnesh Lal named AAAS Fellow

Ratnesh Lal has been named fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Lal is an authority on biomedical applications of atomic force microscopy (AFM) and nanoscale imaging of complex biological systems. Research in his lab involves the development of nanotechnologies for, and multi-scale biophysical and system biology studies of, channels and receptors. His research on amyloid ion channel paradigm provides a new perspective on the mechanism underlying protein misfolding diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, ALS, diabetes and many systemic diseases.


April 14, 2021

ASME 2013 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition Honor Professor Sia Nemat-Nasser

Sia Nemat-Nasser will be receiving the ASME Medal, "For creating micro-architectured composites to mitigate shock-wave induced traumatic brain injury; metamaterials to redirect, attenuate and manage stress waves; and original comprehensive models of deformation and failure of metallic structures with application to metal forming and failure prevention; and for excellent contributions in promoting ASME's Materials Division."


April 14, 2021

Juan Lasheras elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI)

Election to NAI Fellow status is a high professional distinction accorded to academic inventors who have demonstrated a highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society.