MAE Highlights
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.
April 14, 2021
UCSD Flow Control & Coordinated Robotics Labs at the recent CommNexus headliner event entitled San Diego: The Hub for the New Age of Robotic Innovation
Professor Tom Bewley presented the recent work of the UCSD Flow Control & Coordinated Robotics Labs at the recent CommNexus headliner event entitled San Diego: The Hub for the New Age of Robotic Innovation. Also presenting were Professor Al Pisano, Dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering, Dr. Eugene Izhikevich, CEO of Brain Corp, and Tim McConnell, Director of Engineering at 3D Robotics. To see the video click here.
April 14, 2021
President Obama Visits Solar Power Plant Using Technology Developed by Jan Kleissl and Carlos Coimbra
San Diego, Calif., March 21, 2012 -- When President Obama visited the Copper Mountain Solar 1 Facility in Nevada Wednesday, he got a first-hand look at the first large-scale solar facility equipped with solar forecasting devices called sky imagers. The devices are powered by sophisticated algorithms, which were developed by researchers at the University of California San Diego. The technology was funded by Sanyo Electric Corp., now Panasonic, the Department of Energy, California Energy Commission and California Public Utilities Commission.
April 14, 2021
Professor Xanthippi Markenscoff is organizing and chairing a Symposium on New Developments in Defect Mechanics supported by the National Science Foundation, at UCSD, January 18-19, 2014
The Symposium is the third in a series of NSF funded Symposia on Multiscale Dislocation Dynamics. The current one is in honor of Professor Michael Ortiz’ 60th birthday. The Symposia have attracted the leaders in the field and generated intense discussions and cross-fertilization. A large number of graduate students/postdocs also participated accompanying the faculty from across the country.
April 14, 2021
Alex Phan: 3rd Place Winner in the UC System-Wide Grad SLAM Competition
Alex Phan, a graduate student of Prof. Frank Talke in MAE was the winner of UC San Diego’s Grad SLAM, a graduate student competitive speaking event that showcases graduate student research. The Grad SLAM participants present their research in a manner that can be easily understood by the general public using three PowerPoint slides in a three-minute presentation. After taking first place at UC San Diego, Alex had the opportunity to compete in the first-ever UC system-wide Grad SLAM competition in Oakland.