MAE Highlights
May 6, 2021
2021's Most Sustainable Cities - Prof. Jan Kleissl's Answer
"Driving an electric car, drinking from compostable cups, growing food in our own gardens — making sustainable choices this Earth Day will help save our planet...
April 18, 2021
Professor Miroslav Krstic delivers the ASME Nyquist Lecture
At the 2015 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference Professor Miroslav Krstic has been awarded the Nyquist Lecture Prize, given for career-long achievements in automatic control and named after the area's pioneer Harry Nyquist, the 1930s inventor of the eponymous stability criterion taught to all MAE undergrads. Krstic delivered the lecture "Extremum Seeking and its Applications."
April 18, 2021
Professor Robert Skelton appointed 2014-2015 Fellow of the Texas Institute for Advanced Study
The Texas A&M University Institute for Advanced Study (TIAS) selects Fellows from among leading international scholars, with current Fellows who are members of national academies, Nobel laureates, and National Medal of Science recipients. Professor Bob Skelton is one of this year’s seven TIAS Fellows and is spending a part of the year in College Station conducting collaborative research with TAMU faculty and students.
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
Coordinated Robotics Lab's MIP toy featured as cover story in Design World Magazine
MIP, a small Segway-like robotics toy developed in a close partnership between the UCSD Coordinated Robotics Lab and WowWee Toys, is being announced this week at the Dallas Toy Fair. MIP is featured as the cover story of this month's issue of Design World Magazine. Click here for the story.
April 14, 2021
Marc Meyers publishes a new book, "Biological Materials Science"
"Biological Materials Science" is written by Po-Yu Chen and Professor Marc Meyers and is intended to be a text that will introduce the fertile field of Biology to Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering.
April 14, 2021
UC San Diego engineering undergraduates one step closer to lunar orbit
Congratulations to The Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) Cubesat Team for placing third in a NASA satellite design competition. Read this exciting story here.
April 14, 2021
Professor Eric Lauga receives the MAE Best Teaching Award and is the 2012 recipient of the Faculty Mentorship Award
Dean Seible recently presented Eric Lauga with the Best MAE Teaching Award for 2011.
The Graduate Student Community Awards Selection Committee has also named Dr. Lauga a 2012 recipient of the Faculty Mentorship Award.
Congratulations Professor Lauga!
April 14, 2021
UCSD Coordinated Robotics Lab Provides Key Technology for Consumer Robot
UCSD rings up sale in toy market
Thomas Bewley, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and the director of the coordinated robotics lab at UCSD, developed much of the technology that powers, balances and controls MiP, a toy robot that's being introduced by WowWee. — Howard Lipin
UC San Diego is learning that making money can be child’s play.