December 14, 2010
$50,000 Prize awarded in DARPA DMACE Challenge. The UCSB team was led by Professor Frank Zok, and included Professor Matt Begley as well as PhD students Nell Gamble and Chris Hammetter
October 19, 2010
On September 28, 2010, The National Research Council (NRC) published its
long-awaited report evaluating over 5,000 doctoral programs in 62 fields
at 212 universities in the United States.
October 1, 2010
The list of 2010 MacArthur Fellows was released at 12:01 a.m. EST,
Tuesday, September 28, and high school science educator and Dos Pueblos
Engineering Academy Director Amir Abo-Shaeer is among the 23 recipients. Abo-Shaeer earned both his Bachelor's and Master's in Mechanical Engineering at UCSB.
September 9, 2010
In the weeks after the Deepwater Horizon accident, as plumes of oil rose
from the depths of the Gulf of Mexico to form vast slicks on the sea
surface, Igor Mezic of the University of California, Santa Barbara,
decided to figure out a better way of predicting how that oil would
spread.
July 1, 2010
Graduate student Florian Dorfler has won the 2010 American Control
Conference (ACC) Best Student Paper Award. Florian's winning paper is
titled "Synchronization and Transient Stability in Power Networks and
Non-Uniform Kuramoto Oscillators." It is co-authored with his advisor Francesco Bullo.
For more information, Florian's website is http://engr.ucsb.edu/~dorfler
