Bolin Liao Awarded NSF Grant on AI-Enhanced Material-Device Codesign of Boron Arsenide as the Next-Generation Semiconductor
Friday, September 20, 2024
Team led by Bolin Liao has been awarded a $1.9M NSF grant on "AI-Enhanced Material-Device Codesign of Boron Arsenide as the Next-Generation Semiconductor".
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Co-PI Kerem Çamsari, left, and MURI lead Francesco Bullo
Rhythms of Nature: Understanding Synchrony in Oscillatory Systems
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Fireflies, pendulum clocks, our heart muscles and the neurons regulating our daily internal processes: these things all have a tendency toward synchrony.
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Yangying Zhu Receives Two Early Career Awards
Friday, June 28, 2024
Yangying Zhu receives ARPA-E IGNIITE Early Career Award and the Outstanding Early Faculty Award at the µFIP Conference.
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Investigating the extraordinary thermoelectric properties of cadmium arsenide thin films
Thursday, June 27, 2024
If there’s one thing we humans are good at, it’s producing heat. Significant amounts, and in many cases most of the energy we generate and put into our systems we lose as heat, whether it be our appliances, our transportation, our factories, even our electrical grid.“Waste heat is everywhere,” said UC Santa Barbara mechanical engineering professor Bolin Liao, who specializes in thermal science and renewable energy. “Our power plants, our car exhaust pipes — there are so many places where we create excess heat waste.”
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Daniella Walter Awarded Graduate Division Research Accelerator Award
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
Scholarship & Fellowship Spotlight: Daniella Walter was awarded the Graduate Division Research Accelerator Award
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2024 Graduate Division Hooding Ceremony
Friday, June 14, 2024
Congratualtions to all graduates and their advisors on such an accomplishment!
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Class of 2024 Selects Trevor Marks for Outstanding Faculty
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
Graduating senior rewarded Marks this year for his hard work and dedication to their success by selecting him to receive his first Outstanding Faculty Award.
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Class of 2024 Selects Anders Seawright for Outstanding Teaching Assistant
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
A second-year mechanical engineering master’s student, Anders Seawright worked as a teaching assistant for three different courses this year. He put in extra time this year to master the material of his classes in order to be as helpful as possible for his students.
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Kai Nambu Received the Outstanding Senior Award in Mechanical Engineering
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
Kai Nambu received the Outstanding Senior Award in Mechanical Engineering, a distinction that he described as, “an honor and a cool personal accomplishment.” UC Santa Barbara’s College of Engineering gives the accolade each year to the graduating senior with the highest cumulative grade point average in the degree program.
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2024 Tirrell Award for Distinction in Undergraduate Research
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
Two mechanical engineering students, Sacha Escudier and Chiyo McMullin), are the recipients of the College of Engineering’s 2024 Tirrell Award for Distinction in Undergraduate Research. The annual award, named in honor of the college’s former dean, Matthew Tirrell, recognizes a graduating senior for showing excellence and promise as a researcher. The award serves as motivation and validation for both of this year’s recipients, who will recognized during the college’s Undergraduate Commencement, scheduled for Saturday, June 15, at 4 PM on the Commencement Green.
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