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Sep 23
2024Team 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". This grant will support an effort to develop the next-generation semiconductor boron arsenide. UCSB's share is $1M, to be shared between Bolin and co-investigators Chris Palmstrom and Stephen Wilson. There are also... read more » -
Jul 24
2024Fireflies, pendulum clocks, our heart muscles and the neurons regulating our daily internal processes: these things all have a tendency toward synchrony, a phenomenon that emerges when individual oscillators overcome their isolation and couple to the others around them, influencing their dynamics and together creating patterns out of their fluctuations. Synchrony is all... read more » -
Jun 28
2024Yangying has won an ARPA-E IGNIITE (Inspiring Generations of New Innovators to Impact Technologies in Energy) early career award. Here is the press release: http://arpa-e.energy.gov/news-and-media/press-releases/arpa-e-announces-115-million-support-23-early-career-innovators She will receive this honor at a ceremony on July 9, 2024 at the National Academies in... read more » -
Jun 27
2024If 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... read more » -
Jun 26
2024Daniella Walter was awarded the Graduate Division Research Accelerator Award! This new fellowship is awarded to top-ranked students with substantial research expenses. Daniella was awarded the Research Accelerator Award in recognition of her outstanding research and academic work! We will be featuring weekly student spotlights, if you, or if you know of an ME student,... read more » -
Jun 14
2024Congratulations to the 2024 graduates! -
Jun 11
2024Two 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... read more » -
Jun 11
2024A 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. That extra effort and emphasis on creating a positive workspace paid off in a big way for Seawright, whom... read more » -
Jun 11
2024Trevor Marks has been a part of UCSB’s Mechanical Engineering Department since 2002, when he started as an undergraduate student. After completing his bachelor’s degree, he stayed at UCSB and earned his PhD in mechanical engineering, later accepting a position as a research and development (R&D) engineer, a position that he has held for more than a decade. His... read more » -
Jun 11
2024Kai 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. He has spent the past two years conducting... read more » -
May 14
2024Strangely Shaped Bubbles Tell the Story of Ice’s Formation and Composition Bubbles shaped like teardrops, flattened eggs and worms reveal ice’s inner life BY RACHEL BERKOWITZ Anton Petrus/Getty Images Look closely at an ice cube, and you might spot minuscule bubbles shaped like teardrops, flattened eggs or even winding worms. Bubble patterns in Russia’s Lake... read more » -
May 7
2024UCSB CoE mechanical engineering alum Heap will put his Knight-Hennessy scholarship towards his doctorate in mechanical engineering at Stanford School of Engineering. He aims to translate novel research into impactful robotic systems through a combination of technical, managerial and entrepreneurial skills. He is currently working to develop soft, pneumatic “vine” robots... read more » -
May 2
2024Two professors in UC Santa Barbara’s College of Engineering, Beth Pruitt and M. Scott Shell, have received a distinguished lifetime honor within the scientific community: they have both been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), landing among 502 scientists, engineers and innovators across 24 disciplines who make up the 2023... read more » -
Apr 23
2024Congratulations Sophie Paul (Hawkes Lab) for winning this year's NSF GRFP and Sean Bohling (Dressaire Lab) for an honorable mention! As well as a special shout-out to one of our Fall 2024 incoming graduate students James Clinton (Hawkes Lab)! Also many thanks to our previous winners Sacha, Daniella, Gabby, and Charlie for their effort in mentoring this year's applicants -
Mar 12
2024Congratulations to Daniella Walter for winning 1st place for the Engineering Grad Slam Event for her presentation "The Missing Puzzle Piece: The Role of Mechanics in Tissue Development". Also, congratulations to Zachary Maches for being selected as Runner Up for his presentation "Settling Down: Building New Models of Marine Aggregate Dynamics". Here are the... read more »
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