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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Sauret Research: Strangely Shaped Bubbles Tell the Story of Ice’s Formation and Composition
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
As water freezes, most of its dissolved gases get expelled. But some tiny bubbles near the freezing edge can get trapped in the solidifying ice, where they keep growing. Virgile Thiévenaz, who studies fluid mechanics at Paris’s Industrial Physics and Chemistry Higher Education Institute, and Alban Sauret, a mechanical engineer at the University of California, Santa Barbara, re-created this process in the laboratory to tease apart the factors that affect growing bubbles’ shapes and sizes.
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ME Alum William Heap Earns Coveted Knight-Hennessy Scholarship
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
UCSB 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 for use in search and rescue and hazardous environment inspection.
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Beth Pruitt American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow
Thursday, May 2, 2024
Two 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 class.
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2024 NSF GFRP Recipients
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Congratulations Sophie Paul (Hawkes Lab) for winning this year's NSF GRFP and Sean Bohling (Dressaire Lab) for an honorable mention.
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2024 Grad Slam Winners- Daniella Walter & Zachary Maches
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Congratulations to Daniella Walter for winning 1st place and Zachary Maches for being selected as Runner Up in the 2024 Engineering Grad Slam Event.
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Francesco Bullo Leads Team Receiving 2024 DoD MURI Award
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Congratulations to our ME colleague Distinguished Professor Francesco Bullo for leading the team that was selected for a FY24 DoD MURI award.
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Gallery of Soft Matters 2024 Poster Winners: Sreeram Rajesh and Alban Sauret
Thursday, March 7, 2024
Congratulations to graduate student Sreeram Rajesh and Professor Alban Sauret for winning a 2024 Poster Award in the Gallery of Soft Matter through the American Physical Society
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24-25 Graduate Student Association
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
2024 ME Graduate Student Association (GSA) Board
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