News

In Recognition of Excellence

Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Maddie Baalman, Kian Ahmadzadeh-Heravi, and Steven Nguyen are co-recipients of the Outstanding Senior Award in Mechanical Engineering. The three have the highest cumulative grade point average in their degree program at 4.0, and they are graduating with highest honors. They will help lead the procession of graduates into the College of Engineering’s Undergraduate Commencement.

Robert McMeeking Awarded the Platinum Medal of the UK Institute for Materials, Minerals and Mining

Monday, June 12, 2023

Alexander (Sasha) Davydov and Francesco Bullo 2023 O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award from the American Automatic Control Council

Friday, June 2, 2023

Yangying Zhu and Ryan Stowers 2023 Hellman Family Faculty Fellowship Recipients

Monday, May 8, 2023

Two faculty members received Hellman Family Faculty Fellowships this year:  Yangying Zhu for a project entitled “Blood-vessel-inspired cooling of batteries using internal convective flow”, and Ryan Stowers for a project entitled “Engineered 3D platform for ex vivo patient-derived tumoroid culture”.

New Assistant Professor Ousmane Kodio Article Selected for Cover of Physics Review Letters

Friday, May 5, 2023

Capstone in the News

Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Congrats! Professor Enoch Yeung has won a NSF Career Award

Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Professor Enoch Yeung has won an NSF Career Award!  The title of his project is "A Novel Framework for Measuring and Engineering Twisting and Writhing in DNA". 

Congratulations Anna and Daniella- NSF GRFP 2023 Recipients!

Friday, April 21, 2023

Congratulations, Younghoon Kwon: Emerging Soft Matter Excellence Award Finalist

Friday, March 24, 2023

Highlighting UCSB Soft Matter

Friday, March 24, 2023

Two papers from the UC Santa Barbara Mechanical Engineering Department have been selected by the Soft Matter Editorial Board as part of their 2022 Highlights Collection.  According to the journal: this online collection of twenty papers “features some of the most exciting articles published in Soft Matter during 2022.”  Al Crosby (Editor in Chief) reflects: “2022 was an exciting year for Soft Matter! So many great papers advancing the field and demonstrating its extensive, positive impact. To try to capture this exciting year in Soft Matter, the Editorial Board has selected these Soft Matter papers as a highlight collection”.