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Bacteria Provide Blueprint for Computing on the Edge

Friday, November 20, 2020

Enoch Yeung receives Young Investigator Award to study biological networks that lead to more robust and adaptive AI.

A New Paradigm in Patient Care

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Emergency intubation in the field is a challenge for everyone involved, most especially the patient. Paramedics and EMTs have to contend with less than ideal circumstances while they attempt to insert a stiff laryngoscope down the throat and into the lungs of a nonresponsive patient.

NSF & ISS Briefing| Science in Space

Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Gravity affects everything on Earth at all times, from tiny particles binding and bubbles rising to how flames spread. But there are other forces at work as well – and one important way to study them is to eliminate gravity as a factor. That’s why NSF partners to send research projects into orbit with the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, manager of the International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory, under a cooperative agreement with NASA. 

Mission Accomplished: UCSB Graduates Shine in NASA's Venus Rover Challenge

Monday, August 10, 2020

Information on Research Ramp-Up

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Tyler Susko Wins 2020 CoE Outstanding Faculty Award

Saturday, May 30, 2020

Tyler Susko has received the Outstanding Mechanical Engineering Faculty Award for the fourth time in the past five years.

Ryan Stowers Receives Young Investigator Award

Friday, April 24, 2020

Almost all living cells and tissues exert and experience physical forces that influence their biological function. Understanding how those properties, such as stiffness, affect and control cells and tissues is the driving force behind mechanobiology, a burgeoning field that incorporates biology, engineering, and physics. 

Alban Sauret Receives an NSF Early CAREER Award

Friday, April 24, 2020

If you want to understand why coffee spills more frequently than beer (hint: it has to do with the physics of foam), ask Alban Sauret, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UC Santa Barbara.

Graduate Student Charlie Xiao awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

Thursday, April 9, 2020

The Department is excited to announce that our graduate student Charlie Xiao has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship!

Elliot Hawkes Receives NSF Early CAREER Award

Thursday, January 30, 2020

From aiding disaster relief efforts to helping neurosurgeons remove blood clots from the brains of stroke patients, the soft robot holds tremendous scientific, educational, and societal value. As a result, the National Science Foundation has awarded Elliot W. Hawkes, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at UC Santa Barbara, a prestigious Early CAREER Award. Hawkes, who developed this technology with colleagues at Stanford University, will receive more than $600,000 in funding to pursue scientific advancement through the NSF Faculty Early Career Development program.