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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.

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. 

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. 

Summer Snow Mechanical Engineers Help Solve a Decades-Old Mystery in the Dead Sea

Wednesday, September 11, 2019

It’s summertime at the Dead Sea, and for locals and visitors alike enjoying the large saltwater lake shared by Israel, Jordan and Palestine, that means sun, sand and … snow?

Beneficial Tech Fourth-year undergrad engineers use their powers for good at the 2019 CE Capstone and the Engineering Design Expo

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

There was no shortage of good ideas at the College of Engineering’s 2019 CE Capstone event and Engineering Design Expo (EDx). The annual undergrad engineering showcase — which took place Friday, June 7 — was the culmination of year-long special projects undertaken by senior year students, often in collaboration with industry partners or campus research labs.

On the Pulse Professor Frederic Gibou's lab creates the first large-scale simulation of cells' response to electrical pulses

Friday, June 21, 2019

It is likely that in the not-distant future wounds will heal faster with the help of an electrical pulse that promotes rapid cell growth. The same type of pulse may be used for more efficient and effective delivery of drugs to fight disease. Such treatments rely on a process known as “electroporation,” in which an electrical field is applied to cells to increase the permeability of the cell membrane. Already electroporation is being used experimentally to deliver chemotherapy into cancerous cells, but such treatments are in their infancy and involve a great deal of trial and error.

Engineering Excellence The College of Engineering honors graduating seniors, outstanding faculty and TA's

Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Engineering Excellence The College of Engineering honors graduating seniors, outstanding faculty and TA's

Graduate Student Bharat Monga receives 2018-19 GSA Excellence in Teaching Award

Wednesday, June 5, 2019

Roller Camera Cross-campus collaboration gives student the means to pursue his dreams of being an independent filmmaker

Thursday, May 23, 2019

The D'Vonte Johnson Rally Rig is a device that will allow the client, D’vonte Johnson, to film from his wheelchair, despite having cerebral palsy.