Looking Back: Last Year's Awards for Best PhD, Best TA, Outstanding Faculty, and Distinguished Alumnus
Sunday, August 21, 2016
As we start the new academic year, let's take a look back at last year's awardees and celebrate the work of four fine engineers, researchers, and educators.
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μHammer: Profs. Turner and Valentine Awarded NSF Grant for Neuroengineering Research
Friday, August 19, 2016
Congratulations to Profs. Kimberly Turner and Megan Valentine for their recent National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to study the mechanical properties of neural tissue and the subsequent effects on brain function.
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Profs. Luzzatto-Fegiz and Meiburg Awarded NSF-CASIS Grant for International Space Station Experiments
Monday, August 15, 2016
We are very proud to announce that Profs. Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz and Eckart Meiburg have been awarded a grant from the NSF (National Science Foundation) and CASIS (Center for the Advancement of Science in Space) to perform fluid dynamics experiments on the International Space Station with the goal of developing next-generation models of sediment transport. Accurate sediment models are essential to predict the environmental dynamics of lakes, estuaries, the coastal ocean, fisheries, and benthic habitats, and they play a central role in hydrocarbon exploration.
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Prof. Eckart Meiburg Elected to Four-Year Leadership Term for the Division of Fluid Dynamics, American Physical Society
Friday, August 5, 2016
Congratulations to Professor Eckart Meiburg on his recent election in the American Physical Society. Prof. Meiburg has been chosen for a four-year leadership term for the Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics, which is comprised of some five thousand members. In his first year of service, Prof. Meiburg will hold the position of Vice-Chair before being advanced to Chair-Elect in his second year and Chair in his third year. In his fourth year, he wll serve as Past Chair of the Division.
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UCSB ME Alumni at the ECC
Monday, July 25, 2016
The UCSB Mechanical Engineering Department was extremely well-represented at the 15th European Control Conference (ECC), delivering three semiplenary lectures.
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First-Ever ME Graduate Student-Invited Seminar is a Success!
Friday, May 20, 2016
On May 9th UCSB Mechanical Engineering hosted its inaugural ME Graduate-Student-Invited Seminar with a talk by Prof. Karan Venayagamoorthy, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Monfort Professor at Colorado State University (CSU) who presented his work on Physics of Environmental Flows Using Numerical Simulations.
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Prof. Sumita Pennathur Promotes STEM Education in Santa Barbara Schools K-12
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Once again, UCSB Mechanical Engineering's Prof. Sumita Pennathur is reaching out to local schools and finding new ways to get kids hooked on STEM! In the last year, the Pennathur lab has been able to perform outreach activities with over ten local 3rd grade and 5th grade classrooms in the Santa Barbara and Goleta school districts.
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Profs. Francesco Bullo and Florian Dorfler Receive Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award for Their Work "Kron Reduction of Graphs with Applications to Electrical Networks"
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Professor Francesco Bullo has received the 2016 IEEE Circuits and Systems Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award for his work "Kron Reduction of Graphs with Applications to Electrical Networks". Prof. Bullo, collaborated on this paper with Prof. Florian Dorfler, who currently serves as an Assistant Professor and Deupty Head of the Automatic Control Laboratory with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich.
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UCSB Hyperloop Team Finalists Stand Out in Worldwide Competition
Friday, April 15, 2016
Look out Wright Brothers, UCSB has a team of challengers for you!
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"It's A Small World" - UCSB's Linda Petzold and Cellular Timekeeping
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
"It's A Small World" - UCSB's Linda Petzold and Cellular Timekeeping
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