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"A Sensitive Subject": UCSB Researchers Lead Break-Through in the Science of Touch

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

A Sensitive Subject": UCSB Researchers Lead Break-Through in the Science of Touch 

Ecorithm: Professor Igor Mezic's Smart Building Start-Up

Thursday, March 24, 2016

Ecorithm, a Santa Barbara-based data analytics company that uses technology originally developed by Prof. Igor Mezic, has recently received Central Coast Innovation's Most Disruptive Technology Award for its work developing Smart Buildings.

Professor Matthew Begley and UCSB Team Make the Cover of Extreme Mechanics Letters

Friday, March 4, 2016

A team of UCSB postdocs and graduate students in the Begley Lab provided the cover of the December issue of Extreme Mechanics Letters. Their work "Acoustic field controlled patterning and assembly of anisotropic particles", explores highly-organized particle assembly at the microscale and carries transformative implications for fields ranging from medical diagnostics to materials-by-design.

"Understanding Voltage Collapse Blackouts": Professor Francesco Bullo Published in Nature Communications Journal

Friday, March 4, 2016

Understanding Voltage Collapse Blackouts": Professor Francesco Bullo Published in Nature Communications Journal

ME Graduate Student Tanya Das Awarded Honorable Mention at 2016 AAAS Conference

Monday, February 29, 2016

ME Graduate Student Tanya Das has been awarded Honorable Mention at the 2016 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Student Poster Competition at their annual conference in Washington, DC, this February. The poster, titled “Assessment of an Undergraduate Engineering Design Capstone Course” illustrated the success of the detailed assessment process created for the Department’s Capstone Design Program.

Professor Robert Odette Elected Fellow of TMS 2016 Class

Friday, February 26, 2016

Professor Emeritus Robert Odette has been elected to the 2016 Class of Fellows of The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS). The Fellow Award is conferred on members for their outstanding contributions to the practice of metallurgy, materials science, and technology, and is the highest honor given by the society.

Professor Emeritus Robert Odette Awarded 2015 TMS Structural Materials Division JOM Best Paper Award

Friday, January 8, 2016

Professor Francesco Bullo Delivers Plenary Lecture at IEEE Decision and Control Conference

Sunday, December 13, 2015

Professor Francesco Bullo delivered a plenary presentation at the 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control held at the Osaka International Convention Center, Osaka, Japan. The talk, delivered on Wednesday December 13th, was entitled “Network Systems in Science and Technology”

Professor Petzold chosen to receive SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service to the Profession

Friday, November 20, 2015

ME and CS Professor Linda Petzold was recently awarded the 2016 SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service to the Profession.

Better Living through Phase and Isostable Reduction: Professor Jeffrey Moehlis' research featured in SIAM News

Friday, October 30, 2015

Research by Professor Jeff Moehlis and his graduate student Dan Wilson was recently featured on SIAM News.