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Mechanical Engineering Annual Convocation Recap, 2016

Friday, October 14, 2016

Mechanical Engineering Annual Convocation Recap, 2016

left: Emmanouela Filippidi and right: Alessandro Mongera

ME Postdocs Emmanouela Filippidi and Allessandro Mongera Earn Otis Williams Postdoctoral Fellowship

Friday, September 30, 2016

Congratulations on Mechanical Engineering Postdocs Emmanouela Filippidi and Alessandro Mongera for their recent Otis Williams Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards!

This Fall, Help Us Welcome Profs. Sam Daly and Irene Beyerlein

Friday, September 30, 2016

It is our great pleasure to introduce you to two new faculty members starting this fall!

Professor Meinhart: From Farm Kid to Micro-Fluidics

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Professor Meinhart: From Farm Kid to Micro-Fluidics

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.

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.

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.