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Mar 20
2017Engineering, materials, sociology and English are highlighted in the news magazine’s annual list of “Best Graduate Schools” In its annual ranking of leading graduate and professional programs at American universities, U.S. News & World Report magazine has rated two of UC Santa Barbara’s programs among the top 10 in the nation. UCSB’s materials program is ranked No... read more » -
Feb 23
2017In 2015 UC Santa Barbara mechanical engineer and materials scientist Jonathan Berger developed an idea that could change the way people think about high-performance structural materials. Two years later, his concept is paying research dividends. In a letter published in the journal Nature, Berger, with UCSB materials and mechanical engineering professor Robert McMeeking ... read more » -
Feb 10
2017We’re all pretty familiar with what happens when we sustain a knock on the head: First, the all-too-audible crack, accompanied perhaps by a moment of surprise. Then, the swelling and, if we’re lucky, just a minor bump or scrape. But what happens on the other side of our skulls when we hit our heads? If we can bruise, scrape and cut the relatively tough tissue of our skin... read more » -
Jan 19
2017Professor Francesco Bullo has received the 2016 Outstanding Paper Award for the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems for the work “Controllability Metrics, Limitations and Algorithms for Complex Networks”, by F. Pasqualetti, S. Zampieri and F. Bullo. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, Vol. 1, No. 1, pages 40-52, March 2014. Prof. Bullo... read more » -
Jan 11
2017What if you could find another way to fight cancer by approaching it from an engineering perspective, acting on the cellular process by which tissues harden into tumors? Or how about circumventing a host of heart diseases by preventing, perhaps even reversing, the actual stiffening of cardiovascular tissue? First you’d have to understand how cells sense and respond to... read more » -
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Dec 5
2016*/ Click here to watch the video "Using the Force" featuring Professor Campas. Whether building organs or maintaining healthy adult tissues, cells use biochemical and mechanical cues from their environment to make important decisions, such as becoming a neuron, a skin cell or a heart cell. Professor Campas and his research group have developed a powerful new... read more » -
Nov 15
2016"A computer software program that is used in engineering industries is now available to students attending U.S. universities for the price of $10 a year. Trey Walters, UCSB alumnus and now president of pipe flow modeling software company, Applied Flow Technology (AFT), served on the development team that took their software and adapted it to student needs." Read the full... read more » -
Nov 12
2016The National Academy of Engineering has named UCSB Chancellor Henry T. Yang the recipient of the 2016 Arthur M. Bueche Award. The award, which consists of a commemorative medal, was presented at the academy’s annual meeting earlier this month in Washington, D.C. For additional information we refer to the following article in the UCSB Current: http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2016... read more » -
Nov 9
2016Dr. Tyler Susko has made the cover of the October 2016 IEEE Journal of Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering for his work on the MIT-Skywalker. The cover paper "MIT-Skywalker: A Novel Gait Neurorehabilitation Robot for Stroke and Cerebal Palsy", was co-authored with Krithika Swaminathan and Dr. Hermano Igo Krebs. The concept for this ... read more » -
Oct 25
2016From grad student to alumnus to faculty, Materials and Mechanical Engineering Professor Matt Begley has seen it all at UCSB College of Engineering. Through his experience over the last 24 years, this forever Gaucho thinks he has figured out what makes UCSB Engineering so successful. Watch the interview here! Special thanks to the College of Engineering for producing... read more » -
Oct 14
2016To view Mr. Lake's award acceptance at the Mechanical Engineering Convocation, 2016, click here. For pictures of the event, click here. The Mechanical Engineering Distinguished Alumnus Award is presented each year by the Mechanical Engineering Department. It is bestowed upon an individual who has demonstrated exceptional achievement in the field of mechanical engineering... read more » -
Oct 14
2016For footage of the event, please click here. The Department of Mechanical Engineering held its annual Convocation Ceremony on Wednesday, October 12th, 2016. At this special event, our community had the great pleasure of honoring the winner of our Distinguished Alumnus Award, Mr. John Lake from the Class of 1970, and welcoming a new year's crop of faculty, graduate... read more » -
Sep 14
2016In this video, Professor Carl Meinhart talks about how growing up on a farm inspired him to pursue mechanical engineering. Today, Professor Meinhart and his colleagues have established the gold standard for micro-fluidics diagnostics. "Professor Meinhart and his fluid dynamics calss were really interesting and challenging. He was one of the youngest professors I had... read more » -
Aug 21
2016As 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. Best phd dissertation, 2014-15: Dr. florian dorfler Dr. Florian Dorfler was honored last year for his PhD Dissertation in the field of Dynamical Systems and Control, which he completed with supervision from Chair and... read more » -
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Aug 15
2016We 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... read more » -
Aug 5
2016Congratulations 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-... read more » -
Jul 25
2016The UCSB Mechanical Engineering Department was extremely well-represented at the 15th European Control Conference (ECC), delivering three semiplenary lectures. For complete details on the conference, held in Aalborg, Denmark, from June 29th to July 1st, 2016, see the conference website at http://www.ecc16.eu. Dr. Hana El-Samad (PhD '04), Grace Boyer Junior Endowed Chair... read more » -
May 20
2016On 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. This event was spearheaded by... read more » -
May 11
2016Professor 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... read more » -
May 11
2016Once 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. These programs have proven so success... read more » -
Apr 15
2016Look out Wright Brothers, UCSB has a team of challengers for you! A team of researchers at UCSB is leading the way in developing Hyperloop technology, which could revolutionize the way we travel. These super-fast, super-efficient retro-futurist tube-travel makes leaves the bullet train in the dust and could make California's bad traffic and heady smog a thing of the past... read more » -
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Mar 24
2016Ecorithm, 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. Ecorithm was founded in 2011 as an Internet of Things software analysis program, which connects physical objects - in this case... read more »
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