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Jul 31
2013Prof. Bassam Bamieh's article, coauthored with M.R. Jovanović, P. Mitra, and S. Patterson, entitled "Coherence in Large-Scale Networks: Dimension-Dependent Limitations of Local Feedback'' has been selected as the recipient of the 2013 George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award. This award is the most prestigious best paper award in the discipline of control science, given... read more » -
May 30
2013Professor Francesco Bullo and his collaborators Ruggero Carli (University of Padova, Italy) and Paolo Frasca (University of Twente, Netherlands) have been awarded the 2013 SIAG/CST Best SICON Paper Prize by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics for the article “Gossip Coverage Control for Robotic Networks: Dynamical Systems on the Space of Partitions,” SIAM... read more » -
Feb 26
2013It is my great pleasure to announce that our own Linda Petzold has been selected to receive the 2013 SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering (CS&E Prize). The CS&E prize is awarded biennially jointly by SIAM and ACM for outstanding research contributions to the development and use of mathematical and computational tools and methods for the solution... read more » -
Jan 7
2013It is our great pleasure to announce that Prof. Megan Valentine has been awarded the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. Her proposal is titled: CAREER: An Integrated Approach to Neuron Mechanics: Deciphering the Functional, Mechanical, and Structural Interactions between Microtubules and Actin. The abstract for her award is available here. -
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2012Professor Sumita Pennathur has been awarded the Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce Award for Innovation. The Award for Innovation is the most prestigious award given by the Chamber of Commerce, and past winners include Chancellor Yang, Dr. Walter Kohn, and Dr. Alan Heeger. The award will be presented at the Chamber's State of the City event on March 12, 2012 at the Fess... read more » -
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Jan 9
2012UCSB Press Release: UCSB Scientists Explain How Gulf of Mexico Topography Played a Key Role in Consumption of Oil and Gas After Deepwater Horizon Disaster January 9, 2012 (Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– When UC Santa Barbara geochemist David Valentine and colleagues published a study in early 2011 documenting how bacteria blooms had consumed almost all of the deepwater methane... read more » -
Dec 5
2011Professor Carl Meinhart has been elected to Fellowship in the American Physical Society for contributions to the seminal developments of micron resolution particle image velocimetry and free-surface microfluidics for surface enhanced Raman scattering technology, and for providing deeper understanding of the flow of fluids over surfaces in the extremes of microscopic slip... read more » -
Sep 26
2011Today President Obama named Sumita Pennathur one of the recipients of the PECASE award, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on science and engineering professionals in the early states of their independent careers. Pennathur was recognized for outstanding research achievements in the fields of nanotechnology and mechanical engineering, which have... read more » -
May 24
2011ME graduate student Florian Dorfler and his advisor Francesco Bullo have won the 2010 O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award. Their work on "Synchronization and Transient Stability in Power Networks and Non-Uniform Kuramoto Oscillators" was selected by the American Automatic Control Council as the best paper at the 2010 American Control Conference in the Theory category. Florian... read more » -
Mar 11
2011The Faculty Research Lecturer is the highest honor that this university bestows on the faculty. As the chair of the Faculty Research Lecturer Award Committee, it is my great privilege and honor to announce that the winner of this year’s Faculty Research Lecturer is Professor Linda Petzold of the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Mechanical Engineering.... read more » -
Jan 19
2011The W.M. Keck Foundation has awarded the UCSB campus $1,000,000 for a project entitled: "Nanoelectrofluidic Systems: New Tools for Nanoparticle Analysis." The PI's are: Sumita Pennathur (ME), Frederic Gibou (ME), Todd Squires (ChemE), Paul Atzberger (Math and ME), and Andrew Cleland (Physics). We are very excited about this team, and about the scientific breakthroughs... read more » -
Dec 14
2010$50,000 Prize awarded in DARPA DMACE Challenge. The UCSB team was led by Professor Frank Zok, and included Professor Matt Begley as well as PhD students Nell Gamble and Chris Hammetter. -
Oct 19
2010On September 28, 2010, The National Research Council (NRC) published its long-awaited report evaluating over 5,000 doctoral programs in 62 fields at 212 universities in the United States. The Mechanical Engineering department was ranked solidly in the top 10 Mechanical Engineering departments in the Nation by the NRC survey. UCSB's ME department had a ranking range... read more » -
Sep 9
2010In the weeks after the Deepwater Horizon accident, as plumes of oil rose from the depths of the Gulf of Mexico to form vast slicks on the sea surface, Igor Mezic of the University of California, Santa Barbara, decided to figure out a better way of predicting how that oil would spread. -
Jul 1
2010Graduate student Florian Dorfler has won the 2010 American Control Conference (ACC) Best Student Paper Award. Florian's winning paper is titled "Synchronization and Transient Stability in Power Networks and Non-Uniform Kuramoto Oscillators." It is co-authored with his advisor Francesco Bullo. For more information, Florian's website is http://engr.ucsb.edu/~dorfler -
Apr 6
2010Professor Sumita Pennathur's research is featured in the Winter 2010 edition of Convergence, the Magazine of Engineering and Science at UC Santa Barbara. -
Nov 23
2009Please join us in congratulating Francesco Bullo on being chosen an IEEE Fellow. The IEEE Board of Directors, at its November 2009 meeting, elevated Francesco Bullo to IEEE Fellow, effective, 1 January 2010, with the following citation: for contributions to geometric and cooperative control with applications to mechanical and robotic systems Elevation to Fellow... read more » -
Oct 22
2009Food and energy –– two of the world's most important resources –– are what fuel the research and fervor of UC Santa Barbara's first-ever Sustainability Champions. For David Cleveland, a professor of environmental studies, and Eric Matthys, professor of mechanical engineering, the chance to be UCSB faculty leaders on campus sustainability issues is exciting and brimming... read more » -
Oct 19
2009Thanks to a federal grant, Manjunath's vision of a comprehensive camera network on the UCSB campus is about to become a reality. Joining Manjunath in this research project, funded by the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program, are faculty members Joao Hespanha, Upamanyu Madhow, and Ken Rose, of electrical and computer engineering; Tobias Hollerer, Chandra... read more » -
Mar 18
2008UCSB Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Sumita Pennathur has been selected to receive a prestigious Young Faculty Award (YFA) from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the central research and development agency for the U.S. Department of Defense. The YFA program supports revolutionary research ideas proposed by young non-tenured faculty... read more » -
Mar 15
2008The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) has voted a paper by Stephen Laguette, lecturer in Mechanical Engineering, as one of the five best in its Design in Engineering Education Division. Laguette will present the paper, Integration of Industry Partners into a Capstone Design Program, during the Society’s annual conference in Pittsburgh, PA, June 22-25.... read more » -
It with great pleasure that we share the news that ME Professor Sumita Pennathur has been selected for an extremely prestigious 2017 Pathway Visionary Award from the American Diabetes Association (ADA). The award is in response to Professor Pennathur's groundbreaking proposal entitled "Untethering Diabetes Through Innovative Engineering." This ADA Award is one of only 6... read more »
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