Graduate
A second-year mechanical engineering master’s student, Anders Seawright worked as a teaching assistant for three different courses this year. He put in extra time this year to master the material of his classes in order to be as helpful as possible for his students.
Congratulations Sophie Paul (Hawkes Lab) for winning this year's NSF GRFP and Sean Bohling (Dressaire Lab) for an honorable mention.
Congratulations to Daniella Walter for winning 1st place and Zachary Maches for being selected as Runner Up in the 2024 Engineering Grad Slam Event.
2024 ME Graduate Student Association (GSA) Board
There are other words that have been used to depict the multifaceted Dr. North, some of them self-descriptions: inventor; innovator; inspirational speaker; scientist; engineer; collaborator; risk-taker; teacher; mentor; world traveler; Burning Man aficionado; docnorth (his Instagram username); “wild child”; “the black sheep of my group”; and “the Indiana Jones of Technology.”
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.
Congratulations on Mechanical Engineering Postdocs Emmanouela Filippidi and Alessandro Mongera for their recent Otis Williams Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards!
This spring, UCSB graduate student Menaka Wilhelm was awarded a AAAS Mass Media Fellowship to work for WIRED magazine in San Francisco as a science journalist. She's now finishing up her summer at WIRED, where she has reported on a wide range of scientific topics, including the atmospheric chemistry of wildfires and the epidemiology of the MERS viru
Nicholas Naclerio, working under the supervision of Professor Elliot Hawkes, has been awarded both the 2019 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and the NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship, and has accepted the NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship.