Awards and Accolades
Named in memory of her colleague, the prestigious honor highlights Pruitt’s lifelong commitment to bioengineering research, education, and service.
Three junior faculty receive campus awards supporting projects that expand how innovation is measured, technologies are designed, and ethics are taught.
Umesh Mishra and Tyler Susko to receive awards tonight from the Pacific Coast Business Times.
Graduating seniors in each undergraduate degree program in UC Santa Barbara’s College of Engineering select one Outstanding Faculty Award recipient every spring.
The UCSB professor is cited for leadership in the areas of electrochemistry and mechano-electrochemistry.
UCSB distinguished professor Eckart Meiburg has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) award to study these processes in collaboration with former UCSB mechanical engineering associate professor Alban Sauret.
He is recognized for his “vine” robots and record-setting jumping robots
Yangying Zhu is named one of the first 13 academics to receive a new ARPA-E IGNIITE grant
UCSB CoE mechanical engineering alum Heap will put his Knight-Hennessy scholarship towards his doctorate in mechanical engineering at Stanford School of Engineering. He aims to translate novel research into impactful robotic systems through a combination of technical, managerial and entrepreneurial skills. He is currently working to develop soft, pneumatic “vine” robots for use in search and rescue and hazardous environment inspection.