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Pruitt Award
Date
October 30, 2025

Named in memory of her colleague, the prestigious honor highlights Pruitt’s lifelong commitment to bioengineering research, education, and service.

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Three junior faculty award recipients
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(Pictured left to right) Sukhan Kang, Maryam Majedi, and Ousmane Kodio received awards in support of their research projects
Date
October 21, 2025

Three junior faculty receive campus awards supporting projects that expand how innovation is measured, technologies are designed, and ethics are taught.

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Umesh-Tyler-Innnovation-Awards copy
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Umesh Mishra (left) and Tyler Susko will receive Innovation Awards tonight from the Pacific Coast Business Times.

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March 20, 2025

Umesh Mishra and Tyler Susko to receive awards tonight from the Pacific Coast Business Times. 

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2025 Outstanding Faculty Recipients
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2025 Outstanding Faculty recipients (clockwise from top left) Michael Gordon, Yoga Isukapalli, Ziad Matni, Andrew Tell, and Matthew Begley
Date
June 13, 2025

Graduating seniors in each undergraduate degree program in UC Santa Barbara’s College of Engineering select one Outstanding Faculty Award recipient every spring. 

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Sakamoto, Jeff
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Materials and mechanical engineering professor Jeff Sakamoto. Photograph by Lilli Walker
Date
July 7, 2025

The UCSB professor is cited for leadership in the areas of electrochemistry and mechano-electrochemistry.

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Meiburg, Eckart headshot
Date
September 15, 2025

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.

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Elliot Hawkes Headshot
Date
January 22, 2025

He is recognized for his “vine” robots and record-setting jumping robots

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Ryan Stowers headshot
Date
January 22, 2025

New awards to study cancer dynamics and cardiac cells

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Yangying Zhu awarded ARPA-E IGNIITE and µFIP Outstanding Early Career Awards
Date
January 22, 2025

Yangying Zhu is named one of the first 13 academics to receive a new ARPA-E IGNIITE grant

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William Heap headshot
Date
May 7, 2024

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.