News

  • Mar 18
    2008
    UCSB 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
    2008
    The 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 »
  • The College of Engineering extends congratulations to Igor Mezić, professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, for receiving a major research award and a fellowship from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in recognition of his long-term contributions to applied mathematics.   Mezić and colleagues at Cal Tech, MIT, the University of... 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 »