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  • Mar 12
    2024
       Congratulations to Daniella Walter for winning 1st place for the Engineering Grad Slam Event for her presentation "The Missing Puzzle Piece: The Role of Mechanics in Tissue Development".  Also, congratulations to Zachary Maches for being selected as Runner Up for his presentation  "Settling Down: Building New Models of Marine Aggregate Dynamics".  Here are the... read more »
  • Mar 12
    2024
    Congratulations to our ME colleague Distinguished Professor Francesco Bullo for leading the team that was selected for a FY24 DoD MURI award.  Professor Bullo’s proposal is entitled "NEURAL-SYNC: From Synchronized Oscillations to Neural Computing, Communication, and Adaptation.” The grant is for 5 years at the level of $9M from the Army Research Office. The team includes... read more »
  • Mar 7
    2024
    Congratulations to graduate student Sreeram Rajesh and Professor Alban Sauret for winning a 2024 Poster Award in the Gallery of Soft Matter through the American Physical Society (APS). Highlighting the Work of Soft Matter Researchers The Gallery of Soft Matter Physics is a pilot poster and video competition at the APS March Meeting that showcases the elegance and... read more »
  • Feb 13
    2024
    We are very excited to announce our 2024 ME Graduate Student Association (GSA) Board: President - Daniella Walter Vice President - Emily Spitaleri Secretary - Max Emerick Treasurer - Faranak Rajabi Marketing Chair - Gabby Villalpando Torres Events Coordinator - Max Linnander We are looking forward to the year ahead and are committed to developing events and... read more »
  • Feb 6
    2024
                                                                                                  Congratulations Professor Irene Beyerlein, Mehrabian Interdisciplinary Professor in the College of Engineering, for election to the National Academy of Engineering 2024 Class.  Here is the citation:   Beyerlein, Irene J., Mehrabian Interdisciplinary Professor,... read more »
  • Jan 26
    2024
    Congratulations to the 2024 URCA Recipients! The URCA grant is an opportunity for undergraduates to pursue their independent research projects. Our students have received URCA grants for their integral roles in the Mucus Mitigation System for Cystic Fibrosis Patients project and the Raytheon Drone Competition Capstone Project with Professor Luzzatto-Fegiz, Professor... read more »
  • Dec 13
    2023
    This adaptive roof tile can cut both heating and cooling costs Sonia Fernandez About half of an average American building’s energy consumption is spent on heating and cooling. That’s a lot of money spent, fossil fuel burned and strain on an aging energy infrastructure during times of severe temperatures. It’s also a problem UC Santa Barbara researchers... read more »
  • Oct 24
    2023
    Among the Best and Brightest Tuesday, October 24, 2023 Mechanical engineering assistant professor Yangying Zhu has received a Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research.  UC Santa Barbara mechanical engineering assistant professor Yangying Zhu has received a prestigious Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research (ONR). She was... read more »
  • Oct 11
    2023
    Congratulations to our 2023 Grad Slam winners! First Place: Sreeram Rajesh, Unraveling the mysteries of fiber suspensions: an epic vermicelli adventure Second Place: Polina Zhilkina, Chaos and Order: beyond the strange world of low-Reynolds Third Place: Charlie Xiao, Passively Adaptive Radiative Switch for Thermoregulation in Buildings
  • Oct 11
    2023
    2023 ME Distinguished Alumnus: Steven Shugart, in recognition of outstanding leadership and contributions to computer hardware, software, and networking solutions.
  • Oct 10
    2023
    An NSF Early CAREER Award to Study DNA Dynamics and Gene Transcription Assistant Professor Enoch Yeung's Early CAREER Award will allow him to further study how the phenomena of DNA supercoiling and writhing affect gene transcription. Photograph by Lilli McKinney   Achievements Tuesday, October 10, 2023 by James Badham We often think of DNA as the classic... read more »
  • Sep 29
    2023
    Congratulations Elliot Hawkes and Tyler Susko for receiving a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant for their research on the characterization and clinical trial of a Variable Friction Shoe, a new paradigm of reduced-constraint locomotor therapy for people exhibiting foot drop due to stroke