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UC San Diego Engineers Play Role in Warehouse Fire Safety

San Diego, CA, February 2, 2011--Imagine this: Firefighters enter a several football field-sized, 60-foot high, pitch-black warehouse  and they can’t see inside—they don’t know if there is an inferno or a small fire with a lot of smoke. It’s a very dangerous situation, making choices hard. Engineers at UC San Diego have made a breakthrough discovery that could help ease these situations by predicting where and how quickly initial fires spread in warehouses. Results of this research were recently published in  a paper called “Upward flame spread over corrugated cardboard” in the journal Combustion and Flame.

Despite many years of research, including the development of analytical and numerical models and extensive experimentation, the complexity of the process of upward flame spread continues to confound the fire-research community.

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UCSD Engineers Give Solar Power a Boost

The growing popularity of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems across the United States has made it more important to maximize their power input. That’s why UC San Diego environmental engineering professor Jan Kleissl is working on technologies and methods that will better predict how much power we can actually harness from the sun.

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Enhancing Heart Surgery For Children

UC San Diego mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Alison Marsden is working through an international collaboration to develop multiscale models for all three stages of the surgery used to treat children with single ventricle heart defects. The end goal of the $6 million project, funded by Fondation Leducq in France, is to produce software that can be used for clinical decision support. These surgeries are typically done with three stages starting from birth: the Norwood (or variant), Glenn procedure, and Fontan surgery. According to Marsden, these young patients are among the most challenging for pediatric cardiologists to treat, and they can develop a number of very serious morbidities.

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The Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering is pleased to announce a symposium in honor of

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Professor Stanford S. “Sol” Penner

This symposium is being organized to recognize Dr. Penner, who made important advances in thermophysics, applied spectroscopy, combustion, propulsion, and energy.

Please join us to celebrate his 90th birthday by reflecting on his research and university contributions.

2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
CMRR Auditorium
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Medical Device Engineering, A Master of Advanced Study Program, is now open for 2012 Admissions

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The U.S. industry leads the world in medical device innovation and production. To remain competitive, the next generation of devices will build on recent advances in bioengineering, biomaterials, genomics, computing and telecommunications. Medical device and instrumentation companies require continuing education for their engineers and scientists so that they can take advantage of these new technologies and apply them to product development. The departments of Bioengineering and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering offer a degree program in Medical Device Engineering.

 

 

Professor Joe Goddard named recipient of the 2012 G.I. Taylor Medal of the Society of Engineering Science

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"The prize, awarded annually for outstanding research contributions in either theoretical or experimental Fluid Mechanics or both, will be presented at the 49th annual meeting of the Society at the Georgia Institute of Technology, October 10-12, 2012.

The Society of Engineering Science is an organization of leading engineers, scientists and mathematicians from around the world which focuses upon the interface between engineering, science and mathematics."

http://www.sesinc.org/

Marc Meyers Recipient of the 2011 Albert Sauveur Achievement Award, ASM International

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Marc André Meyers received the Albert Sauveur Achievement Award from Dr. Mark Smith, ASM International president, at the Materials Science and Technology Congress in Columbus, Ohio, on October 16, 2011
Citation: For pioneering work leading to the understanding of dynamic response of materials to high strain rate processing, deformation, fracture, and fragmentation; for bridging the micro and macro process involved and for innovative research on biological materials.

Marc Meyers awarded the Visiting Professor for Senior International Scientists

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Professor Ing Lu Yongxiang, President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, awarded Dr. Marc Meyers the Visiting Professor for Senior International Scientists of the Chinese Academy of Sciences for 2010.

 

 

 

Proton Beam Experiments Open New Areas of Research

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San Diego, Calif., Dec. 5 -- By focusing proton beams and using high-intensity lasers, a team of scientists have discovered a new way to heat materials and create new states of matter in the laboratory. For example, they recreated conditions that allowed the study of the properties of warm, dense matter found in the interior of giant planets, such as Jupiter.

New applications for using proton beams range from heating materials, to creating new types of matter that couldn’t be made by any other means, to medical applications, to insights into planetary science.

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