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MAE Professor Franke Talke to Receive 2008
ASME Medal - June 2008
ASME is the home of mechanical engineering. It
includes over 130,000 members from academia, industry, and
national laboratories. This society honors its
outstanding members through symposia, awards, medals,
honorary memberships, and the society's medal. Among
these the honorary membership and the society medal are
bestowed to very few members with exceptional educational
and innovative scientific and industrial contributions to
the art and science of mechanical engineering. This
year, MAE has been particularly and exceptionally honored.
Professor Frank Talke has been selected by ASME to
receive the 2008 ASME Medal. This is truly a
recognition of his excellent contributions over many years
to mechanical engineering.
Physics of Surfing Class Introduces
Students to Research - June 16, 2008
It was a sunny Saturday morning in La Jolla and a UCSD
student was getting ready to wade in the waves with his
surfboard. But the undergraduate wasn’t there
to just have fun. He also was trying to measure the
physical forces at work when he surfed. Two devices
were snugly duct-taped to the front and the back of his
board. The experiment was part of a class titled
“The Physics of Surfing” co-taught by Professor
David Sandwell at UCSD’s Scripps Institution of
Oceanography and Professor Stefan Llewellyn Smith at the
Jacobs School of Engineering's Department of Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering. The course is part of the
university’s freshman seminars program, which allows
students to explore interesting topics and introduces them
to research.
Recent MAE Ph.D. Student Alberto Aliseda
wins NSF CAREER Award to Support Microbubble Research in
Diagnosing and Treating Cardiovascular Disease
- Spring, 2008
Alberto Aliseda, assistant professor of Mechanical
Engineering at the University of Washington, has won the
CAREER Award, the National Science Foundation's highest
honor for junior faculty. This award is part of
Faculty Early Career Development, which is among NSF's most
prestigious awards in support of early career development
activities. The award, $450,000 over five years, will
support Dr. Aliseda's research in the area of microbubble
dynamics in the human blood circulation. This work is
aimed at improving the clinical use of microbubbles in the
diagnostic and treatment of cardiovascular disease, the
leading cause of death in the developed world.
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UC San Diego Unveils Cymer Center for
Control Systems and Dynamics, Founded by MAE Professor
Krstic - May 29, 2008
The UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering has announced today
that Cymer Inc. has provided major sponsorship of a novel
educational and research program designed to train
engineers to improve the performance of wide variety of
industrial products and processes. The new Cymer
Center for Control Systems and Dynamics (CCSD), which will
educate many of the finest students in the country in the
field of controls, is designed to put UCSD's Jacobs School
on the fast track to industry partnerships in numerous high
tech arenas. "The field of controls has matured to
the point where we can now apply what we are learning from
fusion reactors and magnetic levitation trains to numerous
other areas of application, including cell biology, or
traction, stability, and engine controls in vehicles," said
Miroslav Krstic, founding director of CCSD and a professor
of mechanical and aerospace engineering in the Jacobs
School. "The new center will broaden the faculty’s
exposure to practical problems to a growing list of
important industrial applications."
MAE Professor Sia Nemat-Nasser is selected
to receive the 2008 American Society of Mechanical
Engineers (ASME) Stephen P. Timoshenko Medal -
May 2008
Sia Nemat-Nasser, distinguished professor of mechanics and
materials, will receive the 2008 Timoshenko Medal of the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers. It
recognizes Sia for 'fundamental theoretical and
experimental contributions in dynamic stability;
deformation and failure modes of materials;
nano-electro-chemo-mechanical characterization and modeling
of ionic polymer metal composites; and composites with
tuned electromagnetic functionality, self-healing and
self-sensing.' The medal will be presented during the ASME
2008 International Mechanical Congress and Exposition
(IMECE), Oct 31-Nov 06, 2008, in Boston, MA.
MAE Professor Sia Nemat-Nasser receives the
2008 Sacramento State University Distinguished Alumni
Service Award - April 2008
The Alumni Association of Sacramento State University
awards Sia Nemat-Nasser, distinguished professor of
mechanics and materials, with the 2008 Distinguished Alumni
Service Award. The award recognizes Sia for
exceptional, distinguished and sustained contributions to
engineering research and teaching. The award was
presented to Sia at the honors banquet hosted by Sacramento
State University's President, Alexander Gonzalez (above
photo, right), Dean of Engineering, Emir Macari, and the
Alumni Association, April 17, 2008.
MAE Professor Sia Nemat-Nasser is awarded
the 2008 American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE)
Theodore von Karman Medal - Spring 2008
The Engineering Mechanics Division of ASCE awards Sia
Nemat-Nasser, distinguished professor of mechanics and
materials, with the 2008 Theodore von Karman Medal.
The award recognizes Sia for 'exceptional,
distinguished and sustained contributions in the fields of
micromechanics, granular materials, constitutive relations
of materials, stability and dynamic behavior of solids and
structures, and experimental and analytical methods in
broad areas of engineering mechanics'. The medal will
be presented during the Engineering Mechanics Institute's
inaugural International Conference, May 18-21, 2008 in
Minneapolis, NM.
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