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Francesco Bullo Leads Team Receiving 2024 DoD MURI Award

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Congratulations to our ME colleague Distinguished Professor Francesco Bullo for leading the team that was selected for a FY24 DoD MURI award.

Gallery of Soft Matters 2024 Poster Winners: Sreeram Rajesh and Alban Sauret

Thursday, March 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

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Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student Association 2024-2025 Board Members

24-25 Graduate Student Association

Tuesday, February 13, 2024

2024 ME Graduate Student Association (GSA) Board

Congratulations Professor Irene Beyerlein, Mehrabian Interdisciplinary Professor in the College of Engineering, for election to the National Academy of Engineering 2024 Class

Irene Beyerlein Elected to National Academy of Engineering

Tuesday, February 6, 2024

She was recognized for her research related to materials for use in extreme environments

2024 URCA Award Recipients

Friday, January 26, 2024

The URCA grant is an opportunity for undergraduates to pursue their independent research projects.

This Adaptive Roof Tile Can Cut Both Heating and Cooling Costs

Wednesday, December 13, 2023

UC Santa Barbara researchers Charlie Xiao, Elliot Hawkes, and Bolin Liao present an adaptive tile, which when deployed in arrays on roofs, can lower heating bills in winter and cooling bills in summer, without the need for electronics.

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Mechanical engineering assistant professor Yangying Zhu has received a Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research.

Among the Best and Brightest

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Yangying Zhu was one of twenty-four awardees from twenty academic institutions in 2024 recognized by the Young Investigator Program

2023 ME Grad Slam Winners

Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Congratulations to our 2023 Grad Slam winners!

2023 Distinguished Alumnus- Steven Shugart

Wednesday, October 11, 2023

2023 ME Distinguished Alumnus: Steven Shugart, in recognition of outstanding leadership and contributions to computer hardware, software, and networking solutions.

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

An NSF Early CAREER Award to Study DNA Dynamics and Gene Transcription

Tuesday, October 10, 2023

We often think of DNA as the classic double-helix structure we learned about in high school, consisting of two twisting chains made up of various sequences of four nucleotides: adenine, thymine, guanine, and cytosine.