February 7, 2013
…Festival of Science & Engineering Chief Engineer The San Diego Super Computer Center booth displays 3D videos from engineering work at UC San Diego. Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications At the 2011 National Medal of Science ceremony in which Shu Chien accepted his award, President Obama stressed the…
September 26, 2022
UC San Diego alumna Deniz Burnham ‘07 reaches for the stars as a NASA astronaut candidate.
August 6, 2020
Engineer Earns Presidential Award for Improving Underrepresented Student Access to STEM Experiences Olivia Graeve, a materials science expert, is being recognized by the White House for her outreach work in STEM. Olivia Graeve, a UC San Diego professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has received the Presidential Award for Excellence…
October 20, 2016
The lead engineer behind Pokemon GO is a UC San Diego alumnus. Photo by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications Lead Engineer for Pokémon GO Nabbed Game-building Skills at UC San Diego Next time you see someone playing Pokémon GO, the popular mobile-phone based game, keep this in mind: an engineer…
February 7, 2013
Engineering a Future Workshop encourages girls to envision careers in engineering The UC San Diego chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers demonstrated some culinary magic at the organizational fair, combining dry ice with cream and sugar to make homemade ice cream. Photos by Erika Johnson, cover photo by…
February 14, 2023
Akshara Kuduvalli, a computer engineering undergraduate student at the University of California San Diego, has been selected as a 2023 Brooke Owens Fellow. The Fellowship is awarded to exceptional undergraduate women and gender minorities in aerospace.
November 28, 2023
Jorge Poveda, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, has received the 2023 Donald P. Eckman Award in honor of his contributions to the field of automatic control. To mark this achievement, Poveda and his lab explain what control theory is and offer a glimpse into their work.
November 19, 2020
…Here on Earth Structural engineer Ingrid Tomac and Ph.D. student Mahta Movasat. What can the International Space Station teach us about mudslides here on Earth? Here is the connection: UC San Diego engineers are trying to better understand the role gravity plays in mudslides. That is why in 18 months,…
June 11, 2012
Frieder Seible, Dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego, has been elected a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. The honor recognizes his “outstanding achievements in engineering and technological sciences, as well as remarkable contributions to China’s engineering and technological developments.”
September 12, 2014
Miroslav Krstic, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and associate vice chancellor for research at UC San Diego, has received the triennial Chestnut Textbook Prize awarded by the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC).
