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Awards & News Friday, November 8, 2019 UC San Diego Scientists Awarded Nearly $5 Million to Study Triggers of Deadly, Toxic Algal Blooms Monday, July 8, 2019 NSF funds UC San Diego plan to generate, and study, the world's first high-intensity laser pulses shaped like a corkscrew Monday, July 8, 2019 Padmini Rangamani receives Presidential Early Career Award Friday, June 21, 2019 Symposium on The Applications of Mechanics to Geophysics, June 25-26, 2019 in the von Karman-Penner Seminar Room Tuesday, May 28, 2019 NSF grant connects UC San Diego engineers and plasma physics researchers in Czech Republic Tuesday, May 28, 2019 Gordon Center for Engineering Leadership Awards Monday, April 1, 2019 Rachel Flanagan has been selected as a Gordon Fellow for the Jacobs School of Engineering Degree Programs PhD/MS Engineering Sciences Materials Science and Engineering MAS Medical Devices Engineering BS Aerospace Engineering Mechanical Engineering Environmental Engineering Featured Anne Hoger Prof Emeritus Anne Hoger received her Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of Illinois in 1984. She was a visiting professor at the Department of Mathematics at Carnegie-Mellon University ... Michael Tolley Asst Professor Before joining the mechanical engineering faculty at the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego, Tolley was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically... Nathan Delson Assoc Teaching Prof An alumnus of UC San Diego, Delson received his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering and then went on to get a doctorate in mechanical engineering from MIT. Since he returned to UC San Di... Alison Marsden Adj Assoc Prof Alison Marsden joined the Jacobs School faculty in 2007. Pursuing studies in Mechanical Engineering, she received her B.S.E. from Princeton University in 1998 and an M.S.E from Stanford University in ... Sonia Martínez Professor Sonia Martínez joined the Jacobs School faculty in 2005 after completing a two-year Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and UC Santa Barbara,... Joanna Mckittrick Professor Joanna McKittrick received her Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from MIT, with a concentration in ceramic science, in 1988 and then joined the UC San Diego faculty. Padmini Rangamani Assoc Professor Rangamani was a Chancellor’s postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biolgoy and in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley in 2013-14. She earned her Ph.D... Oliver Schmidt Asst Professor Oliver Schmidt joined the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UC San Diego in the fall of 2018 after completing his postdoctoral fellowship in the Computational Flow Physics Group at... David Miller Prof Emeritus David R. Miller received his BS  (Chem Eng) from UC Berkeley and his Ph.D (Chem Eng) from Princeton University , before joining the faculty at UCSD in 1966 as an Assistant Professor in the AME... Stanford Penner Prof Emeritus Stanford S. Penner worked during World War II at the Allegany Ballistics Laboratory on solid rocket propulsion systems. He received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Wisconsin in... Albert Pisano Dean-Jacobs Sch Engr In his role as Dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering, Albert P. Pisano is responsible for strategic planning and programmatic development. His responsibilities include School-wide research initi... Abhishek Saha Asst Professor Saha received his master's and Ph.D. degrees, both in mechanical engineering, from the University of Central Florida in 2010 and 2012, respectively. He was the recipient of the Outstanding Di... Javier Garay Professor Javier E. Garay received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (1999), M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering (2002) and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering (2004) all from the University of... William McEneaney Professor William McEneaney began working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1984 as a member of the Future Missions Group. In 1989 he returned to academia, and received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from B... Juan Lasheras Professor Juan C. Lasheras is the Stanford S. and Beverly P. Penner Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. He is a distinguished professor of Mechanic... Miroslav Krstic Professor Miroslav Krstic is Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, holds the Alspach endowed chair, and is the founding director of the Cymer Center for Control Systems and Dynamics a... James Friend Professor Before joining UC San Diego, Friend was a professor and vice chancellor’s senior research fellow at RMIT University in Melbourne, establishing a $35-million Micro Nano Research Facility as it... David Kamensky Asst Professor Kamensky was a postdoctoral researcher at Brown University and earned his Ph.D. at the University of Texas, Austin, before joining UC San Diego in 2019.  Mark Anderson Assoc Teaching Prof Eugene R. Pawlak Professor Before joining the Jacobs School of Engineering, Pawlak served as an associate professor in the Department of Ocean and Resources Engineering at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Pawlak is a UC Sa... Paul Libby Prof Emeritus Professor Libby received his bachelors degree from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1942. After working as an Apprentice Engineer at Chance Vought Aircraft in Stratford, Connecticut for two ye... Kalyanasundaram Seshadri Professor Professor Seshadri received his BE degree from Coimbatore Institute of Technology (India) in 1970, his MS degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1973, and his PhD degree from t... James Rottman Adjunct Prof James W. Rottman received his Ph.D. in Engineering Physics from the Department of Applied Mechanics and Engineering Sciences at the University of California, San Diego in 1978. Since then he has held ... Ratneshwar Lal Professor Lal is a professor of Bioengineering, Mechanical Engineering, Material Science & Engineering, and Co-Director of Center for Excellence in Nanomedcine and Engineering at UC San Diego. He receive... Daniel Tartakovsky Professor Daniel Tartakovsky is a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering. He earned his Ph.D. in Hydrology from the Departmen... Michael Frazier Asst Prof...