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May 26, 2009: Professor
William A. Sirignano has
been selected to receive the American Institute of Aeronautics and
Astronautics (AIAA) Wyld Propulsion Award for 2009.
The award is presented for outstanding achievements in the development or
application of rocket propulsion systems. He will be presented the award at
the 45th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference & Exhibit
being held 2 - 5 Aug 2009 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver. Professor Sirignano has also been elected as a Fellow of
the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). The creation
of the SIAM Fellows program was approved by the membership last year.
Fellowship honors SIAM members who have made outstanding contributions
to the fields served by SIAM, and Professor Sirignano is among the
distinguished members of SIAM in the initial class of Fellows.
February 19, 2009: E-Week BBQ on Thursday, February
19,2009 – Engineering
Gateway Plaza.
February
14 2009: Professor Said Elghobashi has been
elected to the rank of Fellow of AAAS. He will be recognized
for his contribution to science and technology.
January 28, 2009: Visit from Professor Vijay
K. Dhir, Dean of UCLA’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science (Distinguished
Lecturer Seminar)
December 5, 2008: Professor Said Elghobashi has been
elected to the rank of Fellow of AAAS.
Elected members are those whose efforts on behalf of the advancement
of science or its applications are scientifically or socially distinguished.
Professor Elghobashi is being honored for his
pioneering and innovative computational analyses and consequential insights
for turbulent flows, including reactive flows, particle-laden flows, and
bubble-laden flows.
December
1, 2008: Professor Dimitri
Papamoschou has been elected a fellow of the
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). The AIAA reserves
the title of fellow for “persons of distinction who have made notable
and valuable contributions to the arts, sciences, or technology of
aeronautics or astronautics.” An award to commemorate this honor will
be presented at an AIAA gala on May 13, 2009 in Washington, D.C.
December 1, 2008: Jennifer Shockro
and Adam Wachtor have both won Margaret Burbidge
Awards for Best Experimental Research. Both are MAE graduate students
conducting their Ph.D. research in
turbulence and fluid dynamics with Professor Catrakis.
The two awards were selected by a prize committee and given on the basis of
the research presentations of these two students at the American Physical
Society California Section which was held during October 17-18, 2008. The list of awardees is available here:
http://aps-ca.lbl.gov/awards.html
November 25, 2008: Professor Dimitri Papamoschou has been elected a fellow of the American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). AIAA Fellows are persons of
distinction who have made notable and valuable contributions to the arts,
sciences, or technology of aeronautics or astronautics.
July 1, 2008:
Two MAE graduate students, Arezoo
Motavalizadeh Ardekani and Solmaz Sajjadi-kia,
have been awarded the prestigious Amelia Earhart Fellowship for their outstanding accomplishments
in aerospace science and engineering. Zonta International foundation, a global organization of
executives and professionals working together to advance the status of women
worldwide, is the provider of this award of $10,000. Arezoo
conducts her research in the multiphase heat transfer and fluid dynamics
laboratory under the supervision of Professor Roger Rangel. This is the
second time that she receives this award. Solmaz Sajjadi-Kia studies control systems under supervision of
Professor Faryar Jabbari.
June 9, 2008: Sadegh Dabiri
has been selected to receive the AIAA
Martin Summerfield Graduate Award for Studies in Propellants and
Combustion. In honor of this prestigious
student award Mr. Dabiri will receive $5000
honorarium
plus travel expenses to attend the 44th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE
Joint
Propulsion Conference and Exhibit in Hartford, Connecticut. The AIAA Foundation honors
organizations or individuals for unique contributions and extraordinary
accomplishments through its prestigious Awards for Excellence.
April 13, 2008: Salvador Mayoral has won the Western Region Award of the Sigma
Gamma Tau Aerospace Engineering Honor
Society. The award is based on academic accomplishment, service, and
leadership in Aerospace Engineering. Each year, only one student is
selected from the Western Region which includes the states of California, Washington, and Arizona. Mr. Mayoral is an undergraduate student at UC
Irvine with mulitple majors including Aerospace
Engineering. In addition to his Western Region Award, he is the
recipient of the local chapter UC Irvine Sigma Gamma Tau
Award. He is presently the President of the UC Irvine Sigma Gamma Tau Chapter.
02/25/2008
Professor Daniel D. Joseph
Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering has
been honored by Florida State University with the Sir James Lighthill
Distinguished Lectureship Award for 2008.
Dr. Joseph has been recognized for his seminal contributions in the
diverse field of fluid dynamics. The
Distinguished Lectureship Award was established to honor leaders in
mathematical sciences. The previous
winners are: Peter Lax, Andy Majda, Steven Orzag and Katapelli Sreenivasan.
07/01/2007 Dr. Manuel Gamero-Castaño joins MAE Department as Assistant Professor.
The Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering Department  is pleased to welcome Dr. Manuel Gamero-Castaño to its faculty. Dr. Gamero-Castaño
received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Yale University in 1999.
Since then he has performed research and development work on electric
space propulsion, for Busek, Inc. in Massachusetts and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
in Pasadena. Most of
his research focus has been on developing colloid thrusters (electric micropropulsion for precision formation flying and drag
cancellation missions). In his Ph.D. work and subsequent research
publications, he has established himself as a leader in electrosprays
and the related nanotechnology and in electric propulsion (EP) for space
propulsion purposes.
07/01/2007 Dr. Lorenzo Valdevit joins MAE Department as Assistant Professor. The Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Department is pleased  to welcome Dr. Lorenzo Valdevit
to its faculty. Dr. Valdevit received his M.S
degree (Laurea) in Materials Engineering from the
University of Trieste, Italy and his Ph.D degree in
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University. Prior to arriving at UC Irvine, Dr. Valdevit held a post-doctoral scholar position at the University of California, Santa Barbara and a visiting researcher appointment at Cornell University. Dr. Valdevit expertise
is in experimental, analytical, and computational tools to study the
mechanical behavior of materials and structures, primarily for aerospace
applications. Dr. Valdevit’s research at
UCI will concentrate on multifunctional optimization
of thermo-mechanical structures, and micro-scale (including MEMS)
applications of topologically optimized sandwich plates. Additionally,
he is interested in cell mechanics, in particular the modeling and
measurement of adhesion, contractility and migration in mammalian cells.
06/8/2007 MAE Display
Day will showcase latest Engineering Design Projects by senior
undergraduate students. Display Day will be held in the Engineering Gateway Plaza during 10:00am - 12:00pm. Please see flyer at: http://mae.eng.uci.edu/news/DisplayDay2007.pdf
04/01/2007 Dr. William R. Seeker joins MAE Department as Adjunct Professor. The Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Department is pleased to welcome Dr. William R. Seeker to its faculty. Dr.
Seeker received his Ph.D.  in Engineering from Kansas State University in 1978. Dr. Seeker was a Manager of New Product
Development for General Electric (GE) Environmental Services, a division with
a $600,000,000 revenue stream that is responsible for developing
environmental solutions for energy, petrochemical, cement, metals, and mining
operations worldwide. Dr.
Seeker’s interests, talents, and record of achievement represent a
superb complement to the portfolio of existing UCI campus expertise in
energy and the environment.
Dr. Seeker will be an
extraordinary contributor to the research and teaching mission of our MAE Department, School, and University in the important field
of energy and the environment.
10/01/2006 MAE graduate student Maximilian Perez has won the 2006 IEEE Sensors Council Award.
This prestigious Annual Graduate Student Scholarship Award sponsored by
General Electric recognizes excellence in graduate-student sensors-related research.
Max was selected from 133 applicants from around the world. In addition to a
cash prize, the IEEE Sensors Council will sponsor Max's travel expenses to
participate in 2006 IEEE Sensors Conference in Daegu,
Korea from October 22 to 25, 2006. The award will be presented by the
President of the IEEE Sensors Council during the Sensors' 2006 Banquet. Max
is a student in Professor Andrei Shkel's
Microsystems Laboratory.
08/01/2006 Dr. Yun Wang
joins MAE Department
as Assistant Professor. The Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering Department is pleased to welcome Dr. Yun
Wang to its faculty. After obtaining his B.S. and M.S. degrees in  China (Peking University, Beijing) in 1998 and 2001 respectively, Dr. Wang joined
the Pennsylvania State University for his graduate study where he received his Ph.D degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2006. Prior
to arriving at UC Irvine, Dr. Wang conducted research at the Electrochemical
Engine Center at the Pennsylvania State University, and at the State Key
Laboratory for Turbulence Research in China. Dr. Wang's areas of expertise
are electrochemical energy systems, such as fuel cells and batteries, and
internal combustion engines, specializing in multiphase multi-component
transport, electrochemistry, thermo-fluidic, parallel computations, and
turbulent combustion. His current research activities focus on the
computational modeling and experimental diagnostics of polymer electrolyte
fuel cells (PEFCs). His work emphasizes exploration
on fundamentals of the physicochemical processes for renewable energy
resources and his research aims at developing a science-based framework for
designing next-generation, high-performance energy systems.
07/01/2006 Dr. Benjamin Villac joins MAE
Department as Assistant Professor. The Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Department is pleased to welcome Dr. Benjamin Villac to its faculty. After
completing his undergraduate
education in France (Ecole Nationale
de Techniques Avancees,  Paris,
France), Dr. Villac joined the University of Michigan for his graduate
studies where he received MSE and Ph.D degrees in
Aerospace Engineering in 2000 and 2003, respectively. His interest
in mathematics also led him to earn an MS degree in Mathematics in 2002. Dr.
Villac worked as a post-doctoral scholar at Caltech and joined the Outer
Planet and Mission analysis group at JPL in November 2004. His research
interests revolve around spaceflight mechanics, nonlinear dynamical systems and
their control. His research aims at improving the design of complex missions
by characterizing global properties of optimal control solutions and their
relation to the underlying dynamics. This research involves the study of
stability properties of flow structures under model perturbations,as well as the properties of uncertainties
propagation in such systems. Finally, the numerics
of such questions are another aspect of his research where enclosures of
solutions are sought numerically.
06/19/2006 Prof. Liebeck
has been selected to be the first recipient of the International Council of
the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS) Award for Innovation in Aeronautics.
This Award recognizes the many outstanding original contributions of Prof. Liebeck in the area of aerodynamic design and, in
particular, Prof. Liebeck's innovative design of blended wing-body (BWB) configurations for jet
transport aircraft. Von Karman founded
ICAS in 1958 with the purpose of promoting excellence in aeronautical science
and engineering throughout the world.
05/08/2006
The UCI
AIAA Design Build Fly (DBF) team mentored by Prof.
Liebeck has placed seventh out of 49 entries in
the competition at Wichita,
KA, on April
21-23, 2006. Pictures of the UCI
aircraft at the DBF competition are available here: http://mae.eng.uci.edu/aiaa/DBF2006/pictures.html Please
see additional information at the UCI
AIAA web site: http://mae.eng.uci.edu/aiaa/aiaa.html
05/08/2006
John Clanton, an undergraduate majoring in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at
UCI, has been selected as a Tau
Beta Pi Scholar for 2006-07. Tau Beta Pi
Scholarships are awarded on the competitive criteria of high scholarship,
campus leadership and service, and promise of future contributions to the
engineering professions. 123 Scholars were selected out of 251
applicants. All selected scholars are members of Tau
Beta Pi which is the National Engineering Honor Society. For more
information, please see: http://www.tbp.org
05/01/2006
Rebecca Shupe has been chosen to receive the NASA
Graduate Student Researcher Program (GSRP) Award. This is a highly
competitive and prestigious award for which she will conduct research at NASA Glenn Research Center on jet noise
reduction fundamentals in addition to her research at UCI with her advisor Prof.
Papamoschou. Ms. Shupe
was ranked #1 for the entire NASA Glenn Research Center and her research
project is entitled: "Noise and Flow Field of Non-Axisymmetric
Dual-Stream Jets". Information on NASA GSRP can be found at:
http://fellowships.hq.nasa.gov/gsrp/program/
01/30/2006
Prof. Sirignano has been chosen to receive the AIAA Sustained Service Award. The
award is presented to recognize sustained, significant service and
contributions to the AIAA by members of the Institute. The citation for the award reads, “For outstanding sustained
contributions to the Institute, student education, and community service over
the past decades.”
01/26/2006
Prof. Samuelsen has become Fellow of
ASME. The ASME announcement reads as follows. "Scott Samuelsen's
career spans 40 years. After receiving his doctorate from UC Berkeley in
1970, he founded the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Irvine and served as
department chair for 14 years. Scott has led the establishment of research
centers in the area of combustion and energy systems, each of which have
produced significant and lasting contributions to understanding and
mitigating the impact of energy on the environment. Most recently under the auspices
of the U.S. Department of Energy and the California Energy Commission, Scott
established the "National Fuel Cell Research Center" in 1998 which
is today pioneering the evolution of "hybrid" fuel cell/gas turbine
power generation systems. As an educator, Scott has established novel and
forward looking curriculum in energy and the environment and has influenced
the thinking of a huge number of undergraduate and graduate students. He is
held in equally high regard by those who work with him in this field and he
is often sought for leadership positions in advisory positions including
octane posting. Working with the Federal Trade Commission in 1973, Scott
developed the "(R+M)/2" index for posting which today continues to
guide the motoring public and the automobile and refueling market. Finally,
he has been a dedicated participant in the activities of the ASME IGTI for
over 25 years, chairman technical committees, author over 40 papers at the
IGTI, and continues to organize innovative and timely technical sessions. University of California, Berkeley Ph.D. 1970 Mechanical
Engineering." The original announcement is available here.
11/29/2005
Prof. Rangel has received a $400,000 award from the National Science Foundation
(NSF) given to support the California-Catalonia Alliance for Miniaturization
Science and Engineering program, which is an expansion of the international
collaboration between the University of California, Irvine and selected
universities and research facilities in Catalonia, Spain. Please see the
full announcement here.
11/23/2005
Prof. Shkel has received a $1,250,000 award from the
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for the development of the
world’s first micromachined gyroscope based
on spin-polarized nuclei precession. This U.S. Department of Defense-based
program, called Navigation Grade Integrated Micro Gyroscopes, supports the
development of novel micro- or nano-engineered
devices capable of sensing rotation rate with navigation-grade performance.
11/01/2005
MAE Aerospace History article will appear in AIAA book on the history
of Aerospace Engineering Programs. A version of the article is
available here: http://mae.eng.uci.edu/UCI-Aerospace.pdf
07/29/2005
Prof. Liebeck has been selected to receive the AIAA
2005 Aircraft Design Award. The award is presented to a design engineer
or team for the conception, definition, or development of an original concept
leading to a significant advancement in aircraft design or design
technology. The citation for the award reads as follows: "For
lifetime achievement in aerodynamics, advanced aircraft development and
conceptual design. Specifically the innovative wing designs for the
Boeing Condor, Aerovironment Helios, and the
Blended Wing-Body approach air liner." The award consists of an
engraved bronze medal, a certificate of citation, and a rosette pin. It
will be conferred on Wednesday, 28
September 2005, at the AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration and Operations (ATIO)
Forum.
07/01/2005 Prof.
Roger Rangel is the new Chair of the MAE Deparment.
06/17/2005
MAE Display Day will showcase latest Engineering Design Projects
by senior undergraduate students. Display Day will be held in the Engineering Gateway Plaza during 8:45am - 11:30am. Please see flyer at: http://mae.eng.uci.edu/news/DisplayDay2005.pdf
05/26/2005
MAE
Students in Mini-Baja race team mentored by Prof. McCarthy
receive first place in Mac Short competition. Please see SAE newsletter at http://mae.eng.uci.edu/news/SAE-May2005.pdf
05/15/2005
Prof. Liebeck has been awarded the 2005 ASME Spirit of
St. Louis Medal for meritorious service in the advancement of aeronautics and
astronautics. Please see additional information including past
recipients at: http://www.asme.org/honors/ms71/saa/ssl.html
MAE News
Archives:
12/16/2004 Prof. Shkel has been named recipient of a NSF
CAREER Award for investigations of a MEMS-based electronic prosthesis
mimicking the dynamic vestibular function, which is an effort to develop a
fully-implantable electro-stimulatory prosthesis capable of restoring damaged
inner ear function. Please see news at: http://www.calit2.net/news/2004/12-16-04_shkel.html
12/07/2004 Prof. Orme's high-speed droplet-based
manufacturing technology profiled by the National Science Foundation.
Please see news at: http://www.eng.nsf.gov/general/publicdoc/economy02.htm
11/01/2004 Prof. Mease receives NASA/JPL contract to
pinpoint Mars landings within 100 meters. Please see news at: http://www.eng.uci.edu/news_events/current/?page=2004_11_01_mease
10/07/2004 Prof. Dabdub and colleagues have been awarded
$7.5 million for a new Environmental Molecular Science Institute dedicated to
understanding at the molecular level how human activity and nature contribute
to global environmental problems. Please see news at: http://today.uci.edu/news/release_detail.asp?key=1222
08/22/2004 Prof. Madou has been appointed Honorary
Distinguished Professor at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.
06/18/2004 MAE Senior Design
Display Day (click here for flyer and brochure), 8:45am - 11:45am.
06/07/2004 Prof. Sirignano has
received the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Energy Systems Award for
2004. The award is presented for significant contribution in the broad
field of energy systems, specifically as related to the application of
engineering sciences and systems engineering to the production, storage,
distribution, and conservation of energy. The award citation reads:
"For fundamental pioneering research on fuel atomization, spray combustion,
and turbulent flames in gas-turbine and automotive engines, and for the
innovative turbine-burner and miniature-liquid-film-combustor concepts."
05/19/2004 Prof.
Sirignano is appointed as the Henry Samueli
Endowed Chair in Engineering.
09/17/2003 AIAA
Student Chapter launches new web site http://mae.eng.uci.edu/aiaa/aiaa.html.
Undergraduate aerospace engineering students are encouraged to join the Chapter
and benefit from organized activities in aeronautics and astronautics.
Mechanical Engineering Honor
Society, Pi Tau Sigma (PTS), launches new web site http://mae.eng.uci.edu/pts/pts.html.
Honors undergraduate students in mechanical engineering are encouraged to
join and participate in the PTS activities.
06/18/2003 Prof. Andrei Shkel's student, Cenk Acar, is First Place Winner of MEMGen's
worldwide competition "The MEMS Design Challenge".
06/05/2003 Prof. Marc Madou profiled in Lab on a Chip.
05/08/2003 Graduate Student Jiayin
Liu, in Prof. Shkel's group, wins Zonta International Amelia Earhart
Fellowship Award.
03/21/2003 Prof. Friehe's research on wind and ocean waves published in Nature.
11/19/2002 Prof. Dabdub and colleagues receive $2.6 million NSF grant to study
the chemical reactions occurring between air and water surfaces, such as
those of oceans.
11/07/2002 ZEVNET wins Blue Sky
Merit Award for transportation innovation and excellence.
11/01/2002 Prof. Liebeck is elected
Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society.
10/24/2002 Inaugural
Lecture on Careers in MAE.
10/03/2002 Fall Quarter MAE Seminar Series
begins.
07/01/2002
Prof. Dimitri Papamoschou
is the new Chair of the MAE Deparment.
06/10/2002
Prof. Marc J. Madou, international expert on
micro- and nano-electromechanical systems (MEMS and
NEMS) and bio-MEMS/-NEMS, will join the UCI MAE Department.
02/15/2002
Prof. William
Sirignano elected to the National
Academy of Engineering.
11/13/2001
Prof. Scott Samuelsen and Prof. Donald Dabdub
receive a $3 million grant from the California Energy Commission to study
distributed power and air quality.
07/26/2001
New Endowed Chair, the
Henry Samueli Chair in Microsystems Engineering,
has been established in the MAE Department.
03/2001 Prof. Donald Dabdub
has been nominated among a very small group of faculty members as the
favorite professor of freshman students. The recognition, given officially by
Project Prometheus, targets faculty members who have made themselves
available and approachable: faculty who have aided students in clarifying
their goals, values, and contribution potential.
11/2000
Prof. William
Sirignano has been elected Fellow of the American
Physical Society.
08/2000
Prof. Michael McCarthy
has been elected Fellow of the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers.
04/2000
Prof. Donald Dabdub discovers how sea salt
influences pollution.
02/2000
Prof. Roger Rangel
receives AIAA best
paper award.
01/2000
Renowned aerodynamicist Dr. Robert H. Liebeck joins the Department.
01/2000
MEMS expert Dr. Andrei M. Shkel joins the Department.
11/1999
Prof. Said Elghobashi
has been elected Fellow of the American
Physical Society.
03/1999
Prof. Haris
Catrakis has been selected to receive the
National Science Foundation Career Award.
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