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Our UC Davis Formula Hybrid SAE Team is gearing up for the Formula Hybrid International Competition on April 30-May 3 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in London, NH. This highly motivated and dedicated team of mechanical engineering students, along with their faculty advisor Dr. Jae Wan Park, has been working tirelessly to complete their ‘Green Machine’ with an eye toward the 2012 Hybrid title. Read more in the Sacramento Bee: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/03/18/4344368/racing-to-build-a-green-machineuc.html#storylink=misearch.
MAE Faculty Position Available
- Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering. A research emphasis in Manufacturing is preferred.
To apply for the position click here.
MAE students receive Best Student Paper Award
Please join us in congratulating graduate students David Ko and Nalaka Kahawatte and Professor Harry Cheng.
Their paper titled "Controlling Modular Reconfigurable Robots with Handheld Smart Devices" was awarded the Best Student Paper Award at the 2011 ASME/IEEE International Conference on Mechatronic and Embedded Systems and Applications, Washington, DC, August 29-31, 2011.
Currently, David Ko is a PhD student and Nalaka Kahawatte is an MS student. David attended the conference and received the award.
Nice job David, Nalaka and Prof. Cheng!
MAE alumnus becomes head of DOE Wind & Water Power program
Recently, Jose Zayas became manager of the U.S. Department of Energy Wind & Water Power program.
Zayas received his master's degree in MAE in 2002. Before moving to DC, he was the senior manager of the Renewable Energy Technologies group at Sandia National Laboratories.
Nice to see our alumni doing well.
Andy Frank honored by Automotive News
Professor Andy Frank is being honored by Automotive News. During a gala at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan on June 13, Andy will be named to the first-ever list of 100 of the most influential people globally who are driving the world toward vehicle electrification.
Congratulations Prof. Frank!
Cristina Davis Recipient of The Hartwell Foundation Award
The Hartwell Foundation announced that it
has selected Associate Professor Cristina Davis
for its 2010 Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award for "Point-Of-Care Breath Sensor to Improve Childhood Asthma Control." This award provides support for three years to fund early-stage, innovative, and cutting-edge biomedical
research to benefit children.
(This is the second Hartwell award for an MAE faculty member; Associate Professor Joshi received this award last year for "New Human-Computer Interface for Severely Paralyzed Children.") See UCDavis Dateline article from 29 April 2011.
Congratulations Prof. Davis!
iMobot makes public debut
iMobot, an intelligent, reconfigurable modular robot invented by Graham Ryland, a UC Davis alumnus, and MAE Professor Harry Cheng is headed for commercial development with the help of a grant from the National Science Foundation. iMobot technology could be used in industrial applications for rapidly prototyping complex robotics - and may eventually form the basis of robots for search-and-rescue operations in difficult terrain.
Also see this news story from San Fransisco's KGO.
Congratulations Prof. Cheng and Graham!
MAE students mentor student robotics teams
Mechanical Engineering student Michael Corsetto mentored the Citrus Circuits team from DaVinci High School in Davis. Citrus Circuits took first place at the Sacramento Regional FIRST Robotics Competition held at UC Davis in March. They will compete at the FIRST Robotics national championship in St. Louis, April 27-30.
Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering graduate student Kevin Gucwa mentors West Sacramento's River City High School Robotics Team. It placed second in its debut competition, the Bay Area Regional Robotics Challenge, held in San Jose in January. Gucwa provided his mentoring through the K-14 Outreach Center for Computing and STEM Education, or CSTEM.
Congratulations Michael and Kevin and to your respective teams!
Ron Hess announced AIAA Fellow
In December 2010, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) announced the election of 29 new Fellows, one of them being Mechanical and Aerospace professor, Ron Hess. Hess joins Mohamed Hafez, becoming the second AIAA Fellow in the MAE department. One new Fellow is elected each year for each 1,000 voting members of AIAA.
Congratulations Dr. Hess!