MAE News
- 5-Dec 2007 Machine Tool Research Donation. The Mori Seiki Company, one of the world's largest manufacturers of machine tools, will donate $4.25 million during the next five years to support UC Davis Professor Kazuo Yamazaki's research in the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering.
- 12-Oct 2007 Whispering-gallery modes are the resonances that occur inside round objects (spheres, cylinders, disks) when light bounces around the object’s circumference, restrained by total internal reflection to stay inside the object. Check out this recent Discovery by Professor Ian Kennedy - Lasing Action from Whispering-Gallery Modes in Water Microdroplets
- 2-Oct 2007 - Professor Dean Karnopp is the recipient of the 2007 Dynamic Systems and Control Division (DSCD) Yasundo Takahashi Education Award. The award is given biannually by the Dynamics and Control Division of ASME to a DSCD member for either excellent sustained contributions or for an outstanding major, singular contribution to education in areas of interest to the DSCD. Professor Karnopp will be recognized at the DSC awards dinner banquet Tuesday November 12, 2007 at the 2007 ASME IMECE in Seattle, WA.
- 01-Sep 2007 - Professor Maury Hull received the ASME 2007 H.R. Lissner Medal "for pre-eminent contributions to bioengineering through advances in instrumentation for experimental musculoskeletal biomechanics, developments in modeling of the musculoskeletal system, progress in the analytic study of sports biomechanics, improvements in sports equipment design and leadership in bioengineering education; and for distinguished service to the Bioengineering Division of ASME." Formal presentation of the award is scheduled to take place at the 2007 summer Bioengineering Conference, June 20-24, 2007, in Keystone Colorado.
Announcements
- February, 2008, Former UC Davis MAE Masters grad Candice Bauer shares her experiences that have advanced her professional engineering career (Interview). Meet Candice Bauer, engineer and lecturer, active ASME volunteer, and the 2007 ASME Old Guard Early Career Award recipient. In her late 20s, Candice has already assembled a vast and impressive professional and volunteer career. Candice is a lecturer at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she has taught subjects such as Mechanical Design, Aerodynamics, Senior Capstone Design, and Engineering Communications. She is also one of the youngest ASME Vice Presidents in the society’s history, taking office as the Vice President, ASME Center for Professional Development, Practice, and Ethics in June 2007 at the ASME 2007 Summer Annual Meeting in Toronto, Canada.
- October, 2007, Postdoctoral Fellows Dr. Abhinav Bhushan and Dr. Soumen Roy were recently accepted into the UC Davis “Laboratory Management Program for Postdoctoral Scholars (2007-2008)”. A total of twenty seven Postdoctoral Scholars were selected from the entire campus to participate in the third year of this program, which has received international recognition in journals such as Nature, Cell and The Scientist. The UC Davis Laboratory Management Institute (LMI) Certificate Program in Laboratory Leadership and Management is offered through UC Davis Extension and the Offices of Research and Graduate Studies. It provides a learning laboratory for postdocs to practice leadership and management skills essential to advancing their scientific careers. For those looking to eventually assume scientific leadership positions as faculty or in industry, it will enhance their ability to run a laboratory efficiently and effectively. For more information on this program, please follow : http://www.research.ucdavis.edu/home.cfm?ID=OVC,14,20&eventKey=150
- July, 2007, Mary Molina awarded a National Science Foundation funded California Alliance for Minority Participation (CAMP) and Bridge-To-Doctorate stipend fellowship. This is a very competitive award for research support and travel to the yearly statewide CAMP conference to present her research Spring 2008.
- May, 2007, Stepahine Pulford awarded a Howard Hughes Medical Institute - "Integrating Medicine into Basic Science Fellowship." This is a very competitive award for stipend and tuition support. She will also be able to attend an intensive 5 week Summer Institute, "Introduction to Clinical Medicine" at UC Davis Med School.
- March, 2007, Huilan Han & Stephen Nestinger received the UC Davis Humanities and Sciences Graduate Research Award. This $1,500 Award is potentially renewable until graduatiuon to support dissertation research.
- Two-year fellowships are available for MAE students interested in research on AIR POLLUTION. Contact Professor Kennedy(imkennedy@ucdavis.edu) or Professor Wexler (aswexler@ucdavis.edu) for more information. For further information go to http://aah.ucdavis.edu
