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11-02-23

Julia Greer, Ruben F. and Donna Mettler Professor of Materials Science, Mechanics and Medical Engineering; Fletcher Jones Foundation Director of the Kavli Nanoscience Institute, has been selected as the 2024 recipient of the Society of Engineering Science’s (SES) A.C. Eringen Medal. Greer was selected for her sustained outstanding contributions in the field of three-dimensional nano- and micro-architected materials as well as the development of innovative in-situ experimental methods and instruments used to study the mechanics of small-scale materials.

The SES A.C. Eringen Medal is awarded annually in recognition of sustained outstanding achievements in engineering science, and the award recipient is invited to speak at the SES annual meeting. The 2024 SES annual meeting will be hosted by Westlake University in China. 

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08-31-23

Aramis Mendoza, a third-year undergraduate studying mechanical and aerospace engineering, received the Women in Aerospace Foundation (WIA) Northrop Grumman Scholarship and the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Spouses Education Scholarship in July 2023. 

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06-16-23

Andrew Akerson and Maegan Tucker receive the 2023 Centennial Prize for the Best Thesis in Mechanical and Civil Engineering. Kaila Coimbra receives the 2023 Mechanical and Civil Engineering Award. Eric Ocegueda receives the 2022-2023 MCE Outstanding Service Award. Logan Hayes and Barry Lawlor receive the 2022-2023 Outstanding Undergraduate and Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, respectively. 

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06-16-23

Barry Lawlor receives the award "in recognition of outstanding teaching assistance awarded to a graduate student" in MCE. Winners are selected by a committee appointed annually by the Executive Officer for Mechanical and Civil Engineering.

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06-16-23

Logan Hayes receives the award "in recognition of outstanding teaching assistance" in MCE. Winners are selected by a committee appointed annually by the Executive Officer for Mechanical and Civil Engineering.

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06-16-23

Eric Ocegueda receives the award in recognition of his significant contributions to improving the quality of climate, culture, and scholarship in service of the department. 

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06-16-23

Post graduation, Kaila will pursue a PhD in aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford University. 

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06-16-23

Maegan Tucker, advised by Aaron Ames, Bren Professor of Mechanical and Civil Engineering and Control and Dynamical Systems, receives the award for her thesis titled "Enabling Robust and User-Customized Bipedal Locomotion on Lower-Body Assistive Devices via Hybrid System Theory and Preference-Based Learning." 

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06-16-23

Andrew Akerson, advised by Kaushik Bhattacharya, Howell N. Tyson, Sr., Professor of Mechanics and Materials Science; Vice Provost, receives the award for his thesis titled "Optimal Design of Soft Responsive Actuators and Impact Resistant Structures." 

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06-13-23

At the 2023 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), three teams featuring Aaron Ames [Bren Professor of Mechanical and Civil Engineering and Control and Dynamical Systems] and a Caltech EAS student/postdoc received a best paper award.

MCE postdoc Jeeseop Kim received the ICRA 2023 Outstanding Paper Award (best overall paper at the conference) for co-authoring "Distributed Data-Driven Predictive Control for Multi-Agent Collaborative Legged Locomotion." CDS graduate student Noel Csomay-Shanklin and CMS graduate student Victor Dorobantu received the Outstanding Dynamics and Control Paper for "Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of a 3D Hopping Robot: Leveraging Lie Group Integrators for Dynamically Stable Behaviors." CDS graduate student Wyatt Ubellacker received the Outstanding Student Paper Award for "Robust Locomotion on Legged Robots through Planning on Motion Primitive Graphs." 

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