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Chris Lynch new ASME Aerospace Division Executive Committee chair
November 9, 2009

Chris Lynch

Professor Lynch is the new chair of the ASME Aerospace Division Executive Committee.  A description of the Executive Committee activities is found at  http://divisions.asme.org/Aerospace/.

Laurent Pilon awarded 2009 JQSRT Young Scientist Award in Radiation Transfer
November 2, 2009

Laurent Pilon

Laurent Pilon was awarded the 2009 Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiation Transfer (JQSRT) Young Scientist Award in Radiation Transfer.

The press release from JQSRT can be found here.

Katie Bulgrin is a SEE-LA Fellow
October 30, 2009

Katie Bulgrin

UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering student Katie Bulgrin is a graduate teaching Fellow in UCLA’s Science and Engineering of the Environment of Los Angeles (SEE-LA) Program.  SEE-LA is an effort to improve science education at the middle and high school levels as well as raise students’ awareness and interest in the area of science and engineering. 

The program, which has received $3 million over five years from NSF’s Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 (GK-12) Education Program, pairs graduate fellows from UCLA with science teachers in the Los Angeles and Culver City unified school districts.

SEE-LA focuses on the environment of Los Angeles.  Issues such as urbanization, global and regional climate change, drought, floods, fires, earthquakes, pollution, transportation, preservation, biodiversity, energy and water use confront the students of L.A. on a daily basis.  Graduate fellows, with research interests in the above or related areas, contribute to the professional development programs of the science departments of the schools.  Katie’s research on thermal energy harvesting is directly relevant to the goals of the program.  Students at the schools also benefit from fellows through an enriched learning experience with more individualized attention in the classroom and by having an opportunity to directly interact with fellows.

Ann Karagozian selected to chair major study for the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board
October 21, 2009

Ann Karagozian

Mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Ann Karagozian was recently selected to chair a major study for the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) on the subject of future launch vehicle systems. Karagozian also recently completed four years of service as the SAB's Vice Chair. More information on the SAB may be found at https://www.sab.hq.af.mil/.

Rajit Gadh to give MobiCase and Simposio RFID 2009 keynotes
October 16, 2009

Rajit Gadh

UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department Professor Rajit Gadh will deliver the keynote address at MobiCASE 2009, an international conference on mobile computing, applications and services, to be held in San Diego later this month. Gadh's talk is titled "Mobile Experience 2.0 - Seamless Convergence of Media Content, Applications, Devices and Networks."

Additionally, Prof. Gadh is giving the keynote address at Brazil's Simposio RFID 2009. He was interviewed by Computer World and they wrote this article in Portuguese for the Brazilian community.

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Dr. Tetsuya Iwasaki joins UCLA's MAE Department
October 8, 2009

Tetsuya Iwasaki

Dr. Tetsuya Iwasaki joined the UCLA faculty in the summer of 2009 as Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He came to UCLA from the University of Virginia (UVa), where he was a faculty member since 2000.  Dr. Iwasaki specializes in dynamical systems and control, and has contributed to developments of systematic methods for control systems analysis and synthesis, with a recent focus on biological mechanisms underlying rhythmic body movements during animal locomotion.

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