Awards

Congratulations to Professor Francesco Lanza di Scalea who was recently awarded Best Paper from the Composites & Multifunctional Materials Technical Division at last year’s Annual Conference of the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) held

Congratulations to SE PhD student, Elide Pantoli, for receiving one of the Gordon Engineering Leadership Center’s Graduate Engineering Leadership Awards.
Congratulations to the Structural Engineering Department’s Graduate Program for being recognized by the Graduate Student Association (GSA) as the Best in Engineering!

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has honored Professor Jose I. Restrepo and his co-investigators with the Charles H. Pankow Award for Innovation.

Associate Professor John McCartney has received the 2016 Walter L.

Congratulations to undergraduate SE student Jose “JJ” Banuelos for receiving the American Society of Civil Engineering’s (ASCE) Charles McMahon Memorial Construction/Engineering Scholarship.

The UCSD Society of Civil and Structural Engineers (SCSE) has been awarded the Letter of Honorable Mention by the American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE).

Congratulations to SE graduate student Andrew Fann for receiving the Thornton Tomasetti Student Innovation Fellowship.

Prof. Lanza di Scalea was elected Fellow of the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT)– Class of 2016. ASNT is the main professional society in the NDT/NDE field in the US and internationally.

On Saturday, June 12, 2010, SE student José Aceituno was bestowed with the "SE Department Award for Excellence in Leadership and Service" by the Triton Engineering Student Council. Congratulations, José on this distinction!

Zhangli Peng was named for a NSF fellowship and the best poster award at the National Science Foundation's "Workshop on the Emerging Applications and Future Directions of the Boundary Element Method," held at the University of Akron on September 1

Graduate students Colin Haynes and Scott Ouellette were recently awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships. Fellowship recipients are provided three years of tuition, stipend, and travel fees.

Professor Lanza di Scalea and student Robert Phillips have been awarded the 2010 Research Fellowship Award from the American Society for nondestructive Testing (ASNT) for the research proposal titled "Nonlinear ultrasonic testing of waveguides inc

The students leaders of UCSD's Society of Civil and Structural Engineers (SCSE) were recognized at the Triton Engineering Student Council Awards on June 2, 2010.

SE's own Professor Chia-Ming has always been a student favorite here at UCSD, and this was reflected again in Dr. Uang's recent selection for two UCSD awards. Dr.

SE Student, Claudio Nucera (Prof. Lanza di Scalea, advisor) was selected for the "Best Structural Engineering Poster" at the recent 2010 Research Expo.

Ming-Chen Hsu, an SE doctoral student working with Prof. Yuri Bazilevs, received the Best Student and Young Investigator Poster Award for his joint work with Prof.

Professors David Benson (left) and Yuri Bazilevs (right) were recently selected to receive awards from the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM). Prof. Benson was named to receive the IACM Fellow Award, and Prof.

Ming-Chen Hsu, a Ph.D. student working with Prof. Yuri Bazilevs, was selected as one of the six finalists of the 2010 Robert J. Melosh Medal Competition for the best student paper in finite element methods.