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Mechanical Engineering Student Named the Campus’s First Rhodes Scholar

March 10, 2021
UC Merced master’s student Selina Brinkmann has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for study at Oxford University — a first for the campus. “A Rhodes Scholarship being awarded to one of our UC Merced engineering students is an amazing first,” School of Engineering Dean Mark Matsumoto said. “This...

An ME graduate student wins an NSF NRT Summer fellowship

March 9, 2021
Jacques-Ezechiel Nguessan, a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering under the guidance of Professor Sachin Goyal, received a Summer 2021 Research Training Program (NRT) fellowship in Intelligent Adaptive Systems program by National Science Foundation (NSF). Congratulations!   The NSF...

UC Merced Engineers Help Test Perseverance Rover

February 18, 2021

Saima A. Sumaiya Wins STLE Research Scholarship

February 1, 2021
Baykara Lab graduate student Saima A. Sumaiya won a Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE) Northern California Section Research Scholarship. 

Innovate to Grow Coming to a Zoom Room Near You

December 15, 2020
UC Merced’s premier experiential learning expo, Innovate to Grow (I2G), is providing students, faculty and staff with a new set of experiences to learn from this year, as the event continues in a virtual format to comply with pandemic safety guidelines. “Our students, faculty and staff have adapted...

Sliding on Waves of Atoms: Lab Is First to Observe Ripples and Friction on 2D Materials

November 5, 2020
Mechanical Engineering Professor Mehmet Baykara’s latest discovery in two-dimensional (2D) materials will have implications for future space missions, as well as nanotechnology on Earth. Since the Nobel prize-winning discovery of 2D materials in 2004, scientists have believed the crystalline...

New Grant More than Doubles Campus Supercomputing Power

August 31, 2020
UC Merced is rapidly gaining a strong reputation for research and scientific computing across many disciplines and a major expansion of its computing infrastructure is about to cement the campus’ status as a research computing hub. The National Science Foundation (NSF) is supplying $700,000 and the...

New Engineering Research Center to Focus on Agriculture Technology

August 3, 2020
By 2050, the U.S. population is estimated to grow to 400 million, and the world population to 9.1 billion, requiring a 70 percent increase in global food production. UC Merced is one of four campuses across the country uniting to meet that challenge by harnessing the power of innovation and...

New NSF Center Intersects Chemistry and Mechanics

August 3, 2020
Scientists know the whats and whys of using light, heat and electricity to direct chemical reactions toward an end goal. What’s less well understood are the effects mechanical force can have on chemistry. Thanks to a three-year, $1.8 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, a team of...

UC Merced Grad Student, Alumnus Play Significant Role in Mars 2020 Mission

July 29, 2020
NASA’s fifth exploratory rover is scheduled to head for Mars later this month to try and answer key questions about the potential for life on the red planet. Before the rover leaves Earth, current and former members of UC Merced’s Fundamental Tribology Lab conducted critical tests that will provide...

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