Awards

Congratulations to Professor Francesco Lanza di Scalea for receiving the 2017-2018 Best Undergraduate Teacher Award!

Professor Ken Loh and student Sumit Gupta have been awarded the "Institute of Engineering in Medicine (IEM), 10th Anniversary Symposium Best Paper Award" for their poster. They were recognized on November 1, 2018 for their poster titled "Noncontac

Professor John McCartney, along with Professor Patrick Fox, Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engin

Professor Kenneth Loh has been awarded the 2018 Structural Health Monitoring Person-of-the-Year Award from the British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing (BINDT).

On the basis of recommendations made by the Earthquake Spectra Editorial Board, the EERI Board of Directors has selected the paper, “Landmark Data Set from the Building Nonstructural Components and Systems (BNCS) Project,” Earthquake

The paper titled “Air-Coupled Ultrasonic Testing of Rails: Experimental Prototype and Finite Element Simulations,” authored by Prof.

PhD student Manuel Vega Loo has won the ASEE SMART Fellowship, a highly-competitive Department of Defense-wide full scholarship for PhD research. His home government institution will be the Army Corps of Engineers Research and Development Center


UC San Diego Structural Engineering has received an Honorable Mention for the 2018 ASCE Student Chapter Award.

Prof. Yuri Bazilevs is the recipient of the 2018 Walter L.

Congratulations to Professor John Kosmatka for receiving the 2016-2017 Best Undergraduate Teacher Award!

Structural Engineering undergraduate student Bahador Babaei of Warren College has been selected to receive the 2017-2018 Krishnan award, sponsored by the UC San Diego Alumni Leadership Development Office.

Structural Engineering undergraduate student Robert Urena has been selected to receive the 2016-2017 John E. Starrett, Jr. Memorial Scholarship.
Simone Sternini, Ph.D.

Professor Francesco Lanza di Scalea was elected Fellow of the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) with the citation “contributions to the fields of non-destructive evaluation and structural health monitoring, particularly ultrasonic testing,

The American Society for Civil Engineering has awarded UCSD's ASCE student member Alec Ramirez with the prestigious award of the 2017 Daniel W. Mead Prize for Students. Their statement reads:

J. S. Chen has been selected as the recipient of the U.S.

Congratulations to Joaquin Marquez for being awarded the first Sho Funai Endowed Prize in Structural Engineering.