Awards

Undergraduate student Ameeta Kunnath has received first place in the 2013 National Daniel W.

Professor Hyonny Kim has received the 2013 Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award for Structural Engineering. The AS Distinguished Teaching Award recognizes the recipient's excellent contributions to the educational mission of UCSD.

Dr. John Kosmatka was selected by over 300 undergraduate students participating in this year's Jacobs Ring Ceremony as the 2013 Professor of the Year.

Professor Francesco Lanza di Scalea and his students Stefano Mariani, Thompson Nguyen, Robert Phillips, Piotr Kijanka of UCSD and Wieslaw Staszewski of AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland, received the Best Paper Award at the 9th Inte

Dean Albert Pisano presented Professor Benson Shing with the 2012-2013 Best Teacher Award.

The ASCE Student Leadership Award is granted to an ASCE Student Member who has demonstrated leadership in a Student Chapter/International Student Group through various activities (e.g., service as an officer, leading special events, interaction wi

Graduate Student, Marco Simone Pigazzini received the Science and Engineering Library Award for Best Use of Literature at the JSOE 2014 Research Expo. Marco's poster was entitled, Impact on Water of Aircraft Structures: A Review.

SE Graduate Student, Edouard Marc Yreux , and SE Postdoctoral Researcher, Dr.

Professor Patrick Fox has been appointed to the Board of Governors of the Geo-Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), effective October 2014.

Mary Faith Silva, currently a senior in the SE Department, has received over $22,000 in graduate scholarships!
Faith will be attending UC Berkeley in the Fall.
California Homebuilding Foundation $15,000

Structural Engineering Postdoctoral Researcher, Dr. Weian Liu, received the 2013 National Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Chinese Students Studying Abroad.

SE graduate student, Christine Wittich, received the 2014-2015 Achievement Rewards for College Scientists scholarship. These scholarships reward excellence in research.

Kimberly Bowes, current Structural Engineering BS/MS student, has been selected to receive a $5,000 scholarship from the Orange County Chapter of WTS.

SE Professor, Chia-Ming Uang, is the recipient of the 2015 T.R. Higgins Lectureship Awarded, presented annually by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC). “Dr.

Alexander Jai-Syn Chen, a current junior in Structural Engineering, has received a $1,000 scholarship from ACEC PublicWorks!

Professor Yuri Bazilevs has been selected as Fellow of the U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics in recognition of contributions to the field of Computational Mechanics. The award will be formally announced during the 13th U.S.

Graduating senior, Kayse Sheppard, receives the Structural Engineering Department's 2015 Excellence Award!
Kayse was presented with a glass award at the 9th annual Jacobs School of Engineering Ring Ceremony held on Saturday, June 13.

Professor Michael D.Todd will receive the 2016 D.J. DeMichele Award from the the Society of Experimental Mechanics. This award, established in 1990 in honor of Dominick J.

Bradley Wilton, current BS/MS student in the Department of Structural Engineering, has been awarded the CRSI Scholarship for 2014-2015!