Before California sheltered in place, UC Berkeley and ITS researchers were out in traffic showing how forming vehicle platoons can dramatically improve urban traffic flow in Arcadia, CA. They recently published a paper(link is external) and video(link is external) on their research and demonstration. Funded by the National Science Foundation and DOT, Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME) Chair Roberto …
California Mechanics for the Greater Good Design Competition
This semester, thanks to the generous sponsorship of the McDonald family (Evan – BA Arts & Arch 1989, MA Arch 1994, MBA 2000, and Christy, BA Fine Arts 1989), the department held a competition among ME102B design projects entitled “California Mechanics for the Greater Good Design Competition.” ME102B is a senior level capstone design course, …
ME Chair Roberto Horowitz Receives Medal at AMES’s 2018 DSCC
ME Chair Roberto Horowitz was awarded the Rufus Oldenburger Medal at the 2018 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference in Atlanta, Georgia on October 2, 2018. Professor Horowitz was presented with the prestigious medal during the Awards Ceremony on October 2, 2018, on behalf of the 2018 DSCC Organization Committee and the Dynamics Systems and Control Division (DSCD) of the American Society of Mechanical …
ME Chair Roberto Horowitz Awarded ASME 2018 Rufus Oldenburger Medal
Professor Roberto Horowitz, our current department chair and the James Fife Endowed Chair in Engineering, has been selected to receive the ASME 2018 Rufus Oldenburger Medal in recognition of his pioneering and impactful contributions to control applications in mechatronics, magnetic data storage and traffic systems. The Rufus Oldenburger Medal is a prestigious ASME Society award …
DoD Announces Award of New Advanced Robotics Manufacturing ARM Innovation Hub
Today, the Department of Defense awarded the 14th Manufacturing USA NNMI-National Network of Manufacturing Innovation Program institute – the Advanced Robotics Manufacturing ARM Innovation Hub. It is the eighth DoD-led institute. The ARM Institute joins the Manufacturing USA network in its collective effort to help revitalize American manufacturing and incentivize companies to invest in new …
Team Led by ME Professor Francesco Borrelli Awarded $3 Million from US Department of Energy
A team led by ME Professor Francesco Borrelli has been awarded $3.33 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy ARPA-E. The funding will be used to develop an innovative Vehicle Dynamics and Powertrain VD&PT control architecture based on a predictive and data-driven approach. The team, which also consists of …
ME Ph.D. Students Sarah Koehler and Negar Zahedi Mehr Win Best Paper Award
ME Ph.D. Students Sarah Koehler and Negar Zahedi Mehr have won the Best Paper Award at the 2016 IEEE 19th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems. The conference is the annual flagship conference of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society and welcomes articles in the field of Intelligent Transportation Systems, dealing with new developments in …
ME Chair Roberto Horowitz Weighs in on Safety of Self-Driving Technology
There are new details out on Tesla’s much-talked-about self-driving technology, which is now under investigation, after a man died in a car crash in Florida. Tesla, based out of Palo Alto, is now under a federal investigation after the death of 40-year-old Joshua Brown, a former Navy Seal and entrepreneur. The crash of a Tesla …
Professor Roberto Horowitz Named New Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering
As announced today by the dean of the College of Engineering, Shankar Sastry, effective on December 1, 2015, ME Professor Roberto Horowitz will be stepping into the role of chair for the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The current chair, ME Professor David Dornfeld, will be moving to his role as the faculty director of the Jacobs …