
UC San Diego Innovators Aim to Revolutionize Rail Safety by Proposing Award-Winning Non-Contact Ultrasonic Monitoring System
Structural Engineering research group Diptojit Datta, Ali Zare Hosseinzadeh, and Izabela Batista, along with Structural Engineering Professor Francesco Lanza di Scalea from UC San Diego, clinched first place in the ASME Noise Control and Acoustics Division (NCAD) Student Paper Competition during the ASME IMECE Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Diversity Champion: Ali Zare Hosseinzadeh Awarded SE Fellowship for Commitment to Inclusion
Ali Zare Hosseinzadeh, a Ph.D. student working under the guidance of Professor Francesco Lanza di Scalea in UC San Diego's Department of Structural Engineering, has been awarded the Structural Engineering (SE) Diversity Fellowship, recognizing his unwavering dedication to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

Structural Engineering Professor Receives the Prestigious SPIE NDE Lifetime Achievement Award
Michael Todd, Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Structural Engineering at UC San Diego, was recently honored with the Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE).

Swinging into Innovation: TaylorMade Golf Endows UC San Diego Faculty Fellow
Professor Kenneth Loh, from the Department of Structural Engineering at UC San Diego, has been named the inaugural holder of the TaylorMade Golf Chancellor’s Endowed Faculty Fellowship.

How 3D-Printed Concrete Foundations May Revolutionize Renewable Energy Anchorage
To revolutionize renewable energy infrastructure, a dynamic collaboration between UC San Diego's Department of Structural Engineering and RCAM Technologies has emerged.

Georgios Tsampras Leads Collaborative Research Initiative for Natural Disaster Resilience
Georgios Tsampras, an assistant professor in the Department of Structural Engineering at UC San Diego, is spearheading a $397,000 collaborative research effort between UC San Diego and Lehigh University (Co-PI Paolo Bocchini) to bolster community resilience in the face of natural disasters.

Carlos Franco Mayorga Gallegos Awarded the 2023-2024 Nicolas F. Maloof Jr. GA Chapter Fellowship from ACI
UC San Diego Structural Engineering Ph.D. student Carlos Franco Mayorga Gallegos was recently honored with the 2023-2024 Nicolas F. Maloof Jr. GA Chapter Fellowship from the American Concrete Institute (ACI) Foundation.

Newly Released Data Reveals 15 Structural Engineering Faculty as Top-Cited Scientists
Newly released data from the Elsevier Data Repository includes 15 members of the UC San Diego Structural Engineering faculty.

CAREER Award Targets Post-Wildfire Debris Flow Impact on Infrastructure and Communities
Associate Professor Ingrid Tomac has been honored with the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for her groundbreaking research on the devastating impacts of post-wildfire debris flows on civil infrastructures.

UC San Diego Structural Engineering Ph.D. Student Sergio Godinez Awarded 2023-2024 Darrell F. Elliott Louisiana Fellowship from ACI
Sergio Godinez, a Structural Engineering Ph.D. student at UC San Diego, recently won the prestigious Darrell F. Elliott Louisiana Fellowship from the ACI (American Concrete Institute) Foundation.