UC San Diego has named professor Albert P. (Al) Pisano, a highly accomplished mechanical engineer from UC Berkeley, every bit the adjacent dean of the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. Pisano’s twenty-four hr menstruation of the month begins Sept. 1, 2013. The twenty-four hr menstruation of the month follows an international search for a prominent query engineer to Pb the Jacobs School of Engineering, which ranks twelfth inwards the globe according to theAcademic Ranking of World Universities.
An excerpt from the press unloose from the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering:
“I am honored to hold out given the chance to serve every bit the dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego. The campus is ranked publish 1 inwards price of the populace good. This to me is a big deal. If a academy is non serving the populace good, as well as thus nosotros are non doing our task correctly,” said Albert Pisano, referring to the fact that inwards 2012, for the 3rd consecutive year, UC San Diego ranked showtime inwards the acre for positive affect on the the world yesteryear Washington Monthly’s College Guide. The ranking is based on research, the social mobility of students, as well as commitment to service.
One of Pisano’s novel projects is evolution of an cheap all the same rugged sensor organisation that volition predict landslides inwards the Philippines, a the world where landslides are a deadly, national problem.
“My tube to making a really rugged sensor is miniaturizing it every bit much every bit you lot tin because that gets you lot the stupor resistance. You crunch temperature as well as corrosion yesteryear using slightly exotic materials, which too way the devices demand to hold out modest inwards guild to run on materials costs down,” Pisano explained. Using MEMS, Pisano as well as his colleagues tin brand the sensors sufficiently modest as well as rugged.
Media outlets roofing the announcement:
San Diego Union Tribune online story, July 15.
San Diego Union Tribune impress story, July 16.
San Diego Business Journal story, July 16.
San Diego Daily Transcript story, July 15.
Daily Californian story, July 16. Sumber http://jacobsschoolofengineering.blogspot.com/