UCSD Alumni Gabriel Acero MSSE was Awarded Engineer of the Year
Structural Engineers Association of Southern California ( SEAOSC) has recognized SE '05 Alumni, Gabriel Acero, as one of their Engineer of the Year. He has co-authored numerous technical publications, participated in the design of UC San Diego's famous largest outdoor shake table, and has been a licensed Civil and Structural Engineer with over 25 years of experience in the structural engineering field.
Literally Building Bridges to Learn in New Structural Engineering Class
What does it take to build a small timber bridge that can carry 1000 lbs of weight? Six teams of structural engineering master’s students got to find out during the final weeks of their Advanced Timber Design course this quarter.
SE Department Student Award of Excellence
This year's SE Department Student Award of Excellence goes to Valerie Hope. Awarded in recognition of outstanding service, leadership, and academic excellence, this honor celebrates a student whose dedication has profoundly enriched university life at UC San Diego.
Lin Sun Awarded 2025 Chancellor’s Dissertation Medal for Jacobs School of Engineering
Structural Engineering's very own, Lin Sun, was recognized as one of the recipients of the the 2025 Chancellor's Dissertation Medal for Jacobs School of Engineering. Congratulations!!
Legendary Engineering Entrepreneur Ashraf Habibullah Visits Structural Engineering at UC San Diego
On Monday, April 14 legendary engineering entrepreneur Ashraf Habibullah, Founder, President and CEO of Computers and Structures, Inc. visited the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering for a day with the Department of Structural Engineering.
Celebrating Inclusive Excellence: SE PhD Student Received Diversity Fellowship for the Second Time
Ali Zare Hosseinzadeh, a Ph.D. student working under the guidance of Professor Francesco Lanza di Scalea, has been awarded the Structural Engineering Department Diversity Fellowship for the second consecutive year.
UC San Diego Structural Engineering Alumni Co-Author Groundbreaking Study on Seismic Isolation System for Giant Magellan Telescope
Structural Engineering Ph.D. alumni Dr. Claudio Sepulveda and Dr. Ricardo Bustamante, alongside Professor Gilberto Mosqueda, co-authored a newly published study detailing the seismic isolation system designed to protect the Giant Magellan Telescope — one of the world’s largest telescopes under construction in Chile.
PhD Student Abdoul Aziz Sandotin Coulibaly Wins Best Paper Award at IMAC-XLIII Conference
Abdoul Aziz Sandotin Coulibaly, a PhD student in Structural Engineering at UC San Diego, received the Best Paper Award from the Dynamics of Civil Structures Technical Division at the IMAC-XLIII Conference and Exposition on Experimental Mechanics, held in Orlando, FL.
Assistant Professors Shabnam Semnani and Georgios Tsampras Receive Jacobs School Early Career Faculty Development Award
Structural Engineering faculty members Assistant Professor Shabnam Semnani and Assistant Professor Georgios Tsampras have been selected as recipients of the 2025 Jacobs School Early Career Faculty Development Award for their collaborative research project, Multiscale Mechanics and Fabrication of Additively Manufactured Recycled Thermoplastic Composites.
Professors Hyonny Kim and Mehran Tehrani Lead Esteemed International Conference on Composite Materials
In October 2024, the University of California, San Diego, was proud to host the 39th Annual Technical Conference of the American Society for Composites (ASC) at the Hyatt Regency Mission Bay in San Diego, Calif. The event was co-chaired by UCSD’s own Associate Professor Mehran Tehrani and Professor Hyonny Kim, showcasing the university’s commitment to leading in the field of structural engineering and composites.