Breaking the Six-Story Barrier: The CFS10 Landmark Shake Table Experiment
Professor Tara Hutchinson led a first-of-its-kind full-scale test of a 10-story cold-formed steel building — pushing U.S. building codes to their limit and beyond, in pursuit of lighter, stronger, more resilient cities.

Watching for Wildfire: ALERTCalifornia Recognized as a UC San Diego High-Impact Project
ALERTCalifornia — the state-scale wildfire detection and hazard monitoring program based at UC San Diego — has been selected as one of the university's high-impact projects, featured alongside work in cancer detection, air quality monitoring, and wearable health tools as examples of research that delivers real-world outcomes.

Structures That Last: Professor Tsampras Elected SEI Fellow
Spanning seismic resilience, nuclear infrastructure, and aerospace systems, Professor Georgios Tsampras brings a career defined by rigorous fundamentals — and a new recognition to match.

Elected to the Highest Grade: Professor Tehrani Becomes an ASME Fellow
From a first-year graduate student joining in 2008, to one of the most selective grades in engineering — a conversation about research, service, and what it means to contribute to a profession.

Smarter Batteries for Safer Skies: UCSD's Award-winning Approach to Electric Aircraft Thermal Management
A new computational framework uses topology optimization to arrange heat-absorbing and heat-conducting materials inside battery packs — a breakthrough with major implications for electric aviation safety.

Enrique Simbort Zeballos Wins Best Paper Award at ICOSSAR 2025
The IASSAR Awards Committee has honored Enrique Simbort Zeballos with the Best Paper Award at the 14th International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability (ICOSSAR 2025), held June 1–6, 2025 on the campus of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Saeed Khaleghi Honored with SYENSQO Best Student Paper Award at ASC 2025
Saeed Khaleghi, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Structural Engineering, recently received the SYENSQO Award for Best Student Paper in Composites at the American Society for Composites 2025 Conference for his groundbreaking paper titled “Engineered Gaps in Thermoplastic Composite AFP Layups for Enhanced VBO Consolidation.”

Professor Mehran Tehrani Receives Global Mid-Career Award in Composites Engineering
Professor Mehran Tehrani has been named one of two inaugural recipients of Composites Part B’s prestigious Global Mid-Career “Excellence in Composites Engineering” Award, recognizing outstanding contributions to the field of composites engineering at the global level.

Professor Mehran Tehrani Leads International Three-Year ~$1M Grant on "Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) of Thermoplastic Composites"
Supported by the National Science Foundation and the DFG, German Research Foundation, UC San Diego Professor Mehran Tehrani announces a new research grant he is leading.

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.