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Congratulations to Oliver Htway for winning CAMP award

March 5, 2026
Congratulations to Oliver Htway for winning CAMP award On 2/23/2026, Oliver was awarded by California Alliance for Maximixing Potential (CAPM) in Irvine and placed 1st in engineering category. Plaque photo and poster PDF: Poster PDF: PDF poster (updated) His ...

Osama and Shiang presented posters at the MAE Graduate Symposium

February 6, 2026
Osama and Shiang presented posters at the MAE Graduate Symposium   Friday 2/6/2026 8:30-1pm UCM Conference Center. Second Annual MAE Dept. Graduate Symposium. Osama presented a conprehensive poster entitled "The Interplay Between Control Theory and Optimization" [PDF] and...

Prof. Chen was invited to give a seminar for BLS (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)

February 5, 2026
On Jan. 18, 2026, Dr. Chen was invited to give a seminar for BLS (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics) entitled "An Introduction to Fractional Order Thinking and Roughness-Informed Fractional Order Processing of Complex Signals".  Title: An Introduction to Fractional Order Thinking...

MESA Lab is selected to offer COSMOS track on Digital Twins

February 5, 2026
MESA Lab is selected to offer COSMOS (California State Summer School for Mathematics & Science) track on Digital Twins   See our event website at https://mechatronics.ucmerced.edu/cosmos-dt Event starts on July 5th (Sunday), end on August 1st (Sat.). First UCM COSMOS...

Congratulations to Dr. Derek Hollenbeck for winning Moore Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship

February 4, 2026
Congratulations to Dr. Derek Hollenbeck for winning a Moore Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California, Merced, beginning February 1, 2026. Congratulations! Dr. Hollenbeck runs the CMERI: https://methane.ucmerced.edu/ Derek Hollenbeck earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical...

MESA Lab welcomes new members for Spring 2026

February 4, 2026
MESA Lab welcomes new members for Spring 2026 Oliver Htway, new graduate student working on CH4Drone and (mercury vapor) HgDrone projects.  Jiale Chen, new exchange Ph.D. student working on (FO)CT4ML https://mechatronics.ucmerced.edu/ct4ml Created and last updated by Prof....