College of Engineering News

Assistant materials professor Daniel Oropeza received the Young Investigator Award from the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers.

Daniel Oropeza receives the Young Investigator Award from the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers.

UCSB PhD students Payton Croskey (left) and Logan Winston received 2025 Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation.

Fellows receive $159,000 in financial support over three years to pursue impactful research.

Katja Seltmann and Dan Oropeza are just two of the many researchers in multiple disciplines whose work will benefit from the new microCT instrument.

The new microCT machine fits right into the longstanding UCSB tradition of multidisciplinary sharing of important instruments.

Source: UCSB Current

Daniel Oropeza, assistant professor of materials at UC Santa Barbara

UCSB materials assistant professor Daniel Oropeza receives a prestigious $1 million grant to pursue research on ultra-high-temperature ceramics.

Lucas Erich, a materials PhD student at UCSB, received a prestigious NASA Fellowship connected to making a mission to Mars feasible.

Lucas Erich will pursue research connected to making a mission to Mars feasible.

Materials assistant professor Daniel Oropeza (far right) and his research group (left to right) Anthony Botros, Lucas Erich, and Logan Winston.

A UC Santa Barbara materials professor receives a junior-faculty award from his peers and a Navy research grant.

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