Group Member Awards
- Sam Leventini - STLE Northern California Section Research Scholarship, 2/2024
- Professor Martini - Ralph Beard Memorial Academic Award, National Lubricating Grease Institute, 6/2023
- Fahkrul Bhuiyan, Abhishek Kumar, and Muztoba Rabbani - UC Merced 2023 GradSlam Finalists, 3/2023
- Professor Martini - Jacob Wallenberg Foundation Award, Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, 2/2023
- Professor Martini - NLGI Author Award, National Lubricating Grease Institute, 6/2022
- Sergio Romero Garcia - 2nd Place, Student Poster Competition, 2022 STLE Annual Meeting, 5/2022
- Professor Martini - UC Merced Senate Distinction in Research Award, 5/2022
- Karen Mohammadtabar - UC Merced 2022 GradSlam Finalist, 3/2022
- Professor Martini - STLE P.M. Ku Award, 2/2022
- Fakhrul Bhuiyan - STLE Northern California Section Research Scholarship, 2/2022
- Mohammad Vazirisereshk - Lubricants 2021 Best Paper Award, 7/2021
- Professor Martini - UC Merced Senate Excellence in Faculty Mentorship Award, 5/2021
- Daniel Sanchez Garrido - STLE Northern California Section Research Scholarship, 2/2021
- Azhar Vellore - 1st Place, Web Seminar Series on Tribology Twitter Poster Conference, 6/2020
- Quanpeng Yang - 3rd Place, Web Seminar Series on Tribology Twitter Poster Conference, 6/2020
- Professor Martini - Fellow of the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers, 3/2020
- Pawan Pawar and Professor Martini - STLE 2020 Edmond E. Bisson Award (Best Paper Award), 2/2020
- Pawan Pawar - STLE Northern California Section Research Scholarship, 2/2020
- Karen Mohammadtabar - STLE Northern California Section Research Scholarship, 2/2020
- Pawan Panwar, Michelle Len, Professor Martini - Best Paper Award, ASME/Bath Symposium on Fluid Power and Motion Control 2019, 11/2019
- Arash Khajeh - UC Merced Spring 2019 Mechanical Engineering Dissertation Fellowship, 11/2019
- Rimei Chen - STLE Northern California Section Research Scholarship, 5/2019
- Mohammad Vazirisereshk - STLE Northern California Section Research Scholarship, 5/2019
- Rimei Chen - 2nd Place, Student Poster Competition, 2018 Tribology Frontiers Conference, 10/2018
- Professor Martini and Tevis Jacobs - ASME Lloyd Hamilton Donnell Applied Mechanics Reviews Paper Award, 11/2018
- Mohammad Vazirisereshk - Gordon Research Seminar Presentation Award, Gordon Research Conference on Tribology, 6/2018
- Azhar Vellore - 1st Place, Student Poster Competition, 2018 STLE Annual Meeting, 5/2018
- Michelle Len - 3rd Place, Student Poster Competition, 2018 STLE Annual Meeting, 5/2018
- Professor Martini - UC Merced Senate Faculty Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award, 4/2018
- Michelle Len - UC Merced 2018 GradSlam Campus-Wide Second Place, 4/2018
- Michelle Len - UC Merced 2018-2019 Graduate Student Opportunity Program Fellowship, 2/2018
- Arash Khajeh - STLE Northern California Section Research Scholarship, 12/2017
- Azhar Vellore - STLE Northern California Section Research Scholarship, 12/2017
- Mohammad Vazirisereshk - 2nd Place, Student Poster Competition, 2017 STLE Annual Meeting, 5/2017
- Carter Brown - Oustanding Student Award, 5/2017
- Edgar Lozano - Oustanding Student Award, 5/2017
- Xiaoli Hu - Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad, 4/2017
- Xiaoli Hu - UC Merced Spring 2017 Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, 1/2017
- Michelle Len - Northern California STLE Section Research Scholarship, 11/2016
- Uma Ramasamy and Xiaoli Hu - 3rd Place, BASF Science Competition, 9/2016
- Rimei Chen - 2nd Place, Student Poster Competition, 2016 STLE Annual Meeting, 5/2016
- Michelle Len - 2nd Place, Student Poster Competition, 2016 STLE Annual Meeting, 5/2016
- Professor Martini - UC Merced Senate Award for Distinguished Graduate Teaching/Mentorship, 5/2016
- Shelby Skelton - Oustanding Student Award, 5/2016
- Zhijiang Ye - Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad, 4/2016
- Nicholas Walters - Finalist, UC Merced Distinguished Leadership Award, 4/2016
- Zhijiang Ye - Finalist, UC Merced Legacy Award, 4/2016
- Carter Brown - School of Engineering Winner, UC Merced Undergraduate Research Poster Competition, 3/2016
- Michelle Len - 2nd Place, Student Poster Competition, Tribology Frontiers Conference, 10/2015
- Sean Lantz - Northern California STLE Section Research Scholarship, 10/2015
- Xiaoli Hu - Northern California STLE Section Research Scholarship, 10/2015
- Hongyu Gao - UC Merced Spring 2016 Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, 5/2015
- Zhijiang Ye - UC Merced Fall 2015 Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, 4/2015
- Uma Ramasamy - UC Merced 2015-2016 Graduate Student Opportunity Program Fellowship, 4/2015
- Professor Martini - Sigma Xi (UC Merced chapter) Young Investigator Award, 3/2015
- Zhijiang Ye - Northern California STLE Section Research Scholarship, 10/2014
- Uma Ramasamy - 1st Place, Student Poster Competition, 2014 STLE Annual Meeting, 5/2014
- Xiaoli Hu - 1st Place, Student Poster Competition, 2014 STLE Annual Meeting, 5/2014
- Hongyu Gao - STLE Student Travel Award, 2014 STLE Annual Meeting, 4/2014
- Hongyu Gao - Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad, 4/2014
- Professor Martini - Finalist, UC Merced Outstanding Adviser Award, 4/2014
- Zhijiang Ye - 3rd Place, American Vacuum Society 60 Art Zone Contest, 11/2013
- Uma Ramasamy - Northern California STLE Section Research Scholarship, 10/2013
- Hongyu Gao - Northern California STLE Section Research Scholarship, 10/2013
- Hongyu Gao - 2nd Place, Student Poster Competition, 2013 STLE Annual Meeting, 5/2013
- Zhijiang Ye - STLE Student Travel Award, 2013 STLE Annual Meeting, 4/2013
- Zhijiang Ye - 1st Place, Student Poster Competition, 2012 STLE Annual Meeting, 5/2012
- Yalin Dong - 2012 STLE Chicago section scholarship, 5/2012
- Professor Martini - ASME Burt L. Newkirk Award, 5/2012
- Xiawa Wu - STLE Nanotribology Technical Committee NSF travel award, 4/2012
- Yalin Dong - STLE Nanotribology Technical Committee NSF travel award, 4/2012
- Yalin Dong - Ward A. Lambert Graduate Teaching Fellowship - Purdue University, 1/2012
- Yalin Dong - American Vacuum Society Student Travel Award, 11/2011
- Zhijiang Ye - 1st Place, Student Poster Competition, 2011 ASME/STLE International Joint Tribology Conference, 10/2011
- Uma Ramasamy - Top Research Poster, 2011 SURF Research Symposium 8/2011
- Ajay Vadakkepatt - 2nd Place, Student Poster Competition, 2011 STLE Annual Meeting 5/2011
- Yalin Dong - 3rd Place, Student Poster Competition, 2011 STLE Annual Meeting 5/2011
- Ajay Vadakkepatt - 1st Place, Student Poster Competition, 2010 ASME/STLE International Joint Tribology Conference, 10/2010
- Yalin Dong - 2nd Place, Student Poster Competition, 2010 ASME/STLE International Joint Tribology Conference, 10/2010
- Yalin Dong - STLE Student Travel Award, 2009 ASME/STLE International Joint Tribology Conference, 9/2009
- Jose Garcia - 2009 Graduate Student Mentor of the Summer, 8/2009
- Jose Garcia - NSF CMMI Research and Innovation Conference Travel Grant, 6/2009
- Jose Garcia - Otto Maha Fluid Power Education Fundation Scholarship, 6/2009
- Ajay Vadakkepatt - STLE Student Travel Award, 2009 STLE Annual Meeting 5/2009
- Hildur Gylfadottir - Purdue Women in Engineering Travel Grant sponsored by Lockheed Martin, 5/2009