Recent news:
April 2025: Congratulations to Derek Fan for presenting his work on parameter estimation for unmanned aerial vehicles at the IEEE SusTech Conference.
July 2024: David Copp presented at the IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting on the role of energy storage in power system control and estimation.
June/July 2024: Our research group contributed to four presentations at the 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition and one presentation at the 2024 American Control Conference (ACC).
June 2024: Congratulations to Liliana for completing her honors thesis on modeling and control of a self-stabilizing balancing robot.
June 2024: David Copp recieved the Innovation in Teaching Early Career Faculty Award from UCI's Samueli School of Engineering.
__________________________Brief Biography:
David Copp is an Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. He earned his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Arizona and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of California, Santa Barbara. After his Ph.D., he worked on grid integration, analysis and control of grid-scale energy storage systems in a postdoctoral position and then as a senior member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His broad research interests include engineering education, as well as control and optimization of nonlinear and hybrid systems with applications to power and energy systems, multi-agent systems, robotics and biomedicine.
Awards and Honors:
- Dean's Honoree for UCI's Celebration of Teaching (2024)
- Honorable Mention for UCI's Dr. De Gallow Professor of the Year Award (2023 and 2024)
- Honorable Mention for UCI's Excellence in Pedagogical Development Award (2024)
- Innovation in Teaching Early Career Faculty Award from UCI's Samueli School of Engineering (2024)
- Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentorship, UCI UROP (2021 and 2023)
- Professor of the Year in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from UCI Engineering Student Council (2021 and 2023)
- Air Force Research Laboratory Summer Faculty Fellowship (2022)
- Best PhD Thesis Award, UCSB Center for Control, Dynamical Systems, and Computation