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Triton Rocket Club wins second place in national competition
Congratulations to the Triton Rocket Club, which placed second in this year's University Student Rocketry Challenge! It's all the more impressive that this was the club's first time in the contest. The...
View ArticleTrillion Sensors Summit is the Week in San Diego
In advance of the Trillion Sensors Summit here in San Diego later this week (Weds and Thurs), UT San Diego ran a Q&A with Albert P. Pisano, Dean of the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering:...
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Jacobs School alums helping to fight illegal fishing in the Persian Gulf.
A company founded by Jacobs School alums and now part of Digital Globe, a leading supplier of satellite imagery, wants your help to fight illegal fishing in the Persian Gulf. TomNod harnesses the power...
View ArticleSand castles, surfing and computation: what drives these two Jacobs School...
Our colleagues at This Week @ UC San Diego asked Geno Pawlak, a professor of mechanical engineering, and Bill Griswold, a professor of computer science, about curiosity, passion and transformation...
View ArticleThis robot won a Popular Science Best of What's New Award
Congratulations to MiP--a partnership between researchers in the UCSD Coordinated Robotics Lab at the Jacobs School and toymaker WowWee--which won a Best of What's New award in the Entertainment...
View ArticleThis earthquake-resistant house was tested on the Jacobs School shake table
Stanford researchers tested an earthquake-resistant house on the shake table at the Englekirk Structural Engineering Center here at the Jacobs School this fall. The house was equipped with...
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Jacobs School engineers helping to find downed WWII aircraft in the Pacific
Aerospace engineering professor Mark Anderson and his students are working hand in hand with oceanographer Eric Terrill at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography to find a missing B-24 in the Pacific....
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Wearable Sensors Center poster session at Trillion Sensors Summit
UC San Diego graduate students working in faculty labs that belong to the Center for Wearable Sensors presented posters last Thursday and Friday at the Trillion Sensors Summit in San Diego. Below are a...
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New DARPA Grant for fabricating metal and semiconductor nanoparticles with...
NanoEngineering professor Andrea TaoAndrea Tao, assistant professor of NanoEngineering at UC San Diego, was recently awarded a 2014 Young Faculty Award (YFA) from the Defense Advanced Research...
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Jacobs School alum wins San Diego startup competition with smart alarm clock...
A team led by Jacobs School alum Nick Morozovsky won the MEGA Startup Weekend event this past weekend at the downtown San Diego Library with Daybreaker, a smart alarm clock that connects to your...
View ArticleNews coverage of the UC San Diego shake table
2014: Project: Seismically isolated unibody residential buildings:NBC Southern California: Quake shake test handles portion of demo of red-tagged El Centro buildingEngineering.com: Stanford Engineers...
View ArticleGhenkis Khan's tomb in Mongolia,bats in Guatemala: Professor, alum discuss...
Ryan Kastner, a professor of computer science here at the Jacobs School, and Albert Lin, a Jacobs School alum and Qualcomm Institute research scientist, have some interesting items on their resumes,...
View ArticleJ.S. Chen elected as the President of Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI)...
J. S. Chen, William Prager Professor of Structural Engineering Department and Director of Center for Extreme Events Research at the UC San Diego Jacob School of Engineering, has been elected as the...
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Awesome pictures taken from more than 80,000 feet above the earth
We are in awe of these beautiful pictures taken by the Triton Rocket Club's space balloon at more than 80,000 feet above the earth.The balloon is the club's testing platform for the electronics they...
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Taking flight
More than 100 students in Mark Anderson's MAE 2 class, most of them freshmen, were out on Warren Field Monday December 8 to take part in a airplane launch competition. The students got together in...
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Cybercrime? It's all about the money, Jacobs School computer scientist says
Photo: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsIt's all about the money, Stefan Savage, a computer science professor at the Jacobs School, says in the Los Angeles Times. “Ninety-nine percent of what you...
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The art and science of engineering
Who said science and art don't go hand in hand? Just take a look at images produced by the research groups of three Jacobs School scientists that were on exhibit at the San Diego Airport last month....
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Engineers Think Business: von Liebig NSF I-Corps Program Launches 3rd Cohort
Mentors, entrepreneurs and students met in the Qualcomm Conference Room on Jan. 20, ready to dive in head first into Phase I of the 2015 National Science Foundation Innovation Corps program at UC San...
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SDK now available for MiP robot developed by UC San Diego and toymaker WowWee
Robotics enthusiasts and coders rejoice! Toymaker WowWee has released a software development kit (better known as SDK) for MiP, the first consumer self-balancing robot that the company developed in...
View ArticleSustainable Power and Energy Center at UC San Diego
The Sustainable Power and Energy Center at UC San Diego has been named one of seven "frontiers of innovation" programs by the campus. One of the big goals of this project is to support...
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