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UC San Diego’s Formula SAE Team Places 24th Overall at Competition
2015 Triton Racing TeamUC San Diego’s Formula SAE team, Triton Racing, placed 24th overall out of 80 teams at the annual Formula SAE competition, held this year at Lincoln Airpark in Lincoln, Nebraska...
View ArticleRobot developed by UCSD Robotics and toymaker WowWee available to preorder
MiPosaur, a robot born of the collaboration between toymaker WowWee and the UCSD Robotics research group, is now available to pre-order on Amazon.com.MiPosaur is a self-balancing robotic dinosaur and...
View ArticleNominate Your Product for CONNECT’s Most Innovative New Product Awards
Every year, new and innovative products emerge from the Jacobs School – this year alone, we’ve seen everything from smart earplugs to a toy robot that teaches kids to code!Our close partner, CONNECT,...
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Engineers explore the Guatemalan jungle
It's not every day that you get to explore the jungles of Guatemala as an undergraduate or graduate student. But that's exactly what students in the Engineers for Explorations program get to do every...
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Nanosponges offer protection against chemical weapons
Scheme depicting the detoxification of a nerve agent, DDVP, by a nanosponge, which is a red-blood-cell-coated nanoparticle (RBC-NP). Figure courtesy of Professor Liangfang Zhang and the American...
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BMES and its NAE E4U People’s Choice Award Nomination
Biomedical Engineering Society UC San Diego’s Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) is one of the university’s most tightly knit student organizations, featuring a large number of bioengineers and an...
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Boxfish armor inspires researchers
The boxfish gets its name from its boxy shape.The boxfish’s unique armor draws its strength from hexagon-shaped scales and the connections between them, engineers at the University of California, San...
View ArticleJoseph Wang ranks as one of the most cited scientists in the world
NanoEngineering professor Joseph Wang makes the list of the 669 highly cited scientists in the world!Each scientist on this list has an h-index greater than 100. A ranking based on the Google Scholar...
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von Liebig I-Corps Program Expands and Continues At Full Speed
Each quarter, the von Liebig Entrepreneurism Center’s I-Corps program continues at full speed, connecting students with the Center’s business and technology mentors and helping teams get ready to...
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New steroid-based eye drops clear up cataracts
Cataracts cause vision problems and blindness in tens of millions of people worldwide. So far, the only treatment is surgery. Now, new research led by opthalmogologists and engineers at UC San Diego...
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Hackathon Coming to UC San Diego October 2015
Have you heard? UC San Diego will host the inaugural SDHacks competition October 2-4, 2015. We sat down with the event’s organizer, computer engineering student Ryan Hill, to get a sense of what...
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UC San Diego battery research featured in a new ad
Sustainable Power and Energy Center ad. Courtesy of the UC San Diego Advertising Campaign.To help ensure a low-carbon future, batteries will need to do more than charge faster, last longer and cost...
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UC San Diego Startup Invited to First-Ever White House Demo Day
Cocoon CamWearless Tech, Inc., a San Francisco/San Diego startup with its roots in the University of California, San Diego’s Computer Science and Engineering department, was invited to showcase their...
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Entrepreneurism & Leadership Programs Spotlight Series: Regina Caluya,...
Regina Caluya, Chemical Engineering '16From Cebu, Philippines, chemical engineering student Regina Caluya has focused her education and career towards making a strong social impact through science and...
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Kids learn how to program while playing Minecraft at UC San Diego Bookstore...
Computer science alumna Sarah Guthals showed off LearnToMod, the software that she and fellow computer science Ph.D. Stephen Foster developed, today at the UC San Diego Bookstore. The software allows...
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Pulse Fall 2015 is now available
Dear engineering alumni from the Jacobs School, We just published the latest issue of our Pulse magazine. If you’d like to update how we deliver Pulse to you, please keep reading. You have the option...
View ArticleCenter for Visual Computing / Video Conversation with Director Ravi Ramamoorthi
On this edition of Computing Primetime Ravi Ramamoorthi, director of the new UC San Diego Center for Visual Computing and a professor computer science is joined by two other faculty members on the...
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Materials science student wins Acta Student Award
Heemin KangHeemin Kang, a materials science graduate student at UC San Diego, has received an Acta Student Award. Kang is among 11 awardees who were selected for their contributions to papers published...
View ArticleSoft robots developed by Jacobs School engineers featured on SciShow
So Hank Green, brother of "Fault in Our Stars" and "Paper Towns" author John Green, just featured one of the robots designed by Jacobs School roboticist Michael Tolley. He developed with colleagues at...
View ArticleCute or creepy, this robot helped researchers figure out why babies smile
Whether you think it's creepy or cute, there is no denying that Diego-san, a toddler-like robot developed at the Qualcomm Institute here at UC San Diego, became a media darling this past week. The...
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