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As an intern for the Jacobs School of Engineering Communications team, I've had the opportunity to do everything from reaching out of my comfort zone when approaching professionals and professors to...
View ArticleThe future of drones: Jacobs School alums weigh in
When Radley Angelo, class of 2015, spent weekends building and flying RC planes and helicopters with his dad and brothers, he never thought he was already building a foundation for his professional...
View ArticleEngineering Student Orgs Table at Annual Engineers on the Green
This past Monday, the Triton Engineering Student Council hosted their annual "Engineers on the Green" event, with over 1,400 students in attendance. The engineering student organizations at UC San...
View ArticleJacobs School engineering demos at the first San Diego Maker Faire
Engineers for Exploration will demo some of their tech at the first-ever San Diego Maker Faire this weekend.Jacobs School engineers are out in force at this weekend's first-ever San Diego Maker Faire....
View ArticleAlums publish second book teaching kids to program inside of Minecraft
A second book on Minecraft modding by UC San Diego engineering and biochemistry Ph.D.s is hitting the bookshelves this fall."Modding Minecraft" is part of the "For Dummies" book series. It is currently...
View ArticleAI stories are everywhere
As we gear up for our Contextual Robotics Forum on Oct 30, I’ve been paying particular attention to news stories tied to artificial intelligence, which seem to be everywhere these days (Google News:...
View ArticleAlumni company shares $2 million grant from NSF to teach kids how to code
A company co-founded by two Jacobs School computer science alums is a partner in a $2 million grant to teach how to program inside of Minecraft to children in fifth- through eighth-grade throughout the...
View ArticleIntroducing the Entrepreneurism & Leadership Mentor Profile Series:...
The von Liebig Entrepreneurism Center is approaching its 15th year of serving the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering as a pathway to innovation and an organization dedicated to teaching...
View ArticleFormer Walt Disney Imagineer brings flexible and surgical robotics to UC San...
A future in which robots can maneuver with high agility, dexterity and precision is not too far away. These flexible robots could one day assist with surgeries, navigate through tight, complex...
View ArticleUC San Diego Researchers Join Top U.S. Innovators In Fueling Nation's Clean...
First-of-its-Kind Clean Energy Impact Fund to Connect Top Researchers With PhilanthropistsIn an effort to bolster the nation's clean energy future,several researchers and centers at UC San Diego have...
View ArticleQ&A with the IDEA Student Center
During the last Jacobs School Student Services Open House, I sat down for a quick Q&A with a few of the staff at the IDEA Student Center (Center for Inclusion, Diversity, Excellence, and...
View ArticleComputer science alumna wins San Diego County Teacher of the Year award
Photo: San Diego UnifiedHuge congratulations to computer science alumna Shirley Parrish Miranda, who won a San Diego County Teacher of the Year award this year. Miranda teaches math and computer...
View ArticleGordon Engineering Leadership Center Welcomes Scholars & Alumni to their...
Every year in the Fall, the Gordon Engineering Leadership Center invites board members, alumni and returning Gordon Scholars and Fellows to meet the new Gordon Scholars. This receptions serves to...
View Article#ILookLikeAnEngineer: Delta Caraulia
Familiar with the #ILookLikeAnEngineer hashtag on Twitter? It started trending back in August 2015 - a San Francisco software engineer inspired a viral online campaign when she faced backlash after...
View Article#ILookLikeAnEngineer: Ryan Collins
Here's the next student in our #ILookLikeAnEngineer campaign. Though this campaign began with a woman facing stereotypes in engineering, we wanted to emphasize that one does not need to be part of (or...
View ArticleIBM partners with the Jacobs School to offer free workshops on IBM...
Representatives from IBM provided a free student and faculty workshop with the von Liebig Entrepreneurism Center at the Jacobs School of Engineering on Wednesday, Oct. 21, to introduce how IBM’s cloud...
View ArticleThe von Liebig Center Concludes 3-Session Medical Device Technology...
The von Liebig Entrepreneurism Center recently concluded a highly successful, three-session workshop on the commercialization of medical devices on Oct. 17, 2015. In collaboration with the Institute of...
View ArticleUNITEC Honduras Signs MOU with the Jacobs School of Engineering
Last week, the von Liebig Entrepreneurism Center hosted representatives from the Universidad Tecnologica Centroamericana UNITEC, Honduras and Agile Solutions who visited UCSD to learn about its...
View ArticleFounders Celebration 2015
Join us as we commemorate the day UC San Diego was founded in November 1960. Celebrate the ways in which our scholarship, community and commitment have created a force for positive change in our...
View Article#TBT: "Grad School" by by Lamdba Style Productions
Back in January of this year, Lambda Style Productions, from the UC San Diego computer science department, posted their tongue-in-cheek description of life as a Ph.D. student in the form of "Grad...
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