#ILookLikeAnEngineer: Mary Graves
Meet Mary, a graduating chemical engineer who is not only a MARC U-STAR Awardee, but also a Gordon Scholar and has interned at the National Institutes of Health in neuropharmacology. Mary...
View ArticleUC San Diego to Launch Institute for the Global Entrepreneur June 2
Join us for a symposium and entrepreneur showcase on June 2 to launch the UC San Diego Institute for the Global Entrepreneur. The Institute is a collaboration between the UC San Diego Jacobs School of...
View ArticleEngineering World Health Presents Low-Cost HIV Monitoring System at TEDxUCSD
Last weekend at the TEDxUCSD event, Co-President Yajur Maker and Mechanical Lead Alan Loi of the Engineering World Health Organization presented their Low-Cost HIV Monitoring System. The organization...
View ArticleTriton rocket club sets new record for altitude in flight
The Triton Rocket Club (TRC) at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering set a record this past weekend when they sent their Astraeus rocket soaring 28,000 feet into the desert sky.The flight sets...
View ArticleIlluminating Your Movement: Entrepreneur Showcases Lighting Company at...
Dancer and handstand instructor Tammuz Dubnov graduated from UC Berkeley at the age of 18; now at the age of 21, he runs a successful lighting company, all while working on his masters degree in...
View ArticlePh.D. alum helps make robotics and programming accessible
As a Ph.D. student at the Jacobs School of Engineering, Nick Morozovsky built many robots, including SkySweeper, a power line inspector, and Switchblade, a roving and balancing robot. And he worked on...
View ArticleEngineering alumna, now on San Diego city council, honroed by UCSD Alumni
San Diego City Council President SHERRI LIGHTNER, REVELLE ’72, M.S. ’78, a licensed mechanical engineer turned public official, believes that you sometimes need to break things to make them better. “If...
View ArticleTurning Engineers into Change Makers
Drive innovation from concept to commercialization – that’s the goal of one of the first initiatives – a four-course management training program for engineering students - of the new Institute of the...
View ArticleCold Formed Steel Framing: a factsheet
Source: CEMCO Steel FramingCold Formed Steel Framing (CFS)CFS, produced by CEMCO Steel Framing, is ideally suited to midrise construction in high seismic areas for a variety of reasons. Importantly,...
View ArticleGordon Center Presents Adventures of an Industrial Physicist
On May 20th, The Gordon Engineering Leadership Center hosted Dr. Jonathan Arenberg for their quarterly forum. The forum took place in the Powell-Focht Bioengineering Building ground floor. Dr. Arenberg...
View ArticleUC San Diego Hosts Maker Space Symposium
Panel of experts from the Maker community at the Southern California InnovationMaker3 SymposiumThe Southern California InnovationMaker3 Symposium was held at the Jacobs School of Engineering at the...
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On May 26, the von Liebig Entrepreneurism Center successfully completed its third year and seventh Cohort as an NSF I-Corps site. To celebrate, the Center threw a reception for all the students,...
View ArticleHigh school student researchers develop early detection test for ovarian cancer
Two students in a UC San Diego bioengineering lab are on the verge of a medical breakthrough -- and they're only in high school. Meet Gitanjali and Priyanka Multani, inventors of a new test for early...
View ArticleUC San Diego Students Fabricate Device to Protect Seniors from a Fall
The AirSave team demonstrated their device during their presentation at the electrical engineering design competition in JuneFalls are the leading cause of death from injury among people 65 and older...
View ArticleYear in Review: Engineers for a Sustainable World
From solar energy to water waste management, Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) projects are making an impact on our planet. ESW at UC San Diego creates more sustainable, socially and economically...
View ArticleCurbing the HIV Epidemic: UC San Diego Students Design Low-Cost HIV Viral...
A group of students from the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California San Diego will spend the summer trying to curb the HIV epidemic in Tijuana, Mexico. Two teams from UC San...
View ArticleHighlights from the 2016 UC San Diego Center for Visual Computing Retreat
UC San Diego held its first annual Center for Visual Computing Retreat May 20-21, 2016. Faculty members of the Center reviewed the work that has been done since it’s opening in 2015. The Center was...
View ArticleFudan University and UC San Diego hold joint nanotechnology workshop
On July 12, Fudan University and the University of California San Diego held their first joint Workshop on Nanomaterials and Nanoengineering. The event featured a full day of presentations on cutting...
View ArticleTransfer students take part in Transfer PrEP 2016
2016 Transfer PrEP studentsFrom July 20 – July 22, 2016, transfer students admitted to the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering for Fall 2016 took part in Transfer PrEP, a three day orientation...
View ArticleToo drunk to drive? This wearable gadget will tell you
A temporary tattoo that can be used to keep track of how drunk you are has become one of the hottest gadgets in the news this past week. The device was developed by researchers in the UC San Diego...
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