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SEDS Reddit AMA

We are SEDS UCSD, the undergrads that designed, tested, and launched one of the first 3D printed rocket engines. Ask us anything! from IAmA

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Engineer Talks Tech with Congressional Staff in Washington, D.C.

Electrical engineering professor Patrick Mercier demonstrates the temporary tattoo alcohol biosensor and other UC San Diego wearable technologies to Congressional staff members.In the wake of the March...

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Center for Visual Computing papers at SIGGRAPH 2017

Faculty and students from the Center for Visual Computing will present five papers at SIGGRAPH 2017, the premier international forum for computer graphics research this year, held in Los Angeles.Center...

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South 8 Technologies wins Clean Tech prize at UC San Diego Entrepreneur...

A new battery technology that will allow electric vehicles to travel farther on a single charge — with significant improvement in safety and cold weather performance — received the Clean Tech top prize...

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Faculty and students from the Center for Visual Computing will present 12...

Faculty and students from the Center for Visual Computing will present 12 papers at CVPR 2017, the premier international forum for computer vision research this year, held in Honolulu, Hawaii.1. Robust...

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Storify: Missed it? Check out our tweets from graduation 2017!

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The UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering is meeting employer needs in STEM

At the U.S. News STEM Solutions 2017 conference, UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Dean Albert P. Pisano participated in the closing keynote session. Pisano shared the stage with Rep. Scott...

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UC San Diego’s Virtual Reality Club Sees Success in 2016-2017

The Virtual Reality (VR) Club at UC San Diego is a student organization that connects students with the VR industry through networking, workshops, and projects. Their mission is to foster a...

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UC Health Hack Expands Opportunities for Students, Builds Partnerships for...

By Jacquelyn Lim  A few months after UC Health Hack 2017, organizers are still buzzing from the success of the hackaton's first partnerships with Southern California health institutions- UC San Diego...

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Institute for the Global Entrepreneur Hosted First Annual Innovation Award

Audrey OlsenOn June 14, the Center on Global Transformation (CGT) in partnership with the Institute for the Global Entrepreneur (IGE) hosted the UC San Diego Application Student Innovation Contest for...

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Mechanical engineering alumus honored for work on autonomous amphibious vehicle

UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering mechanical engineering alumnus Aaron Burnmeister (B.S. mechanical engineering 2001) has been selected as one of the nation’s top scientists and engineers of...

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One Imaging Agent to Rule Them All

by Heather Buschman, UC San Diego HealthWhen you have a medical scan, it’s usually an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography) or more recently, PL imaging (photoluminescence)....

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Smart Glove Turns Sign Language Into Text

Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a smart glove that wirelessly translates the American Sign Language alphabet into text and controls a virtual hand to mimic sign...

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Alum demos 3D avatar from just one 2D picture

Watch Jacobs School alum Iman Sadeghi demonstrating how you can build a 3D avatar from just one 2D picture by using software from Pinscreen, the company where Sadeghi is VP of engineering. The...

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UC San Diego at RoboCup 2017

Darren Chen, a Ph.D. student in computer science at UC San Diego, had just landed in Japan when he saw ads in the subway for the competition he was going to take part in. "I realized it was a big...

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Gallium Nitride ‘Tangoes’ with Silicon to Overcome Nature’s Material Limitations

Gallium nitride (GaN) is a material that is used for radio and satellite communications in civil and military applications and in solid-state lighting such as LED bulbs. Researchers are also exploring...

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It's dark! And it's the middle of the day!

Jacobs School students, faculty and staff members were among the hundreds of thousands of Americans who traveled to be in the path of totality (when the moon completely covers the sun) for the first...

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Undergraduate Bioengineering Program at UC San Diego Ranks #6 in the Nation...

The U.S. News and World Report Best Colleges guidebook rankings are out today and the bioengineering undergraduate program at the University of California San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering is...

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Better hurricane monitoring with robotic swarms

When: 2:45 p.m. Sept. 28, 2017Where: Santa Clara Convention Center, Expo TheaterWho: Professor Thomas BewleyDirector UCSD Flow Control & Coordinated Robotics LabCharles BerganVP of...

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Combining soft robotics and space technology

Paul Glick, a Ph.D. student at the Jacobs School, got a unique chance to do hands-on at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.Glick, who works in the lab of mechanical engineering professor...

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