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IDEA Scholar: Tania Vazquez
Tania Vazquez learned a lot at UC San Diego—about engineering, and about her approach to life. A first generation college student, Vazquez spent most weekends her freshman year driving back home to...
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IDEA Scholar: Manwinder Uppal
Environmental engineering student Manwinder Uppal was eager to get involved in the IDEA Center before she even arrived on campus. The summer before her freshman year, she saw that IDEA hosted a summer...
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Chava Angell – nanoengineer and science communicator
By Kritin KarkareAsk nanoengineering Ph.D. student Chava Angell if nanorobots are going to take over the world and she might just chuckle at you. It’s a question she fields all the time at...
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$2 million NSF grant to create intelligent, flexible surgical robots
Professor Michael Yip, principal investigator for the grant.Photo by David BaillotElectrical and mechanical engineers at UC San Diego received a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to...
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MEMS Q&A with Albert P. Pisano, Dean of the UC San Diego Jacobs School of...
“As a MEMS practitioner for almost 30 years, I fully understand the need to focus at the device level to ensure that the MEMS design meets SWAP (Size, Weight And Power) and other requirements,” said...
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Association for Computing Machinery attracts over 500 students at its fall...
By Daniel LiMore than 500 students showed up for ACM's Fall Kickoff. Photos courtesy of ACM This year, a new student organization has been rapidly gaining momentum at UC San Diego: the Association for...
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5th annual SD Hacks draws hundreds of student participants
By Daniel LiMore than 750 students participated in the 5th annual SD Hacks.Photo credit: Shirley Guo, Triton Engineering Student CouncilFor 36 hours straight, 143 student teams crammed together at UC...
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Researcher by day, Ironman by night
By Daniel LiBeril PolatNot many people have the willpower to complete a 12-hour race consisting of a 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike and 26.2-mile run. Not many have the smarts and stamina to earn a...
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Students Enspire the next generation of engineers
By Daniel LiMore than 180 high school students came to UC San Diego on Monday, Jan. 27 for Enspire, an annual daylong event for students to learn about different engineering disciplines and how to fund...
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Barrett Romasko: structural engineer
By Daniel LiBarrett Romasko’s path in college has been full of exploration. Romasko, a senior majoring in structural engineering with a focus on aerospace structures, applied to UC San Diego without...
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Metabolic and genetic basis for auxotrophies in Gram-negative species
By Yara SeifWhile some bacteria survive independently, others reduce their metabolic expenditures by utilizing the nutrients available to them in their environment. These bacteria choose to adapt the...
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Mechanical engineer recognized by Society for Industrial and Applied...
Jorge Cortes, a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering has been inducted as a 2020 Fellow by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mechanics.Cortes is being recognized for...
View ArticleJessica Sandoval: graduate student, ROV pilot, researcher
When Jessica Sandoval isn’t building robot components and microplastic detectors at the University of California San Diego, she drives a remotely operated underwater vehicle for an organization founded...
View ArticleDiscovery of High-Entropy Ceramics via Machine Learning
by Kevin Kaufmann and Prof. Kenneth VecchioMaterials are an essential part of our world; they have enabled us to build cities, treat disease, and communicate across the world in real time. For...
View ArticleDispatches from a pandemic: graduate students create COVID virus simulations
By Daniel LiAs it became clear in late February that COVID-19 was not going anywhere, four UC San Diego graduate students were planning their final project for the Numerical Analysis for Multiscale...
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Alumna combines engineering, medical expertise to alleviate PPE shortage
By Daniel LiDr. Aditi Sharma, a UC San Diego bioengineering alumna and resident physician at the UC Irvine dermatology department, is combining her engineering skills and medical expertise to solve one...
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Olivia Graeve's team is "crystal clear" about quantifying crystallinity
UC San Diego engineering professor and materials science pioneer Olivia Graeve’s research team has a new paper out that reports on work that will be used to help materials scientists develop higher...
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Comic-Con@Home features UC San Diego scientists
Saura Naderi, outreach director at the Halıcıoğlu Data Science InstituteComic-Con 2020 may look a little different this year, coming to you from the comfort of your own home. The annual San Diego comic...
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Using nanotechnology for more targeted, safer pesticide delivery
Nanoengineers at UC San Diego will develop more targeted ways to apply pesticides to food crops using plant virus nanocarriers, thanks to a $490,000 grant from the Department of Agriculture’s National...
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NanoEngineer earns Dissertation Year Fellowship
Jacobs School of Engineering nanoengineering PhD student Qiaowan Chang has been awarded a Dissertation Year Fellowship funded by the Marye Anne Fox Endowed Fellowship Fund. This fellowship is awarded...
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