Jacobs School faculty, student earn Integrity Awards
Four Jacobs School of Engineering faculty and one graduate student were named Integrity Champions at the UC San Diego 2021 Integrity Awards. They were among the nine recipients across campus honored...
View ArticleJacobs School faculty, lecturers named Distinguished Teachers
Three members of the Jacobs School community were selected to receive Distinguished Teaching Awards from the UC San Diego Academic Senate. The prestigious Distinguished Teaching Award is bestowed upon...
View ArticleUC San Diego computer scientist wins UC San Diego Chancellor's Dissertation...
UC San Diego computer science PhD student Zexiang Xu has been selected as this year's Chancellor's Dissertation Medal recipient within the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. Xu is currently a...
View ArticleMechanical Engineering Ranks #4 in USA
Congratulations to everyone in our Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department here at UC San Diego. We just ranked #4 in the USA and #8 in the world. This mechanical engineering ranking is from...
View ArticleSloan Scholar Kristen Susuki: keeping our structures safe through better...
Structural engineering PhD student Kristen Susuki is a fourth-generation Japanese American who came to San Diego by way of the Midwest: she hails from St. Louis, Missouri and earned her bachelor’s...
View ArticleISPE hosts Ideathon to bring student projects to life
By Melissa HernandezThe International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineeringstudent chapter at UC San Diego is dedicated to advancing pharmaceutical manufacturing professionals, and educating...
View ArticleUnusual “cool flames” documented aboard International Space Station
A team of researchers, including engineers at UC San Diego, documented an entirely new class of fire aboard the International Space Station. The spherical cool diffusion flames, or simply "cool...
View ArticleNate Linden: Rock climber, engineer, Sloan Scholar
Nate Linden has been curious about how things work for as long as he can remember. From a young kid pretending to be a plumber, to a high school intern developing an app to monitor blood loss during...
View ArticleFaculty assistant in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering...
Lusia Veksler, a faculty assistant in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has received an Exemplary Employee of the Year award. Veksler is being recognized for her service to the...
View ArticleHigh throughput screening of biosensors directly in mammalian cells enables...
by Longwei LiuFluorescent biosensors based on fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET), a microscope imaging technology that uses fluorescent color changes to measure active molecular actions,...
View ArticleJacobs School engineers recognized as photonics Rising Stars
Two Jacobs School of Engineering affiliates were among the 13 researchers recognized by Laser Focus World’s inaugural Rising Stars Award program. Bioengineering Professor Lingyan Shi, and electrical...
View ArticleTeam Internship Program helps alumnus land industry job
Every summer since 2003, small teams of two to five UC San Diego engineering students have been sent out to local companies, tasked with applying their skills and collaborating with each other and...
View ArticleCameron Yenche: a summer of automation
Alpacas, cancer diagnostics, and autonomous trash-collecting robots, oh my! It’s been a busy summer for mechanical engineering student Cameron Yenche, who interned at medical-grade genetic testing...
View ArticleSTARS summer research program goes virtual
The ongoing pandemic didn’t stop students from gaining valuable hands-on research experience this summer through the SummerTraining Academy for Research Success (STARS) program at UC San Diego. Melissa...
View ArticleStudents get hands-on with Summer EnVision Experience
Blake Iwaisako and Zoe Tcheng workin the EnVision Arts and EngineeringMaker Studio A team of five UC San Diego undergraduate students spent the summer developing a device to help TaylorMade Golf study...
View ArticleBioengineering alumna earns SWE Outstanding Collegiate Member award
Recent UC San Diego alumna Elizabeth Heyde, who earned her master’s in bioengineering in 2021, is one of 10 students in the country honored with the Society of Women Engineers’ Outstanding Collegiate...
View ArticleEdward Wang awarded NIH grant for work on smartphone-based Alzheimer's screening
Edward Wang (left), Eric Granholm (right)Edward Wang, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC San Diego who directs the Ubiquitous Data and Computing Lab, has received a grant from the...
View ArticleProfessor emeritus Shu Chien earns accolades, asteroid
Shu Chien, a professor emeritus of bioengineering at UC San Diego, is known as a superstar: he's won the National Medal of Science and been voted into all three National Academies (Science, Medicine...
View ArticleThemed Entertainment Association hosts Wonderland haunted maze
Students in the UC San Diego chapter of the Themed Entertainment Association (TEA) hosted their third Haunted Maze on campus in November. The 500 available tickets to the Wonderland-themed event sold...
View ArticleSiebel Scholar Pamela Duran : understanding and preventing pelvic floor...
By: Kiran KumarPamela DuranUC San Diego bioengineering PhD student Pamela Duran recently received an award for best doctoral basic science research from the American Urogynecologic Society (AUGS) for...
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