Jacobs School Alum Becomes CTO of Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering...
Kevin R. Fall, who earned his Ph.D. in computer science from UC San Diego in 1994, has been named chief technology officer and deputy director of Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute....
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Industry Application Areas for Research Expo Posters
New this year at Research Expo...the grad students had the option to tag their posters with one of ten pre-selected industry application areas...or write in their own area.Give the Industry...
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Beauty and the Server Room
We spent about an hour in the server room of the Computer Science and Engineering Building yesterday, looking for that perfect shot of the massive Dell servers. We think we found it--well, more than...
View ArticleLatest US News Graduate Program Rankings for the UC San Diego Jacobs School...
The latest graduate program rankings for the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering from US News are out. The Jacobs School remained #8 in the nation among engineering schools at public...
View ArticlePi Day Video / First 30 Seconds
The first 30 seconds of the 3.14 mile Pi run at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. Photos are posted on the Jacobs School Facebook page.Check out the Pi Run preview story...a wrap up story...
View ArticleCONNECT Video: San Diego: Technology's Perfect Climate
Have you seen the great "They Came Here" video produced by CONNECT?I also like the phrase: San Diego: Technology's Perfect Climate
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UC San Diego Triton Day
April 6 is the second annual Triton Day at UC San Diego! For newly admitted students, Triton Day serves as a chance to learn what it means to be a Triton, and an opportunity to accept UC San Diego’s...
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Gauging the Seismic Safety of Retaining Walls
Researchers at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering are testing a full-scale, 7-meter-tall retaining structure on the world's largest outdoor shake table in March and April. The tests at the...
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Get an Early Look at Emerging Technologies
Get an early look at emerging technologies, new engineering research trends and big ideas, all in one afternoon at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering.Meet potential hires among the 200+...
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Jacobs School Team Competes at Clinton Global Initiative Univeristy Conference
A team of Jacobs School engineering students is competing in a March-madness style competition at this year's Clinton Global Initiative University conference. Supporters have until 11 a.m. (Pacific)...
View ArticleOn-Chip Optical Networking Devices
Information systems now rely primarily on fiber optic networks to connect and share data around the world using photons instead of electrons, but the underlying computer technology is still based on...
View ArticleTattoos to Measure Stamina
By integrating complex electrochemical sensors with simple, fairground tattoos, nanoengineers have created a highly sensitive, wearable biosensor that monitorselectrolyte and metabolite levelsin sweat...
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Alumni Event Sat April 6: Bench to Innovation
Find out what it takes to start your own company!Have you ever wondered how lab technologies and techniques become the next hot commercial product or service? Is there a technology that you want to...
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BRAIN Initiative and UC San Diego
"Mapping the brain is wave of the future."That's the headline to Gary Robbins' story in the San Diego Union Tribune describing President Barack Obama's announcement of BRAIN (Brain Research through...
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Allergen Detection Device
Kevin Huynh, Electrical Engineering graduate student and team lead. (Kevin also earned his undergrad degree here at the Jacobs School.)Jaime Meriwether, NanoEngineering undergraduate and a team lead.A...
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Want to Connect with the Future? Attend Research Expo at the UC San Diego...
Advances in tattoo sensors for health monitoring, on-chip optical networking, low-cost cancer diagnostics, video games designed to teach computer programming, new materials for protecting soldiers from...
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Audacious Speculations
The Audacious Speculations event at UC San Diego will consist of a series of short, performative presentations on research that is so ambitious people often roll their eyes in disbelief, including...
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CodeSpells Creator Sarah Esper is Presenting at Research Expo on April 18
Computer Science PhD student Sarah Esper is one of the creators of CodeSpells, a videogame that teaches kids Java. CodeSpells has gotten a lot of attention recently (press release, CodeSpells blog) ....
View ArticleNanosponge Video
Below is the nanosponge video that we worked on, to go with the press release.Nanosponges Soak Up Toxins Released by Bacterial Infections and VenomThis particular project is one of what is likely an...
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Students disect hard drives, learn about design
From left: Lauren Cwiklo, another student and Nate Delson, a lecturer in the MAE department, look at a hard drive.What's in a hard drive? A lot of lessons in good design, it turns out. That's what Nate...
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