Research Expo 2013 Winners
And the winner of the top prize at Research Expo 2013...the Rudee Outstanding Poster Award ...(drum roll)Poster #182: A BIOMIMETIC NANOSPONGE AGAINST PORE-FORMING TOXINS Student: Ronnie Hongbo...
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When Engineering Meets Couture and Entertainment
Students from WIC @ UCSD, a women in computing organization here at the Jacobs School, got to meet a UC San Diego alumna doing unique work at the intersection of engineering and art April 14 at the...
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WIC Hosts First Girl's Day Out Outreach Event
The Women in Computing student organization at UC San Diego, better known as WIC@UCSD, hosted its first Girl's Day out outreach event April 20 at the Jacobs School of Engineering.The goal was to...
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Faculty Startups Nominated for Innovation Awards
Mushroom Networks and app2you.comm, two local startups founded by UC San Diego Jacobs School engineering faculty, have been nominated for the San Diego Business Journal’s Innovation Awards 2013....
View ArticleJacobs School in the Spotlight on the Yahoo On Campus Blog
The Jacobs School of Engineering was in the spotlight on Yahoo's academic relations blog yoncampus.com twice in April. The blog highlighted a visit where researchers from Yahoo! Labs met with various...
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Postcards from the FRONTIERS OF SCIENCE
Postcards from the FRONTIERS OF SCIENCE...that's the name of a new blog from Janelle Shane, an electrical engineering graduate student here at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. Janelle is...
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Junkyard Derby, Rain or Shine
The big storm system that drenched most of San Diego County didn't stop 46 teams from taking part in this year's Junkyard Derby May 6 on Peterson Hill. This year's winners were team Premium Motion....
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The Fastest Car in the Price Center Ballroom
Teams from across Southern California competed in IEEE's Viacar contest April 28 in the Price Center Ballroom on the UC San Diego campus. First place and second place went to two UCLA teams. UC San...
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Alexander Vardy Named Jack Keil Wolf Chair in Electrical Engineering.
Electrical engineering Professor Alexander Vardy, a renowned researcher in information and coding theory, has been appointed as the first Jack Keil Wolf Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering at the...
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Entrepreneur Challenge / Register Now to Attend our Business Plan Finals
Two Business Plan competitions run by The UC San Diego Entrepreneur Challenge are coming up soon. Register (at no charge) for these great events via the links below and get the pulse of the innovation...
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(Electronic) Mice Go Head to Head at the Jacobs School
What pitted a green giant against an anteater at the Jacobs School of Engineering May 12? Why the 2013 California Micromouse Competition, organized by the UC San Diego chapter of IEEE. The mice's...
View ArticleWacky Triton 5K Promo Video
Check out the Triton 5K promo video...it's not the usual, garden-variety promo video.And if you thinking about doing the run...or getting into running in general and havn't read Born to Run, it's a...
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Computer Science Student Wins Outstanding Graduate Student Leader Award
Sarah Esper, a graduate student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, has won an Outstanding Graduate Student Leader award from the UC San Diego Graduate Student Association.The award...
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Associate Dean Charles Tu Awarded Honorary Doctorate
Electrical Engineering Professor Charles W. Tu has been awarded an honorary doctorate of engineering at Linköping University. At the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, Tu serves as Associate...
View ArticleBliss Buzzer in the San Diego Union Tribune / Watch the Video
Ramesh Rao guides UT San Diego reporter Gary Robbins through a demo of the Blizz Buzzer project.Keep up with the latest Bliss Buzzer happenings on their Facebook page or on the Bliss Buzzer twitter...
View ArticleThree Graduate Students Vie for UC San Diego Entrepreneur Challenge Prizes
Three Jacobs School graduate students will be in the spotlight tomorrow during the finals of the UC San Diego Entrepreneur Challenge.Inanc Ortac, who won second place back in 2011 and won the 2012...
View ArticleUCSD Coordinated Robotics Lab develops new technologies for robotic fire...
Update 06/06/13: Our firefighting robot has been getting quite a big of media attention in the past few days, including:c|net...
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$18.5 Million Alumni Gift to Computer Science
An $18.5 million gift from a UC San Diego alumnus will set the computer science and engineering department on a new course into the future, funding new faculty endowed chairs, top-of-the-line teaching...
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Engineering Superheroes at the Jacobs School
On Saturday June 1, the Jacobs School’s Team Internship Program (TIP) and the Gordon Engineering Leadership Center hosted “Engineering Superheroes” – an event that served as a TIP training day and...
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This Week @ UC San Diego / Great News for CSE / Biggest Alumni Gift to UC San...
Great news for CSE. And thanks so much to our incredibly generous anonymous alumni donor, who is making this transformation of the computer science department possible. Read the full story here at This...
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