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Great Turnout for CSE Tutor Reunion

UC San Diego is really second home. That was the word from many of the 170 alumni of the computer science tutor program who got together on a somewhat chilly Friday afternoon in the Bear Courtyard for...

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Electrical Engineering Grad Student Christian Venerus Finalist in Broadcom...

Electrical Engineering Grad Student Christian Venerus Finalist in Broadcom Foundation University Research CompetitionChristian Venerus, an electrical engineering graduate student from electrical and...

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Jacobs School of Engineering Undergraduate Education Overview Videos 2013 /...

Below are the Jacobs School of Engineering overview talks that Interim Dean Juan C. Lasheras gave to prospective undergraduate students in  Bioengineering and NanoEngineering in April 2013 at Triton...

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Friday, June 21, 2013 Jacobs School of Engineering Undergraduate Education...

Below is video of the overview of the Jacobs School of Engineering that Jacobs School of Engineering Interim Dean Juan C. Lasheras gave to prospective undergraduate students in Mechanical &...

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Jacobs School of Engineering Overview / Triton Day 2013 / CSE and ECE

Below is video of the overview of the Jacobs School of Engineering that Interim Dean Juan C. Lasheras gave to prospective undergraduate students in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) and Electrical...

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Jacobs School Alum Designs LEGO's New Mars Rover

Stephen Pakbaz, who earned a master's in mechanical engineering in 2007 from the Jacobs School, can now add another prestigious item to his resume: LEGO will start manufacturing a replica of the...

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Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society to Honor Professor Marc A. Meyers...

The Minerals Metals and Materials Society (TMS) will honor Marc A. Meyers, a materials science professor at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering at their annual meeting in February 2014...

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Start-Up Co-Founded by CS Ph.D. Students Featured in Forbes

"A Star is Born at the Googleplex:" that was the headline on a story on the Forbes website highlighting computer science Ph.D. student Sarah Esper and ThoughtSTEM, the start-up she co-founded. Esper...

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Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society to Honor Dr. Michael I. Baskes with...

The Minerals Metals and Materials Society (TMS) will honor Michael I. Baskes, an adjunct professor in the department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of...

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UC San Diego Entrepreneur Challenge Business Plan Winners 2013

Congratulations to all the winning teams in the 2013 UC San Diego Entrepreneur Challengebusiness plan competition. Read Bruce Bigelow’s roundup over at Xconomy San Diego. Presentation videos from the...

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A Telescope for the Eye: New contacts may improve sight for macular...

That's the title of a press release describing new research from UC San Diego electrical engineering professor Joseph Ford, and UC San Diego electrical engineering PhD alumnus Eric Tremblay, who is now...

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Media Zooms In on New Telescopic Contact Lens

New research led by UC San Diego electrical engineering professor Joseph Ford and UC San Diego alumnus Eric Tremblay is getting a lot of media attention including stories in CBS News, Smithsonian.com,...

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Engineering Students Learn About Mathematical Beauty in Rome

How did the Romans use geometry to design the Colosseum? How does an aqueduct work? What engineering principles were used to build the Pantheon's dome?These were some of the questions that students...

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Two Electrical Engineering Profs Land Awards from Yahoo! Labs

Two electrical engineering professors from the Jacobs School of Engineering, Gert Lanckriet and Nuno Vasconcelos, have won spots in the 2013 Yahoo! Faculty Research and Engagement Program (FREP). Check...

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Albert Pisano Named Dean of UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering

UC San Diego has named professor Albert P. (Al) Pisano, a highly accomplished mechanical engineer from UC Berkeley, as the next dean of the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. Pisano’s...

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Making Buildings Safer During an Earthquake

Drivers heading north on I-15 around Pomerado Road might have noticed a four-story wooden structure standing tall on the right side of the road. These drivers do not know it, but they're actually...

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Computer Science Alums Help Launch Sustainability Reporting Software Startup

A pair of computer science alumni from the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering are part of the leadership team for GreenBox, Inc., a software startup for sustainability reporting.Lance Onken is...

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Wave Frozen in Time / Have you seen the video?

In less than 48 hours, the video illustrating the "static pipeline wave" paper in the journal Experiments in Fluids already has more than 23,000 views. As an added bonus, the video gives you a chance...

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Undergraduates in Space! Well, in Microgravity on a NASA Plane

A team of undergraduates from the Jacobs School got to fly in zero-G over the weekend on a special NASA plane. They were studying how biofuels burn in space. Their research could lead to better fire...

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High School Students Put on One of a Kind Robotic Art Show

Robots can make art--if programmed properly. That's one of the lessons about 20 students from all over California learned this summer at the Jacobs School. They also learned to program in Python.The...

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