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Structural Engineers for a Month
It's not every day that high school students get to build a structure and get it tested on an earthquake simulation table. But that's exactly what 23 students from all over California were doing...
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Video Game that Teaches Java now Available for Windows
An immersive, first-prson player vidoe game designed to teach students in elementary to high school how to program in Java is finally available for Windows. CodeSpells was released in April of this...
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Biosensing tattoos. Wireless electrodes. Fire fighting robots. It was a busy week in the news for the Jacobs School of Engineering. Geert Schmid-Schönbein, bioengineering professor and chair, was...
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She Codes: Alumna Promotes Learning Computer Science for Girls, Minorities
Jacobs School alumna Jennifer Arguello will be in the spotlight Friday, Aug. 9 at the SheCodes conference in Mountain View, Calif. She earned her bachelor's of computer science at UC San Diego in 2000...
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Creating a Community for Incoming Freshmen
They learned slacklining on the beach. They built structures out of KNEX and got to test them on a miniature shake table. They built towers out of spaghetti and marshmallow. But more importantly, they...
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Systems Biology Paper: Story in Process
I'm working on a story about the Nature Scientific Reports paper from the Subramaniam lab in the bioengineering department here at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering.The paper, "Quantitative...
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Flying Over the Fallen Star
Some of you may have wondered why a small blimp was hovering over the Warren Mall last week. It turns out a group of Jacobs School undergraduates were testing an aerial camera platform, attached to the...
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Brain-inspired Computer Architecture
Electrical engineering alumnus Dharmendra Modha is working on a brain-inspired computer architecture at IBM. It's part of the SyNAPSE project.CNET covered the most recent update on this project which...
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Shaking the House Down
It took four tries, but engineers at the Englekirk Structural Engineering Center at UC San Diego finally brought down at four-story structure they had been testing since July on the world's largest...
View ArticleAlum Yoshi Kohno featured on NOVA Science Now
A--very belated--kudos for alum Yoshi Kohno, who appeared in an episode of NOVA Science NOW in October 2012. We found out about the show while talking to a NOVA crew during a test at the Englekirk...
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Chancellor Khosla Visits TIP Team
From left: Graduate students Nick Morozovsky and Daniel Yang, TIP team members Kaylee Feigum, Parry Wilcox, Victor Balcer, Kevin Katz, Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla and graduate student Yuncong...
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Jacobs School Student Writes From Beirut
We love to hear from our students who are traveling and working around the world this summer. So we were thrilled when we got an email from Hani Daou, an electrical engineering major, who is working as...
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Triton Tables With a View
Engineering graduate students and alumni who mingled during the Aug. 26 Triton Tables event here on campus enjoyed some spectacular sunset views from the 11th floor of Tioga Hall. They also enjoyed...
View ArticleJacobs School Robot Runner Up in Maker Faire Challenge
SkySweeper, a robot developed by Jacobs School graduate student Nick Morozovsky, was a runner up in the Road to Maker Faire Challenge. A total of 66 makers entered the challenge. One received a grand...
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Using Bitcoins to Make Illegal Purchases Online May Not Be Anonymous After All
Computer science Ph.D. student Sarah Meiklejohn (pictured) is causing a major stir in the world of cryto-currency and black market transactions. She’s part of a team at UC San Diego and George Mason...
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Robotic Stingray Takes a Dip
It's called the Stingray. It's an autonomous underwater vehicle that can be loaded with a wide array of sensors to monitor the health of marine habitats. And it's being built by a team of undergraduate...
View ArticleStudent leader shares her views about how to get more women in engineering
Meera Ramakrishnan, a senior majoring in computer science, was recently interviewed by email by Gary Robbins, science writer at UT San Diego. Robbins was writing about why there are so few women in...
View ArticleStar-studded line up for cybersecurity forum
PayPal. eBay. Lockheed Martin. These are some of the companies sending their tech leaders to talk about cybersecurity during a think-tank-style event at the Gordon Engineering Leadership Center Sept....
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Adam Engler kicks off fruit fly experiment at High Tech High
High Tech High 11th grader Lizzy Marples practices anesthetizing fruit flies with carbon dioxide in preparation for a six-week experiment led by Adam Engler, a professor of bioengineering at UC San...
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Environmental Engineering at the Jacobs School
Since I was pulling together some basic info on environmental engineering at UC San Diego Sustainability Resource Center, I figured we might as well post the info here as well. If you know if programs,...
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