March 19, 2026
March 19, 2026 —
Engineering and visual arts students channeled and evoked emotions through robots they created as part of an experimental Creative Robotics course at UC San Diego.
March 11, 2026
March 11, 2026 —
A scalable, automated grading system designed to provide students with intelligent feedback on their work while freeing up instructor time for in-person student support was recognized with the inaugural Award for Outstanding Teaching Innovation from the Jacobs School of Engineering.
February 17, 2026
February 17, 2026 —
Advances in ultrasound — the same imaging technology that uses sound waves to allow doctors to monitor babies in utero — are being applied by engineers at UC San Diego to make railroad track inspection more effective.
January 12, 2026
January 12, 2026 —
Engineers at UC San Diego have developed a new data structure and compression technique that enables the field of pangenomics to handle unprecedented scales of genetic information.
December 16, 2025
December 16, 2025 —
Eleven UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering undergraduate programs ranked in the Top 10 among U.S. public engineering schools in 2025. This excellence extends across the School, and our students soar each and every day. From building electric aircraft to autonomous underwater vehicles, scoring high-performance computing wins and landing prestigious internships and jobs, Jacobs School of Engineering undergraduates had another incredible year.
November 24, 2025
November 24, 2025 —
More than 200 leaders from government, industry, national labs and academia gathered at UC San Diego on Nov. 13, 2025 for the first statewide convening to accelerate California’s fusion energy economy.
November 12, 2025
November 12, 2025 —
UC San Diego has been selected to lead a new multi-institution research effort aimed at solving materials, fuel, diagnostic and workforce challenges required to make clean, affordable fusion energy a commercial reality.
October 30, 2025
October 30, 2025 —
In a first-of-its-kind test, engineers at UC San Diego are experimenting with large, mobile batteries to both charge electric construction vehicles, and also support a more resilient electric grid.
September 19, 2025
September 19, 2025 —
Five engineering graduate students at UC San Diego have been selected as 2026 Siebel Scholars in recognition of their outstanding academic performance and leadership.
