October 11, 2018
October 11, 2018 —
It’s one thing to learn about computer vision, machine learning, control systems, neural networks and tools like Python and TensorFlow in lectures, books or videos. It’s another to learn these skills by actually using them to build and test small autonomous vehicles. That’s what students are doing in a hands-on engineering class at the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California San Diego.
October 4, 2018
October 4, 2018 —
Engineers at UC San Diego used wearable off-the-shelf technology and machine learning to predict an individual’s blood pressure and provide personalized recommendations to lower it based on this data.
October 4, 2018
October 4, 2018 —
High school students Angela Mendez and Carolina Martinez spent seven weeks at UC San Diego working side by side in nanoengineering professor Zheng Chen’s lab developing a coating that could protect lithium-ion batteries from overheating and catching fire. They learned how batteries work; what it means to conduct research; what it’s like to be an engineer; and experienced life as a college student.
September 19, 2018
September 19, 2018 —
Five Jacobs School of Engineering graduate students working to improve immunology, cardiac health, blood transfusions and our understanding of the genome have been named 2019 Siebel Scholars. The Siebel Scholars program recognizes the most talented students in the world’s leading graduate schools of business, computer science, bioengineering and energy science.
July 24, 2018
July 24, 2018 —
The University of California San Diego has been awarded $11.3 million over four years from DARPA to lead a multi-institution project which aims to develop electronic design automation tools for 24-hour, no-human-in-the-loop hardware layout generation.
July 11, 2018
July 11, 2018 —
A team of bioengineers at UC San Diego has answered a question that has long puzzled neuroscientists, and may hold a key to better understanding the complexities of neurological disorders: Why are axons, the spindly arms extending from neurons that transmit information from neuron to neuron in the brain, designed the way they are?
June 14, 2018
June 14, 2018 —
On July 2, third-year nanoengineering student Josh Gong will climb inside a 10-foot submarine built by undergraduate students at UC San Diego, hook up to an oxygen tank, and use a bicycle pedal to power the flooded sub through an underwater slalom course at the European International Submarine Races in England. He’ll be racing against 11 other teams from around the world.
May 17, 2018
May 17, 2018 —
Restaurants in the city of Malibu, CA soon will be banned from using or selling plastic cutlery. Last year, the Indian capital of Delhi banned all plastic bags entirely. These decisions are part of a growing concern about the fact that plastic doesn’t just disappear when it’s thrown in the trash—it can take hundreds of years to decompose, leading to long-term effects on the planet and the creatures that call it home.
May 16, 2018
May 16, 2018 —
Undergraduate students from UC San Diego designed and built an extremely affordable solar-powered lantern to provide not only light, but a source of income to a partner village in the Philippines. Their engineering and business savvy earned them the top spot in the Energy and Resources category at the Big Ideas social innovation competition at UC Berkeley, a third place finish at Booz Allen Hamilton’s Ideas Festival, and a spot at the Clinton Global Initiative University.
April 26, 2018
April 26, 2018 —
In 1983, the state-of-the-art in data storage was a 1 gigabyte hard drive that cost $100,000 and weighed 50 pounds. Today, there are 10 terabytes of storage on a single drive at a cost of 3 cents per gigabyte. The UC San Diego Center for Memory and Recording Research (CMRR), which is celebrating its 35th year of groundbreaking research, is responsible for many of the technological developments that enabled this transformation.
