June 15, 2017
…wings out of composite materials as part of a new structural engineering senior design class at UC San Diego. The class, called SE143, includes all three stages of the industrial aircraft wing production cycle—designing, building and testing. As part of a complete revamping of the Jacobs School of Engineering Structural…
May 5, 2022
…evening. Grand prize: Algeon Materials First prize was awarded to Algeon Materials, a startup developing eco-friendly alternatives to plastic. Algeon Materials’s presentation was helmed by co-founder Kim Pendergrass, an MBA candidate at the Rady School of Management. Algeon is a team in the Rady MBA capstone course Lab to Market…
September 27, 2012
New Structural and Materials Engineering Building Brings Visual Artists, Engineers Under One Roof to Solve Societal Problems The new Structural and Materials Engineering building during a standing-room only ceremony. Aerospace engineers and structural engineers are working together to make composite aircraft structures safer. Visual artists are using nanoengineering tools, such…
March 2, 2017
…delivery and more efficient batteries. It’s engineering on a very small scale for a very big impact,” said nanoengineering Ph.D. student and NanoXpo co-leader Chava Angell. Nanoengineering is science and technology at dimensions that are hundreds of times smaller than the width of a human hair. Nanoengineers study the world…
May 5, 2022
…families), UNIGRID (making solid-state batteries accessible on the consumer market), Micronoma (enabling early-stage cancer diagnosis using microbial nucleic acid) and many more. Welfie CEO Dr. Steven Moyo. “Events like Innovation Day are an opportunity to highlight Black and women-led companies front and center, showcasing the critical nature of our technology—poised…
August 18, 2020
Findings from a group of researchers, including a UC San Diego team, show how it’s possible to create a protein “multitool.” Their results provide a deeper understanding of how society can develop new materials with unique properties to solve real-world problems.
October 6, 2020
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have built a squid-like robot that can swim untethered, propelling itself by generating jets of water. The robot carries its own power source inside its body.
June 20, 2012
With a beam of infrared light, scientists have sent ripples of electrons along the surface of graphene and demonstrated that they can control the length and height of these oscillations, called plasmons, using a simple electrical circuit.
November 30, 2017
…example, are working with battery researchers who characterize and modify materials at the nano-scale. One outcome of this particular collaboration is Ocella, a flexible, rechargeable battery startup. Ocella is currently being incubated at the Jacobs School through a new technology accelerator run by the Institute for the Global Entrepreneur. Franklin…
November 17, 2017
University of California San Diego alumnus and Qualcomm co-founder Franklin Antonio is donating $30 million to the university in support of programmatic expansion of the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering.
