December 5, 2013
…earthquakes and how good design can prevent buildings from collapsing. The volunteers then provide students with K’Nex building blocks, so they can create model buildings to be tested on UC San Diego’s miniature shake table – a tool used to simulate earthquakes– worth $30,000 commercially. Built by teams of five…
June 15, 2017
Structural engineering students designed, built, and tested an unmanned aerial vehicle wing as part of a new hands-on class. Structural Engineering Students Design, Build and Test Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Wings Structural engineering students got an opportunity to test their skills at creating unmanned aerial vehicle wings out of composite materials…
December 15, 2017
A hardware security company co-founded by UC San Diego computer scientists has received $2 million in seed funding from Eclipse Ventures to ramp up engineering, sales and marketing of semiconductor design tools to identify and prevent security vulnerabilities.
October 6, 2016
…UC San Diego Blue Line and unveil several newly designed trolley cars for the first time. Each design tells the story of the university—our innovative spirit, our aim to break things better, to create the unexpected and follow the path less traveled.
May 1, 2014
…and Staff Alert: New Design for Student Triton ID Cards From left, new ID card design, current ID card. The Campus Card Office is alerting faculty and staff to be aware that beginning in fall 2014, incoming students will be carrying a redesigned Student Triton ID Card. In addition to…
June 3, 2020
The International Symposium on Computer Architecture is honoring a paper by UC San Diego Computer Science and Engineering Department Chair Dean Tullsen — along with first author Rakesh Kumar and Victor Zyuban — with the 2020 Influential Paper Award for its lasting impact.
February 20, 2020
…Touches the Fashion World Design featured in “Behind Mechanisms” uses garments to demonstrate protein folder. Photos courtesy of Jinghan Zong In the world of fashion, inspiration is born from the ordinary and extraordinary—city streets, nature, architecture, culture . . . and biochemistry? For UC San Diego alumna Jinghan Zong, absolutely.…
November 30, 2012
…(TFs) hierarchy. The findings could lead to new drug designs for mental disorders such as autism-spectrum disorders (ASD) and schizophrenia.
June 29, 2015
…to learn how to design great user experiences and what it takes to design technologies that “bring people joy rather than frustration.” The courses were developed by University of California, San Diego Professor Scott Klemmer, who will begin teaching the sequence of seven online courses on “Interaction Design” on the…
September 10, 2012
Structural and mechanical engineers at the University of California, San Diego, are working together to create blood flow simulations that could lead to improvements in the design of a cardiac pump for children born with heart defects. They hope that the design changes will improve young patients’ outcomes.
