September 13, 2011
The University of California, San Diego has been ranked one of the top 10 public universities in the nation today by U.S. News & World Report.
June 6, 2019
Hannah Munguia, an environmental engineering student, poses in front of spare parts from NASA’s Curiosity Rover during her time as an intern at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. Putting Earth Science Skills to Use…..on Mars Hannah Munguia, a UC San Diego environmental engineering student with an earth science minor, had a…
March 17, 2016
Visual Arts and Engineering Transforming Education in New Maker Studio Visual arts student Jessica Buie holds up an open source hardware logo that she 3-D printed in the EnVision maker studio. Photo by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications Engineers and visual artists are collaborating on final projects, even though they…
February 14, 2013
Engineering Students Develop App to Help Protect Marine Conservation Areas David Drabik co-led a team of students that helped develop a web app for San Diego Coastkeeper. The app will monitor the health of marine protected areas off the Southern California Coast. A team of engineering students at UC San…
April 1, 2016
The EnVision Arts and Engineering Maker Studio at UC San Diego teemed with excitement on the day of the final in an electrical engineering class called Making, Breaking and Hacking Stuff. Instead of a typical test, the class culminated in a cumulative final project – teams of two or three…
November 12, 2020
…earned his undergraduate electrical engineering degree at UC San Diego. That's when the financial pressure hit a boiling point. “I had some financial issues and I thought I couldn’t keep going. I already had a student loan, so it was stressful. Plus, I had part time jobs; I was miserable,”…
November 4, 2011
…the Jacobs School of Engineering during a recent event. Capital comes with instructions. Everything takes π times longer and costs π times as much as you thought. Information only has value when it’s in motion. These are the three rules that govern the interaction of entrepreneurism with technology, according to…
March 20, 2012
…Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering was named 14th best out of 198 engineering schools in the new ranking by U.S. News, and the biomedical/bioengineering program within the engineering school was ranked 4th in the nation. The university’s School of Medicine was ranked 16th in research-intensive programs among 126 medical schools…
June 6, 2013
…Diego’s Computer Science & Engineering into New Era Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications An $18.5 million gift from a UC San Diego alumnus will set the computer science and engineering department on a new course into the future, funding new faculty endowed chairs, top-of-the-line teaching labs, support for…
April 2, 2020
…Diego electrical and computer engineering Ph.D. student, holds a prototype "smart surface" that can be stuck on the wall to improve WiFi connectivity in the home and office. WiFi-Boosting ‘Smart Surface’ Could Help Remote Workers and Students Frustrated with spotty WiFi connection? Engineers at the University of California San Diego…
