Next Generation
September 26, 2022
UC San Diego alumna Deniz Burnham ‘07 reaches for the stars as a NASA astronaut candidate.
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Engineering Undergraduates Use DNA Origami to Target Cancer
February 16, 2017
Engineering students are using DNA origami to fight cancer. Photos by David Baillot/Jacobs School of Engineering Engineering Undergraduates Use DNA Origami to Target Cancer A team of engineering students has a cancer-fighting idea up its sleeve—and the sleeve is nanoscale. The idea is based on a new cutting-edge research tool…
It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a…House?
November 29, 2011
…the Jacobs School of Engineering. A small house landed on top of Jacobs Hall, hoisted by one of the largest cranes in the United States. It was all part of the installation of a new sculpture for the Stuart Collection, which brings site-specific works of art to the UC San…
Engineering a New Biomaterial Therapy for Treating Heart Attacks
April 7, 2014
University of California, San Diego bioengineer Karen Christman’s new injectable hydrogel, which is designed to repair damaged cardiac tissue following a heart attack, has been licensed to San Diego-based startup Ventrix, Inc, which is planning the first human clinical trials of the technology. Christman is a co-founder of Ventrix.
Integrated optics pioneer, UC San Diego professor emeritus William Chang, dies
May 5, 2015
William S. C. Chang, who helped usher the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering into the electronics era, passed away April 25, 2015 in La Jolla. He was 84.
Saura Naderi’s Award-Winning Week
May 2, 2013
…robotics kits for her engineering classes, given advice to an engineering undergraduate about what servos she should buy for her senior design project and met with members of the Junior National Society of Black Engineers chapter for San Diego to review the chapter’s bylaws. But a text message she received…
The Robotic Force Awakens at UC San Diego
January 14, 2016
…San Diego New Experience Engineering Initiative aimed at giving students more hands-on experience The movie premiere was still more than a week away, but Star Wars fever was already peaking at UC San Diego Dec. 9 during the campus’ semi-annual robotics competition. This year, the event was themed after the…
Andrew Viterbi, Wireless Pioneer and UC San Diego Professor Emeritus, Wins Draper Prize
February 18, 2016
…the “Nobel Prize of Engineering”—from the National Academy of Engineering. Viterbi was awarded the Draper Prize “for development of the Viterbi algorithm, its transformational impact on digital wireless communications, and its significant applications in speech recognition and synthesis and in bioinformatics.” The Viterbi algorithm performs interference suppression and efficient decoding…
A Race to Build the Smartest Rover
May 25, 2017
…Build the Smartest Rover Engineering students to compete in Mars Rover Challenge A team of UC San Diego engineering students, called Yonder Dynamics, is part of a race to build the next generation of Mars rovers. Photos by Erika Johnson/UC San Diego Communications The exploration of Martian soils began nearly…
U.S. News Again Ranks UC San Diego Among Nation’s Best Graduate Schools
March 13, 2012
Each year, graduate programs at the University of California, San Diego are highly ranked by U.S. News & World Report, as noted in the 2013 edition of America’s Best Graduate Schools, released today. The rankings measure professional-school programs in business, education, engineering, law and medicine.
