Department of Applied Electrophysics founded, following first engineering faculty arrival in 1964, with emphasis on applied physics and integration of areas from physical sciences and engineering
Ionospheric radio scientist Henry G. Booker appointed Chair of Applied Electrophysics; Booker previously elected Fellow of IEEE (1953) and member, National Academy of Sciences (1960)
First annual watermelon drop by freshman class and Associated Students
MIT professor Irwin Jacobs turns down faculty position in Applied Electrophysics offered by Henry Booker (his former undergraduate professor at Cornell), but two days later reconsiders and begins teaching Fall quarter
13 professors in inaugural faculty in Department of Applied Electrophysics
Booker assembles a group of ionospheric physicists including Jules Fejer, Hannes Alfven, Ian Axford, Kenneth Bowles and Peter Banks who, together, accounted for 90% of "most influential" papers on the ionosphere (Source: Wesleyan University)
John Muir College established as UCSD's Second College; Applied Electrophysics is housed in Muir College
Scripps oceanographer Gustaf Arrhenius (grandson of 1903 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Svante August Arrhenius) named faculty-affiliate in Applied Electrophysics, and remains faculty-affiliate in ECE today
Construction begins on Central University Library (later named Geisel Library), for occupancy August 1, 1969
Kenneth Bowles appointed Director of Computer Center
Adolf Lohmann joins as Senior Lecturer and then becomes professor in 1968
NSF funds 20-year Solar Wind Project proposed by Booker and Bowles; builds and deploys three large phased-array antennas to measure speed of solar wind using "interplanetary scintillation" remote probing from Earth. Project gave first 3D view of solar wind structure over an entire solar cycle (transferred to direction of Victor Rumsey and Bill Coles in 1969.)
Irwin Jacobs hires Linkabit’s first full-time employee, alumnus Jerrold Heller (PhD ‘69) on same day Neil Armstrong first set foot on moon, July 20, 1969
William A. Coles, first UCSD alumnus (PhD ’69), hired as professor and co-director of the Solar Wind Project with Victor Rumsey. Barnaby Rickett joins Solar Wind Project as researcher - he becomes an AP&IS professor five years later.
Irwin Jacobs hosts week-long visit by father of information theory and mathematician Claude Shannon, named as Honorary Fellow of Muir College
Hannes Alfvén appointed visiting professor; receives Franklin Medal from Franklin Institute, and lomonosov Gold Medal from USSR Academy of Sciences
AP&IS faculty size rises to 26 members
Lea Rudee awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
Carl Helstrom appointed AP&IS chair; leads Communication Theory and Systems
Adolf Lohmann founds Optical Signal Processing area that later becomes Photonics and Applied Optics
Harvard PhD student Martha Dennis works in lab of Irwin Jacobs while finishing dissertation on computer graphics; later becomes senior engineer at Linkabit
Irwin Jacobs takes one-year leave of absence during 1971-’72 to focus on Linkabit organization
Graduate programs in electronics, computer science, information and communication theory taught by Kenneth Bowles, Ray Fitzgerald, Carl Helstrom, Irwin Jacobs, Adolf Lohmann, Elias Masry, Pieter Schalkwijk
Sing H. Lee joins AP&IS faculty in optoelectronics and applied optics
IEEE Information Theory Society names Jack Wolf recipient of Best Paper award for publications in prior two years
Space scientist Ian Axford leaves UCSD faculty after seven years to become director at Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy (today the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research)
Carl Helstrom appointed Chair of AP&IS
Kenneth Bowles begins development of UCSD Pascal as a computing environment for PCs to teach programming, derived from Niklaus Wirth’s Pascal language (published four years earlier)
Andrew Viterbi elected to National Academy of Engineering
Kenneth Bowles' Institute for Information Systems releases UCSD Pascal programming language and p-System operating system, one of three offered for the IBM PC
Henry Booker elected honorary President of International Union of Radio Science
William S.C. Chang joins AP&IS faculty one year after being elected IEEE Fellow; becomes founder of Electronic Devices and Materials group. He establishes the ECE 136L processing lab for teaching purposes, which turns into ITL, Integrated Technology Lab in 1991 by a group of EDM faculty
Henry Booker honored by students and colleagues with establishment of fellowship in his name at National Academy of Sciences
EECS establishes Irwin Mark and Joan Klein Jacobs Chair in Information and Computer Sciences
Emeritus professor Jules Fejer awarded John Howard Dellinger Gold Medal from the International Radio Union
Professor of applied physics and UCSD alumnus Victor C. Anderson (PhD ’53) appointed EECS chair; later becomes longtime research oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Harry Wieder establishes the solid-source Gallium Arsenide Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) system at EECS
Irwin Jacobs resigns from M/A-COM Linkabit on April 1; on July 1, Qualcomm launched, including part-time faculty consultants Jack Wolf and Henry Booker
CONNECT launched by Chancellor Richard C. Atkinson to be "university-based provider of accelerated support services for high-technology business and university entrepreneurs"
Engineering Building Unit 1 completed as largest building on UCSD campus to date (240,000sf), later named Jacobs Hall
H. Neal Bertram elected Fellow of IEEE
Adolf Lohmann receives the C.E.K. Mees Medal
Larry Meiners, Paul Yu and Art Clawson (then at SPAWAR) plan for the metal organic chemical vapor deposition facility (MOCVD) in EBU 1. The first III-V MOCVD operated in UC is established in the ECE Department at UCSD in 1991
EECS splits into separate departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and Computer Science and Engineering (CSE)
ECE faculty strengths are in communications theory, optoelectronic devices and materials; Computer Engineering undergraduate program jointly operated by ECE and CSE
Victor Anderson retires from University of California's Marine Physical Laboratory (MPL) at Scripps Institute of Oceanography
IBM & CMRR researchers announce that they have set a world record by successfully packing a billion bits of information onto a single square inch of magnetic disk surface, an information density 15 to 30 times greater than the storage capacity of then available computer hard disk drives
Paul Siegel joins UCSD as Visiting Associate Professor and later becomes regular faculty in 1995
Emeritus professor Jules Fejer elected Fellow of American Geophysical Union
Sing H. Lee elected Fellow of International Society of Optical Engineering
Charles Tu completes the gas-source MBE system at UCSD. Tu’s and Wieder’s MBE labs equipped ECE to become the first MBE growth facilitated department at UCSD.
Alon Orlitsky awarded IEEE W.R.G. Baker Award for the most outstanding paper reporting original work published in any IEEE archival publications, magazines, or proceedings
Alumnus Ron Reedy (PhD '83) cofounds Peregrine Semiconductor
Andrew Viterbi honored with Claude Shannon Award by IEEE Information Theory Society
IEEE (Plasma Science) publishes a special volume on Dusty Plasmas to honor Asoka Mendis for his founding contribution to the field
Rene Cruz receives NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award
UC Regents approve design of Engineering Building Unit 2 to house faculty of ECE and AMES departments (currently the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department)
Irwin Jacobs originates letter inviting participation in new wireless center at UCSD (eventually the Center for Wireless Communications)
Division of Engineering becomes School of Engineering
Robert Conn, expert in plasma physics and semiconductors, is recruited from UCLA and appointed Dean at School of Engineering
Bill Coles appointed ECE chair
S.S. Lau awarded Fulbright Scholarship
Tau Beta Psi formally affiliates as California Psi Chapter of Tau Beta Pi, student engineering honor society
School of Engineering begins aggressive growth phase in Information Networks, nearly doubling faculty to 51 in next 10 years; new hires with expertise in photonics, computer engineering, electronic circuits, control, communications and information theory
Center for Wireless Communications (CWC) established with support from wireless communications industry; Larry Milstein serves as the Founding Director of CWC
Pradeep K. Khosla elected Fellow of IEEE
Emeritus professor and Nobel prizewinner Hannes Alfvén passes away at age 86
Shaya Fainman elected Fellow of Optical Society of America
Truong Nguyen receives NSF Career Award
Edward Yu receives Sloan Research Fellowship, NSF CAREER Award, and ONR Young Investigator Award (all within the same year)
In Britain's New Year Honours, former professor and New Zealand space scientist Ian Axford becomes Sir William Ian Axford, appointed by Queen Elizabeth II to Knight Bachelor for services to science
Emeritus professor Andrew Viterbi elected to National Academy of Sciences
Anthony Acampora appointed CWC Director
Alexander Vardy awarded Packard Fellowship for work on coding theory
Lea Rudee elected Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science
Peter Asbeck receives IEEE David Sarnoff Award for work on Gallium-Arsenidebased heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs)
Irwin and Joan Jacobs bestow $110 million gift and endowment to benefit engineering school
IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Award honors emeritus professor H. Neal Bertram for contributions to magnetic recording physics research
Alumnus Vincent Leung (PhD ’04) and Larry Larson finish second in SRC Silicon Germanium Design Challenge at TECHCON 2003 with transmitter IC for 3G W-CDMA
Peter Asbeck named inaugural Skyworks Endowed Chair in High-Performance Communications Devices and Circuits
Sadik Esener elected Fellow of Optical Society of America; Rene Cruz elected Fellow of IEEE
Pradeep K. Khosla and James Lemke elected Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science
Charles Tu elected Fellow of the AVS Science and Technology Society (formerly American Vacuum Society)
Ramesh Rao named inaugural Qualcomm Endowed Chair in Telecommunications and Information Technologies
IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal awarded to Jack Wolf for work on information transmission and storage
Victor Rumsey receives the John Krauss Antenna Award
Alexander Vardy paper on “Algebraic Soft-Decision Decoding of Reed-Solomon Codes” named top publication in information theory of prior two years by IEEE Information Theory Society
Alon Orlitsky awarded IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award" to recognize exceptional publications in the field and to stimulate interest in and encourage contributions to fields of interest of the Society"
Kickoff of $5 million DoD MURI project on space-time processing for tactical mobile ad-hoc networks, led by ECE Prof. James Zeidler
Pradeep K. Khosla and adjunct professor Roberto Padovani elected to National Academy of Engineering
Shaya Fainman shares George E. Brown Jr. Award with Alfred U’Ren of Mexico’s CICESE for collaboration on quantum computing
William Coles elected Fellow of American Physical Society
Yuhwa Lo and Alon Orlitsky elected Fellows of IEEE
Information Theory and Applications (ITA) Center inaugurated, with ECE Prof. Alon Orlitsky as founding director
IEEE Information Theory Society awards Best Paper to Alon Orlitsky and graduate students Narayana Prasad Santhanam (MS, PhD ’03,’06) and Junan Zhang (MS, PhD ’02,’05)
Peter Asbeck elected to National Academy of Engineering
Jack Wolf awarded Aaron Wyner Distinguished Service Award from IEEE Information Theory Society
Alon Orlitsky named inaugural Qualcomm Endowed Chair in Information Theory and its Applications; Paul Siegel named to CMRR Endowed Chair in Magnetic Recording
Bhaskar Rao, Rene Cruz and student Bongyong Song (PhD ’06) receive Stephen O. Rice Prize Paper Award in field of communication systems
Shayan Mookherjea awarded NSF CAREER Award
Larry Larson appointed ECE chair
Shadi Dayeh, a graduate student co-advised by Profs. Edward T. Yu and Deli Wang receives two paper awards from the Materials Research Society, and a Young Scientist Award from the AVS Physics and Chemistry of Semiconductor Surfaces and Interfaces
Stojan Radic and Paul Yu elected Fellows of Optical Society of America
Massimo Franceschetti receives Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award
Paul Siegel receives Best Paper Award from the IEEE Communications Society Data Storage Technical Committee
Paul Siegel elected to National Academy of Engineering
Adolf Lohmann receives the first Emmett N. Leith Medal
Pamela Cosman and Paul Yu elected Fellows of IEEE
Andrew Viterbi receives National Medal of Science from Pres. George W. Bush
Rene Cruz receives the S.O. Rice Paper Award from the IEEE Communication Theory Society and INFOCOM Achievement Award
Shaya Fainman named inaugural Cymer Endowed Chair in Advanced Optical Technologies; Bhaskar Rao named inaugural Ericsson Endowed Chair in Wireless Access Networks
Gert Lanckriet receives SIAM Optimization Prize, awarded by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics every third year to the authors of the most outstanding paper on a topic in optimization
CMRR celebrates 25th anniversary
Ian Galton receives the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Darlington Best Paper Award (with A. Panigada)
Dan Sievenpiper receives the URSI Issac Koga Gold Medal
Charles Tu accepts the MBE Innovator Award, North American Molecular Beam Conference
Paul Yu named inaugural William S.C. Chang Endowed Chair in Electronic Devices and Materials
Gert Lanckriet named one of Top 35 Scientists under 35 by MIT Technology Review; receives NSF Career Award, Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship and Yahoo! Faculty Research and Engagement Program Award
Gabriel Rebeiz and Dan Filipovic receive the IEEE Antennas and Propagation John D. Kraus Award for “an exceptional contribution to the field of antennas through innovation” for their 1993 paper on the analysis of antennas on dielectric lenses
Dennis Gabor Award honors Shaya Fainman; Optical Society of Awards cites Fainman among 50 most published authors in applied optics; Fainman lab demonstrates smallest room-temperature nanolaser to date
Gabriel Rebeiz appointed to Wireless Communications Industry Endowed Chair in Wireless Communication Technology; Andrew Kahng named to Chancellor’s Associates and CAP Endowed Chair in High-Performance Computing
Eric Fullerton awarded AIP Prize for Industrial Applications of Physics for work on magnetic recording media; Fullerton elected Fellow of IEEE
Yuan Taur receives the JJ Ebers Award for contributions to the advancement of several generations of CMOS process technologies
Paul Yu elected Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science
Information Theory Paper Award awarded to Young-Han Kim for “Feedback Capacity of Stationary Gaussian Channels”
Peter Asbeck receives the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Distinguished Educator Award
Shayan Mookherjea elected Fellow of Optical Society of America
Gabriel Rebeiz honored with Daniel E. Noble Award for Emerging Technologies for pioneering work on RF MEMS; IEEE Microwave Prize; R&D 100 Award for Advanced Automobile Radars
IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal awarded to Adjunct Professor John Proakis
Sujit Dey elected Fellow of IEEE
Nuno Vasconcelos receives Yahoo! Faculty Research and Engagement Program Award
Charles Tu accepts IEEE Region 6 Outstanding Educator Award
Shadi Dayeh receives NSF CAREER Award; Drew Hall and Patrick Mercier awarded Hellman Fellowships
Emmett N. Leith Medal awarded to Shaya Fainman by Optical Society of America
Gabriel Rebeiz receives IEEE Antenna and Propagation Harold A. Wheller Applications Prize Paper Award and the Kuwait Prize for Engineering and Applied Science
Young-Han Kim elected Fellow of IEEE and honored with James Massey Research and Teaching Award for Young Scholars
Bhaskar Rao awarded Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair in Information and Communication Technologies
Gert Lanckriet shares in ICML 10-Year Paper Award
Patrick Mercier receives Beckman Young Investigator Award; Boubacar Kante awarded Hellman Fellowship; Drew Hall receives NSF Career Award
