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Meet Phuong Truong: alumna, lecturer, adjunct faculty, education specialist, and mom

June 30, 2025

Meet Phuong Truong: alumna, lecturer, adjunct faculty, education specialist, and mom

Phuong Truong has done it all at UC San Diego: from an undergraduate student in structural engineering, to master’s and doctoral degrees in mechanical engineering and now an adjunct lecturer and education specialist, Truong has been a strong presence at the Jacobs School of Engineering for more than a decade. Full Story


Sensitive Yet Tough Photonic Devices Are Now a Reality

June 25, 2025

Sensitive Yet Tough Photonic Devices Are Now a Reality

Engineers have achieved a long-sought milestone in photonics: creating tiny optical devices that are both highly sensitive and durable. This work could lead to a new generation of photonic devices that are not only precise and powerful but also much easier and cheaper to produce at scale. Full Story


2025 Jacobs School Award of Excellence Recipients

June 12, 2025

2025 Jacobs School Award of Excellence Recipients

The Jacobs School of Engineering will celebrate the undergraduate students in the class of 2025 at its annual Ring Ceremony on Friday, June 13. Six students were selected from the nearly 1,500  students receiving bachelor’s degrees from the Jacobs School of Engineering to receive an Award of Excellence from their academic department.   Full Story


Reimagining RFID: UC San Diego Researchers Develop Award-Winning Real-Time, Battery-Free Sensors

June 10, 2025

Reimagining RFID: UC San Diego Researchers Develop Award-Winning Real-Time, Battery-Free Sensors

UC San Diego engineers' award-winning SenSync system turns conventional RFID technology into a reliable sensing platform without using wires or batteries or requiring calibration. Full Story



Orientation

ECE's 2022 Orientation will be held on Tuesday, September 20th from 9:30-11:00am in WLH 2001. For admitted ECE majors only. Join us!

 

Resources

Please view the Orientation Playlist on ECE's YouTube Channel before Orientation, and check out the campus-wide resources below:

NEW INTL PhD Student Updates

Electrical and Computer Engineering

PhD Program

The information below pertains ONLY to new international PhD students in the ECE Department.  For questions on admissions/deferrals, please contact ECEgradapps@eng.ucsd.edu. Curriculum questions may be directed to your academic student advisor: Teresa Ta (tlta@eng.ucsd.edu) or Begum Asena (basena@eng.ucsd.edu)

B.S./M.S. Admissions

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OFFICE CLOSURE ANNOUNCEMENTS

ECE Advising will be closed on Friday, July 4 for the Independence Day Holiday. ECE advisors cannot respond to email inquiries or process requests during the UCSD closure.

B.S./M.S. ADMISSIONS CONTACT INFORMATION

Graduate Admissions

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OFFICE CLOSURE ANNOUNCEMENTS

ECE Advising will be closed on Friday, July 4 for the Independence Day Holiday. ECE advisors cannot respond to email inquiries or process requests during the UCSD closure.

GRADUATE ADMISSIONS CONTACT INFORMATION

The Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department traces its roots back to the establishment of the Applied Electrophysics department in 1965, under its founding chair Henry Booker. Through a succession of department realignments emerged today’s ECE in 1987, when the then-combined Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department was split into two departments. Since then, ECE has earned a world-class reputation for producing top-notch engineers for industry and academia.

By the Numbers

$38M+

In Research
Expenditures

17,000+

Alumni

2,200+

Remarkable
Students

65

Award-Winning
Faculty