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Expanding early access to engineering courses

October 3, 2024

Expanding early access to engineering courses

Students at a Chula Vista high school now have the opportunity to take an award-winning, hands-on UC San Diego electrical engineering course right at their own school, during their school day. It's part of our effort to expand earlier access to engineering concepts and skills. Full Story


What Is Embodied Intelligence and What Can It Do

September 30, 2024

What Is Embodied Intelligence and What Can It Do

Artificial intelligence might be the focus of many conversations today, but it cannot touch or manipulate the physical world without a body. A group of robotics experts got together at the University of California San Diego to talk about the many ways intelligence could be embodied to interact with the real world.    Full Story


The Enablers of Discovery

September 25, 2024

The Enablers of Discovery

If not for electrical engineering Professor Yuhwa Lo, traffic lights and automobile rear lights would not have transitioned from incandescents to LEDs until a decade later, NASA’s deep space communication efforts might take a different tack, Illumina’s gene-sequencing technology might not have gotten off the ground and flow cytometers and cell sorters, the workhorse for the biotechnology industry, wouldn’t have made it out onto lab benches.  Full Story


Eleven new faculty join the Jacobs School faculty in fall 2024

September 16, 2024

Eleven new faculty join the Jacobs School faculty in fall 2024

The UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering is welcoming 11 incredible new faculty to its ranks in fall 2024. They join a group of nearly 300 faculty, 175 of whom have been hired in the last 11 years, dedicated to tackling humanity’s toughest challenges. Full Story



Incoming ECE Ph.D. Students

The ECE Student Affairs Office is excited to welcome Ph.D. students to the department and share more information about the graduate program. ECE will be hosting virtual workshops along with orientation sessions! For now, please become familiar with the information on this page More info to come soon! 

Incoming ECE M.S. Students

The ECE Student Affairs Office is excited to welcome M.S. students to the ECE Department and share more information about the graduate program. ECE will be hosting virtual orientation sessions and an in-person meet & greet!

Please read the information on this page and down below. We hope to see you there 😊 

Nuria Gonzalez-Prelcic

Robert W. Heath Jr

Paul Jacobs

Noah Rubin

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