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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


Electrical Engineer Peter Asbeck is Powering 6G

May 14, 2025

Electrical Engineer Peter Asbeck is Powering 6G

Peter Asbeck is widely recognized as a pioneer in compound semiconductor technology and power amplifiers for wireless systems, both of which are essential to efficient communication in smartphones and base stations alike. He is an electrical engineering professor emeritus and remains active in research at UC San Diego.  Full Story


Self-assembling Molecules Take the Spotlight at Research Expo 2025

May 5, 2025

Self-assembling Molecules Take the Spotlight at Research Expo 2025

Materials science and engineering Ph.D. student Liya Bi won the grand prize at the 43rd annual Jacobs School of Engineering Research Expo for his work studying how molecules organize themselves into highly ordered patterns on metal surfaces. Full Story



2017 Biocom Life Sciences Catalyst Award

Biocom, the association representing the California life science community, today announced the winners of its second annual Life Science Catalyst Awards. The program celebrates up-and-coming entrepreneurs, academics, investors, corporate leaders and business advisers who are making a lasting and positive mark on Southern California’s life science industry prior to reaching their 40th birthday.

IEEE - Imagine Career Fair

Nov 8, 2017 - 9:00 am
Price Center East Ballroom, 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, San Diego, California 92093
IEEE
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Our mission as the student branch of IEEE at UC San Diego is to provide engineering students with the resources and extracurricular experiences to help them achieve their true potential as they develop into professional engineers. We strive to connect with our community through hosting technical events, professional development, and community enrichment. We are the 2nd largest student branch in the country with over 532 members. This past year we have held over 50 events, accommodating over 1500 people. These events include our four annual projects, three quarterly projects, a hackathon, technical and professional development events, and community outreach programs. Through these opportunities, we have paved way for students to network, collaborate and learn outside of the classroom.

 

http://www.imaginesd.io/

Fully Adaptive Radar

Seminar Speaker
Dr. Muralidhar Rangaswamy
Sensors Directorate
Air Force Research Laboratory

This lecture will provide an overview of adaptive radar processing from the standpoint of bringing to bear optimally and adaptively, all available degrees of freedom on transmit and receive to address the problem of detection, tracking, and classification from a single as well as a multi-sensor perspective. The idea of closed loop radar processing will be introduced. Pertinent research challenges will be identified and ameliorating solutions will be discussed.

Seminar Contact
Bethany Carson
Phone: 858-822-6347
Email: bacarson@eng.ucsd.edu

GaN for Everything

Seminar Speaker
Yuji Zhao
Arizona State University

More than two decades after the first demonstration, gallium nitride (

Seminar Contact
Cheryle Wills
Jacobs Hall, Room 2903
Tel: 858-534-2498
email: clwills@eng.ucsd.edu

2017 Electron Devices Society PhD Student Fellowship Award

Congratulations to Renjie Chen on his award!

Description: One-year fellowships are awarded to promote, recognize, and support PhD level study and research within the Electron Devices Society’s field of interest.

It is expected that three fellowships will be awarded, with the intention of at least one fellowship being given to eligible students in each of the following geographical regions every year: Americas, Europe/Middle East/Africa, and Asia & Pacific.  Only one candidate can win per educational institution.

Fall Y'all Festival -TRITON FEST

Sep 24, 2017 - 8:00 pm
Warren Mall, 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, San Diego, California 92093
ASCE

Kick off Triton Fest with AS Concerts & Events presents: Fall Y'all Festival! This FREE annual event features live music performances, fun activities, great food, and plenty of opportunities to meet new people. Don't miss out on the first event of the year!

Contact: faantonio@ucsd.edu

Website: http://facebook.com/ucsdtritonfest

Engineers on the Green

Oct 2, 2017 - 5:30 pm
Matthews Quad
Jacobs School of Engineering
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Engineers on the Green

Come out and have some carnival fun with your fellow engineers! Win prizes, play games, compete in bouncy sumo wrestling, and meet all the engineering student organizations!

5:30 PM - 8:30 PM Matthews Quad

Meet at the Beach!

Sep 30, 2017 - 11:00 am
Scripps Beach (south of pier)
Jacobs School of Engineering
Event When Where

Meet at the Beach!

Spend the day at this giant beach party! Count on a fun day in the sun, sand, and surf! There will be free surf lessons, beach Zumba, kayaking, paddle boarding, chair massage, beach volleyball & soccer, live DJ, and free Jersey Mikes Subs as well as free beach towels for the first 3000 attendees!

11 AM - 4 PM Scripps Beach (South of Pier)

JSOE Open House

Sep 29, 2017 - 1:30 pm
Jacobs Hall
Jacobs School of Engineering

JSOE Open House

Come out and see all the services and programs available to engineers! Meet people from the following offices and more:

  • IDEA Engineering Student Center
  • Global Ties in Engineering Services (TIES)
  • Gordon Engineering Leadership Center
  • Team Internship Program (TIP)
  • International Center (Study Abroad Programs)
  • von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism
  • Triton Engineering Student Council
  • Jacobs Graduate Student Council
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Jacobs Hall

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