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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


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



Quantum Photonics with Ordered Quantum Dot and Quantum Wire Systems

Seminar Speaker
Prof. Eli Kapon
Laboratory of Physics of Nanostructures
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
IEEE Chapter-UCSD; IEEE Photonics Society - Distinguished Lecturer

Quantum wire (QWR) and quantum dot (QD) systems offer means for tailoring the electronic structure of semiconductors thanks to multi-dimensional quantum conf

Seminar Contact
Claudia Hennessy
858-534-3294
chennessy@ucsd.edu

iGPS:Integrated Navigation & Communication

Seminar Speaker
David A. Whelan, Ph.D.

The benefits of adding a two way communications channel to the Global Positioning System (GPS) are examined using an experimental arrangement of a modified Iridium communications constellation and the US GPS constellation. The performance of the integrated navigation and communication system of systems is demonstrated showing improvements in anti-jam, indoor geolocation and faster time to first fix. 

Seminar Contact
Travis Spackman
tspackman@eng.ucsd.edu

An information-theoretic perspective on interference management

Seminar Speaker
Young-Han Kim, University of California San Diego

For high data rates and massive connectivity, next-generation cellular networks are expected to deploy many small base stations. While such dense deployment provides the benefit of bringing radio closer to end users, it also increases the amount of interference from neighboring cells. Consequently, efficient and effective management of interference is expected to become one of the main challenges for high-spectral-efficiency, low-power, broad-coverage wireless communications.

Seminar Contact
Professor Tara Javidi <tjavidi@ucsd.edu>

Hack Day

Jan 13, 2017 - 5:00 pm
Qualcomm Room, Jacobs Hall
TESC

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Last September, SD Hacks brought over 800 hackers from all over California. With Hack Days, we plan to extend our reach to hackers old and new at UCSD and focus on providing the best environment, workshops, and mentorship possible. It's time to team up and build that cool application, robot, or whatever you've always wanted to build.

Where and When?

This Hack Day will be held in the Qualcomm Room in Jacobs Hall, from 5:00 PM 1/13 to 6:30 PM 1/14.

More information here: http://hackday.sdhacks.io/

DECaF

Jan 19, 2017 - 9:00 am
Price Center Ballrooms East and West in the center of UCSD campus
TESC

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This event provides company representatives a unique opportunity to interact and engage with UC San Diego's talented engineering students regarding career options, internships, and permanent or summer employment opportunities. Open exclusively to UC San Diego students and alumni, DECaF is coordinated by the Triton Engineering Student Council and over 40 pre-professional engineering student organizations at the Jacobs School of Engineering. These engineering societies, representing the spectrum of disciplines at the Jacobs School, work in close collaboration to maximize the attendance of UC San Diego's 8,500 undergraduate and graduate student engineers and to ensure the satisfaction of companies involved.

More information here: http://tesc.ucsd.edu/decaf/

HKN & IEEE H.A.R.D HACK

Jan 20, 2017 - 4:00 pm
Qualcomm Room, Jacobs Hall
IEEE
HKN

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Hash out. Analyze. Research. Design. All core steps of overcoming engineering challenges. The HARD Hack is a 24 hour hardware centered hackathon hosted by IEEE and HKN. Materials, tools and food will be provided! 

Do you think you and your team is HARD enough to beat out the rest? Then sign up here for our annual hardware hackathon "H.A.R.D. HACK". Don’t have any battle buddies? Don’t worry, sign up and we’ll help you find a team. We are also in big need of volunteers, so if you can be one of the awesome people to help us out, please sign-up below. We will feed you well and you'll have lots of fun with us! 

Sign-up links and more details can be found on the following links: 
Facebook Event Page 
H.A.R.D Hack Website 

If you have any questions, please leave a message on facebook event page or contact Cynthia Huang at cch003@ucsd.edu

January 20th - 21st, EBU1 Lobby

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Triton Day

Apr 8, 2017 - 10:00 am
UC San Diego
UC San Diego

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Triton Day will be held on Saturday, April 8, and Transfer Triton Day will take place on Saturday, May 6, 2017.

Triton Days bring the campus community together to showcase UC San Diego to newly admitted students and their families as a student-centered, research-focused, service-oriented public university. The day-long events provide our admitted students the chance to explore the full range of opportunities available at UC San Diego. Representatives from the faculty, the undergraduate colleges, academic departments and programs, student support services, student organizations and extracurricular/enrichment programs will offer prospective students a glimpse into their future as members of the Triton family. Additional information may be found at Tritondays.ucsd.edu.
 
How to register: Please register Academic and Student Support Services, Information Fair Booths, Student Organizations, and Open Houses at https://academicaffairs.ucsd.edu/sso/EventRegistration.

Schedule:

http://tritonday.ucsd.edu/schedule.php

New Ingredients in the Pot: Rethink Analog IC Design

Seminar Speaker
Nan Sun
University of Texas at Austin

In this talk, I will present several unconventional analog IC design techniques. First, I will talk about how we can make use of noise, which is usually deemed as an undesirable thing, to estimate the conversion residue and increase the SNR of a SAR ADC. It is an interesting example of stochastic resonance, in which the increase in noise can lead to not SNR degradation but SNR enhancement. Second, I will talk about how we can perform data conversion below the Nyquist rate by exploiting the sparsity of the input signal.

Seminar Contact
Prof. Drew Hall <dahall@ucsd.edu>

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