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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
May 5, 2025
A fully automated tool for species tree inference
A team of engineers at the University of California San Diego is making it easier for researchers from a broad range of backgrounds to understand how different species are evolutionarily related, and support the transformative biological and medical applications that rely on these species trees. Full Story
March 17, 2025
Microelectronics Go from Lab to Fab at UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute
Little more than a year after the Microelectronics Commons program kicked off, University of California San Diego researchers have already made significant strides in bringing novel semiconductor technologies from possibility to prototype and beyond. Full Story
March 3, 2025
Quantum Properties in Atom-thick Semiconductors Offer New Way to Detect Electrical Signals in Cells
For decades, scientists have relied on electrodes and dyes to track the electrical activity of living cells. Now, UC San Diego engineers have discovered that quantum materials just a single atom thick can do the job—using only light. Full Story
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ECE 15 & 35 Waiver Exams
The waiver exams are designed for incoming students who have taken a C programming or circuits course at a community college and wish to receive transfer credit for UC San Diego ECE 15 or ECE 35. The purpose of these exams is to test a student's understanding of the material in these courses.
ECE Transfer Equivalencies
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Students should submit a petition to the ECE Department prior to taking a course in another university.
Keep in mind that courses must be taken for a letter grade and passed with a C- or better.
ECE Course Prerequisites
All courses used to satisfy major requirements must be taken for a letter grade with the exception of Special Studies courses (ECE 197-199). Special Studies courses (197-199) are designed to be P/NP.
ECE Course Prerequisites Guide
Concurrent Students
CONCURRENT ENROLLMENT PROGRAM
The Concurrent Enrollment Program offered through
Transfer Students
Welcome to the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC San Diego! On this page, you will find majority of the information you will need to help you get started on your academic career within the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. Please be sure to check out the ECE Website when you get the chance.
Current Student Resources
For SP20, FA20, WI21 and SP21 ECE Department exceptions regarding P/NP grades, click here.
Booker Award
UC San Diego Professor Henry G. Booker was a superb teacher and insightful researcher: He taught us electromagnetics, radio propagation, and antennas, among other things. He could present an argument in class with apparent simplicity; lulling the students into thinking they had grasped it all. The rude awakening to the complications came when the students on their own tried to reconstruct the argument. It took hours of work. It’s the important part of the interaction between teacher and student and it's known as learning.
Honors
The ECE Undergraduate Honors Program is designed for a limited number of students who have demonstrated excellence in the major. The Honors Program recognizes and promotes academic excellence in the major by allowing qualified students to work on a project in close collaboration with the department faculty.
Application for ECE Honors Program is required and DUE the second week of Fall quarter of their senior year.
Double Majors | Minors
MINORS
ECE offers three minors in accord with the general university policy that a minor requires five upper-division courses. Students must realize that these upper-division courses have extensive lower-division prerequisites (please consult the ECE undergraduate office). Students should also consult their college provost’s office concerning the rules governing minors and programs of concentration.