Our WeCe president Xinyu Chen and Duygu Kuzum submitted a grant to the Engineering Information Foundation and received 15k to support our K-12 outreach activities.

The Society of Women Engineers and Women in Computing at UC San Diego are collaborating to provide young girls with the Empowerment & Development for Girls in Engineering (EDGE) mentorship program throughout their high school career. Our mission is to encourage more girls to consider STEM-related careers in order to bridge the gender gap in engineering fields.

This April, we organized two workshop on "Renewable energy and building a wind turbine" and "Fairness and Bias in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning" during the annual Girls' Day out.

We actively participate in outreach programs to inspire and mentor next generations interested in STEM fields, helping to create a more inclusive environment in engineering. 

In this project, we aim to increase the number of transfer students from Imperial Valley College (IVC) to engineering programs at UC San Diego and the UC system in general. We design a pathway for IVC students to explore a career in many engineering disciplines, by exposing them to the key engineering concepts through hands-on project class, to the soft skills preparation for internship and employment (communications, teamwork, oral and written presentation) through final course project, to the process of project discovery/design through the competition and semester projects, to the career mentorship through the alumni and student organization initiative and to the research experience through the summer research internship program (SRIP).

This new pilot program, funded by a gift from Intel Corporation, aims to increase diversity in its electrical engineering graduate programs. As part of this program, our department is collaborating with two minority-serving institutions: Florida A&M University and the University of Texas at El Paso. Both Florida A&M and UTEP are core members of the Inclusive Engineering Consortium (IEC), a non-profit organization that brings together academia, industry, and government to advance education, research, and electrical and computer engineering careers.

In support of EDGE’s Girl’s Day Out event 2023 April, ECE Faculty designed and organized a workshop for high school women interested in engineering. The workshop was held in the EnVision MakerStudio and taught the basics of C, microcontrollers, sensors and actuators to a group of 60+ women high school students.

Partnering with UC San Diego Extended Studies, ECE Faculty and student tutors brought a credit bearing course and opportunity to CVLCC High school in Chula Vista for eager and diverse students.