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June 18, 2024UC San Diego Jacobs School Of Engineering Rises In Latest U.S. News And World Report Rankings Of Best Engineering Schools
The UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering has ranked the #11 best in the nation in the influential U.S. News & World Report Rankings of Best Engineering Schools. This #11 ranking is up from #12 last year. Full Story
![Breakthrough UC San Diego Brain Recording Device Receives FDA Approval for a Clinical Trial](https://soeapp.ucsd.edu/tools/uploads/news/2024/Dayeh FDA approval Juen 2024 rotator.jpg)
June 17, 2024
Breakthrough UC San Diego Brain Recording Device Receives FDA Approval for a Clinical Trial
The Federal Drug Administration approved a clinical trial to test the effectiveness of an electronic grid that records brain activity during surgery, developed by engineers at the University of California San Diego. The device with nanoscale sensors records electrical signals directly from the surface of the human brain in record-breaking detail. The grid’s breakthrough resolution could provide better guidance for planning and performing surgeries to remove brain tumors and treat drug-resistant epilepsy. Full Story
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June 14, 2024Jacobs School of Engineering 2024 Award of Excellence Recipients
Six undergraduate students were selected from among their peers to receive an Award of Excellence from their academic department in recognition of their outstanding academic, leadership and community contributions. Full Story
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June 10, 2024
Advanced AI-Based Techniques Scale-up Solving Complex Combinatorial Optimization Problems
A framework based on advanced AI techniques can solve complex, computationally intensive problems faster and in a more more scalable way than state-of-the-art methods, according to a study led by engineers at the University of California San Diego. Full Story
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May 13, 2024
Franklin Antonio Hall Sparks Research Collaborations
From improving tools for robot-assisted surgery to studying how humans prefer to interact with robots, collaborations across different departments at the Jacobs School of Engineering are in the spotlight in this year’s accepted papers for the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Full Story
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May 13, 2024Alumna-led Giving Day challenge encourages support for Jacobs School of Engineering students
Sally Schoberg earned a degree in Applied Physics and Information Science (APIS) – what today would be electrical and computer engineering – from UC San Diego in 1972. More than five decades later, she continues to recognize the value of her degree, and is motivated to ensure the next generation of engineering students has the same opportunities she was afforded. Full Story
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May 2, 2024
Hands-on Electrical Engineering Curriculum at UC San Diego Earns Innovative Program Award
The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UC San Diego was recognized for its pioneering hands-on lab curriculum by the leading association for electrical and computer engineering educators in North America. Full Story
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April 24, 2024
A Flexible Microdisplay Can Monitor and Visualize Brain Activity in Real-time During Brain Surgery
A thin film that combines an electrode grid and LEDs can both track and produce a visual representation of the brain’s activity in real-time during surgery–a huge improvement over the current state of the art. The device is designed to provide neurosurgeons visual information about a patient’s brain to monitor brain states during surgical interventions to remove brain lesions including tumors and epileptic tissue. Full Story
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April 19, 2024
Creating a "Greener," More Connected Society
As the planet grapples with the climate crisis, researchers at UC San Diego have developed new technologies for more energy-efficient wireless connectivity with a reduced carbon footprint. Described in two recent papers, a new base station deployment strategy and antenna design offer ways to reduce wireless energy demand and build more sustainable solutions in industry and research. Full Story
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April 1, 2024
Computational Tools Fuel Reconstruction of New and Improved Bird Family Tree
Using cutting-edge computational methods and supercomputing infrastructure at UC San Diego, researchers have built the largest and most detailed bird family tree to date—an intricate chart delineating 93 million years of evolutionary relationships between 363 bird species, representing 92% of all bird families. The updated tree reveals sharp increases in effective population size, substitution rates and relative brain size in early birds in the aftermath of the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. And by closely examining one of the branches of this tree, researchers found that flamingos and doves are more distantly related than previous genome-wide analyses had shown. Full Story