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Interacting with Industry One San Diego company, Linkabit, founded by UCSD professor Irwin Jacobs, has spawned more than 100 communications firms, and they are among the many corporations recruiting students for internships and jobs. They fund project-based courses and come to campus for information days and recruiting fairs.

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Hit the beach before class. Hike the nearby deserts and mountains. Explore Mexico on your doorstep. UC San Diego is located in La Jolla, California, just minutes from miles of beaches and the Pacific Ocean. You’ll have the opportunity to live, play and relax outdoors all year long. And when you explore the city, you’ll discover its world-class theater, art and museums, as well as a thriving local music scene and fun urban neighborhoods.
   Looking for a part-time job during school, or full-time after graduation? San Diego’s thriving communications and information technology industries are always looking for electrical and computer engineers from the Jacobs School! Top recruiters include... QUALCOMM, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Cymer, Nokia, Sun Microsystems, BAE Systems, and many more.

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Welcome to the website of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UCSD. When you browse around, you will see the up-to-date courses covering the entire spectrum of the electrical and computer engineering discipline, you'll get information about our faculty, who are leaders in their cutting-edge research programs, and you'll see undergraduate and graduate students about working on groundbreaking projects.

ECE is at a significant crossroads - the technology to create and manipulate information is at the center of the modern world, and it impacts modern telecommunications and computer industries, as well the basic sciences and biology. The research challenges in our discipline emerge at the nano-scale of device physics, from the convergence of electronics and biology, from the emerging challenges of alternative energy sources, and from the linking of the virtual and physical worlds. We invite you to join us in this exciting adventure into the future of global high technology.

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Prof. Andrew Viterbi has been named by the IEEE Board of Directors as the recipient of the 2010 IEEE Medal of Honor. The Medal honors Prof. Viterbi`s seminal contributions to communications technology and theory.

The UCSD Student Branch of the IEEE is one of the Runner Ups in the International Student Branch Web Site Contest for 2008-2009. The contest was sponsored by the IEEE Student Activities Committee (SAC). Over 120 Student Branches participated in their regional contests, from which the IEEE judges chose the top web site designs worldwide. The web site designs are for and by IEEE Student members.

Dr. Dharmendra S. Modha, a PhD alumni of the ECE Department, now at IBM Research, has received the ACM Gordon Bell Prize. This prize has been awarded since 1987 to recognize outstanding achievement in high-performance computing. It is now administered by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), with financial support for the stipend provided by Gordon Bell, a pioneer in high-performance and parallel computing. The prize was awarded at the Supercomputing 2009 conference.

Professor Young-Han Kim is the recipient of the 2008 Bergmann Memorial Research Award from the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF). This award is made annually to outstanding young investigators of newly awarded BSF grants, judged on the basis of the quality of their proposals. Professor Kim`s project is on "the role of directed information in causal inference," collaborative research with Dr. Haim Permuter at Ben-Gurion University in Israel. The Bergmann Award is given in memory of the late professor Ernest David Bergmann, who was internationally recognized for his significant contributions to organic chemistry. He played a major role in establishing the BSF in 1972 and served on its board of governors until his death in 1975. One of his special interests was to encourage young scientists.

Professor Joseph Ford has been elected Fellow of the Optical Society of America for pioneering research in free-space optical technology, including the first use of micromechanics for equalization and switching in wavelength multiplexed communication.

Bharath Sriperumbudur has been awarded an Honorable Mention for the Outstanding Student Paper at the annual Neural Information Processing Systems Conference, NIPS 2009, for the paper "Kernel Choice and Classifiability for RKHS Embeddings of Probability Distributions," with his advisor Gert Lanckriet, in collaboration with Kenji Fukumizu at ISM, Tokyo and Arthur Gretton and Bernhard Schölkopf at MPI, Tübingen. NIPS is one of the two international flagship conferences in machine learning.

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