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Meet Phuong Truong: alumna, lecturer, adjunct faculty, education specialist, and mom

June 30, 2025

Meet Phuong Truong: alumna, lecturer, adjunct faculty, education specialist, and mom

Phuong Truong has done it all at UC San Diego: from an undergraduate student in structural engineering, to master’s and doctoral degrees in mechanical engineering and now an adjunct lecturer and education specialist, Truong has been a strong presence at the Jacobs School of Engineering for more than a decade. Full Story


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



Jun-Kun Wang

2020 ECE Awards

In the spirit of Dr. Henry booker’s educational philosophy, the department recognized the following students for their hard work, dedication and commitment to academics. Additionally, recipients maintained a GPA of 3.7 above in all ECE courses.

2021 ECE Awards

In the spirit of Dr. Henry booker’s educational philosophy, the department recognized the following students for their hard work, dedication and commitment to academics. Additionally, recipients maintained a GPA of 3.7 above in all ECE courses

Maximilian Apodaca

Nicholas Johnson

2022 ECE Awards

In the spirit of Dr. Henry booker’s educational philosophy, the department recognized the following students for their hard work, dedication and commitment to academics. Additionally, recipients maintained a GPA of 3.7 above in all ECE courses.

 

Aditi Anand

Ya Gao

Zhe Mo

Johnathan Tran

Jonathan Barnes

Maxime Ghesquiere

2023 ECE Awards

In the spirit of Dr. Henry booker’s educational philosophy, the department recognized the following students for their hard work, dedication and commitment to academics. Additionally, recipients maintained a GPA of 3.7 above in all ECE courses.

 

Akshit Agarwal

Yilang He

Siyue Liu

Ke-Chieh Sun

Arturo Amaya

Brandon Ho

In-Person Advising

  • If your assigned advisor is unavailable, you may schedule an appointment with any of the M.S. advisors, as they are all fully equipped to assist you.
  • Appointments are reserved for ECE students in the M.S. and Ph.D. programs as well as prospective/admitted students in the ECE B.S./M.S.

Parinaz Naghizadeh

Jiajia Wu, a PhD student from ECE won two awards at the IEEE international Conference

Thrilled to share that our ECE PhD student Jiajia Wu has been honored with two awards at the esteemed IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (IEEE ISCAS)! She received the Best Paper Runner-up Award in BioCAS, as well as the Runner-up Paper Award in WiCAS for their work: A Low-Noise 0.001Hz-1kHz Sample-Level Duty-Cycling Neural Recording System-on-Chip (will be available online soon).

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