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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. |
Interested in Research
 At UC San Diego, you don’t have to wait until graduate school. You can do research alongside faculty, postdoctoral researchers, grad students and even researchers from industry. Lab research is integrated into the curriculum, and students can work in the school’s one-of-a-kind labs and research centers. |
Our Mission: To educate tomorrow’s technology leaders
 As an electrical engineering undergrad, you’ll learn the fundamentals… then apply that knowledge in practical, hands-on design projects. Many ECE students minor in math, physics, computer science... even economics. In the department, you’ll master a technical area and learn what’s needed for a successful engineering career in a fast-changing, global, high-tech workplace. The department is comprised of world-class faculty and a 10-to-1 student-to-teacher ratio. Top focus areas include: Electronic Circuits and Systems, Electronic Devices and Materials, Nanoscale Devices and Systems, Photonics, Signal and Image Processing, Communication Theory and Systems, Intelligent Systems, Robotics and Controls, Applied Ocean Science, and Computer Engineering. |
ECE by the Numbers
$45-65,000 Expected starting salary for 72% of ECE graduating seniors
#9 Jacobs School ranking among top 100 world universities for engineering/technology and computer sciences, according to survey by Shanghai Jiao Tong University
25% Share of ECE seniors expecting to earn $65,000 or more after graduation
56 Number of faculty in Electrical and Computer Engineering
41% Share of ECE graduating seniors who worked for faculty on projects or research grants
567 Number of undergraduates enrolled in ECE during 2006-’07
59% Share of senior s planning to work full - t ime after graduation |
Translating Bands of light
 Prof. Stojan Radic translates optical signals between the infrared standard and other bands of light. Such work could aid in the development of new communications applications using optical equipment developed for the mature telecom market. more »
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A Home for Information Theory  More than 450 academic and industry experts converged on the campus for the Information Theory and Applications Center’s inaugural workshop Feb. 6-10. (Pictured l-r) On hand to announce the new center were Andrew Viterbi (Viterbi, LLC), Irwin Jacobs (QUALCOMM), and Jacobs School professors Alon Orlitsky, Ramesh Rao and Larry Smarr."We hope to leverage synergies among UCSD researchers to attract federal as well as corporate support for an ambitious research agenda that will range from theoretical work to applications with near-term commercialization potential." said, Professor Olitsky. read more
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Mushroom Networks  Professor Rene Cruz and Cahit Akin launched a startup called Mushroom Networks, Inc., which is beta testing the APX10 access point aggregator. “Our technology enables a local area network in a residential neighborhood where two or more homes already have broadband Internet access,” says Cruz, the company`s chairman. “By intelligent sharing of all the broadband connections in an area, we can deliver tremendous increases in download and upload speeds—between two and ten times faster or more—at very low cost.”.read more
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Wireless Research Agenda  UCSD researchers report world record efficiency for high-power amplifiers for cellular base stations. The November announcement came as the School`s Center for Wireless Communications marked its 10th anniversary. "The past decade coincided with a quest for enhanced spectral efficiency in wireless communications," says CWC director Larry Larson. "These considerations are becoming pervasive in the design of wireless systems and a focus of economic and regulatory attention." read more
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Cancer Nanotechnology Center  Professor Sadik Esener is leading a new $20 million effort to develop practical nanotechnology platforms to diagnose, treat and monitor cancers such as leukemia and breast cancer. “Nanotechnology will enable doctors to get more rapid noninvasive feedback on the effectiveness of treatment, and when biopsies are needed, these approaches will require much smaller tissue samples for analysis in the laboratory,” adds Sadik Esener, Jacobs School professor of electrical and computer engineering and the principal investigator of the UCSD center. read more
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 The Calit2 building at UCSD is designed as an instrument of research to encourage partners to combine in unusual teams to make fundamental discoveries. As a result, one of its defining characteristics is a constant state of change. Every aspect of the building, designed by NBBJ and constructed by Gilbane, is inspired by this notion of change and exemplified through interconnected, ubiquitous, broadband wireless communication and the change that it enables. The building promotes the coexistence indeed, the interaction of opposites. The main mass is composed of a six-story office tower “backbone” resting on the foundation of a first floor in the shape of an “S.” read more |
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