Bhaskar Rao Receives Ericsson Endowed Chair - 06 May 2008
 For his leadership in cutting edge areas of digital signal processing, Bhaskar Rao has been named the inaugural holder of the Ericsson Endowed Chair in Wireless Access Networks in the Jacobs School. This chair is part of Ericsson’s ongoing support of the UCSD division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2).

Creating Faster Integrated Circuits by Slowing Light - 22 Apr 2008
Two UCSD research groups have merged two previously unrelated areas of cutting-edge research in optics – slow light and Anderson localization – and have shown in a paper published in the journal Nature Photonics that structures being considered as prime building blocks for nanophotonic integrated circuits are very susceptible to the effects of disorder, including Anderson localization.

ECE 191 Design Teams Report Progress on Projects Funded by Calit2 and Other Sponsors - 06 Apr 2008
 A project adding two-way wireless audio capability to a remote-controlled vehicle called Gizmo -- designed for disaster response communication -- was awarded best project of the winter quarter ECE 191 team engineering design course when the students made their final presentations.

Alumni Association Recognizes Engineering Student - 02 Apr 2008
The UCS San Diego Alumni Association gave its Outstanding Senior Award to Jeffrey Mounzer, president of the Triton Engineering Student Council and a Warren College student graduating with a double major in Electrical Engineering and Economics.

US News Ups Ranking of Jacobs School - 27 Mar 2008
UC San Diego again was one of only a handful of universities to have both an engineering school and a medical school both ranked in the top 15 by US News annual ranking of graduate programs at colleges and universities.

Need New Look? Online Makeover is fan-taaz-tic - 18 Mar 2008
 Thanks to a Jacobs School startup company whose site, Taaz.com went live today, the cosmetics counter isn't the only place to try out the latest makeup trends. The new way is easier, faster, and much more private. Anyone with a digital photograph can now apply more than 4,000 makeup products with the click of a mouse. It's all at www.taaz.com - the creation of two Jacobs School computer scientists turned entrepreneurs. The site went live on March 18.

Shaya Fainman Awarded Cymer Chair - 07 Mar 2008
Shaya Fainman, an electrical engineering professor at the Jacobs School, is the first holder of the Cymer Inc. Endowed Chair in Advanced Optical Technologies.

Hopping Robot Captures Top Research Expo Honor - 22 Feb 2008
The two-wheeled robot called “iHop” developed by Christopher M. Schmidt-Wetekam, a Ph.D. candidate in the Jacobs School’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,  won top honors at the Jacobs School of Engineering’s annual Research Expo on Feb. 21.

National Engineers Week at UCSD - 12 Feb 2008
They say that everyday should be Mothers Day. Considering how crucial technology is for everything we do from communication and banking, to environmental sustainability and health care, everyday should also be Engineers Day. Nevertheless, Feb 18-22 is the one week out of the year that is carved out as National Engineers Week – and the students at UCSD’s Jacobs School of Engineering took part in a big way.

Jacobs Hard Disk Pioneer Elected to NAE - 08 Feb 2008
 UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering electrical engineering professor Paul Siegel – a leading authority on coding for hard disk magnetic recording systems – has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering \"for the invention and development of advanced coding techniques for digital recording systems.\"