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Expanding early access to engineering courses

October 3, 2024

Expanding early access to engineering courses

Students at a Chula Vista high school now have the opportunity to take an award-winning, hands-on UC San Diego electrical engineering course right at their own school, during their school day. It's part of our effort to expand earlier access to engineering concepts and skills. Full Story

What Is Embodied Intelligence and What Can It Do

September 30, 2024

What Is Embodied Intelligence and What Can It Do

Artificial intelligence might be the focus of many conversations today, but it cannot touch or manipulate the physical world without a body. A group of robotics experts got together at the University of California San Diego to talk about the many ways intelligence could be embodied to interact with the real world.    Full Story

The Enablers of Discovery

September 25, 2024

The Enablers of Discovery

If not for electrical engineering Professor Yuhwa Lo, traffic lights and automobile rear lights would not have transitioned from incandescents to LEDs until a decade later, NASA’s deep space communication efforts might take a different tack, Illumina’s gene-sequencing technology might not have gotten off the ground and flow cytometers and cell sorters, the workhorse for the biotechnology industry, wouldn’t have made it out onto lab benches.  Full Story

Engineering Graduate Students Awarded Siebel Scholarship

September 20, 2024

Engineering Graduate Students Awarded Siebel Scholarship

Five University of California San Diego graduate students applying engineering principles to solve medical challenges have been selected as 2025 Siebel Scholars. The Siebel Scholars program recognizes the most talented students in the world’s leading graduate schools of business, computer science, bioengineering and energy science. The students are selected based on outstanding academic performance and leadership, and each receive a $35,000 award toward their final year of study. Full Story


What We Do

 

Rahul Parhi

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