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Could Mobile Batteries Enable Electric Construction Vehicles and Enhance Grid Resilience?

October 30, 2025

Could Mobile Batteries Enable Electric Construction Vehicles and Enhance Grid Resilience?

In a first-of-its-kind test, engineers at UC San Diego are experimenting with large, mobile batteries to both charge electric construction vehicles, and also support a more resilient electric grid. Full Story


AI Models Can Now Be Customized with Far Less Data and Computing Power

October 21, 2025

AI Models Can Now Be Customized with Far Less Data and Computing Power

Engineers have created a new method to make large language models (LLMs) — such as the ones that power chatbots and protein sequencing tools — learn new tasks using significantly less data and computing power. Full Story


New faculty join the Jacobs School

September 30, 2025

New faculty join the Jacobs School

The UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering is welcoming six new faculty to its ranks in fall 2025. Full Story


Four undergraduate programs ranked in nation’s Top 10

September 23, 2025

Four undergraduate programs ranked in nation’s Top 10

Four undergraduate programs at UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering have been ranked in the nation’s Top 10 in the U.S. News & World Report’s 2026 Best Colleges ranking Full Story



Donald A. Norman

Truong Nguyen

Tse Nga Ng

Farrokh Najmabadi

Shayan Mookherjea

Siavash Mirarab (Mir arabbaygi)

Laurence B. Milstein

Patrick P. Mercier

D. A. Mendis

Huey-Lin Luo

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