The UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering is a premier research school set apart by our entrepreneurial culture and integrative engineering approach. We are the youngest and fastest rising among the nation's top 15 engineering schools, and the largest engineering school in the renown University of California system. http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu en-us Copyright 2009, Regents of the University of California. news@soe.ucsd.edu (Editor) soeweb@soe.ucsd.edu (Webmaster) Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:23:27 PDT Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:23:27 PDT Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:23:27 PDT http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=50&listID=7 Under the guidance of environmental engineering professor Jan Kleissl, a group of Jacobs School graduate students, including Michael Gollner and Karl Olney helped schools and other San Diego public institutions win more than $154 M in bonds for installing rooftop solar. The San Diego Union Tribune's Onell Soto covered this story. Reach Soto's story here:http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/oct/30/county-wins-big-share-solar-funds/?business&zIndex=191768 dbkane@soe.ucsd.edu (Daniel Kane) http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=50&listID=7 UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Videos Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:29:08 PDT http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=49&listID=7 Electrical engineers at UC San Diego have created a new kind of music search engine that actually listens to music. This approach could help bands like Juna and S03 (both from UC San Diego) to find new fans. dbkane@soe.ucsd.edu (Daniel Kane) http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=49&listID=7 UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Videos Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:00:42 PDT http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=47&listID=7 Luke Barrington needs you to play his music discovery game on Facebook. If you play it, he'll collect the data he needs to write his Ph.D. dissertation in electrical engineering. dbkane@soe.ucsd.edu (Daniel Kane) http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=47&listID=7 UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Videos Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:47:10 PDT http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=46&listID=7 Electrical Engineering Ph.D. candidate Luke Barrington needs you to play his Facebook music discovery game so he can collect the data he needs to finish his dissertation. Herdit.org is the URL. Or search for HerdIt within Facebook. dbkane@soe.ucsd.edu (Daniel Kane) http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=46&listID=7 UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Videos Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:56:51 PDT http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=45&listID=7 Researchers will subject a retaining wall to a series of strong simulated earthquakes at the UC San Diego Englekirk Structural Engineering Center on Friday, Oct. 2, 2009. The results of this project, funded by Caltrans, are expected to improve the existing guidelines for seismic design of retaining walls. asiedsma@soe.ucsd.edu (Andrea Siedsma) http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=45&listID=7 UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Videos Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:42:20 PDT http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=43&listID=7 In CSE8B, the Jacobs School undergraduates learn Java by creating critters that battle one another in a tournament at the end of the quarter. dbkane@soe.ucsd.edu (Daniel Kane) http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=43&listID=7 UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Videos Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:11:57 PDT http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=42&listID=7 As part of the $1.24 million research project sponsored by the National Science Foundation under the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) program, a three-story, masonry-infilled, reinforced concrete frame representing structures built in California in the 1920s was tested at the NEES -UCSD Englekirk Structural Engineering Center, home of the world's largest outdoor shake table. The asiedsma@soe.ucsd.edu (Andrea Siedsma) http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=42&listID=7 UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Videos Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:19:09 PDT http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=41&listID=7 Computer scientists demonstrated that criminals could hack an electronic voting machine and steal votes using a malicious programming approach that had not been invented when the voting machine was designed. The team of scientists from University of California, San Diego and the University of Michigan, and Princeton University employed "return-oriented programming" to force a Sequoia AVC Advantage electronic voting machine to turn against itself and steal votes. dbkane@soe.ucsd.edu (Daniel Kane) http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=41&listID=7 UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Videos Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:55:52 PDT http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=40&listID=7 Computer scientists demonstrated that criminals could hack an electronic voting machine and steal votes using a malicious programming approach that had not been invented when the voting machine was designed. The team of scientists from University of California, San Diego, the University of Michigan, and Princeton University employed "return-oriented programming" to force a Sequoia AVC Advantage electronic voting machine to turn against itself and steal votes. dbkane@soe.ucsd.edu (Daniel Kane) http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=40&listID=7 UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Videos Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:31:34 PDT http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=39&listID=7 UC San Diego researchers recently shook a three-story, 1920s era masonry building on the world's largest outdoor shake table during a series of intense simulated earthquakes. The full story and video are coming soon. asiedsma@soe.ucsd.edu (Andrea Siedsma) http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=39&listID=7 UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Videos Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:59:16 PDT http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=35&listID=7 Undergraduates from the Jacobs School of Engineering have just finished classes for the school year, but their legacy continues. dbkane@soe.ucsd.edu (Daniel Kane) http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=35&listID=7 UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Videos Wed, 20 May 2009 11:24:37 PDT http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=34&listID=7 Engineering students at UC San Diego are studying the fluid dynamics of water in order to build a more comfortable and sanitary urine collection device for space travel. dbkane@soe.ucsd.edu (Daniel Kane) http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=34&listID=7 UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Videos Tue, 12 May 2009 13:05:23 PDT http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=32&listID=7 From old bicycle parts to gold mannequin busts and cardboard pizza boxes, UC San Diego students put their skills to the test during the annual Junkyard Derby. The sixth annual Junkyard Derby, held May 8, drew 44 teams who designed, built and then raced cars made of junk. dbkane@soe.ucsd.edu (Daniel Kane) http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=32&listID=7 UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Videos Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:22:32 PDT http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=30&listID=7 Jacobs School of Engineering undergraduates dared to design and build a robotic mouse from scratch. The electrical engineering and computer science undergraduates also wrote the software to teach the robot to solve a maze. dbkane@soe.ucsd.edu (Daniel Kane) http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=30&listID=7 UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Videos Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:33:15 PDT http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=28&listID=7 UC San Diego engineers launched a new music game on Facebook in order to build a new kind of search engine for music. dbkane@soe.ucsd.edu (Daniel Kane) http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=28&listID=7 UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Videos Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:53:16 PDT http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=27&listID=7 Engineering researchers at UC San Diego test a one-story concrete masonry structure with brick veneer via a series of simulated earthquake jolts. asiedsma@soe.ucsd.edu (Andrea Siedsma) http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=27&listID=7 UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Videos Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:50:43 PDT http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=26&listID=7 UC San Diego participated in the first-ever San Diego Science Festival Expo Day. asiedsma@soe.ucsd.edu (Andrea Siedsma) http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=26&listID=7 UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Videos Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:03:35 PDT http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=25&listID=7 Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) professor Geoffrey Voelker gives an overview of the CSE department at UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering. dbkane@soe.ucsd.edu (Daniel Kane) http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=25&listID=7 UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Videos Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:01:32 PDT http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=24&listID=7 Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) professor George Papen gives an overview of the ECE department at UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering. dbkane@soe.ucsd.edu (Daniel Kane) http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=24&listID=7 UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Videos Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:37:49 PDT http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=23&listID=7 Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) professor Vlado Lubarda gives an overview of the MAE department at UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering. dbkane@soe.ucsd.edu (Daniel Kane) http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=23&listID=7 UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Videos Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:24:28 PDT http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=22&listID=7 Structural Engineering professor and department chair Gilbert Hegemier gives an overview of the structural engineering department at UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering. dbkane@soe.ucsd.edu (Daniel Kane) http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=22&listID=7 UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Videos Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:21:40 PDT http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=21&listID=7 NanoEngineering professor Richard Herz gives an overview of the nanoengineering department at UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering. dbkane@soe.ucsd.edu (Daniel Kane) http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=21&listID=7 UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Videos Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:17:10 PDT http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=20&listID=7 Bioengineering professor Gabriel Silva gives an overview of the top-ranked bioengineering department at UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering. dbkane@soe.ucsd.edu (Daniel Kane) http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=20&listID=7 UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Videos Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:13:31 PDT http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=19&listID=7 An overview of the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego by Dean Frieder Seible. dbkane@soe.ucsd.edu (Daniel Kane) http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=19&listID=7 UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Videos Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:35:39 PDT http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=18&listID=7 A team of UC San Diego structural engineering students designed and built the 25-foot concrete canoe as part of the American Society of Civil Engineers' annual collegiate conference and competition. The Jacobs School students are off to race their concrete canoe against concrete canoes built by other universities in the region. dbkane@soe.ucsd.edu (Daniel Kane) http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=18&listID=7 UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Videos Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:32:04 PDT http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=17&listID=7 UC San Diego undergrad engineering students will send off a 25-foot handmade concrete canoe to Hawaii for the annual American Society of Civil Engineers' (ASCE) pacific southwest regional collegiate conference and competition. Touch and see the secret ingredients that make this concrete canoe float; see computer-based concrete canoe models and a real-life cross section. Watch 20 students pick up the 300-pound canoe and load it into crate by hand. dbkane@soe.ucsd.edu (Daniel Kane) http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=17&listID=7 UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Videos Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:52:25 PDT http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=16&listID=7 Jacobs School of Engineering students took the University of California, San Diego by storm Tuesday, February 17 during E-Games 2009. The purpose of E-Games, which included a tomato drop from a helium filled balloon and a rocket launch, was to show that engineering is a creative and fun field. dbkane@soe.ucsd.edu (Daniel Kane) http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=16&listID=7 UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Videos Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:30:35 PDT http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=14&listID=7 More than 70 high tech and life science firms participated in a student-run engineering job fair on February 20 at the University of California, San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering. The Disciplines in Engineering Career Fair (DECaF), organized by Jacobs School of Engineering students, attracted 1,500 engineering students. dbkane@soe.ucsd.edu (Daniel Kane) http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=14&listID=7 UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Videos Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:44:52 PDT http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=12&listID=7 The UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Council of Advisors define engineering leadership. dbkane@soe.ucsd.edu (Daniel Kane) http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=12&listID=7 UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Videos Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:14:01 PDT http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=11&listID=7 From novel nanoengineering approaches to space robots, green computing, weather prediction technology and structural health monitoring, engineering students at the University of California, San Diego strutted their stuff during the Jacobs School of Engineering Research Expo 2009. The annual event, held on Feb. 19, attracted more than 500 people, including 240 graduate students who presented their research during a highly attended poster session. dbkane@soe.ucsd.edu (Daniel Kane) http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=11&listID=7 UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Videos Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:55:13 PDT http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=10&listID=7 New imaging and high capacity wireless communications systems are one step closer to reality, thanks to a millimeter wave amplifier invented at the University of California, San Diego and unveiled on Feb 11, 2009 at the prestigious International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco, Calif. dbkane@soe.ucsd.edu (Daniel Kane) http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=10&listID=7 UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Videos Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:07:49 PDT http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=8&listID=7 Thanks to a UC San Diego startup company, 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. dbkane@soe.ucsd.edu (Daniel Kane) http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=8&listID=7 UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Videos Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:10:26 PDT http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=7&listID=7 Engineering researchers from UC San Diego and the University of Arizona have concluded three months of rigorous earthquake simulation tests on a half-scale three-story structure, and will now begin sifting through their results so they can be used in the future designs of buildings across the nation. The engineers produced a series of earthquake jolts as powerful as magnitude 8.0 on a structure resembling a parking garage. dbkane@soe.ucsd.edu (Daniel Kane) http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=7&listID=7 UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Videos Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:05:33 PDT http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=6&listID=7 Yeast, the ingredient found in breads and beers, prefer to eat some sugars more than others. Glucose, their favorite food, provides more energy than any other sugar, and yeast has evolved a complex genetic network to ensure that they consume as much glucose as possible whenever it is available. UC San Diego bioengineers have recently identified a previously unknown mechanism that allows yeast to shut down the metabolism of another sugar, galactose, when they sense glucose in the environment. dbkane@soe.ucsd.edu (Daniel Kane) http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=6&listID=7 UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Videos Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:58:57 PDT http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=5&listID=7 UC San Diego engineer has revealed a new mode of propulsion based on how water snails create ripples of slime to crawl upside down beneath the surface. dbkane@soe.ucsd.edu (Daniel Kane) http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_video/play.sfe?id=5&listID=7 UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Videos