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- Internships in India
- Building a NanoEngineering Workforce from the Ground Up
- #3 Nationally for Research Expenditures per Faculty Member
- Calit2: A Model for Interdisciplinary Research
Internships in India
A Jacobs School graduate student (center) and a UCSD fine arts graduate student (right) discuss electricity availability with a local farmer. Through the Jacobs School’s Team Internship Program (TIP), the students interned at QUALCOMM in Mumbai, India and devised a footpowered mobile phone battery charger for residents of rural areas.
Building a NanoEngineering Workforce from the Ground Up
Seeking to capitalize on the potential of a new generation of multi-functional nanoscale devices and special materials built on the scale of individual molecules, the Jacobs School launched a Department of NanoEngineering effective July 1, 2007. Undergraduate and graduate students will learn from an interdisciplinary team of professors who will cover a broad range of topics, but focus particularly on biomedical nanotechnology, nanotechnologies for energy conversion, computational nanotechnology, and molecular and nanomaterials.The Department of NanoEngineering will incorporate the Jacobs School's existing chemical engineering program. It will eventually include approximately 20 faculty members and enroll 400 undergraduates and 120 graduate students.
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| The Department of NanoEngineering will occupy nearly half of a new 110,000-square-foot building on the UCSD campus. Completion date: 2010. |
#3 Nationally for Research Expenditures per Faculty Member
America's Best Graduate Schools 2008, U.S. News & World Report
| Total Expenditures FY07 | $186.0M |
| State-Funded Operations/Instruction | $45.0M |
| Research Expenditures | $141.0M |
| Government-Sponsored Research | $101.4M |
| Industry-Sponsored Research/Income from Gifts/Endowments | $39.6M |
| Research/Full-time Faculty Member* | $834K |
| *169 full-time faculty in Fall 2006 |
Calit2: A Model for Interdisciplinary Research
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Calit2, the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, brings together multidisciplinary teams of the best minds in order to address large-scale societal issues. In May 2007, for example, Calit2 and Scripps Institution of Oceanography won a six-year $29 million grant to design and construct cyberinfrastructure for the NSF-funded Ocean Observatories Initiative, which is an effort to study the oceans through a combination of Internet-linked cables, submerged data collection devices connected to buoys, robots and high-definition cameras. Calit2 will manage the project, which could eventually reach $42 million over 11 years.The advanced visualization tools at the UCSD Division of Calit2 offer unique resources to ocean researchers, such as the highestresolution display in the world and the world’s first large-scale 3D display that does not require 3D glasses.
