Bioengineering Department »
Faculty: 16
Graduate Students: 198
Undergraduates: 879
The Bioengineering Department is consistently ranked among the top three in the nation, and is emulated by universities worldwide. The department leads in frontier areas including systems biology, regenerative medicine, and multi-scale bioengineering focused on understanding, diagnosis and treatment of human disease. In addition to offering four undergraduate degree programs in Bioengineering, two Master degrees and a Ph.D degree program, Bioengineering also administers UCSD's interdisciplinary graduate program in bioinformatics and offers M.D./Ph.D. and M.D./M.S. degrees with the UCSD School of Medicine.

Computer Science and Engineering Department »
Faculty: 49
Graduate Students: 293
Undergraduates: 682
The Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Department has risen rapidly to national prominence, and is now among the top 15 computer science programs in the nation. It has maintained its strengths in fields such as systems, theory, and artificial intelligence while expanding into new fields such as bioinformatics, computer vision, Internet malware, graphics, architecture, and embedded systems.

Electrical and Computer Engineering Department »
Faculty: 52
Graduate Students: 388
Undergraduates: 567
The Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department is a leader in research and education for the information technology infrastructure. The department includes one of the most prominent communication systems groups in the nation and its programs cover a wide variety of disciplines including: network infrastructure, embedded systems, electronic circuits and systems, electronic devices and materials, nanoelectronics, photonics and nanophotonics, signal processing and intelligent systems, bionanotechnology, energy generation and conversion, and high-density magnetic and optical storage.

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department »
Faculty: 40
Graduate Students: 230
Undergraduates: 1,225
The Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) Department is a large interdisciplinary engineering department covering mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, chemical engineering, engineering sciences, and environmental engineering. Research focus areas in the department include fluid mechanics, combustion, solid mechanics, biomaterials and nanomaterials, systems and control, energy, electromechanical devices and medical devices.

NanoEngineering Department »
Department Established: July 1, 2007
UCSD established the Department of NanoEngineering effective July 1, 2007, as part of a paradigm shift to interdisciplinary research and education. The new department will focus on a new generation of multi-functional nanoscale devices and special materials built on the scale of individual molecules. When the department is fully operational in 2010, students will be exposed to exciting new areas of scholarship, discovery and innovation where engineering, biology, physics and chemistry synergistically overlap to create unique research and technology opportunities.
(* Expected by 2010.)

Structural Engineering Department »
Faculty: 18
Graduate Students: 86
Undergraduates: 467
The Structural Engineering Department is known world-wide as the leader in large-scale testing research. Programs cover earthquake engineering, blast loading and mitigation strategies, health monitoring and condition assessment, composite materials and light-weight structural systems, hydrodynamics and fluid-structure interaction, reliability and risk engineering, renewal engineering, and civil structural design.