Jacobs School Mechanical Aerospace Engineering News: Top Stories

UC San Diego Launches Institute of Engineering in Medicine

21 Jul 2008

The world’s top engineers, physicians and scientists are joining forces to conceptualize, develop and bring to reality the future tools and treatments of 21^st century health care through UC San Diego’s new Institute of Engineering in Medicine.

Researchers Enhance Lithography Light Sources

09 Jul 2008

As the semiconductor industry continues to squeeze more information onto chips to accelerate the performance of electronic devices, fusion researchers at UC San Diego are doing their part to help create faster, better and cheaper light sources.

Jacobs School Ring Ceremony 2008

20 Jun 2008

More than 350 graduating seniors from the Jacobs School participated in the annual Ring Ceremony on Saturday, June 14.

Physics of Surfing Class Introduces Students to Research

16 Jun 2008

A class titled “The Physics of Surfing” is co-taught by Professor David Sandwell at UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Professor Stefan Llewellyn Smith at the Jacobs School of Engineering's Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.

Helping Navy Transport Critical Cargo to U.S. Troops

04 Jun 2008

Researchers at UC San Diego are helping the U.S. Navy improve ship-to-ship cargo transfer even during bad weather when waves can make ships sway unpredictably. In doing so, the researchers, led by mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Miroslav Krstic, are developing real-time optimization and active control techniques for a 3D model with hydrodynamics effects.

Jacobs School Students Take First and Second in Business Plan Competition

04 Jun 2008

Jacobs School students took first and second place in a prestigious business plan competition organized at the University of Southern California.

UC San Diego Unveils Cymer Center for Control Systems and Dynamics

29 May 2008

Cymer Inc. has provided major sponsorship of a novel educational and research program at UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering designed to train engineers to improve the performance of wide variety of industrial products and processes. The new Cymer Center for Control Systems and Dynamics (CCSD), which will educate many of the finest students in the country in the field of controls, is designed to put UC San Diego’s Jacobs School on the fast track to industry partnerships in numerous high tech arenas.

Junkyard Derby

20 May 2008

It's Junkyard Derby week at UC San Diego. The junkyard opens on Wednesday night, May 21 at 7:30 pm, and the races start on Friday at 11:30 AM.

Creating Faster Integrated Circuits by Slowing Light

22 Apr 2008

Two UCSD research groups have merged two previously unrelated areas of cutting-edge research in optics – slow light and Anderson localization – and have shown in a paper published in the journal Nature Photonics that structures being considered as prime building blocks for nanophotonic integrated circuits are very susceptible to the effects of disorder, including Anderson localization.

US News Ups Ranking of Jacobs School

27 Mar 2008

UC San Diego again was one of only a handful of universities to have both an engineering school and a medical school both ranked in the top 15 by US News annual ranking of graduate programs at colleges and universities.