Jacobs School Structural Engineering News: Top Stories

GreenLight Project to Improve Energy Efficiency of Computing

25 Aug 2008

The information technology industry consumes as much energy and has roughly the same carbon “footprint” as the airline industry. Now scientists and engineers at the University of California, San Diego are building an instrument to test the energy efficiency of computing systems under real-world conditions—with the ultimate goal of getting computer designers and users in the scientific community to re-think the way they do their jobs.

Making Precast Concrete Buildings Earthquake Safe

20 Aug 2008

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.

Engineers Could Help U.S. Military Thwart Explosive Threats

18 Jul 2008

Researchers at UC San Diego are using statistical pattern recognition and image processing to help the U.S. military better detect hidden roadside explosives.

Highest Resolution Scientific Display System in the World

09 Jul 2008

To help scientists visualize and explore large data sets, Calit2 has unveiled the highest-resolution display system in the world. The 286-million-pixel HIPerSpace wall was constructed by a team led by Falko Kuester, who has appointments in both Structural Engineering as well as Computer Science and Engineering.

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.

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.

Three-Story Structure Slammed in Magnitude 8 Earthquake on Shake Table

07 May 2008

Engineering researchers are subjecting a three-story structure resembling a parking garage to a sequence of earthquake "shake test" jolts as powerful as magnitude 8.0 as part of a series of seismic tests to help improve building codes across the nation.

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.

Hopping Robot Captures Top Research Expo Honor

22 Feb 2008

The two-wheeled robot called “iHop” developed by Christopher M. Schmidt-Wetekam, a Ph.D. candidate in the Jacobs School’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, won top honors at the Jacobs School of Engineering’s annual Research Expo on Feb. 21.