Student Perspective
Events
Department 60th Year Anniversary Celebration
May 22, 2026
News
April 23, 2026
Six New Projects Are Empowering Early-Career Engineering and Computer Science Faculty
Six teams from the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering have been awarded funding to accelerate interdisciplinary research collaborations that include an early-career faculty member. The big idea is to empower early-career faculty to build interdisciplinary research collaborations to the point that they are competitive for multi-year external funding. The effort is funded by Irwin Jacobs and his late wife, Joan. Full Story
April 21, 2026
MRI and Augmented Reality for Better Back Pain Surgery Wins at Research Expo 2026
Mechanical engineering Ph.D. student Songyuan Lu won the grand prize at this year’s Research Expo, where more than 150 students presented their research posters across the six departments at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. Lu’s work focuses on computer-assisted surgery using MRI and augmented reality. Full Story
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April 16, 2026
Bioengineering Alumni are Running for ALS
From bioengineering graduate students at UC San Diego, to the streets of Washington D.C. for the Marine Corps Marathon, UC San Diego bioengineering alumni Scott Dorfman and Tatsuya (Tats) Arai have forged a life-long friendship. And now, they’re running together again, this time in the Boston Marathon on April 20, to support a cause that hits close to home: ALS organizations. Full Story
Annual Reports
2025 Department Impact Report
- Undergraduate Instructional Lab Opening
- Faculty Recognition & Awards
- Research HIghlights
- Student & BE Community Highlights
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