Our mission
We educate tomorrow's technology leaders.
We conduct leading edge research and drive innovation.
We transfer discoveries for the benefit of society.
GOALS
- To advance engineering and computer science research and education for the public good.
- To pursue interdisciplinary research that solves challenges no lab, discipline or industry can solve alone.
- To provide world-class theoretical and hands-on education and leadership training at scale.
- To be relevant to our industry partners now, and also 10 years from now.
- To cultivate learning, researching and working environments where everyone can thrive.
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Recent News

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Thanks to U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) ACCESS allocations, UC San Diego mechanical en...

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By Building Virtual Cells, Researchers Aim to Design Better Microbes and Drugs
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Bioengineers are creating comprehensive digital twins of bacterial cells to better understand how to...