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2018 student highlights
December 19, 2018
The UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering is home to 9,000 engineering and computer science stud...
Hardware-software co-design approach could make neural networks less power hungry
December 19, 2018
A team led by the University of California San Diego has developed a neuroinspired hardware-software...
2018 Jacobs School highlights
December 18, 2018
A lot happened at the Jacobs School of Engineering this year. Revisit some of our key research ...
UCSD Battery Startup Ateios Receives Funding for Placing in November Pitch Competition
December 13, 2018
UCSD Startup Ateios was among the three finalists chosen to receive a collective amount of $150,000 ...
Switching to a Home Battery Won't Help Save the World from Climate Change
December 11, 2018
Home energy storage systems might save you money, but under current policies, they would also often ...
Graduate student's steerable brain catheter wins big at inventors competition
December 10, 2018
Gopesh Tilvawala, a graduate student in the UC San Diego Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engi...
Undergraduate team wins 2nd place at global synthetic biology competition
December 10, 2018
A team of 11 undergraduate students from UC San Diego earned second place out of 250 teams from arou...
Engineers develop 3D-printed metamaterials that change mechanical properties under magnetic fields
December 8, 2018
A team of researchers have developed an entirely new class of metamaterials that can nearly instantl...
Scientists cut main heart disease risk locus out of DNA by genome editing
December 6, 2018
Over the past decade we’ve learned that billions of people carry a mysterious specter in their...
Combined economic and technological evaluation of battery energy storage for grid applications
December 3, 2018
A new study offers a combined chemistry-and-economics approach that should make it easier to identif...
To detect new odors, fruit fly brains improve on a well-known computer algorithm
December 3, 2018
It might seem like fruit flies would have nothing in common with computers, but new research from th...
Multifunctional Non-Equiatomic High Entropy Alloys
December 3, 2018
In a synergistic effort to combine high entropy alloy design with martensite design, Professor Kenne...