WE POWER EMERGING INDUSTRIES

The UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering trains the innovation workforce for the economy to come. We power the success of emerging industries all across the region and the nation – one student at a time. With nearly 10,000 engineering and computer science students, we are a powerful force for the public good. Through education, research and industry partnerships, we propel many emerging industries forward, including: 
 

 

Fusion Engineering

We are leaders in California and across the country in fusion engineering. With collaborations linking universities, industry and government expertise, we are pursuing the fundamental and applied advances needed to make fusion energy a practical reality. At the same time, we are driving key workforce development efforts in fusion. 

The UC San Diego Fusion Engineering Institute is the place to learn more.

Healthcare Engineering

Our strengths in ultra-low-power hardware, artificial intelligence (AI), privacy and security, sweat sensing, and more represent opportunities to drive clinical-grade wearable biometric sensing at scale. Research partnerships with UC San Diego’s forward-thinking Health System mean transformational advances can reach the clinic. 

Learn more at our Center for Wearable Sensors at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering.
 

Future Biomanufacturing

We are building a domestic manufacturing base driven by microbes. With R&D partnerships and workforce development, we seek to make biomanufacturing cost-competitive by leveraging our unique capabilities in design, advanced data analytics, AI and robotics. 

Connect with our Future Biomanufacturing Center at UC San Diego.

 

AI Tutors/Emerging Intelligence

With generative AI tools, software innovation, and teaching excellence, we have created a scalable AI Tutor platform aimed at improving learning inside and outside the classroom. This is just one of a series of computer science and electrical engineering efforts aimed at creating and harnessing the power of emerging intelligence for the public good.

 

Learn about our AI Tutors and the Laboratory for Emerging Intelligence here at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering.

 

New Approaches to Semiconductors

California DREAMS (Defense Ready Electronics And Microdevices Superhub) is an easy-access platform for the design and manufacture of prototypes of advanced electronic modules such as heterogeneous semiconductors. This platform is a national resource for the U.S. microelectronics industry, and UC San Diego is a key player in this semiconductor ecosystem.

 

Our UC San Diego semiconductor research and development ecosystem is designed for industry collaboration.

 

At the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego,

We improve lives.
We strengthen the economy.
We advance national security.
We launch great careers.
We future-proof our national competitiveness.
We train the innovation workforce for the economy to come.
We power emerging industries.

We make bold possible.

 

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The Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California San Diego offers excellence at scale in research, education, industry collaboration and technology transfer. The Jacobs School of Engineering ranks the #10 engineering school in the nation and #6 among public schools. A global thought leader, the Jacobs School of Engineering ranks #1 in the nation among public engineering schools for citations per publication. With 288 faculty and more than 9,100 students in six departments, the Jacobs School of Engineering is the second largest engineering school in California. Year after year, our graduates future-proof the innovation economy. Our entrepreneurial faculty lead teams that work across disciplines and industries to tackle the toughest challenges that no lab, department or company can handle alone. At the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, we make bold possible