Dean's message
1.76 billion is a powerful number
August 2023
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UC San Diego’s intertwined education, research and innovation enterprise is too dynamic, varied and fast-moving to be captured in any one statistic. But one number that does say a lot is $1.76 billion. This is the amount our UC San Diego campus expended on research last year. The Jacobs School of Engineering is a significant part of this powerful number, and one of my goals is to help the campus continue to grow and strengthen our collective research enterprise – and all the critical education and innovation that is inherently part of academic research for the public good.
Across our wildly collaborative research environment here at the Jacobs School, we are now engaged in a deliberate process of renewal. We are taking stock of the great strengths that have allowed us to grow our engineering and computer science research over the last decade. But what we are doing is far more than a strengths inventory. Instead, we will map our strengths to the new research needs that we foresee emerging in the next five years. This effort requires the collective brainpower of our nearly 300 faculty. To this end, I have engaged faculty groups in each of our six academic departments. Together, we will identify forward-looking breakout moves for research in the public interest for each of our departments.
I’m calling these breakout opportunities Leviathans. I use this mythical term to capture the sense that these emerging opportunities are huge, powerful targets that we can only win by working together – more strategically and fiercely than ever before. This is a project that will link internal and external collaborators in new and exciting ways. We can’t – and shouldn’t – do this alone.
I look forward to giving updates on this effort in the coming months. As always, I can be reached at DeanPisano@ucsd.edu.
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Sincerely,
Al
Albert ("Al") P. Pisano, Dean
UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering