Undergraduate News
Jacobs School of Engineering Undergraduates Soared to New Heights in 2025
December 16, 2025
Eleven UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering undergraduate programs ranked in the Top 10 among U.S. public engineering schools in 2025. This excellence extends across the School, and our students soar each and every day. From building electric aircraft to autonomous underwater vehicles, scoring high-performance computing wins and landing prestigious internships and jobs, Jacobs School of Engineering undergraduates had another incredible year. Full Story
From Pong to PlayStation: This Class Uses Gaming to Teach Computer Science
December 9, 2025
What was the first video game? How did we get from the two gray dots and two gray rectangles on a black background that made up ‘Pong’ to the complex, almost life-like graphics and sophisticated storytelling of today’s video games? About two dozen undergraduate students learned the answers to these questions – and more – in a new seminar for first-year students titled “A Technical History of Video Games.” Full Story
UC San Diego Team Takes Third Place at SC25 Student Cluster Competition in St. Louis
December 5, 2025
A team of UC San Diego undergraduates incuding engineers and computer scientists won third place in the 2025 Student Cluster Competition (SCC25) at the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, held this year in St. Louis, Missouri. The UC San Diego SCC25 Team Sea++ is a group within the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) at UC San Diego. Full Story
Transforming Computer Science Education in the Age of AI
October 28, 2025
Educators, education researchers and computer scientists are teaming up as part of a consortium led by the University of California San Diego to reshape the future of computer science education in the era of generative AI. The consortium, supported by $1.8 million from Google.org, Google’s philanthropic arm, brings together experts from education and nonprofit organizations, as well as industry and academia, comprising thousands of educators in dozens of countries around the world, who in turn will impact tens of thousands of students. Full Story
UC San Diego's New Bioengineering Labs Open Doors for Student Innovation
September 22, 2025
When UC San Diego bioengineering students step into their newly renovated instructional labs this fall, they'll find themselves in cutting-edge spaces designed not just for hands-on learning, but with the specific needs of bioengineers in mind. Full Story
2025 Jacobs School Award of Excellence Recipients
June 12, 2025
The Jacobs School of Engineering will celebrate the undergraduate students in the class of 2025 at its annual Ring Ceremony on Friday, June 13. Six students were selected from the nearly 1,500 students receiving bachelor’s degrees from the Jacobs School of Engineering to receive an Award of Excellence from their academic department. Full Story
Top 10, Yet Again
April 8, 2025
The Jacobs School of Engineering has ranked the #10 best in the nation in the influential U.S. News & World Report Rankings of Best Engineering Schools. Among public engineering schools, the Jacobs School ranks #6 best engineering school in the nation. Full Story
Hands-on Chemical Engineering Course at UC San Diego Brings Students Out into the Light
February 25, 2025
Chemical engineering undergraduates at the Jacobs School get valuable opportunities to work together on a capstone project in the junior-level lab course for chemical engineers that professor Aaron Drews designed and teaches. Full Story
Student-Developed FishSense Project Collects Data With One Click
October 23, 2024
Currently, researchers and citizen scientists bring along a ruler as they dive below the surface and use it to guesstimate the length of fish they spot. Or fish are caught, measured onboard a boat and released back into the ocean. The FishSense project is making these tasks easier and more accurate. Full Story
Computer Science Undergrad Jonathan Ty Awarded Alan Turing Memorial Scholarships for Support of LGBTQIA+ Community
October 22, 2024
Jonathan Ty, a sophomore majoring in computer science, has been awarded the 2024-2025 Alan Turing Memorial Scholarship and the Alan Turing Memorial Teradata Scholarship from the University of California San Diego’s Center for Networked Systems (CNS). Each year CNS recognizes a student whose studies relate to networked systems and who is an active supporter of the LGBTQIA+ community. Full Story