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