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CONVERGENCE IS HERE

Issue 19 is out: Read UC Santa Barbara's engineering and science magazine online.
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#1 IN THE WORLD FOR ENGINEERING RESEARCH IMPACT

UCSB is ranked at the top among public universities for engineering research impact by the Leiden Rankings - for several years running.
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Highlights

Engineering Science Building

Exceptionally Fine-Tuned
UCSB Engineering ranked at No. 3 in the
world in automation and control

Brad Chmelka

The Swedish Connection
Brad Chmelka recognized for research linking
science and engineering solutions

Siri: What is Natural Language Processing?

The iPhone, Siri, and AI
William Wang seeks to make human-computer
communication as seamless as possible

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At A Glance

UCSB College of Engineering at a glance

Featured Discoveries

Researcher at lab instrumentation

Silicon integrated photonics researchers lead efforts that make UCSB the west coast hub of national manufacturing initiative AIM Photonics

Rare single-element iodine polymer discovery

Rare single-element iodine polymer discovery addresses 200-year-old mystery of iodine-starch complex

Computer Science

A keynote by augmented reality pioneer Tobias Höllerer and a discussion with futurist Robert Scoble predict AR is ready to explode

anerobic gut fungi

Bioengineering researchers examine anerobic gut fungi from large herbivores for innovative biotech applications