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College of Engineering News

BIoPACIFIC is a collaboration between faculty and staff at UCSB and UCLA.

Jan 22, 2024
BioPACIFIC MIP: Two UC Campuses Advance a New Model for Materials Research

Backed by NSF, the BioPACIFIC MIP unites scientists and engineers from the California NanoSystems Institute nodes at UCSB and UCLA.

Nov 29, 2023
UCSB Partners with Xanadu to Enhance Quantum Education

UCSB will work with Xanadu to co-create custom resources for students and develop training materials.

A nearly $10 million grant will allow UCSB researchers to embrace a trend in the pharmaceutical and biomedical industries: automation.

Nov 08, 2023
Eliminating Bottlenecks to Breakthroughs

A nearly $10 million grant enables acquisition of synthetic biology robotics systems needed to perform extremely precise research at unprecedented scales.

Yangying Zhu, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at UC Santa Barbara

Oct 24, 2023
Among the Best and Brightest

Mechanical engineering assistant professor Yangying Zhu to investigate a promising cooling method for high-performance devices.

UCSB's Computer Science Department launched a new program to help students from underrepresented communities navigate the PhD application process

Oct 23, 2023
Computer Science Launches Initiative to Help Underrepresented PhD Applicants

Student-led program will support students from underserved and marginalized communities. 

Image of a micro-electronic circuit board

Oct 18, 2023
CHIPS Act Funding to Fuel Microelectronic Technology Research

UCSB joins a federally sponsored regional innovation hub to help bolster microelectronics technology.

Kerem Çamsarı and his PhD student, Navid Anjum Aadit, received a Bronze Medal during the Bell Labs Prize Competition

Oct 18, 2023
ECE Professor and PhD Student Win Bronze Medal at Bell Labs Prize Competition

Çamsarı and Aadit received the Bronze Medal and a $25,000 prize for their project, “Probabilistic Computing with p-bits: From Concept to Supremacy.” 

Photo of Assistant Professor Nina Miolane and her research group.

Oct 10, 2023
An NSF Early CAREER Award to Advance Geometric AI for Imaging Sciences

Nina Miolane develops geometric statistics and geometric deep learning for imaging sciences.

Assistant Professor Enoch Yeung

Oct 10, 2023
An NSF Early CAREER Award to Study DNA Dynamics and Gene Transcription

Enoch Yeung seeks to visualize gene transcription and surrounding patterns of DNA supercoiling

Image of a test setup to illustrate wifi reading through walls

Sep 12, 2023
WiFi Can Read Through Walls

Yasamin Mostofi's lab develops a new technique to tackle a tough technological problem.

Source: UCSB Current
Illustration showing an artist's conceptual rendering of a quantum magnetometer on a chip. Illustration by Brian Long

Aug 31, 2023
Major NSF Funding to Pursue Quantum-scale Sensor Technologies

Collaborative grant aimed at making quantum technologies real.

UC Santa Barbara chemical engineering major Jessy Gonzalez explains his summer research project during a poster session sponsored by the Center for Science and Engineering Partnerships (CSEP).

Aug 21, 2023
An Inspiring Summer

Dozens of undergraduate students presented their summer research projects and reflected on their academic and personal growth.

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