College of Engineering News

Andrei Isichenko holds the ultra-high-quality ring resonator (left), which can help turn the "coarse" light from a commercially available Fabry-Perot laser diode (right) into a low -line-width laser

Dec 13, 2024

Bringing the Power of Tabletop Precision Lasers for Quantum Science to the Chip Scale

Researchers in Daniel Blumenthal's lab work to re-create the performance of bench-top lasers on tiny devices.

Source: The Current

Members of the research group were on hand to celebrate the appointment of chemical engineering professor Michelle O'Malley to the Cliff R. Scholle Endowed Chair.

Dec 12, 2024

Michelle O'Malley Appointed to the Cliff R. Scholle Endowed Chair

The chemical engineer pioneered a new research field focused on anaerobes, enabling the next generation of biotechnology.

Tinish Bhattacharya pauses for a moment in his UCSB lab.

Dec 10, 2024

Innovative Hardware for Rapidly Solving High-order Optimization Problems

PhD student leads development of architecture to compute high-degree polynomial gradients in-memory.

Michael Beyeler, assistant professor and 2024-'25 Plous Award recipient

Dec 10, 2024

Outstanding Contributions

Assistant professor Michael Beyeler is selected for the highly regarded Harold J. Plous Memorial Award.

Artist's concept illustration of a photonic memory array. Illustration by Brian Long

Dec 04, 2024

A New Optical Memory Platform for Super-fast Calculations

An international team develops a faster, more durable optical platform for in-memory computation.

Jeffrey Stewart, a professor in the Black Studies Department, has been named UCSB's new Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. He served as the Interim Vice Chancellor for DEI from January 2022 through June 2024.

Dec 02, 2024

Jeffrey Stewart Named UCSB's Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Stewart served as the Interim Vice Chancellor for DEI from January 2022 through June 2024.

A collaboration between UCSB and UCLA faculty, known as the BioPACIFIC MIP, to design novel materials is one of many examples of the interdisciplinary sciences research being conducted on the UCSB campus.

Dec 02, 2024

UCSB Ranks Eighth Globally for Interdisciplinary Research

The inaugural rankings included nearly 750 universities from around the world.

Chemical engineering professor Phillip Christopher, pictured on left in top row, said the major award reflected the creative work of his research group.