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College of Engineering News

A person is intubated by emergency personnel

Sep 11, 2025
UCSB-designed Soft Robot Intubation Device Could Save Lives

The innovative tool, designed specifically for non-expert users, improves airway access and raises survival odds in critical medical emergencies.

Source: The Current
A photo taken outside of the a new 105,000 square foot facility leased by UCSB

Sep 08, 2025
UCSB Disrupts Academic Paradigm with Innovative Goleta Facility to Translate Technology for Social Impact

The facility will accelerate technology translation and national economic growth.

False-colored scanning electron microscopy image of human fibroblasts secreting (orange) matrix-bound nanovesicles. Illustration courtesy of Marley Dewey.

Sep 02, 2025
Marley Dewey Receives 5-Year NIH Award for Early-Stage Investigators

UCSB assistant professor of bioengineering will study extracellular vesicles that support tissue repair.

Image of Dorit Hanein

Aug 28, 2025
Dorit Hanein Named Fellow of the American Society for Cell Biology

The UCSB professor is is one of fourteen scientists recognized for their contributions to the field.

image showing various aspects of the BioPACIFIC MIP

Aug 25, 2025
A $19.8M Renewal for the Second Phase of the NSF BioPACIFIC MIP

The facility connects fundamental research with industry needs, strengthening U.S. leadership in biomaterials innovation.

Three M-WET presenters smile at the camera after receiving an award for their research talk.

Aug 15, 2025
UCSB Postdoctoral Fellow and M-WET Team Win National Award for Water Purification Research

The team bested more than twenty other research groups to win the Student and Postdoc Team Science Competition.

Aug 11, 2025
The 2nd Annual NIH T32 Symposium at UCSB

Keynote speakers, faculty researchers, and scholars in bioengineering presented their cutting-edge research addressing real-world health issues.

Photograph of Jonathan Balkind (center) with PhD students

Aug 08, 2025
A Novel Approach to Moving Huge Data Sets for Machine Learning

Could a cart on tracks be used to speed drives across a data center? 

Data Driven Biology Trainee Artury Ramirez presents his research on anaerobic gut fungi inside a lecture hall.

Aug 01, 2025
Driven by Data

UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Bioengineering hosts symposium highlighting novel data-driven biology research.

Image of Arpit Gupta

Jul 24, 2025
Arpit Gupta Receives Google Funding to Develop Network Foundation Models

The two awards reflect the perceived importance of his innovative research.

An image of California Assemblymember Gregg Hart speaking to a group that included UCSB faculty and officials.

Jul 15, 2025
Startup Leaders Present at the CNSI Technology Incubator’s Tenth Anniversary

Representatives from eleven companies that began in the Incubator shared their stories.

Distinguished chemical engineering professor Rachel Segalman has been named the university's new Vice Chancellor for Research

Jul 14, 2025
Rachel Segalman Named UCSB's Vice Chancellor for Research

The distinguished chemical engineer and materials scientist joined the UCSB faculty in 2014.

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