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College of Engineering News

Dec 29, 2020
Recognizing Innovation

Yangying Zhu receives a National Science Foundation Early CAREER Award to pursue phase-change research. 

A photo of open web shopping pages displayed on a computer screen

Dec 16, 2020
Google Provides $1 million to Improve "Recommender Dialog" Systems

The research team includes UCSB natural-language-processing expert William Wang. 

Source: The Current
The south side of Henley Hall, new home of the Institute for Energy Efficiency.

Dec 15, 2020
Model of Efficiency

UC Santa Barbara’s Institute for Energy Efficiency settles into its state-of-the-art home, the just-completed, donor-funded Henley Hall 

 

Artist’s concept illustration depicting a neutron scattering beam equipped with the new capillary rheo-SANS device being used to probe the deformation and breakage of polymers as they are exposed to extremely strong shear flows.

Nov 30, 2020
The Breakdown on Broken Polymers

A new technique promises deeper insights into polymer degradation in high-shear conditions.

Artist's concept illustration depicting cells treated with antibiotics propagating in a river environment, while those that have been treated to remove the fluoride exporters die off in the presence of fluoride.

Nov 30, 2020
Is Fluoride the Answer to Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria?

In Michelle O’Malley’s lab, a simple approach suggests a leap in addressing a grand challenge of our time.

Materials professor and department chair Michael Chabinyc

Nov 24, 2020
Materials Chair Michael Chabinyc Elected AAAS Fellow

The American Association for the Advancement of Science recognized him for distinguished contributions to the field of polymer science. 

Illustration of a person at a keyboard working working with binary code to provide a patch for software in an airliner.

Nov 24, 2020
The Fix: Patching Embedded Systems

Fixing software vulnerabilities at the source-code level is difficult. With new DARPA funding, Giovanni Vigna and former students are finding a better way.

Nov 20, 2020
Bacteria Provide Blueprint for Computing on the Edge

Enoch Yeung receives Young Investigator Award to study biological networks that can lead to more robust and adaptive artificial intelligence. 

Nov 19, 2020
Three CoE Faculty Among World's Most Influential Scientists

The 2020 Highly Cited Researchers List identified scientists who are in the top one percent of their field by citations. 

The image shows electron scanning microscopy images of sands melted for 3D printing and printed results made with the new cobalt-nickel superalloy.

Nov 16, 2020
A Defect-resistant Superalloy for 3D Printing

Superalloys typically cannot be 3D-printed. Tresa Pollock’s laboratory group has made one that can be.

The wearable ION blood-alcohol-level detector.

Nov 11, 2020
UCSB Startup Milo Sensors Launches its Wearable Blood-Alcohol Monitor

The ION™ is the first product from the company that was launched at UCSB.

Nov 02, 2020
Rising Stars

Three UC Santa Barbara researchers have been invited to a prestigious workshop intended to increase the number of women in academia. 

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