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College of Engineering News

2025 Vice Chancellor’s Award for Scholarship, Leadership, and Citizenship recipients Akinwole Akinbolagbe (left) and Towela Phiri

Jul 01, 2025
Honored for Extraordinary Service

The university recognizes a pair of engineering students for their outstanding service to campus.

2025 Outstanding Faculty recipients (clockwise from top left) Michael Gordon, Yoga Isukapalli, Ziad Matni, Andrew Tell, and Matthew Begley

Jun 13, 2025
Class of 2025 Recognizes Outstanding Faculty

Two honorees are first-time winners of the recognition voted on by graduating seniors. 

2025 Outstanding Teaching Assistant recipients (clockwise from top left) Anna Pischer, Max Emerick, Ajaykrishnan E S, Max Crisafulli, and Hunter Larson

Jun 11, 2025
Class of 2025 Selects Teaching Assistants of the Year

The award honors one teaching assistant from each undergraduate degree program. 

Graduates throw their caps in the air shortly after the end of the College of Engineering's Undergraduate Commencement.

Jun 10, 2025
Celebrating a Record-Breaking Class

The class of 2025 set four College of Engineering records related to the number of bachelor’s degrees earned. 

UC Santa Barbara College of Engineering's Outstanding Seniors (clockwise from top left) Changxuan Yang, Tien Nguyen, Will Corcoran, Jacob Fingerman, Selena Deng, Jordan Prescott, Tianle Yu

Jun 10, 2025
Meet the Outstanding Seniors in COE's Class of 2025

Each undergraduate degree program selected honorees based on GPA and other impactful activities and accomplishments. 

Tirrell Award recipient Tianle Yu and Hynes-Wood Award recipient Lauren Bajo-Smith

Jun 09, 2025
Recognizing Excellence

The College of Engineering honors two graduating seniors for their outstanding contributions outside of the classroom. 

An image of the Arcana cover, a wizard ready to do battle.

May 13, 2025
Journey to Arcana: A Student Team Creates UCSB’s First Major Game

Undergraduates in the Gaucho Game Lab persevered to complete the first RPG to come out of UCSB.

Akinwole Akinbolagbe

Feb 13, 2025
Black Student Stories

Mechanical engineering senior Akinwole Akinbolagbe sees incentives for Black-student leadership as a key to building the campus community.

Eyob Teshome, shown with an illustration evoking Black History Month.

Feb 12, 2025
Black Student Stories

Meet computer science student Eyob Teshome, a Sacramento native who sees incentives for leadership as a key to expanding UCSB's Black community.

Towela Phiri

Feb 11, 2025
Black Student Stories

Meet Towela Phiri, the first of several extraordinary Black students in STEM at UCSB we will introduce in this space over the coming days to celebrate Black History Month. 

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

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.

UCSB and UCLA faculty involved with the BioPACIFIC MIP collaboration

Dec 02, 2024
UCSB Ranks Eighth Globally for Interdisciplinary Research

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

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