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College of Engineering News

Welker Award winner Larry Coldren

Feb 12, 2024
Larry Coldren Wins Major Materials Award

The Heinrich Welker Award recognizes Coldren's contributions to photonics-enabling materials science.

UCSB professor Irene Beyerlein, a newly elected member of the National Academy of Engineering

Feb 07, 2024
UCSB Professor Irene Beyerlein Elected to National Academy of Engineering

Beyerlein was cited by the NAE for “methodologies predicting the mechanics of complex engineering materials to improve their stability and strength.”

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.

Professor John Bowers

Dec 12, 2023
John Bowers Receives the 2024 Jun-ichi Nishizawa Prize

The IEEE award recognizes the UCSB professor for his contributions to optics and photonics

More than two dozen female and female-identifying graduate students and postdocs attended an inaugural workshop.

Dec 08, 2023
Strength in Knowledge

Empowered by an inaugural workshop, female graduate students feel prepared to pursue professorships.

Entrepreneurial mentor Jonathan Gartner

Dec 05, 2023
CNSI Mentor-in-Residence to Assist Entrepreneurs, Innovators, Startups

His mission is to help those who have or plan startups to get or stay unstuck.

Source: UCSB Current
UCSB Materials professor Chris Van de Walle

Dec 05, 2023
A Major Award for Materials Professor Chris Van de Walle

The award notes the professor's many contributions that connect theory to application.

Image of a hand holding an illuminated light bulb

Dec 01, 2023
Nine young faculty members receive 2023-24 Hellman Fellowships

Young UCSB faculty members are recognized for the promise they show for "great distinction" in research.

Source: UCSB Current

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.

For the first time in the event's history, high school students will be able to compete in the international hacking competition, which runs Dec. 2-8.

Nov 17, 2023
Register for UCSB's International Capture the Flag Event

Teams of high school and college students can register  to compete in the International Capture the Flag event, running from Dec. 2-8.

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.

National Science Foundation Director Sethuraman Pachanathan.

Nov 06, 2023
NSF Director Sees Abundant Innovation and Opportunity During Visit to UCSB

UCSB's "excellence, will, and strategy," said Sethuraman Panchanathan, allow it to "punch above its weight."

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