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Lucas Erich, a materials PhD student at UCSB and NASA Fellowship recipient

Sep 18, 2024
Materials PhD Student Receives Esteemed NASA Fellowship

Lucas Erich will pursue research connected to making a mission to Mars feasible. 

2024 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship recipients (clockwise from top left) Wesley Mills, Max Emerick, Griffin Tong, and Joshua Baston

Sep 09, 2024
Four COE Graduate Students Win Prestigious National Defense Fellowships

The fellowship provides full tuition, monthly stipend, travel budget, and health insurance funding for three years.

Concept illustration of non-radiative recombination, in which electron-hole interaction at a defect in the atomic structure results in heat, rather than light, being emitted. Jim Speck will use his Vannevar Bush Award to advance understanding of the physics of such interactions. Illustration by Fangzhou Zhao

Sep 06, 2024
Jim Speck Wins Vannevar Bush Award

The $3-million award will enable investigation of little-understood physics in gallium-nitride devices.

Arnab Pal

Sep 05, 2024
Exploiting Atomically Thin Materials for Energy-efficient Electronics

UCSB doctoral graduate receives one of three such prizes awarded world-wide.

Source: UCSB Current
ExFAB staff and senior participants from UC Santa Barbara

Aug 28, 2024
UCSB to Lead $22M NSF-Funded Center on Exceptional Microbes

UC Santa Barbara, UC Riverside, and Cal Poly Pomona receive a six-year, $22 million grant to establish a first-of-its-kind biofoundry.  

A slide at DEF CON announcing Shellphish as a $2 million semifinal winner.

Aug 22, 2024
Success in DARPA Cyberdefense Competition Nets Team a Trip to the Finals — and $2 Million

The team was one of seven (from a field of forty-two) to emerge from the semifinal round.

James B. Rawlings, UCSB chemical engineering professor

Jul 30, 2024
Excellence in Education

Chemical engineering professor James B. Rawlings has received the nation's highest honor in chemical engineering for education.

Image of Shuji Nakamura holding a blue laser

Jul 16, 2024
Shuji Nakamura to Be Inducted into Engineering and Science Hall of Fame

He is honored again for his world-changing invention of the blue LED.

Source: UCSB Current
Image of mechanical engineering professor Yangying Zhu in her lab with some of her current graduate students.

Jun 18, 2024
UCSB Again Ranked Among the Best in the Nation

All five UCSB engineering programs evaluated this year, and the COE itself, ranked in the top 16 among public universities, with one in the top 2 and three in the top 13. 
 

2024 Outstanding Teaching Assistants (clockwise from top left) Cassidy Tobin, Anders Seawright, Eric Hsieh, Junrui Liu, Kunjesh Agashiwala

Jun 10, 2024
Teaching Assistants of the Year, Selected by Class of 2024

Graduating seniors recognize one teaching assistant from each undergraduate degree program.

Outstanding Seniors (clockwise from top left) Ivy Wang, Arik Cheslog, Arun Khanna, Yufei Song, Andy Ouyang, Jonathan Cheng, Yuxiang Wan, Kai Mambu

Jun 10, 2024
Meet the COE's Class of 2024 Outstanding Seniors

Every undergraduate department recognizes the graduating senior with the highest GPA.

2024 Outstanding Faculty (clockwise from top left) Galan Moody, Trevor Marks, Jonathan Balkind, Yoga Isukapalli, Michael Doherty

Jun 10, 2024
Class of 2024 Selects Outstanding Faculty

Three first-time recipients are among the five COE faculty members honored by graduating seniors. 

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