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College of Engineering News

Umesh Mishra presents the 2018 Faculty Research Lecture titled "Thank God for GaN."

Nov 29, 2018
Umesh Mishra's Faculty Research Lecture: "Thank God for GaN"

The professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering describes what makes gallium nitride a superior semiconductor.

Professor Dan Blumenthal

Nov 15, 2018
Energy Efficiency Project Led by UCSB Funded by DOE

The FRESCO project received $3.75 million to develop a low-power, low-cost solution for overcoming power and bandwidth scaling limitations.

Turbines spinning in fog at an offshore wind farm reveal the wind shadows the big blades cause. Photo by Vattenfall

Oct 10, 2018
Wind Turbines: Better "Mixing" for Greater Efficiency

Mechanical engineer models ways to make wind turbines "play nice" together to enhance wind farms' efficiency.

Source: UCSB Current
Animation showing the microbes found in bovine digestive tracts that allow them to unlock the energy in cellulose.

Oct 09, 2018
Turning Waste into Energy

A short video describes Michelle O'Malley's research exploring her novel approach to clean energy. 

Source: UCSB Current
Artist's representation of embryonic tissue being formed. Illustration for Nature cover by Brian Long.

Sep 20, 2018
An Embryonic Miracle of Tissue Development (Akin to 3D Printing)

UCSB researchers uncover a longtime mystery: how tissues and organs are sculpted during embryogenesis.

Source: UCSB Current
A crowd circulates randomly in a room.

Sep 18, 2018
Using WiFi to Count Crowds through Walls

Professor Yasamin Mostofi's method is accurate and requires no devices to be located inside the room.

Source: UCSB Current
Cover of a 2016 Energy Frontiers Research Centers booklet

Aug 23, 2018
Faculty Receive 4 New DOE Energy Frontiers Grants

Funds support projects to solve "grand challenges" related to batteries, membranes, quantum coherence, and neuromorphic computing.

Concept art showing the dynamics of water (blue-green shapes at top and bottom) at the interface of a membrane (blue horizontal section at center) with hydrophobic and hydrophilic groups scattered across the surface. Illustration by Peter Allen

Aug 07, 2018
Genetic Algorithm Reveals Water Dynamics at an Interface

Simulation shows new ways to control the dynamics of water at an interface, with possible application in water filtration membranes. 

A small, soft actuator made of liquid metals and flexible polymers is the soft analog of an electromagnetic motor. This image appeared on the cover of Advanced Functional Materials

May 30, 2018
Soft Machines

UCSB researchers develop a low-voltage actuator for soft, wearable robotics.

Source: UCSB Current
The original meter-wide bench-top optical frequency synthesizer (top) shown with the new 1-centimeter-wide DODOS version on it, approximately to scale, and in expanded view (bottom)

Apr 30, 2018
Shrinking the Optical Synthesizer

Team led by CoE profs John Bowers and Luke Theogarajan achieves major accomplishment in miniaturization.

An illustration of a memristor as a cybersecurity device that appeared on the cover of Nature Electronics

Apr 27, 2018
An Ionic Black Box

UCSB researchers use emerging memory devices to develop electronic circuits for cybersecurity applications.

Source: UCSB Current
The human eye

Apr 11, 2018
Treating Vision Loss

A UCSB team helped create a retinal implant designed to replace support cells damaged by dry age-related macular degeneration

Source: UCSB Current

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