College of Engineering News

The south side of Henley Hall, new home of the Institute for Energy Efficiency. Photograph by Jeff Liang

Dec 15, 2020

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. Illustration by Brian Long

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 (red) propagating in a river environment, while those that have been genetically modified to remove the gene that produces the fluoride exporter (green) die off in the presence of fluoride. Illustration by Lillian McKinney

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.

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.

Enoch Yeung, assistant professor of mechanical engineering

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.

Alan Heeger (left), Chris Van de Walle, and John Bowers (right) were named to the 2020 Highly Cited Researchers List.

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.

Additive manufacturing of a cobalt-nickel (CoNi)-base superalloy via electron beam melting (EBM) and selective laser melting (SLM). Shown (from left): Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) micrographs of metal powder of the alloy SB–CoNi-10 used for a) EBM and b) SLM printing trials of simple bar geometries (c, d) printed for uniaxial tensile testing; and complex geometries such as prototype turbine blades with e) internal cooling channels or f) thin, over-hanging platforms.