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College of Engineering News

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.

Jackson State student KC Sims (right) works alongside mentor Aria Ghasemizadeh, a UCSB PhD student, during her summer internship as part of the NSF-funded Partnership for Research and Education in Materials Science.

Aug 07, 2024
Partners with a Purpose

The National Science Foundation awards millions of dollars to two partnerships involving UC Santa Barbara.

 

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.

S. Shailja PhD '24, electrical and computer engineering

Jun 07, 2024
Electrical and Computer Engineering Dissertation Receives Lancaster Award for Excellence

Shailja builds mathematical tools for modeling neuronal fibers in human brains as geometrical objects in three-dimensional space. 

Source: The Current
EyeClimate, the 2024 New Venture Competition Finals champions (left to right) Tim Arnold, NVC Finals judge; Bowen Zhang, PhD student; Max Gordon, undergraduate student; and Satish Kumar, PhD student

May 24, 2024
Turning an Entrepreneurial Eye to the Climate Change Challenge

EyeClimate takes on climate change to win 25th UCSB New Venture Competition. 

ECE PhD student Satish Kumar, a 2024 Schmidt Science Fellow

May 07, 2024
A Historic Fellowship

Electrical and computer engineering PhD student Satish Kumar earns prestigious fellowship and makes UCSB College of Engineering history.

Eight current UCSB PhD students with ties to the College of Engineering have received prestigious fellowships from the National Science Foundation.

Apr 12, 2024
COE Students Earn Prestigious NSF Fellowships

Fellows receive $159,000 in financial support over three years to conduct their impactful research.

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.

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.

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