UC San Diego Engineers Help Make Buildings Earthquake Safe
Engineering researchers from UC San Diego and the University of Arizona have concluded three months of rigorous earthquake simulation tests on a half-scale three-story structure, and will now begin...
View ArticleResearch Expo 2009 Highlights
From novel nanoengineering approaches to space robots, green computing, weather prediction technology and structural health monitoring, engineering students at the University of California, San Diego...
View ArticleDECaF 2009
More than 70 high tech and life science firms participated in a student-run engineering job fair on February 20 at the University of California, San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering. The...
View ArticleConcrete Canoe Lift Off and Send Off
UC San Diego undergrad engineering students will send off a 25-foot handmade concrete canoe to Hawaii for the annual American Society of Civil Engineers' (ASCE) pacific southwest regional collegiate...
View ArticleConcrete Canoe 2009
A team of UC San Diego structural engineering students designed and built the 25-foot concrete canoe as part of the American Society of Civil Engineers' annual collegiate conference and competition....
View ArticleStructural Engineering Overview from 2009 Admit Day
Structural Engineering professor and department chair Gilbert Hegemier gives an overview of the structural engineering department at UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering.
View Articlemasonry shake march 09
Engineering researchers at UC San Diego test a one-story concrete masonry structure with brick veneer via a series of simulated earthquake jolts.
View ArticleJunkyard Derby 2009
From old bicycle parts to gold mannequin busts and cardboard pizza boxes, UC San Diego students put their skills to the test during the annual Junkyard Derby. The sixth annual Junkyard Derby, held May...
View ArticleEngineering Undergrads Inspire Local Eighth Graders
Undergraduates from the Jacobs School of Engineering have just finished classes for the school year, but their legacy continues.
View ArticleMasonry shake tease
UC San Diego researchers recently shook a three-story, 1920s era masonry building on the world's largest outdoor shake table during a series of intense simulated earthquakes. The full story and video...
View ArticleUCSD Engineers Shake Historic Building
As part of the $1.24 million research project sponsored by the National Science Foundation under the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) program, a three-story, masonry-infilled,...
View ArticleRetaining Wall Shake
Researchers will subject a retaining wall to a series of strong simulated earthquakes at the UC San Diego Englekirk Structural Engineering Center on Friday, Oct. 2, 2009. The results of this project,...
View ArticleMichael Miller
Michael Miller (AMES BS 1974, MS 1976) tells a few stories from his days as a UC San Diego student and highlights how the Jacobs School Alumni Council is working to give back to UCSD, in part through...
View ArticleJacobs School of Rock 2009
As the Jacobs School community prepares for Jacobs School of Rock 2010, take a quick look at some of the great fun at Jacobs School of Rock 2009.
View ArticleAdmit Day 2010 Dean's Talk
Dean Frieder Seible provides an undergraduate-focused overview of the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering.
View ArticleStructural Engineering / Admit Day 2010
Structural engineering professor and chair Gilbert Hegemier provides an undergraduate-focused overview of the Structural Engineering Department at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering.
View ArticleRobot Unicorn Attack at Junkyard Derby 2010
Robot Unicorn Attack takes Junkyard Derby 2010 by storm.
View ArticleJunkyard Derby 2010: It Handles Pretty Well for a Library
Junkyard Derby 2010 at UC San Diego is run by the engineering undergraduates in the Triton Engineering Student Council (TESC)
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