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Other name | Irwin and Joan Jacobs School of Engineering |
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Former name | Division of Engineering |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1992; 34 years ago (1992)[1] |
Parent institution | University of California San Diego |
| Dean | Albert P. Pisano[2] |
Academic staff | 248[3] |
| Undergraduates | 5,857[4] |
| Postgraduates | 2,951[4] |
| Location | ,, 32°52′53″N117°14′06″W / 32.8815°N 117.235°W /32.8815; -117.235 |
| Website | jacobsschool |
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TheUC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering is theengineering school of theUniversity of California, San Diego.
Engineering programs began atUCSD during the 1964 academic year with a broad applied science department in the areas of aerospace engineering, solid mechanics, bioengineering, and materials science. The first chair of the Department of Aeronautical (later Aerospace) and Mechanical Engineering Sciences (AMES),Sol Penner, recruited numerous experts in their fields from theCalifornia Institute of Technology. The first four faculty members recruited including Penner wereHugh Bradner,Forman A. Williams and Sinai Rand, who were followed byPaul A. Libby and others.[5][6] Penner would later recollect that "Roger Revelle's dream of building a State University with emphasis on distinguished graduate work had immediate appeal for me because it was consonant with what [he] had become familiar at the California Institute of Technology."[7] These recruits included the second and third chairs of the department,John W. Miles andEric Reissner. During Miles' tenure, the department would be renamed to the Department of Applied Mechanics and Engineering Sciences, distinguishing it from the second engineering department.[7] Founded in 1965 byHenry G. Booker as the Department of Applied Electrophysics, it would be renamed the Department of Applied Physics and Information Science.[7] Both departments quickly achieved international acclaim for the high-quality research they supported. Additionally, undergraduate engineering instruction began in 1968 with a BA degree ininformation and computer science.[8]
Research achievements in the 1970s included faculty memberHannes Alfvén's receipt of the 1970Nobel Prize in Physics andKenneth Bowles's development ofUCSD Pascal. In 1982,UCSD combined the engineering departments into the Division of Engineering, led by the first dean, Lea Rudee. The university's Division of Engineering was reorganized into the School of Engineering in 1992, which the school considers its formal founding year.[9] This time, Robert Conn, an expert in plasma physics and semiconductors was chosen to lead the new School.[10] In 1997, whenQualcomm founder and former UCSD engineering professorIrwin Jacobs and his wife Joan Jacobs provided a $15 million endowment for the School, the School went through a final name change leading to the current name in their honor. Six years later, Irwin and Joan Jacobs added to the endowment with a $110 million gift for scholarships, fellowships, and faculty support.[11]
The School of Engineering occupies ten buildings on 20 acres in and aroundEarl Warren College on the UC San Diego campus. These buildings are Jacobs Hall (Engineering Building Unit 1), Powell-Focht Bioengineering Hall, Atkinson Hall (Calit2), Computer Science and Engineering Building, Engineering Building Unit 2, Structural and Materials Engineering Building, Charles Lee Powell Structural Systems Laboratory, High Bay Physics Building, Science and Engineering Research Facility, and Center for Memory and Recording Research. The primary thoroughfare, Warren Mall, runs fromGeisel Library'sSnake Path at its western end to EBU 2 at its eastern terminus. Two new collaborative and learning spaces, the Design and Innovation Building and the Franklin Antonio Hall, were opened in November 2021 and September 2022 respectively.[12][13]
Warren Mall features four recognizable works of public art belonging to theStuart Collection. The oldest of these,Bruce Nauman'sVices and Virtues, was completed in 1988 as a series of neon signs superimposing theseven deadly sins andseven virtues over the Powell Structural Systems Laboratory.Alexis Smith'sSnake Path was built to link Warren Mall to Geisel Library in 1992.Tim Hawkinson's 2005 workBear frames the academic courtyard north of Warren Mall, and in 2012Do Ho Suh'sFallen Star was mounted slightly askew on top of Jacobs Hall.
The Jacobs School of Engineering is currently home to six distinct engineering departments, offering eighteenundergraduate majors, sixteenmaster's degrees, and twelve Ph.D. programs. Undergraduate admission to each of these departments is capped, meaning that applicants who are not directly accepted to the major as freshmen or new transfers must apply for acceptance.
TheDepartment of Bioengineering was founded in 1994. It began in 1965 under the leadership ofY.C. Fung as part of the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Sciences Department, at which time it was the firstbiomedical engineering program in the nation. In 2016, the department housed 24 faculty, 633 undergraduates, and 245 graduate students.[14] Undergraduates can choose from four majors within the department, namelybioengineering,biotechnology,bioinformatics, and biosystems. The first two majors areABET-accredited. Programs for students pursuing graduate degrees include a five-year BS/MS, an MAS degree in medical device engineering, MS degrees, PhD degrees, and a joint MD/PhD with theSchool of Medicine.
TheDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering is the largest engineering department in the UC system. It houses 67 faculty, 1,933 undergraduates, and 873 graduate students.[15] The department was spun off in 1987 from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. Undergraduate students in the department may obtain a BS or BA incomputer science, a BS incomputer engineering, or a BS inbioinformatics. The data science program at UCSD is jointly operated by the CSE, Mathematics, and Cognitive Science departments. Graduate students may obtain an MS, MAS, PhD, or combined BS/MS degree.
TheDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering was founded in 1987 as part of the former Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences' split. The department has 52 faculty members, 1,132 undergraduates, and 673 graduate students.[14] Undergraduates may choose a BS program in electrical engineering, engineering physics, or computer engineering, or they can pursue a BA in "electrical engineering and society." Graduate students pursuing a master's or PhD can pursue a specialization in applied ocean sciences, applied physics/electronic devices and materials, communication theory and systems/magnetic recording, computer engineering, electronic circuits and systems, intelligent systems, robotics, and control, medical devices and systems, nanoscale devices and systems, photonics, or signal and image processing.
TheDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering was founded in 1964 as AMES, the first engineering department at UC San Diego. It was renamed to MAE in 1999. The department has 44 faculty members, 1,092 undergraduates, and 547 graduate students.[14] Undergraduate students pursue BS degrees in aerospace engineering, environmental engineering, and mechanical engineering. Graduate students may obtain MS, MAS, and PhD degrees in the areas of applied and solid mechanics, material sciences, fluid mechanics, energy, thermal sciences, engineering physics, dynamic systems and controls, environmental engineering, biomechanics, and design.
TheAiiso Yufeng Li Family Department of Chemical and Nano Engineering, founded in 2007, is the youngest engineering department in the Jacobs School. It is the first nanoengineering department in the United States to offer both undergraduate and graduate degree programs.[16] As of 2019, it has 30 faculty members, 722 undergraduates, and 200 graduate students. In fall of 2008, NanoEngineering took administrative control of chemical engineering. The undergraduate nanoengineering program was awarded ABET accreditation in 2010, the first of its kind in the nation to receive such accreditation.[17] Undergraduates can choose an engineering focus in bioengineering, chemical engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, or materials science. Graduate students can obtain MS and PhD degrees in either nanoengineering or chemical engineering.
TheDepartment of Structural Engineering split from the former Department of Applied Mechanics and Engineering Sciences in 1999. However, its independence from the department predates this split, as the Structural Systems Research group was separately administered beginning in 1993.[18] Presently, the department has 24 faculty, 517 undergraduates, and 201 graduate students housed in the Structural and Materials Engineering building. Undergraduate students are limited to pursuing a degree in structural engineering. Graduate students may obtain an MS in Structural Engineering or Structural Health Monitoring, as well as a PhD in structural engineering with various specializations.
The Jacobs School is also affiliated with several academic centers and institutes.[19] These include:
The Jacobs School of Engineering overall ranks 9th in the United States, and 5th in the nation among public universities according to the U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools rankings.[30] The Jacobs School of Engineering maintains up to date rankings information onthe rankings page on their website.
Graduate program rankings from the U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools rankings published in March 2020:
The Jacobs School of Engineering is also the 10th best in the world for engineering/technology and computer sciences, according to an academic ranking of the top 100 world universities published online in February 2008 by the Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.[40]
Albert P. Pisano (born 1954) is Dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering at theUniversity of California San Diego (UC San Diego),a position he has held since September 2013. Pisano served on the mechanical engineering faculty of theUniversity of California at Berkeley College of Engineering (UC Berkeley) from 1983 to2013.Pisano was elected to theNational Academy of Engineering in 2001 “for contributions to the design, fabrication, commercialization, and educational aspects of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS).”
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