Top Five Reasons to Attend Research Expo at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering

5. What happens at Research Expo DOES NOT stay at Research Expo! Meet the innovators who will shape tomorrow’s technologies, advances and industries.

4. Fast-Paced Faculty Talks: Hot topics from all six engineering departments at the Jacobs School.

3. Stretch your Mind…and your Legs. Get out of the office for just a couple of hours and learn what is at the leading edge of many engineering fields.

2. Explore your World-Class Engineering Resource. The Jacobs School of Engineering is one of the top 10 schools in the world. Make the most of this resource.

1. Connect with 230+ Graduate Students. At the poster session and networking reception, spark a collaboration and recruit top talent.

Research Expo at the Jacobs School of Engineering
When: Thursday, April 12 from 1:30-6:00 p.m.
Where: UC San Diego Price Center
Register: http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/re/

Attend Research Expo. Your brain will thank you.

Faculty researchers share their experiences turning discoveries into marketable products

Four engineering faculty members with technology transfer success stories discussed the challenges of the commercialization process during a March 14 dinner celebrating the 10^th anniversary of the von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism and Technology Advancement. The von Liebig Center offers seed funding and advisory services and is part of the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego.

“If we do research and just put it on the shelf to collect dust, we’re not doing our job,” said Frieder Seible, dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering. “We need to transfer our discoveries from the research lab to society.” During the dinner, which was hosted by the UC San Diego Chancellor’s Associates, Seible said the von Liebig Center had transformed the culture of the engineering school, giving students and faculty an entrepreneurial mindset. The Chancellor’s Associates are generous group of alumni, parents and friends who give $2,500 or more each year to be used at the Chancellor's discretion to fund the university's greatest needs.

Stephen Flaim, who is deputy director of the center and one of its several technology and business advisors, talked about the so-called Valley of Death, a gap between the laboratory and the marketplace that can fell even the most promising technology. Lacking funding and a connection with private sector investors and collaborators, researchers can easily get stuck. “There is a gap before the gap,” said Flaim. “That gap is the step from the university out to the private sector. What we did here at the von Liebig Center was figure out a mechanism and an infrastructure that allowed us to make the technologies inside a university recognizable at an earlier stage.”

Read our story about the success stories of UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering professors David Kriegman, computer science and engineering; Rene Cruz, electrical and computer engineering; Sujit Dey, electrical and computer engineering; and Geert Schmid-Schönbein, bioengineering. You can learn more about the cutting edge student research happening in faculty labs, including those of Schmid-Schönbein, Dey and Cruz at Research Expo April 12. Here's a snapshot of what their students will be presenting during the poster session:

TRYPSIN AND MMP-9 LEVELS INCREASE IN PLASMA AND LUNG AFTER HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK: POTENTIAL MECHANISM FOR MEMBRANE RECEPTOR DAMAGE
Student(s): Angelina Esther Altshuler
Professor(s): Geert Schmid-Schönbein

QUERY-BASED MODELS AND ALGORITHMS FOR DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION DISSEMINATION
Student(s): Efecan Poyraz
Professor(s): Rene L. Cruz

ADAPTATION OF VIDEO ENCODING TO ADDRESS DYNAMIC THERMAL MANAGEMENT EFFECTS
Student(s): Seyed Ali Mirtar
Professor(s): Sujit Dey

DYNAMIC BASE STATION RECONFIGURATION FOR BATTERY EFFICIENT VIDEO DOWNLOAD
Student(s): Ranjini B Guruprasad
Professor(s): Sujit Dey

MODELING, CHARACTERIZING, AND ENHANCING USER EXPERIENCE IN CLOUD MOBILE RENDERING
Student(s): Yao Liu
Professor(s): Sujit Dey

USER INTEREST ESTIMATION BASED ON VIDEO WEBPAGE CLASSIFICATION
Student(s): Chetan Kumar Verma
Professor(s): Sujit Dey

VIDEO CACHING IN THE WIRELESS CLOUD: ALGORITHMS AND IMPACT ON DELAY AND CAPACITY
Student(s): Hasti Ahlehagh
Professor(s): Sujit Dey

From Reseach Expo Best Poster Winner to CEO

Raj Krishnan won best poster at Research Expo in 2009. Check out the posters for Research Expo 2012.
Raj Krishnan earned his PhD in Bioengineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering in 2010. He recently came back to campus, and the Jacobs School of Engineering, to give a talk at a von Liebig Entrepreneurism Center 10th Anniversary event. Krishnan provided an overview of how we went from graduate student to entrepreneur, and how the von Liebig Center helped in this process. http://www.vonliebig.ucsd.edu/

Research Expo Poster Titles are Online

230 cutting-edge Research Expo poster titles are online. Check them out and see the future of engineering. Find out where many different engineering fields are moving. Get the inside scoop.

Research Expo / Learn about Research Advances First

The UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering invites you to campus for Research Expo 2012. See engineering advances before they are widely disseminated. Meet 230+ talented graduate students at the poster session.  Learn at the faculty talks and network at the reception.

Research Expo is Thursday, April 12 from 1:30-6:00 p.m. http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/re/

Research Expo at a Glance
* 230+ graduate student posters highlight engineering research
* Ten-minute faculty talks from all six engineering departments
* Meet faculty, students and technologists at the networking reception

Stay all afternoon or just a few hours in your area of interest. Recruit students, learn about the latest research breakthroughs, spark a collaboration.

Research Expo is a unique opportunity for industry engineers, scientists, investors and recruiters to access talent and advanced research across all six departments of the Jacobs School of Engineering.

Attend Research Expo. Your brain will thank you! http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/re/

#RE2012 / Research Expo 2012 / Twitter Hashtag

We've created a Research Expo 2012 hashtag, #RE2012. The Research Expo website displays all twitter posts with #RE2012 and that gives us a quick and fun way to keep the Research Expo news stream fresh, as we lead up to the April 12, 2012 event.  (Here is the full Twitter feed for the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering.)

The three main components of Research Expo:

Poster Session
Faculty Talks
Networking

Research Expo 2012 site is live.

Research Expo 2012 site is live. Registration opens soon.

Access the talent and technology of the Jacobs School of Engineering. All in one afternoon. Save the date for Research Expo 2012: April 12.

RF MEMS Switch Wins Research Expo 2011 / Watch Chirag Patel

University of California, San Diego electrical engineering Ph.D. student Chirag Patel won the top prize – the Rudee Outstanding Poster Award – at Research Expo 2011 for his work on RF MEMS metal-contact switches. The switches could make their way into MRIs and other medical equipment, satellites, and electronic instrumentation such as spectrum analyzers and signal sources. Search all Research Expo poster abstracts.

Read the full story on the Jacobs School news site.

Rudee Outstanding Poster / Grand Prize / Research Expo

ECE graduate student Chirag Dipak Patel winner of the Rudee Outstanding Poster at Research Expo 2011

Congratulations to ECE graduate student Chirag Dipak Patel, who won top prize at Research Expo 2011.

Poster title and abstract are below. Check back tomorrow for more info on his research.

130. HIGH-POWER, LARGE-FORCE, AND TEMPERATURE-STABLE METAL CONTACT SWITCHES
Student(s): Chirag Dipak Patel
Professor(s): Gabriel Rebeiz

This poster presents a novel electrostatic RF MEMS metal contact switch based on a tethered cantilever topology. The use of tethers results in a design that has low sensitivity to stress gradients, biaxial stresses, and temperature. A switch with a footprint of 160x190 um^2 and based on a 8-u m thick gold cantilever with an Au/Ru contact is implemented on a high-resistivity silicon substrate and results in a total contact force of 0.8-1.2 mN at 80-90 V, a restoring force of 0.5 mN, a pull-in voltage of 61 V, an up-state capacitance of 24 fF, and an actuation time of 6.4 u s. The device achieves a switch resistance of 2.4 +/-1.4 to 1.8+/- 0.6 ohms at 90-100 V in open laboratory environments (unpackaged). This design has the potential serve as a low-cost and high-reliability replacement for conventional electromagnetic relays in application areas such as automated testing equipment, high performance switching networks, medical devices, satellite systems, and defense.

The top posters by department are here.

Research Expo 2011 Best Poster Winners (by Department)

Below are the winners of the top poster, by department at Research Expo 2011. Congrats! and stay tuned for the grand prize...the Rudee Outstanding Poster Award...

Bioengineering

#3 A Custom Integrated High Input Impedance Biopotential Amplifier for Non-Contact and Mobile Health (ECG/EEG) Monitoring

Yu Mike Chi (Professor Gert Cauwenberghs)

Computer Science and Engineering

# 79 Kremlin: Like Gprof, but for Parallelization

Donghwan Jeon, Saturnino Garcia (Professor Michael Taylor)

Electrical and Computer Engineering

#130 High-Power, Large-Force, and Temperature-Stable Metal Contact Switches

Chirag Dipak Patel (Professor Gabriel Rebeiz)

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

# 157 Investigating the Use of Wing Sweep for Pitch Control of a Small Unmanned Air Vehicle

Kim Wright, Saam Ostovari, Anand Vaidya (Professor Thomas Bewley)

NanoEngineering

#223 Biological Applications of Catalytic Nanomotors

Daniel R Kagan (Professor Joseph Wang)

Structural Engineering

#242 Thermal Stress and Buckling Detection in Rail by Non-Destructive Ultrasonic Testing

Claudio Nucera (Professor Francesco Lanza de Scalea)

Prepping for mobile blogging today from Research Expo

...I'm going to be testing out mobile blogging today at Research Expo


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Research Expo is Tomorrow / April 14

Research Expo is tomorrow, April 14. It's not too late to register, and get access to more than 250 graduate students and their research projects at the poster session. Below are snapshots of three of the projects that the graduate students will present tomorrow.

UC San Diego Engineers Test and Predict Impact Damage to Commercial Aircraft

 Future Computer Vision Tools to Aid Medical Research and Healthcare

 Improving Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer Through Advanced Optical Imaging

Solar Concentrator Video has approx 1,600 views in 6 days

1600 views for the solar concentrator video...not bad for a technial video...have YOU seen it yet?




I'm not sure where the traffic came from...according to YouTube insight, most of the views have no direct referrer link...meaning that the video spread virally.

Solar Concentrator Video on YouTube

Jason Karp and his solar concentrator have made their way to YouTube. (Today YouTube, tomoroww???)


Want more? Read the academic paper here: http://psilab.ucsd.edu/publications.html

By the way, this is Joseph Ford's lab at the Jacobs School...birthplace of "origami optics"...and the inventor of origami optics, Jason Tremblay earned his PhD and is a postdoc in the Ford lab.

Caption: Electrical engineering Ph.D. student Jason Karp won the 2010 Rudee Research Expo Outstanding Poster Award. His winning poster: “Planar Micro-Optic Solar Concentration”.

photo credit (above): UC San Diego / Erik Jepsen

Caption: The new solar concentrator design (right) from UC San Diego collects sunlight with thousands of small lenses imprinted on a common sheet. All these lenses couple into a flat “waveguide” which funnels light to a single photovoltaic cell. Older system designs (left) require many photovoltaic cells which each need to be aligned and electrically connected.

Solar Concentrator Video

Above is a video of Jason Karp talking about the technology that won him top prize at Research Expo 2010.

Check out the list of departmental winners and honorable mentions here.

I'm excited to see what happens with this technology...which Karp et al published earlier this year in Optics Express. (Check out the PDF here).

Update (2:55 pm on April 20): the "post event" site for Research Expo 2010 is live.