Baseball Update: UC San Diego falls 6-4 in Division II title game

Congrats to the UC San Diego baseball team. They made it to the finals of the Division II World Series over the weekend, but lost to Southern Indiana in the final game. Read more from UC San Diego sports here.

According to the posted team roster, 10 team members (26.32%) of the baseball team are in the Jacobs School of Engineering. The count is below (major / department):
5 - Structural Engineering / Structural Engineering
2 - Mechanical Engineering / Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
1 - Computer Engineering / Computer Science and Engineering
1 - Computer Engineering / Electrical and Computer Engineering
1 - Pre-Bioengineering (Pre-Medical) / Bioengineering

Thanks to David H. for the stats!

Wireless Sensor Startup in $80K Entrepreneurship Challenge Finals

“Today you have to put sticky patches on your chest to record this information. It’s uncomfortable and messy,” said Jacobs School electrical engineering Yu Mike Chi, about the technology he and his startup are developing.

And speaking of sticky patches on your chest, sunblock-soaked Memorial Day weekend starts right now! (It's 5 PM on Friday). But on Wednesday June 2, when some of us are nursing sun burns (hopefully not me), Chi and his Cognionics team will be competing for the lions share of $80K in cash and services at the UC San Diego Entrepreneurship Challenge.

Wireless sensors that monitoring your heart or your brain even though they do not actually touch your skin are at the center of UC San Diego electrical engineering PhD student Yu Mike Chi’s dissertation (so sunburns won't be a problem). This technology – and the plan for commercializing it – earned Chi and his Cognionics team one of just five spots in the finals of the UC San Diego Entrepreneurship Challenge.

Read more on the Jacobs School news page.

UC San Diego Men's Baseball in College World Series Final Tomorrow

The UC San Diego men's baseball team plays for the national championship tomorrow, Saturday May 29, 2010 at 9 AM PT (noon eastern time). UCSD will play Southern Indiana in the Division II College World Series.

photo caption: UCSD shortstop Vance Albitz slides into home plate.
Photo/Willis Glassgow/WC Sports Photos

Read more about the team's road to the national championship on the UC San Diego news site. Also, check out the UCSD baseball players' blog.

I'm trying to track down who from the Jacobs School of Engineering is on this year's baseball team. Anyone have any names?

UPDATE: One of the engineering students is Eric Abraham, a mechanical engineering major.

Chile Earthquake Discussioin on UCSD-TV

UC San Diego structural engineering professors Jose Restrepo and Tara Hutchinson share their insights on damage from the great Chilean earthquake of 2010 on the UCSD-TV program "On Beyond." The full program is 27 minutes and first aired on May 10, 2010.

Robots on Live News this Morning

Robots and their graduate student developers from the Bewley lab (MAE) were on live TV this morning. KUSI came to see the robots that have been in the news recently.

UCSD-TV Science Blog

I just got out of a meeting with Rich Wargo from UCSD-TV, who runs a science blog called the UCSD-TV Science Blog.

Read Rich Wargo's bio here.

Check out the UCSD-TV science portal here.

Jacobs School of Rock is Coming on June 4

Props to Alex Matthews from Calit2 (and the band CODE) for designing the flyer for the 2010 Jacobs School of Rock.

The video from Jacobs School of Rock 2009 is below: