Below is video and audio from Jan Kleissl's talk at the Sanyo-UC San Diego smart grid / solar / energy management announcement on Thursday. The video is of the UC San Diego sky imager from Jan Kleissl's lab in the MAE Dept here at the Jacobs School.
The San Diego Union Tribune and KPBS and many other news outlets covered this story.
Friday, June 4, 2010
Thursday, June 3, 2010
TIES Gets UC San Diego on Presidential Community Service Honor Roll
The Jacobs School's Teams in Engineering Service (TIES) played an important role in getting UC San Diego on the 2009 President's Community Service Honor Roll with distinction.
TIES is an innovative academic program that offers partnerships between engineering students and non-profit organizations in the local community leading them to identify, address and solve engineering problems.
TIES is modeled after the EPICS Program at Purdue University, a program originating in the mid-90s, which has proven to be enormously successful in its efforts to provide its engineering students with the opportunity to work in the real world.
The best way to start to understand TIES is to browse the list of current TIES projects.
Read the full story by Christine Clark here.
TIES is an innovative academic program that offers partnerships between engineering students and non-profit organizations in the local community leading them to identify, address and solve engineering problems.
TIES is modeled after the EPICS Program at Purdue University, a program originating in the mid-90s, which has proven to be enormously successful in its efforts to provide its engineering students with the opportunity to work in the real world.
The best way to start to understand TIES is to browse the list of current TIES projects.
Read the full story by Christine Clark here.
Update Monday June 7: The San Diego Union Tribune covered the story.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Mike Chi and Cognionics Team Win First Prize at $80K Entrepreneurship Challenge
And the winner is...Cognionics! Led by Jacobs School electrical engineering graduate student Mike Chi, Cognionics won first prize tonight at the UC San Diego Entrepreneurship Challenge. They get $25K in cash to fund their startup (wireless health monitoring sensors) and $15K in legal services.
Chi left an academic conference in Paris two days early just to present at the entrepreneurship challenge. And the jet lag didn't trip him up. His team not only won the official competition, but they also won the popular vote from the audience (which carries with it an extra thousand bucks).
His demo, in which he put one of the sensors on his chest, and showed the audience how it picked up the ECG must have made a big impression.
I'll update this story tomorrow with some pictures.
Chi left an academic conference in Paris two days early just to present at the entrepreneurship challenge. And the jet lag didn't trip him up. His team not only won the official competition, but they also won the popular vote from the audience (which carries with it an extra thousand bucks).
His demo, in which he put one of the sensors on his chest, and showed the audience how it picked up the ECG must have made a big impression.
I'll update this story tomorrow with some pictures.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
UC San Diego Sustainability Guru Honored by Fast Company
Fast Company recently named Byron Washom, Director of Strategic Energy Initiatives, to the 39 spot in their list of The 100 Most Creative People in Business 2010.
"We have a device called a Skytracker, a fish-eye in the sky. We are developing the ability to predict one hour in advance the amount of sunlight that will be falling on every solar panel in 25 square miles."
Four Jacobs School Professors Among The 2010 Hellman Faculty Fellows
Congratulations to the four young professors from the Jacobs School who are among the 30 UC San Diego faculty members awarded a 2010-2011 Hellman Faculty Fellowship at the University of California, San Diego. The funds awarded will support young faculty members in their scholarly work as they strive for tenure with the university.
The Jacobs School of Engineering recipients are:
Jurijs Bazilevs: Structural Engineering
Zhaowei Liu: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Donald James Sirbuly: NanoEngineering
Andrea Rae Tao: NanoEngineering
Read the full story on the UC San Diego news site.
The Jacobs School of Engineering recipients are:
Jurijs Bazilevs: Structural Engineering
Zhaowei Liu: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Donald James Sirbuly: NanoEngineering
Andrea Rae Tao: NanoEngineering
Read the full story on the UC San Diego news site.
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!
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!
Friday, May 28, 2010
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.
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.
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