Booth Progress: Paper Valve Making...Not Yet

The banners are up, the posters are up, the kids...well, they are still at home patiently waiting for tomorrow. And so are we. In the meantime, setup photos below and full story is here.

The Valves in your Heart and Veins are One Way Streets.

The Valves in your Heart and Veins are One Way Streets. But don't take my word for it. Talk to the bioengineering students who are taking this message to the nation's capital this weekend. It's part of the USA Science & Engineering Festival.

Read all about the project on the heart valve story on the Jacobs School Web site.

Watch a preliminary video of the UCSD bioengineering students in the process of creating their make-your-own-blood-valves activity for kids.

 A few photos are below, and stay tuned for photos and updates from the students at the event over the weekend.

                                          Bioengineering undergad Robert Amezquita with one of the valves from the students heart-valve timeline.

                                           The heart-vavle timeline.
                                     

                                           (Above and below: Bioengineering Ph.D. student Jessica DeQuach holds a Bjork-Shiley heart valve, part of the heart valve timeline the students created for the USA Science & Engineering Festi
 

Union Tribune Story: UCSD part of $1.6 million smart-grid grant

Check out Onell Soto's story in today's San Diego Union Tribune on the new smart-grid grant that UC San Diego is part of.

Two Jacobs School Employees on "40 under 40" List from Urban League of San Diego County

The Urban League of San Diego County, Equal Opportunity Day and Diversity Summit announced its first class of Forty Under 40 awardees on October 1, 2010. Terrance Mayes, director of Engineering Student Services at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, and Ebonee Williams, Managing Director, Bernard and Sophia Gordon Engineering Leadership Center at the Jacobs School of Engineering, are two of the award winners. (Photos to come.)



The award is intended to introduce young leaders who are playing critical roles in the community and professional arenas within San Diego County.  The Forty Under 40 awards program honors 40 men and women under the age of 40 who have been making headlines in their fields. Read more.

Tau Beta Pi / Computer Science Honor Society Wins Outstanding Chapter Award

UCSD's engineering honor society, Tau Beta Pi, was awarded the "nation's most outstanding chapter" award, which they also won in 2007.
The chapter was established in 1994 and with more than 150 members is one of the most visible and active student organizations on campus. The chapter provides community service and works with other student organizations to plan campus-wide events. TBP offers free tutoring for all engineering students in lower and upper division engineering classes, and sends members to local grade schools each week to teach basic science and engineering principles using experiments.

Read through the chapter's calendar of events to get a sense of the whirlwind of activities that the members organize each month. Coming up is the LED Pumpkin Carving Contest, IM Dodgeball, a Kayaking excursion, several community service opportunities, and its spring ThinkGREEN! event to encourage high school students to pursue careers in sustainable and renewable energy.
Tau Beta Pi is open to the top eighth of juniors and top fifth of seniors at the Jacobs School. To be initiated, prospective members are required to put in 15 hours of work for the honor society. Members are encouraged to continue participating in activities long after the minimum service requirement is met.

2010 Programming Contest

On October 16, 2010, UCSD students participatedin the Fall 2010 UCSD Programming Contest over the course of five hours. 36 students participated and 20 pizzas were consumed. Below is a summary of thecontest, more details (photos and detailed results) are available at: http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/groups/UCSDProgramContest/fa10/results/

The contest consisted of 8 problems, and the top honors go to Elliott Slaughter for solving 5 problems with a combined time of 420 minutes. Junior David Michon placed second, and Haoxi Fang,Van Lam, Andrew Chen, and Matt Der rounded out the top six, each with 4 problems solved. Below is a list of the top fifteen placers in the contest:
1 Elliott Slaughter
2 David Michon
3 Haoxi Fang
4 Van Lam
5 Andrew Chen
6 Matt Der
7 Ellison Bayan
8 Justin Yuhsong Huang
9 Yimai Fang *
10 Rohan Anil
11 Timothy Martin
12 Daniel Price
13 Eric Dorman
14 Yixin Zhu
15 Tim Wheeler
16 Adrian Teng-Amnuay

* unofficial contestant

Thanks go to Mike Dini and The Dini Group for providingthe prizes, food and drink, and support for the contest. Michael Vrable, Mohammad Moghimi, Do-Kyum Kim,Keliang Zhao and Faculty Coach Michael Taylor ran the contest, with help from UCSD Programming Team Co-Captain Justin Huang, CSES President Chris Moghbel, and other folks at CSES. Additional results (and photos) can be viewed here: http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/groups/UCSDProgramContest/fa10/results/

StarCAVE Up for an "Immy"

Today is the last day to vote for the Calit2 StarCAVE for an immersive Technology Award / You can vote! (one vote per IP address). http://www.immersivetech.org/summit/immys/

Learn more from the Calit2 story from Tiffany Fox



San Diego, Oct. 4, 2010 -- Immersive virtual reality has been a cornerstone of Calit2’s research into scientific visualization from the institute’s very beginning almost 10 years ago. The latest validation of that research may be handed out on Oct. 21 in Los Angeles, when Calit2 could win one of the inaugural Immersive Tech Awards, dubbed the ‘Immys’.