Crash Test Tomatoes...EGames 2009 Video

EGames 2009 at the Jacobs School...who knew crushing tomatoes was so much fun?

And rockets propelled by bottle rockets...those never go out of style!

Read the Jacobs School Web story here, and click below for a 1min 20 second video.

Student-Run Job Fair at Jacobs School

A couple of weeks ago, Jacobs School undergraduates put on a huge engineering job fair called DECaF. More than 70 companies came to campus to recruit engineering students from the Jacobs School. Watch the video below for a glimpse of the event, and/or read the Web story running here.

Research Expo 2009

Search student abstracts and learn more about Research Expo by following the link below:

http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/re/

Amazing Man-Made Nanomachines

March third is the word.

Jacobs School NanoEngineering professor Joseph Wang is giving a public lecture geared to the general public on March 3rd here on the UC San Diego campus.

Where? UC San Diego, Geisel Library (lower level...in the Science & Engineering Events Room)

When? March 3, 2009

Time? 11 AM till noon

Cost? It's free...but please register online here:

http://www.tinyurl.com/ucsdnanolectures

Science and Engineering Blog Link

You can learn things like, how to find a chemistry dictionary for your word processor at UC San Diego's Science & Engineering Library Blog.

Alex Snoeren Snags Sloan Research Fellowship

Congratulations to computer science professor Alex Snoeren. Alex was awarded a 2009 Sloan Research Fellowship today, Feb 17 2009. You can read the press release from the Sloan Foundation here.

The full list of 2009 Sloan Research Fellows is here.

We have profiled Snoeren's research a couple of times in the last few years. His research took center stage in a story covering the winter 2007 Center for Networked Systems (CNS) Research Review.

In summer 2007, Snoeren and grad student published an award winning paper in SIGCOMM focused on controlling bandwidth in the clouds. A profile of that work is here.

Snoeren is in good company, when it comes to computer scientists from the Jacobs School winning Sloan Research Fellowships. Check out the list below:

Russell Impagliazzo (1994)
Daniele Micciancio (2003)
Amin Vahdat (2003)
Henrik Wann Jensen (2004)
Stefan Savage (2004)
Serge Belongie (2005)
Alin Deutsch (2006)
YY Zhou (2007) ...move to UC San Diego in progress

Alex Snoeren (2009)

Amped about Amplifiers

San Diego is amped about amplifiers lately. Electrical engineering assistant professor James Buckwalter published a ground breaking paper outlining the silicon-baled millimeter wave amplifier he invented that provides both high gain and high bandwidth.

The press release and 5 minute video are here.

Voice of San Diego ran a profile today.

The story of Buckwalter's Cascaded Constructive Wave Amplifier has been making the rounds on the tech Web sites, including NetworkWorld, and a tech Web site from China. Unfortunately, I can't read the Chinese news story, but the advertisement on the right side of the page for "iPhone earrings" is pretty cool.