Pumpkin Pi

(Pumpkin) Pi (3.14) is only a scary number is you try to remember it out to 100 digits. UC San Diego engineering students turned pumkins into pi last thursday, as the rest of the country prepared to turn pumpkin into piE. (And if you don't think people eat pumpkin pie on halloween, two different San Diego restaurants were sold out of pumpkin pie this weekend.)

See more photos from the 2010 UC San Diego IEEE LED Pumpkin Carving Contest here.

UC San Diego and NanoEngineering Featured in 7/39 TV News Story

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/station/as-seen-on/Recession_Report__UCSD_San_Diego-105928283.html

Check out the NanoEngineering Department in action in this short news story that ran last week on Ch 7/39.

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/station/as-seen-on/Recession_Report__UCSD_San_Diego-105928283.html

Eitan Yaakobi is Making Flash Memory Better

Eitan Yaakobi earned a 2010 Intel Ph.D. Fellowship

"The number of times you can erase the memory is limited,” said Eitan Yaakobi, an electrical engineering PhD student at UC San Diego. “We are working on advanced coding schemes for flash to extend the lifetime and reliability of the memory so the next generation of flash will be more reliable and will have better endurance.”


Yaakobi is advised by professors Paul Siegel, Alexander Vardy and Jack Wolf from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering.

Learn more about Yaakobi's work on the Jacobs School news site.

Seismic Testing of Wind Turbines / UCSD TV Tonight

Tonight at 9 PM US PT is the first airing of a new UCSD TV program, "Seismic Testing of Wind Turbines for Renewable Energy."

The show will be online shortly. Check back here for the online version.

LED Pumpkin Contest

What: LED Pumpkin Contest
When: Thursday 10/28/10, 4:00 pm

Where: Warren Mall

Compete with fellow engineers and join our 2nd annual LED Pumpkin Contest! Carve out an engineering themed pumpkin, light it with LEDs and win a prize! Everyone's welcome so invite your friends and form a team! It's free and fun! Please RSVP your team at: http://ieee.ucsd.edu/events/item.php?id=171

 Check out last year's contest.

Cross-Border Regional Entrepreneurism and Technology Alliance

UC San Diego is partnering with Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC) in a research and education program designed to stimulate technology commercialization and economic development in the Southern California-Baja California region. Under the partnership, UC San Diego’s top-ranked Jacobs School of Engineering and its William J. von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism and Technology Advancement will work with UABC’s highly regarded Institute of Engineering and the Center for Technology Development and Transfer to form a crossborder regional entrepreneurism and technology alliance called “CREATE.”

Read more the Jacobs School news site: cross-border regional entrepreneurism and technology alliance.



From L to R, Eugenio Clariond Reyes-Retana, CEO of Verzatec and a member of the Council of Advisors for the Jacobs School of Engineering; Rosibel Ochoa, director of the von Liebig Center; and Gabriel Estrella Valenzuela, president of UABC.



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