Science Fair / a Life-Long Journey

Computer engineering alumna Shirley Miranda has been involved in the San Diego Science and Engineering Fair since she was 13. And no, this is not a recurring nightmare! Watch the video below.




Miranda is also deeply involved in COSMOS. Check out Miranda's Cosmos YouTube video here.

Speeding Toyotas

Tom Fudge from KPBS has an interesting piece on speeding Toyatas, with insights from two Jacobs School of Engineering professors: computer science (CSE) professor Ingolf Krueger and electrical engineering (ECE) professor Mohan Trivedi.

Envision 2011

We are working on a story about student-organized and student-run outreach event here at the Jacobs School. It's called Envision 2011 and it brings young women from local high schools to campus to experience engineering: lab tours, web programming, robot building and more.

Stay tuned.

History Sniffing KPBS Audio File is Available

KPBS posted the audio file of the These Days show (yesterday) in which Hovav Shacham, Sorin Lernin, and Ranji Jhala described their "history sniffing" work.

Nuno Vasconcelos Electrical Engineering Professor Quoted in Wall Street Journal

ECE prof Nuno Vasconcelos is quoted in an interesting story on counting crowds in Cairo by Wall Street Journal reporter Carl Bialik. Check out the Statistical Visual Counting Lab site.

History Sniffing Story on KPBS These Days

The UC San Diego computer scientists involved in the history sniffing research were on "These Days" on KPBS this morning. The transcript and audio file of the show with Hovav Shacham, Sorin Lerner, and Ranjit Jhala will be posted shortly here on the KPBS site. The Jacobs School of Engineering history sniffing press release is here.

Warehouse Fire Video / Story

In case you need a break from pre-superbowl hype, check out this research on how corrugated cardboard boxes stacked up very high in warehouses burns. They looked at cardboard boxes filled with Styrofoam cups. With warehouse fires, the trick is to get the fire out while just the outsides of the cardboard boxes is burning. Once the contents of the boxes catch fire, it's much harder to get the fire out. And this is why the researchers are studying how cardboard boxes burn...if you know exactly how they burn, you can set up better systems for getting the fires out before they get out of control.

Read the full story on the Jacobs School of Engineering news site:

UC San Diego Engineers Play Role in Warehouse Fire Safety

Check out the short video clip from YouTube embedded below.