Tuesday, February 22, 2011

This Week at UCSD: IDEaS: Innovation Day Expo and Symposia



Engage and network with leading innovators.  IDEaS features a week of free high-profile events for the campus and community highlighting the exciting innovation emerging from UC San Diego. The Innovation Symposia takes place February 22-24; on February 25, UC San Diego will host an engaging expo featuring live demonstrations, hands-on exhibits and face-to-face interaction with the innovators themselves.

INNOVATION SYMPOSIA                                                             
IDEaS will feature a dynamic series of evening talks that will be presented by innovators from our UC San Diego community. From Tuesday, February 22 through Thursday, February 24, the Innovation Symposia will host lectures featuring a panel of star-studded Nobel laureates, medical innovators and noted alumnus Maurizio Seracini. In addition, three day-time programs will focus on cultural innovation and social justice. All are free and open to the campus and community members, and will be presented in an open and lively discussion forum.
WHERE:  UC San Diego Price Center West Ballroom                    
WHEN:    February 22-24, 2011


Meet face-to-face with some of the world’s most prominent leaders, scientists and researchers, including keynote speaker, renowned artist, filmmaker and alumnus Kip Fulbeck’88, MFA ’92. Free snacks provided. To attend, register at boxoffice.ucsd.edu.

WHERE:  RIMAC Arena Floor                                   
WHEN:    February 25, 2011
3 p.m.:     “Who Are You? The Changing Face of America”
   UC San Diego alumnus Kip Fulbeck ’88, MFA ’92, one the world’s premier artists exploring multiracial    
   identity uses his own multiracial background as a springboard, inspiring audiences to honestly   
   consider, “Who Am I?”
4 p.m.:     Meet face-to-face with world renowned leaders, scientists and researchers at the Innovation Day Expo,
   featuring live demonstrations, hands-on exhibits and networking with the innovators.

Friday, February 18, 2011

Seismic Retrofits for Hostpitals in San Diego

I didn't feel the quake in Baja this morning, but hearing people talk about it reminded me that I hadn't yet posted this story about hospital earthquake retrofits in San Diego. The story by Janet Lavelle "Hospitals on track for 2013 seismic deadline" ran in the San Diego Union Tribune on Wednesday.

One of the issues that came up in the story is strengthening/stiffening buildings vs. making them perform better in earthquakes. A couple of structural engineers tied to the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering are quoted in the story: Structural engineering professor Benson Shing and adjunct structural engineering professor Robert Englekirk.


Monday, February 14, 2011

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.