Materials assistant professor Daniel Oropeza has been recognized with the 2025 Young Investigator Award from the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), the nation’s largest association supporting Hispanics in STEM.👏 Click here to read more: engineering.ucsb.edu/news/materia...

Today, The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering hosted the deans and engineering leaders from all UC’s for a day of collaboration and innovation. 💡 These leaders worked together to discuss magnifying our strengths and ensuring the success of all engineering colleges in the UC.

HerBrain, the first digital twin of the maternal brain, has been named one of TIME Magazine's Best Inventions of 2025! 👏 Led by @ninamiolane.bsky.social the HerBrain app illustrates how brain structures change across the pregnancy and postpartum periods, so a woman can predict her weekly shifts.

How can we use new technologies intentionally and avoid digital burnout?🤳 Paul Leonardi, Professor of Technology Management, explores this question in his newly published book, Digital Exhaustion: Simple Rules for Reclaiming Your Life. Click here to read more: engineering.ucsb.edu/node/4156

On October 9, aerospace engineer Sreedhara Somanath will be leading a seminar at UCSB, where he will discuss the resilience involved in the Chandrayaan-3 mission and the growing technological strength of India as a whole. 🚀 Click here to read more: engineering.ucsb.edu/news/former-...

UCSB physics professors John Martinis and Michel Devoret have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics. They were lauded for work that, according to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, "revealed quantum physics in action," affirming UCSB as the epicenter of quantum research.

Cadense, a UCSB startup that develops adaptive shoes, was recently selected as a finalist for a 2025 Innovation by Design Award presented by the American business magazine Fast Company.🏅 Click here to read more: engineering.ucsb.edu/news/profess... #UCSBEngineering #Innovation

We kicked off the new school year with the launch of the BioFoundry for Extreme and Exceptional Fungi, Archaea and Bacteria (ExFAB). The new facility will allow researchers to make novel discoveries using previously unstudied microbes that could generate advances in biotechnology & biomanufacturing.

UCSB distinguished professor Eckart Meiburg has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) award to study sediment dynamics in collaboration with former UCSB mechanical engineering associate professor Alban Sauret.👏 Click here to read more: engineering.ucsb.edu/news/eckart-...

UCSB researchers have created a non-electronic soft robotic device that quickly and autonomously guides a soft tube into the trachea. The innovative tool improves airway access and raises survival odds in critical medical emergencies.💡 Click here to read more: news.ucsb.edu/2025/022019/...

Bioengineering assistant professor Marley Dewey has received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) research award to support her work on recently discovered extracellular vesicles that play an important role in tissue repair.👏 Click here to read more: engineering.ucsb.edu/news/marley-...

Chuqiao (Elise) Chen, a postdoctoral researcher at UCSB, and her collaborators were awarded top honors at the 2025 Energy Frontier Research Center Principal Investigators’ Meeting. The team won the Student & Postdoc Team Science Competition.👏 Read more: engineering.ucsb.edu/news/ucsb-po...

Seven graduate students recently presented their research at the 2nd Annual T32 Symposium, organized by the Bioengineering Department.👏

UC Santa Barbara chemical engineering professor James B. Rawlings has been named the recipient of the 2025 Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award, the highest recognition of professional achievement for U.S. control systems engineers and scientists.👏

This year, UCSB launched 2 new semiconductor-manufacturing summer courses! 🔬☀️ “Equipment Maintenance Technician” & “Microchip Fabrication I,” emphasize precision, documentation, teamwork & the iterative nature of device fabrication, all skills essential for careers in semiconductor manufacturing.

Congratulations to Anika Jena, a rising fourth-year chemical engineering major at UC Santa Barbara, for receiving an Eli Lilly Travel Award from the American Chemical Society (ACS) Women Chemists Committee (WCC) and Eli Lilly and Company.👏

Arpit Gupta has been recognized with the Google Research Scholar Award and Google ML (machine learning) and Systems Junior Faculty Award for his pioneering work at the intersection of machine learning and computer networks.👏

This past June, the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) Technology Incubator celebrated its 10th anniversary!👏 A group gathered to tell stories about their varied roads to creating, developing, and selling their diverse and innovative products — and the role of the Incubator in their progress.

Today it was announced that UCSB's next chancellor will be Dr. Dennis Assanis, a distinguished scholar and accomplished higher education leader. Approved by the UC Board of Regents, he'll assume his role on Sept. 1, 2025. ow.ly/haUT50WrqjM

Congratulations to UC Santa Barbara chemical engineering professor Rachel Segalman, who has been named the university’s new Vice Chancellor for Research!👏

In November, Charlott Vallon will join The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering’s Mechanical Engineering Department as an assistant teaching professor! 👏 Vallon is interested in decision-making for complex cyber-physical systems, systems that integrate both computation and physical processes.

Jeff Sakamoto, professor of materials and mechanical engineering at UC Santa Barbara, was recently announced as one of twelve members of the 2025 Class of Fellows of The Electrochemical Society (ECS). 🎉

After 38 years as a professor at UCSB, John Bowers is retiring. Bowers, a pioneer in lasersand photonics has served as director of the IEE at UCSB since it was founded in 2008 and is also a Distinguished Prof in the Depts of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Materials, and Technology Management.

Graduating seniors in each undergraduate degree program in The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering select one Outstanding Faculty Award recipient every spring. The Outstanding Faculty for the Class of 2025 are Michael Gordon, Yoga Isukapalli, Ziad Matni, Andrew Teel, and Matthew Begley.👏

The class of 2025 is just getting started! 🎓 🎉 We invited our newest alumni to share their thrilling plans for life after graduation.👏 #UCSB2025 #UCSBEngineering

The UCSB College of Engineering is excited to announce that we have been named The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering for a former dean who has had significant impact on the college!👏 Click here to read more: news.ucsb.edu/2025/021920/...

Happy Pride Month!🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Each June we celebrate Pride in honor of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising and use this opportunity to lift the voices of our LGBTQIA+ community. #Pride #PrideMonth #UCSB #UCSBEngineering

Congratulations to Tianle Yu, a computer science major, for receiving the College of Engineering’s 2025 Tirrell Award for Distinction in Undergraduate Research!👏 Click here to read more: engineering.ucsb.edu/news/recogni...

Congratulations to Lauren Bajo-Smith, a chemical engineering major, for receiving the College of Engineering’s 2025 Hynes-Wood Award!👏 Click here to read more: engineering.ucsb.edu/news/recogni...

It's commencement week!🎓 The UC Santa Barbara College of Engineering will celebrate a record-breaking year during the 2025 Undergraduate Commencement! The college has conferred 472 bachelor’s degrees during the 2024-’25 academic year, breaking the previous record of 437 set last year.

UC Santa Barbara electrical and computer engineering professor @ninamiolane.bsky.social and her team are using AI to provide new insights into how the brain changes during pregnancy and motherhood and how such changes might shed light on postpartum depression and other issues.🧠

Congratulations to Nico Lehner and Evan McCall, the student creators of RazeMath and the winners of the 26th Annual New Venture Competition Finals! RazeMath uses artificial intelligence (AI) to offer individually tailored math tutoring for college students struggling with higher-level courses.

Discover our lab's research with the @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social on building AI models of the maternal brain @neuromaternal.bsky.social !🤰🧠 Thanks, @ucsbengineering.bsky.social , for the feature! Read more:👇

Congrats to B. S. Manjunath, a professor in the UCSB ECE Department, and collaborators Tresa Pollock, professor in the Materials Department, and Beth Pruitt, professor in and chair of the Bioengineering Department, for receiving a major National Science Foundation (NSF) award!👏

The CoE is excited to welcome back Xin (Eric) Wang to the Computer Science Department as an assistant professor this July! 💻 💡 Click here to read more about Wang: engineering.ucsb.edu/news/q-new-c... #UCSB #UCSBEngineering #CS

Congratulations to Arpit Gupta, assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at UCSB for receiving a five-year, $700,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) early #CAREER award! 👏

Looking for something new to play this summer? Check out Arcana!🎮 Created in the UCSB Gaucho Game Lab by a team of 8 students, Arcana is UCSB's first major game. It's a fast-paced, third-person action RPG, where players assume the role of a wizard who battles waves of enemies in arena-style combat.

We're just 1 day away from the New Venture Competition Finals! ⏰ This Thursday, May 22 at 3:30pm, six student teams will pitch their startups to a panel of judges at Corwin Pavilion at UC Santa Barbara. Click here for a sneak peek at the six NVC finalists:https://buff.ly/1wAJtTw

The CoE is excited to welcome Yuheng Bu, currently an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Florida, to the UCSB Computer Science Department as an assistant professor this July!🖥️ 💡 #UCSB #UCSBEngineering #ComputerScience

Scientists at UC Santa Barbara & Northwestern University have created the first synthetic “mini prion” that could help study neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s. 🦠 #UCSB #UCSBEngineering Image by the National Institute on Aging

Congratulations to computer science professor Christopher Kruegel and electrical and computer engineering professor B.S. Manjunath for receiving Outstanding Graduate Mentor Awards for the 2024-’25 academic year! 👏 Click here to read more: engineering.ucsb.edu/news/two-thr...

Congrats to Jennifer Jacobs, assistant professor in the UCSB Computer Science Department and the Media Arts & Technology program, for receiving a National Science Foundation (NSF) Early CAREER award, allowing her to expand research aimed at adding flexibility to digital-fabrication workflows.👏

Congrats to Anya Mulligan, a materials PhD student; Kyle Lee, an electrical & computer engineering PhD student; and Jordan Prescott, a senior electrical engineering student for receiving 2025 Graduate Research Fellowships from the NSF! 👏 engineering.ucsb.edu/news/coe-stu...

Congrats to Bioengineering PhD students Renata Dos Reis Marques & Gianna Gathman, as well as MechE PhD student Gabriela Villalpando Torres for being awarded Connie Frank Fellowships from UCSB’s Grad Division to pursue biomedical research with applications to human health and well-being.👏

Join us for UCSB’s New Venture Fair tomorrow, Wednesday, April 30th at 5:00PM, at Corwin Pavilion!🌟 We invite you to circulate through the booths of 20 student teams, learn about each business, and vote for your favorites to advance to the New Venture Competition Finals.💡

Congratulations to computer science assistant professor Murphy Yuezhen Niu for receiving a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award to pioneer a paradigm shift in quantum computer engineering.👏

Congratulations to doctoral student Elizabeth Murphy for winning the prestigious 2025 Henkel Award for Outstanding Graduate Research in Polymer Science & Engineering!👏 #UCSB #UCSBEngineering #MaterialsChemistry

Did you know that UCSB is home to the largest Raspberry Pi?🥧 Last year, software giant Oracle donated a cluster of 1,050 Raspberry Pi 3iPB+ computers, the largest such assemblage ever built, to computer science professors Chandra Krintz and Rich Wolski.

A warm welcome to all our newly admitted transfer students!! Can't wait for you to make your #NextStopUCSB 🎉

🌎 Everyday is Earth Day at the Institute for Energy Efficiency! 🌍 The IEE is a world leader in developing breakthrough technologies that substantially save energy while advancing the standard of living worldwide. Click here to explore IEE research: iee.ucsb.edu/research