Our mission
We educate tomorrow's technology leaders.
We conduct leading edge research and drive innovation.
We transfer discoveries for the benefit of society.
GOALS
- To leverage our world renown to pursue engineering and computer science for the public good.
- To pursue interdisciplinary research that solves challenges no lab, discipline or industry can solve alone.
- To provide world-class theoretical and hands-on education and leadership training at scale.
- To be relevant to our industry partners now, and also 10 years from now.
- To strengthen our climate and culture of inclusion, equity and diversity.
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Recent News

March 31, 2025
Bioengineering professor Daniela Valdez-Jasso was inducted into the College of Fellows of the Americ...

March 27, 2025
Karen Christman, a professor in the Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering and the Sanford ...

March 25, 2025
Imagine a robot that can walk, without electronics, and only with the addition of a cartridge of com...

March 20, 2025
Bioengineers have shed new light on how a type of heart valve disease—aortic valve stenosis&md...

March 18, 2025
Scientists and engineers at General Atomics (GA) and the University of California San Dieg...