News Release
2019 Jacobs School student highlights
San Diego, Calif., Dec. 20, 2019 -- Our students continually bring fresh approaches to solving our world's most pressing challenges, and 2019 was no different. Here are just a few of the ways Jacobs School of Engineering students made an impact this year.
A team of students partnered with Cruz Roja (Red Cross) in Tijuana to develop an ambulance tracking and dispatch app, making it easier and faster for emergency medical crews to provide lifesaving help when and where it’s needed. Learn more about this project.
For their senior design project, four students partnered with physicians at Rady Children's hospital to design an elbow orthotic to allow a five-year-old boy with a rare virus move his arms again.
| Global Ties students partnered with the Red Cross (Cruz Roja) in Tijuana to develop an ambulance tracking and dispatch app. Photo by Erik Jepsen. |
Students launched new organizations like the and , and continued to grow young groups like the . Students also organized new campus events like
Organizations including the , the , the and more all held outreach activities and events throughout the year to inspire the next generation of engineers.
Students designed an anaerobic digestion and biogas production system to turn food waste destined for landfills into usable products including biogas for electricity and fertilizer for organic produce.
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| Triton Racing's Formula race car. |
The built their Vulcan II rocket and by launching it nearly six miles into the atmosphere. took the Formula One car they built to the Formula SAE competition in Lincoln, Nebraska; the team raced their human-propelled sub at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock, Maryland; and students took second place at the American Society of Civil Engineers' concrete canoe contest.
Triton XR hosted their second annual , and students in the Summer EnVision Experience designed and .
Undergraduate students used facilities like our to understand what things look like , and in a shock tube to design materials more resilient to shocks like earthquakes.
A team of students earned a spot at the for their Starcraft skills, while others used machine learning to make art.
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| Chawina De-Eknamkul, a nanoengineering PhD student who helped develop the thinnest optical device in the world. |
Our graduate students contributed to several important research advances this year, including:
- why adding a bit of salt improves perovskite solar cells
- creating a transparent eel-like soft robot that can swim silently underwater
-designing
-developed the thinnest optical device in the world,
-worked to overcome the delay in telesurgery
-identified the main culprit behind lithium metal battery failure
-and engineered the sense of touch in .
Media Contacts
Katherine Connor
Jacobs School of Engineering
858-534-8374
khconnor@ucsd.edu