Undergraduate News
Top 10, Yet Again
April 8, 2025
The Jacobs School of Engineering has ranked the #10 best in the nation in the influential U.S. News & World Report Rankings of Best Engineering Schools. Among public engineering schools, the Jacobs School ranks #6 best engineering school in the nation. Full Story
February 25, 2025
Chemical engineering undergraduates at the Jacobs School get valuable opportunities to work together on a capstone project in the junior-level lab course for chemical engineers that professor Aaron Drews designed and teaches.
October 23, 2024
Currently, researchers and citizen scientists bring along a ruler as they dive below the surface and use it to guesstimate the length of fish they spot. Or fish are caught, measured onboard a boat and released back into the ocean. The FishSense project is making these tasks easier and more accurate.
October 22, 2024
Jonathan Ty, a sophomore majoring in computer science, has been awarded the 2024-2025 Alan Turing Memorial Scholarship and the Alan Turing Memorial Teradata Scholarship from the University of California San Diego’s Center for Networked Systems (CNS). Each year CNS recognizes a student whose studies relate to networked systems and who is an active supporter of the LGBTQIA+ community.
September 24, 2024
Four Jacobs School undergraduate engineering and computer science programs are ranked Top 10 in the country in the latest from U.S. News & World Report.
September 10, 2024
This summer, nearly 200 incoming engineering and computer science students at Â鶹´«Ã½ got a head start on their degrees thanks to two programs that empower students to succeed as undergraduates in these challenging majors, while also learning to make the most of the college experience.
July 3, 2024
A team of aerospace engineering students from Â鶹´«Ã½ was one of 12 student teams selected from around the country as finalists in NASA’s Human Lander Challenge. The goal? To come up with the best solution to manage the lunar dust a spacecraft kicks up when landing on the Moon.
Â鶹´«Ã½ Jacobs School Of Engineering Rises In Latest U.S. News And World Report Rankings Of Best Engineering Schools
June 18, 2024
The Â鶹´«Ã½ Jacobs School of Engineering has ranked the #11 best in the nation in the influential U.S. News & World Report Rankings of Best Engineering Schools. This #11 ranking is up from #12 last year. Full Story
May 7, 2024
Engineering and computer science undergraduate students who take part in mentorship programs are more involved in campus communities than those who don’t, according to a study at the IDEA Engineering Student Center at the Jacobs School of Engineering.
May 2, 2024
The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Â鶹´«Ã½ was recognized for its pioneering hands-on lab curriculum by the leading association for electrical and computer engineering educators in North America.