UC San Diego Electrical and Computer Engineering

Things overheard 👂🏽@ Coffee & Cookies:

“I’ve missed you for so long!” 🥹

“Separation anxiety!” 🤗

“I haven’t seen you in forever!” 🙃

“These are the best cookies I’ve ever had in my life!” 🤪

…ok maybe we made up the last one 😅

Thanks to everyone for stopping by the ECE floor for our favorite quarterly event! We love to see our ECE family and we’re glad that we can provide a community space for you to connect and reconnect! 🫱🏽‍🫲🏾

Tag your ECE buddy that you want to see at next quarter’s Coffee & Cookies! 👇🏼

Happy Friday from King Triton and a few of ECE’s hardworking staff!

Welcome to a new year, ECE Tritons! 🔱

Ready to dive into Fall quarter filled with innovation and collaboration? Let’s make this year unforgettable! 🎉

Drop a blue or yellow/gold emoji in the comments if you’re excited for this year! 🥏🌕

ECE graduation stoles and alumni polos are now available! 🎓🔱

Please read the information below carefully as there are 2 different purchase locations:

ECE GRADUATION STOLES ✨
-Stoles will be sold at the at the Lyman Lane register only. Go up to the register and ask for the ECE or Electrical and Computer Engineering stole.
-Cost: $26.94

ECE ALUMNI POLOS 👕
-Alumni polos will be sold outside the ECE Student Affairs Office (Jacobs Hall, 2nd floor)
-Cost: $15- CASH ONLY- exact change
-Schedule: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:00-11:30 AM

📸: ECE alumni Chris .space ‘23
-Contact Chris^ for GRAD PHOTOS!

Congratulations ECE Tritons on your upcoming graduation! 💛💙🎉

Our favorite quarterly event is finally here ☕🍪

Join us for a day with sweet treats and the opportunity to get together with your ECE family for the Spring Quarter!

Cheers to strong women!

May we know them,
May we be them,
May we raise them.

Happy International Women’s Day 💜

Week 3 ✅☕️🍪

Have you recently savored a delightful combination of coffee and cookies? Brace yourselves as our beloved quarterly event makes its return next week! Indulge in sweet treats and relish the ultimate joy – reconnecting with your ECE family!

Congratulations to Professor Fullerton and Professor Mali!

UC San Diego Engineering Professors Elected Fellows of National Academy of Inventors Jacobs School of Engineering professors Eric Fullerton and Prashant Mali have been named 2023 Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors. The distinction honors academic inventors whose work has made a tangible impact on the quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society.

The Collective is back in a newly reimagined eZine format! 📒📘

Say hello to our November ‘23 feature, Sailoi Ta’a, and give him a shout out in the comments!

To be featured in The Collective, simply fill out the Google Form in our Linktree!

Applications for the ECE Alumni Mentorship Program (ECE AMP) are due TOMORROW! (October 31)

During this 6-month long program, from mid November to mid May, you will be paired with ECE alumni that can provide you with the tools and advice to achieve your professional, personal, and academic goals.

This program is FREE to all undergraduate students that are enrolled within ECE.

The benefits of having a mentor include:
-Receiving encouragement and support for growth and improvement.
-Receiving guidance on options for after college.
-Receiving assistance with applying for internships and jobs.
-Developing networking skills and expanding your professional network.
-Having a source of knowledge that has experienced the ECE curriculum.

For more info and to sign up: check out our Linktree

Space is limited, apply ASAP
The deadline to apply for the program is October 31, 2023 at 11:59 PM PST.

If you have any questions, please email [email protected]

Novel Device from UC San Diego Researchers Promotes Efficient, Real-Time and Secure Wireless Access - Qualcomm Institute Researchers from the lab of Qualcomm Institute affiliate Dinesh Bharadia created new technology for more accessible wireless connectivity.

Smartphone Attachment Could Increase Racial Fairness in Neurological Screening This smartphone attachment could enable people to screen for a variety of neurological conditions, such as Alzheimer’s disease and traumatic brain injury, at low cost—and do so accurately regardless of their skin tone.

Dean Al Pisano attended this morning’s ECE faculty meeting to present awards to three of our faculty members!

• Duygu Kuzum- Best Undergraduate Teacher

• Yang Zhang- Best Graduate Teacher

• Patrick Mercier- Award for Outstanding ECE Graduate Student Mentoring

Congratulations, Professors!

Bhaskar Rao, a highly esteemed ECE Distinguished Professor and Ericsson Endowed Chair, has announced his retirement after 40 years service at UC San Diego.

Professor Rao, who had a deep passion for teaching, created The Bhaskar D. Rao PhD Teaching Support Endowment Fund as a tribute to his unwavering commitment.

The endowment will provide support for PhD students in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering in gaining teaching skills, which may include but is not limited to support for:

· Faculty teaching mentorship opportunities;
· Support for PhD students to participate in teaching skill development classes, programs, and/or conferences;
· Expanded opportunities for PhD students to gain practical teaching experience in core subject matter, with preference for supporting PhD students in the areas of Signal/Image Processing (SIP), Communication Theory and Systems (CTS), and Machine Learning (ML); and/or
· Other applicable programming and/or awards intended to improve the teaching credentials for PhD students who are aspiring to become faculty members.

Congratulations Professor Rao!

For more information and to donate to the endowment fund, please click the link below:
https://sites.google.com/ucsd.edu/prof-raos-retirement/home/endowment-fund?authuser=0

Our ECE M.S. Program Overview Workshop will be happening today at 11:30 a.m. Please join us via Zoom (Meeting ID: 98798945474) if you have any questions about our program.

When was the last time you had some amazing coffee and cookies? Our favorite quarterly event is back next week! Stop by for sweet treats, and maybe the best treat... connecting with your ECE family. See you there!