School of Engineering University of California, San Diego

Paul Linden (right), professor anddirector of the UCSD Environment and Sustainability Initiative, workswith students to collect climate data on campus.

Engineering in Medicine Engineering-medicine collaborations at the Jacobs School are speeding the development of new technologies to diagnose and treat disease. Collaborations

with UCSD’s School of Medicine have already yielded:• New biocompatible synthetic bone materials

• Cancer treatments employing nanotechnology• Insights into insulin resistance from

a systems level • The first mechanistic understanding

of how embryonic stem cells differentiate into cardiomyocytes

Stem cell differentiation is one placeengineering and medicine meet atUCSD. Pictured: DNA (blue) and tubulin (red).

Energy, Environment and SustainabilityCan we develop a stable and prosperous societyand a stable and productive environment at thesame time? The Jacobs School is addressing thisquestion through a wide range of interdisciplinaryand collaborative research and technology projects involving other divisions at UCSD,other academic partners, industry and government. Projects include:• Alternative energy supplies such as fusion,

biofuels and solar and wind power• Cradle-to-cradle materials and structures • Enviro-informatics• Studies of air and water pollution• Design of energy-efficient buildings• New environmental sensors• Research into water supplies

Information Technology andApplicationsJacobs School engineersare at the leading edge of information technologydevelopment.They are alsoleaders in applying infor-mation technologies to newchallenges. In one area of inquiry, Jacobs Schoolengineers are developing newstructural health monitoringapproaches that identifydeterioration in bridges andother key infrastructure.These research projectsproduce real-time diagnosticand prognostic assessments by exploiting the latestadvances in:• Remote sensing• Communications • Data analysis• Predictive modeling

Sensors installed in a composite bridge deck at UCSD send data over a wireless network to a campus database. The deck is video monitored 24 hours a day.

Strategic Focus

in the world for engineering/ technology and computer sciencesAcademic Rankings of World Universities 2007, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Building a NanoEngineeringWorkforce from the Ground UpSeeking to capitalize on the potential of a new generation

of multi-functional nanoscale devices and special materials

built on the scale of individual molecules, the Jacobs

School launched a Department of NanoEngineering

effective July 1, 2007. Undergraduate and graduate students

will learn from an interdisciplinary team of professors who

will cover a broad range of topics, but focus particularly on

biomedical nanotechnology, nanotechnologies for energy

conversion, computational nanotechnology, and molecular

and nanomaterials.The Department of NanoEngineering

will incorporate the Jacobs School’s existing chemical

engineering program. It will eventually include approximately

20 faculty members and enroll 400 undergraduates and

120 graduate students.

The Department of NanoEngineering will occupy nearly half of a new110,000-square-foot building on the UCSD campus. Completion date: 2010.

Shilatane, India:A Jacobs School graduate student (center) and a UCSD finearts graduate student(right) discuss electricityavailability with a localfarmer. Through theJacobs School’s TeamInternship Program (TIP),the students interned atQUALCOMM in Mumbai,India and devised a foot-powered mobile phonebattery charger for residents of rural areas.

Faculty 181

Full-Time Faculty 175

Part-Time Faculty 6

Members of the National Academies 17

Endowed Chair Professors 27

Graduate Students

Degrees Conferred, 2007 355

Enrollment 1,258

Undergraduate Students

Degrees Conferred, 2007 810

Enrollment 3,710

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Total Expenditures FY07 $186.0M

#3State-Funded Operations/Instruction $45.0M

Research Expenditures $141.0M

Government-Sponsored Research $101.4M

Industry-Sponsored Research/Income from Gifts/Endowments $39.6M

Research/Full-time Faculty Member* $834K

*169 full-time faculty in Fall 2006

Research Funding(in millions)

$92.1$114.7 $99.4

$103.7 $101.4

$118.2

$138.3$128.8

$138.6 $141.0

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Calit2: A Model forInterdisciplinary ResearchCalit2, the California Institute for Telecommunications

and Information Technology, brings together multi-

disciplinary teams of the best minds in order to address

large-scale societal issues. In May 2007, for example,

Calit2 and Scripps Institution of Oceanography won

a six-year $29 million grant to design and construct

cyberinfrastructure for the NSF-funded Ocean

Observatories Initiative, which is an effort to study

the oceans through a combination of Internet-linked

cables, submerged data collection devices connected

to buoys, robots and high-definition cameras. Calit2

will manage the project, which could eventually reach

$42 million over 11 years.The advanced visualization

tools at the UCSD Division of Calit2 offer unique

resources to ocean researchers, such as the highest-

resolution display in the world and the world’s first

large-scale 3D display that does not require 3D glasses.

R E S E A R C H AT T H E L E A D I N G E D G E

Licensing Revenues From Jacobs School Inventions

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$57,563 $102,548$294,845 $236,811

$408,270$602,713

$1.3M

$4.3M*

*Preliminary

Commercialization FY07*

Invention Disclosures 129

New Patents Issued 10

Startup Companies 2

Copyright and License Agreements 21

Quanlight, a Tech Transfer Success StoryWith seed funding and business plan classes, the von Liebig Center helped spark

Quanlight—a 2006 Jacobs School startup. Quanlight has exclusively licensed a

yellow-amber-red LED technology from UCSD.The new LEDs may find their

way into LCD backlighting, projection light engines for televisions, signage, traffic

signals, and architectural and theatrical lighting.

Quanlight CTO Vladimir Odnoblyudov (UCSD Ph.D., 2006, electrical engineer-

ing) is one of more than 350 Jacobs School alumni who have benefited from the

von Liebig Center’s entrepreneurship curriculum. In fact, the business plan that

Odnoblyudov wrote for a von Liebig class played a crucial role in grabbing the

attention of Neil Senturia, principal of Blackbird Ventures, who would go on to

become Quanlight’s CEO.The $4M in venture capital that Quanlight has raised is

part of the $71M pulled in by the 15 companies the von Liebig Center has nurtured.

The von Liebig seed funding that Odnoblyudov and his faculty advisor,

Charles Tu, received made up some of the $2.8M that has gone to 70 faculty

projects for pre-commercialization support.

Quanlight CTO Vladimir Odnoblyudov (UCSD Ph.D., 2006, electrical engineering) and Charles Tu, electrical engineering professor, in their Jacobs School lab.

million von Liebig in private startupscapital for

Since 2001, the Jacobs School’s William

J. von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism

and Technology Advancement has also:

• Awarded more than $2.8M in seed

funding to 70 faculty projects

• Educated 350+ alumni via the von

Liebig entrepreneurship curriculum

T R A N S F E R T E C H N O L O G I E S T O S O C I E T Y

$71 15*Includes a one-time $3M buyout of NetSift by Cisco

New Facu l tyEric Lauga, Assistant ProfessorMechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Continuum mechanics appliedto biological problems: swim-ming mechanics, the motion of gastropods, and propulsionby flagella; fluid mechanics,biophysical fluid dynamics andcontrol of fluid flows.

PH.D. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 2005Most recently: Asst. Professor, MIT

Kun Zhang, Assistant ProfessorBioengineering

Human genetics, syntheticbiology, neuroscience, polymerase cloning (ploning),genomics with emphasis onhigh-throughput genomicanalysis of single DNA molecules and applied issues

in microbial and stem cell biology.PH.D. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, 2003Most recently: Postdoc, Harvard Medical SchoolDepartment of Genetics

Alison Marsden, Assistant ProfessorMechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Computational fluid mechanics,cardiovascular mechanics,bio-fluid mechanics and biomedical devices technologyemphasizing optimizationmethods relating to vascularsurgery; exploring the interface

between biology and the quantitative, physical,and theoretical disciplines.PH.D. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, 2005Most recently: Postdoc, Stanford UniversityCardiovascular Biomechanics Research Lab

Jorge Cortés, Assistant ProfessorMechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Systems and control, distributed coordination algorithms, cooperative control, geometric mechanics,nonlinear mechanical systems,robotics, cooperative motion control of unmanned vehicles

and geometric control theory.PH.D. UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID, 2001Most recently: Asst. Professor, UC Santa Cruz

Juan Carlos del Alamo, Assistant ProfessorMechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Bioengineering, fluid dynamics,flow turbulence, numericalmethods for physics simulations and parallel computer simulations.PH.D. POLYTECHNICUNIVERSITY OF MADRID, 2005

Most recently: Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow, UCSD

Karen Christman, Assistant ProfessorBioengineering

Regenerative medicine, systems biology, tissue engineering, polymerchemistry and bio-nanotechnology, multi-scale bioengineering and biomaterial design.

PH.D. UC SAN FRANCISCO & UC BERKELEY, 2003Most recently: Postdoc UCLA Polymers/Bio-nanotechnology

Ryan Kastner, Associate ProfessorComputer Science and Engineering

Reconfigurable computing,VLSI computer-aided design, sensor networks, radiolocation, computer architecture, security, embedded systems andoptimization algorithms.

PH.D. UCLA, 1999Most recently: Assoc. Professor, UC Santa Barbara

Hovav Shacham, Assistant ProfessorComputer Science and Engineering

Applied cryptography usingpairings—computable bilinear maps over certainelliptic curves—to construct cryptographic systems, systems security, and tech policy.

PH.D. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, 2005Most recently: Postdoc, Weizmann Institute of Science

Shyni Varghese, Assistant Professor Bioengineering

Biomaterials, tissue engineering,fabrication and analysis ofpolymeric materials, interface of biomaterials engineering and regenerativemedicine, stem cell differentiation methods.

PH.D. NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY, INDIA, 2002Most recently: Postdoc, Johns Hopkins University

Gaurav Arya, Assistant ProfessorMechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Chemical engineering with afocus on molecular dynamicsapplied to nanomembranes,polymers and biomaterials.PH.D. UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME, 2003Most recently: Research

scientist, New York University and the CourantInstitute of Mathematical Sciences

University of California, San DiegoJacobs School of Engineering9500 Gilman Drive, Dept. 0403La Jolla, CA 92093-0403www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu858.534.4575

Dean: Frieder SeibleAssociate Dean: Jeanne FerranteAssociate Dean: Charles Tu

Academic DepartmentsBioengineering18 faculty, 197 graduate students,884 undergraduatesA leader in systems biology, regenerative medicine, and multi-scale bioengineering focusedon understanding, diagnosis andtreatment of human disease.

Computer Science & Engineering48 faculty, 318 graduate students,605 undergraduatesStrengths include architecture,bioinformatics, computer-aideddesign, computer vision, cryptography,databases, embedded systems,graphics, Internet malware, programming systems, softwareengineering, systems, and theory.

Electrical & Computer Engineering52 faculty, 402 graduate students,575 undergraduatesA leader in information technologyand communications, as well as network infrastructure, embeddedsystems, electronic circuits/systems,electronic devices/materials, nano-electronics/photonics, signal processing/intelligent systems, bionanotechnology, energy generation/conversion, and magnetic/optical storage.

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering44 faculty, 226 graduate students,1,192 undergraduatesThis interdisciplinary departmentcovers mechanical, aerospace,chemical, and environmental engineering. Focus areas includefluid mechanics, combustion, solidmechanics, bio/nano-materials, systems/control, energy,electromechanical devices and medical devices.

NanoEngineeringEstablished 2007Research in a broad range of topics,with particular focus on biomedicalnanotechnology, nanotechnologiesfor energy conversion, computational nanotechnology, and molecular andnanomaterials.

Structural Engineering19 faculty, 115 graduate students,454 undergraduatesA leader in large-scale testingresearch, programs cover multi-hazard mitigation includingearthquakes and blast, earthquakeengineering and infrastructuralrenewal, structural health monitoring,composite- and nano-materials andlight weight structural systems, andrisk engineering.

Affiliated Research InstitutesCalifornia Institute forTelecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) 218 faculty, 248 students, 16 scientists, 50 industry partners

Center for Control Systems and Dynamics23 faculty, 35 graduate students,5 scientists, 10 postdocs,2 industry partners

Center for Energy Research10 faculty, 22 scientists, 6 postdocs,23 graduate students, 13 staff

Center for Magnetic Recording Research7 faculty, 30 students, 28 scientists, 6 industry partners, 1 governmentagency partner

Center for Networked Systems19 faculty, 50 graduate students, 7 industry partners

Center for Wireless Communications24 faculty, 43 graduate students, 10 industry partners

Powell Structural ResearchLaboratories/ Englekirk Structural Engineering Center14 full-scale laboratories, 43 industry partners

San Diego Supercomputer Center3,402 users, 65 students, 300+ scientists and staff

Whitaker Institute ofBiomedical Engineering100+ faculty and scientists, 23 industry partners

Corporate Relations & CommercializationCorporate Affiliates ProgramNearly 50 industry membersMember benefits include customized access to students and faculty, research partnerships,and a voice in the future of engineering education.

William J. von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism and Technology AdvancementSeed funds awarded since 2001:$2.8M to 70 projects