ECE News

March 2, 2026

ECE Distinguished Professor, Steven DenBaars is honored by Optica for pioneering contributions to high-efficiency GaN LEDs and laser diodes

February 25, 2026

Hair-width LEDs could replace lasers — and ECE doctoral student, Roark Chao is helping make it happen

February 25, 2026

It’s not just Amazon and Google, The South Coast is seeing a range of tech companies taking hold — often sprung from the University of California, Santa Barbara

February 23, 2026

ECE Prof. B.S. Manjunath, is honored as the first Frank Koenig Distinguished Chair — one four endowed chairs in the department 

February 3, 2026

The Leiden Rankings rank the university among the top two U.S. public universities for scientific impact for 15 consecutive years.

January 26, 2026

A solar-powered table built by the UCSB chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) is installed outside the Chemistry Building

December 11, 2025

Based on a magneto-optic material, the precision magnetometer could enable light-weight and low-power sensing for space, navigation and medical applications.

December 10, 2025

AI/ML could become more efficient, due to computer component developed by OPUS & Tohoku U, in collaboration w/ TSMC

November 13, 2025

T. Chauhan (EE), L. Cheng (CE) & John Hagedorn (CE) in new Engineering + Technology Management Fellows Program

November 7, 2025

ECE Assistant Prof. Nina Miolane’s research project on “An AI Model of the Maternal Brain” among TIME magazine’s “Best Inventions of 2025”