ECE News

Mohamed Elfouly (senior), Maciek Pajak (TA), and Clint Schow (faculty) receive end-of-year program awards that celebrate academic excellence, teaching, and mentorship through annual honors selected by faculty and graduating seniors

Computer Engineering Senior Receives College Honor for Leadership and Service – Nikhil Kapasi earns the Hynes-Wood Award for his contributions to student support, mentorship, and campus culture

New UCSB NanoFabrication Facility partnership connects high school students to semiconductor careers

ECE Prof. Pradeep Sen and former students receive the 2026 recognition for their paper “A Machine Learning Approach for Filtering Monte Carlo Noise (2015)"

ECE Prof. and RMCOE Dean, Umesh Mishra was presented with the most prestigious award given by the University of Padua in Italy.

ECE Ass't. Prof. Nina Miolane, alongside Materials Prof. and Dir. of CNSI Simon Billange, discussed how her group employs AI in brain science at UCSB Library's "AI in Action Speaker Series"

New Master of Engineering and Technology Leadership (METL) program expands access to UCSB’s engineering education for working professionals worldwide

ECE undergraduate Roland Yin, among students with ties to the department, receives one of the nation’s most prestigious fellowships

Six graduate programs including ECE in The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering at UC Santa Barbara placed among the nation’s best in the 2026 U.S. News & World Report rankings

ECE Prof. Daniel Blumenthal's OCAQπ Group demonstrate integrated stabilized laser chips performing clock and quantum operations on a room temperature trapped ion qubit