The College of Engineering (CoE) is one of the three undergraduate colleges at the

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. As of 2021, there were approximately 150 faculty, 1,650 undergraduate students, and 750 graduate students. According to the

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, engineering and physical sciences at UCSB is ranked #1 among public universities for top 10% research citation impact. According to the

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rankings, the UCSB engineering graduate research program in Materials was ranked #1 and Chemical Engineering ranked #5 in the nation among public universities.

Departments and programs

The College of Engineering comprises the following departments:
Chemical Engineering
(established in 1965)
Computer Science
(established in 1979)
Electrical and Computer Engineering
(established in 1962)
Materials
(established in 1987)
Mechanical Engineering
(established in 1964)
Technology Management
(established in 2022) The college is connected to the UCSB campus through innovative multi-disciplinary/outreach academic programs:
Biological Engineering Program
(BioE)
Computational Science and Engineering Program
(CSE)
Media Arts and Technology Program
(MAT)

Research units

One of the strengths of the College of Engineering is its ability to cross traditional academic boundaries in collaborative research. Much of this work is conducted in collaboration with UCSB's interdisciplinar
research centers and institutes
which include:
American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics
(AIM Photonics) in collaboration with

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.
California NanoSystems Institute

Center for Bio-Image Informatics

Center for Control, Dynamical-Systems, and Computation

Center for Information Technology and Society

Center for Nanotechnology in Society

Center for Stem Cell Biology and Engineering

Complex Fluid Design Consortium

Dow Materials Institute

Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies
* Institute for Multiscale Materials Studies *

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* Interdisciplinary Center for Wide Band-Gap Semiconductors
Materials Research Laboratory

Mitsubishi Chemical Center for Advanced Materials

Optoelectronics Research Group

Solid State Lighting and Energy Electronics Center

UCSB Nanofabrication Research Center

Academics

Undergraduate programs

The college offers the B.S. degree in

chemical engineering Chemical engineering is an engineering field which deals with the study of operation and design of chemical plants as well as methods of improving production. Chemical engineers develop economical commercial processes to convert raw materials int ...

computer engineering Computer engineering (CoE or CpE) is a branch of electrical engineering and computer science that integrates several fields of computer science and electronic engineering required to develop computer hardware and software. Computer engineers ...

computer science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to Applied science, practical discipli ...

electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

, and

mechanical engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and mathematics principles with materials science, to design, analyze, manufacture, and ...

. The B.S. programs in chemical engineering, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering are accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of

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(ABET). The computer science B.S. program is accredited by the Computing Accreditation Commission of ABET. Jointly with the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the college offers undergraduate degree in

. The curriculum for the undergraduate programs is designed to be completed in four years.

Graduate programs

The college offers M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering, computer science, electrical & computer engineering, materials science, and mechanical engineering. It also offers graduate programs in technology management, bioengineering, biomolecular science & engineering, and media arts & technology.

Faculty

The college has 150 faculty members, most of whom are involved in interdisciplinary research and academic programs. Twenty-nine faculty members are in the

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and nine are elected to the

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. Three faculty members have won the

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. Alan J. Heeger, Professor of Physics and of Materials, won the 2000

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"''for the discovery and development of conductive polymers''",

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, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Materials, won the 2000

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"''for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed and opto-electronics''". In 2006

Shuji Nakamura is a Japanese-born American electronic engineer and inventor specializing in the field of semiconductor technology, professor at the Materials Department of the College of Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and is regar ...

, a professor of Materials and Computer Engineering, won the

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for developing blue, green, and white LEDs and the blue laser diode as well as receiving a 2014

for his contribution to the invention of blue light-emitting diodes. In 2015, Professor

Arthur Gossard Arthur C. Gossard was a professor of materials and electrical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1982, he co-discovered the fractional quantum Hall effect. His research is related to molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). He has a ...

was awarded the

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by the Obama Administration.

Publications

''Convergence'' is the magazine of Engineering and the Sciences at UC Santa Barbara. Sponsored by the College of Engineering and the Division of Mathematical, Life, and Physical Sciences in the College of Letters and Science, ''Convergence'' was begun in early 2005 as a three-times-a-year print publication, with the goal of bringing stories of interest from engineering and the sciences to the desks and coffee tables of a wide range of alumni, friends, partners, funding agencies, corporations, donors and potential supporters. This publication prints annually.

References

External links

UCSB College of EngineeringDepartment of Chemical EngineeringDepartment of Computer Science

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Department of Materials

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Computer Engineering Program
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