NanoEngineering professor, Dr. Shirley Meng, is one of six UC San Diego faculty members who will be honored at the Chancellor's Associates Faculty Excellence Awards.
Nanoengineering professor, Dr. Nicole Steinmetz, is being recognized for Women's History Month by the National Nanotechnology Initiative. Dr. Steinmetz is being honored for her work on the design, development, and testing of materials derived from plant viruses. We at the Department of…
UC San Diego researchers at the Center for Wearable Sensors have developed a new testing strip that can detect Fentanyl. Center Director and Chair of the Department of NanoEngineering, Dr. Joseph Wang, says this strip can save lives since Fentanyl is a dangerous opioid that can be deadly in the…
Nanoengineering professor, Dr. Jian Luo, is receiving the 2019 Brimacombe Medalist Mid-career Award by TMS (The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society). This award recognizes excellence and achievement in business, technology, education, public policy or science in materials science and…
Congratulations to Dr. Joseph Wang (Department of NanoEngineering Chair and Professor) and his research lab group on their paper published in Nature Biotechnology. Their latest paper presents their research on "Wearable Biosensors for Healthcare Monitoring."
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The NanoEngineering Department would like to extend its congratulations to our Chair, Dr. Joseph Wang who was named recipient of the SEAC - Charles N. Reilley Award at the PITTCON 2019. Dr. Wang, along with four other award recipients, are celebrated for their contributions to applied…
Our department would like to congratulate NanoEngineering Ph.D. student, Jia Zhuang, for winning two awards at the 2019 Research Expo. Zhuang and his poster on "Biomimetic Nanoemulsions as a Blood Substitute for Oxygen Delivery in vivo" not only won the Best Poster Award for NanoEngineering, but…
Congratulations to Dr. Yue Zhang (Zhang Nanomedicine Lab), who recently received her Ph.D in NanoEngineering. Her defense on "Engineer Multi-Dimensional Cell Membrane-Coated Nanomaterials to Combat Bacterial Infection" was presented on April 9, 2019. Dr. Zhang has been with the Department of…
NanoEngineering, Ph.D. student, Fernando Soto (Laboratory for Nanobioelectronics), has been selected to receive the Gordon Fellow for the Jacobs School of Engineering - the Bernard and Sophia Gordon Engineering Leadership Center, UC San Diego. Fernando was selected through a competitive process…
Congratulations to Dr. Xiujun Yue (Liu Research Group), who recently received his Ph.D in NanoEngineering. His defense on "Nanostructured Materials for Energy Storage Devices" was presented on March 25, 2019. Dr. Yue has been with the Department of NanoEngineering graduate program since Fall…
Congratulations to Dr. Diana Dehaini (Zhang Nanomedicine Lab), who recently received her Ph.D in NanoEngineering. Her defense on "Biomimetic Nanoparticles for Targeted Delivery and Removal" was presented on February 28, 2019. Dr. Dehaini has been with the Department of NanoEngineering graduate…
NanoEngineering Program Receives ABET Accreditation
The NanoEngineering program has received accreditation by the Accreditation Commission of ABET, the global accreditor of college and university programs in applied and natural science, computing, engineering and engineering technology. UC San Diego's NanoEngineering program is the first of its kind in the nation to receive this accreditation. Our NanoEngineering students can feel confident that their education meets global standards and that they will be prepared to enter the workforce worldwide.
ABET accreditation assures that programs meet standards to produce graduates ready to enter critical technical fields that are leading the way in innovation and emerging technologies, and anticipating the welfare and safety needs of the public. Please visit the ABET website for more information on why accreditation matters.
Congratulations to the NanoEngineering department and students!
Announcements
Current UC San Diego students who are interested in a B.S. degree in NanoEngineering can now apply…