Electrical and Computer Engineering | UC Santa Barbara | Electrical and Computer Engineering | UC Santa Barbara

Recent News

THE's 2025 Interdisciplinary Science Rankings places UCSB at No. 8 worldwide
UCSB Ranks Among Top Universities Nationally and Globally in Recent Assessments
U.S. News – ECE & COE ranked among 2024 Nation's Best Graduate Engineering Schools

Admissions

Undergraduate: UCSB Office of Admissions — Dates & Deadlines for Freshman & Transfer Applicants | How to Apply
Graduate: Application Portal Opens Sept 2025 – Learn more @ UCSB Graduate Division & How to Apply | ECE Prospective Students & Apply

Announcements

Apr 12: College of Engineering Open House

Employment – Open Level Faculty Positions:

Electronics & Photonics, Emerging Technologies
Architecture/Hardware/Software Interfaces

Department Events

ECE Seminar Series

Mar 17 (Mon) @ 10:30am: "Advancements in Fault-tolerant Quantum Approximate Optimization," Zichang He, Applied Research Lead, JPMorgan Chase

Our Research

Mishra, DenBaars, Nakamura, Speck: Gallium Nitride research at UC Santa Barbara

Mishra, DenBaars, Nakamura, Speck: Gallium Nitride research at UC Santa Barbara

Spotlight

Nakamura – Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED

Spotlight

Nature Photonics: Pintus, Dumont, Moody, and Bowers

Pintus, Dumont, Moody, Bowers "New Optical Memory Platform for Super-fast Calculations"

News

Blumenthal & OCAQπ Researchers "Cold Atoms on a Chip"

Blumenthal & OCAQπ Group "Cold Atoms on a Chip"

News

Banerjee – Platform for Brain-inspired Computing

Banerjee: Proposed Platform for Brain-inspired Computing

ECE in COE Convergence (M24) mag

ECE in COE Convergence (M24) mag

COE: "The Nanofab: An Innovation Ctr."

COE: "The Nanofab: An Innovation Ctr."

ECE Seminar Series

ECE Seminar Series

Our Spotlights

Glimpse of the ECE Undergraduate Experience

A Glimpse of the ECE Undergraduate Experience

ECE in COE Convergence mag (F/W '24)

ECE in COE Convergence mag (F/W '24)

THE Interdisciplinary Science Research: ranks UCSB #8 globally

THE Interdisciplinary Science Research: ranks UCSB #8 globally

Our Featured Research News

Manjunath "$5M NSF Grant for Cyberstructure for Multimodal Imaging"

Manjunath "$5M NSF Grant for Cyberstructure for Multimodal Imaging"

Theogarajan & Çamsarı "Probabilistically Speaking"

Theogarajan & Çamsarı "Probabilistically Speaking"

Haewon Jeong "Cleaning up Dirty Data"

Haewon Jeong "Cleaning up Dirty Data"

Our Faculty

Shuji Nakamura, Nobel Prize, Physics 2014

Shuji Nakamura, Physics 2014

Arthur Gossard, National Medal of Science & Technology, Physics 2014

Arthur Gossard, Physics 2014

Herbert Kroemer, Nobel Prize, Physics 2000

Herbert Kroemer, Physics 2000

Glen Culler, National Medal of Science & Technology, Physics

Glen Culler, Physics 1999

Our Recent Honors

Çamsarı: Misha Mahowald Prize

Çamsarı’s OPUS Lab: Misha Mahowald Prize

Zhang: IGSB SW Impact Grant

Zhang: IGSB SW Impact Grant

Moody & Bowers: DARPA Award

Moody & Bowers: DARPA Award

Our Students

Grad Spotlight: Sabrina Maldonado

Grad Spotlight: Sabrina Maldonado

Bhattacharya – HW for Solving High-order Opt. Problems

Bhattacharya – HW for Rapidly Solving High-order Optimization Problems

Undergrad Spotlight: Chris Maldonado-Salido

Undergrad Spotlight: Chris Maldonado-Salido