UCSD: YOUNGEST OF THE BEST

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UCSD YOUNGEST OF THE BEST
UCSD Chancellor Marye Anne Fox
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Kings Stormwater Channel Bridge
Prototype Continuous Bridge Performance
Monitoring System
The Kings Stormwater Channel Bridge is an
advanced FRP composite bridge with a span of 20
meters. The superstructure is composed of six
longitudinal filament wound carbon/epoxy circular
girders pumped full on site with concrete and
connected along their tops to pultruded
E-glass/polyester deck panels. This innovative
structure is the first of its type and the
long-term performance of the structural system is
of great interest.
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Kings Stormwater Channel Bridge
Vibration-Based Bridge Performance Monitoring
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Kings Stormwater Channel Bridge
Vibration-Based Bridge Performance Monitoring
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Our Research Impact

• A Magnet for Federal Funding
• UCSDs total research funding for 2004-05 was
  728.3 million.
• The National Science Foundation ranks UCSD 7th in
  the nation in federal RD expenditures
• Among U.S. medical schools, UCSD School of
  Medicine ranks 2nd in the nation in federal
  research funding per faculty member.
• Among U.S. engineering schools, UCSD Jacobs
  School ranks 2nd in the nation in federal RD
  funding per faculty member.

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UCSD and Homeland Security
UCSD engineers and computer scientists work with
local, state, and federal agencies to advance new
technologies.

• Emergency response
• Bomb blast mitigation
• Internet security
• Surveillance and safety
• Education partnerships

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Emergency Response
Calit2 applies telecom and information technology
to aid first responders in disaster situations

• WIISARD (Wireless Internet Information System for
  Medical Response in Disasters). Wireless
  technology to coordinate and enhance care of mass
  casualties in a terrorist attack or natural
  disaster.
• RESCUE (Responding to Crises and Unexpected
  Events). Transform the speed and accuracy with
  which information flows through disaster networks
  during crisis situations.

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Blast Mitigation

• UCSD structural engineers develop new
  technologies to harden buildings against bomb
  blasts and earthquakes.
• New blast simulator allows for realistic,
  controlled and repeatable experiments.

BEFORE RETROFIT AFTER RETROFIT
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Internet Security
NSF funds 6.9M center to defend against global
Internet attacks

• Computer scientists at UCSD and UC Berkeley
  develop technologies to detect, analyze, and
  defend against large-scale Internet attacks.
• Industry partners include Microsoft, Intel and
  Hewlett-Packard.
• Working closely with the Cooperative Association
  for Internet Data and Analysis (CAIDA) at UCSDs
  San Diego Supercomputer Center

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Surveillance and Safety
Recognize, track and analyze activity at critical
locations such as airports and border crossings

• Smart camera networks can detect suspicious
  activity and alert command center of potentially
  threatening events.
• Omni-directional cameras provide 360-degree view
  of the scene.
• Low cost system to be deployed at U.S.-Mexico
  border crossing.

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Service to the Nation and World

• Hurricane and Tsunami Relief Efforts
• Researchers at UCSD are building a Geographic
  Information System that will link to the National
  Institute of Health and Sciences Hurricane
  Katrina Information Website
• Jacobs School of Engineering and Calit2 deployed
  an experimental communications system in New
  Orleans to keep hurricane emergency officials
  connected.
• Scientists at UCSDs Scripps Institution of
  Oceanography used a newly-developed method of
  earthquake imaging to trace the 2004 Indian Ocean
  tsunami back to its original rupture source.

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Engineering Institute
Education and research partnership between UCSD
and Los Alamos National Laboratory

• Graduate-level engineering education offered by
  the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering and
  co-located at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
• Collaboration on dual-use research
• - Detecting damage in the composite wings of the
  Predator UAV
• - Remote inspection of bolted joints using
  sensors and RF ID tags
• - Diagnose structural integrity of
  composite-to-steel connections for
  next-generation Navy destroyers and ships made
  from hybrid materials.

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Defense companies partner with UCSD
for recruiting and research
Jacobs School of Engineering Corporate Affiliates
Program members
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Defense agencies who recruit our students

• US Army
• US Army Healthcare
• CIA
• Edwards Air Force Base
• Marines Officer Program
• Navy Officer Program
• Lawrence Livermore National Labs
• Los Alamos National Labs
• NASA Johnson Space Center
• National Geospatial Intelligence Agency
• NAVAIR
• SPAWAR Systems Center - San Diego

Engineering Team Interns at SPAWAR Summer 2005