Securing excellence for the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego is something we want everyone to be a part of. The Jacobs School is a powerhouse for developing leadership, talent and technology; we train more future engineers and computer scientists than nearly any other California university. (We are #2!)

The excellence of our more than 30,000 engineering and computer science alumni has helped earn the Jacobs School a reputation as a world-class school of engineering and computer science. We proudly share that approximately 3,000 Jacobs School graduates enter the workforce each year. Our annual research funding of more than $316 million in the last fiscal year fuels news discoveries and opens world-class educational opportunities for our students. In addition, we have 30-50 inventions per year licensed by spin-offs or corporate partners.

The Jacobs School has indeed accomplished a great deal in its young history.

Looking to the future, our vision is to strengthen our position as a top 10 engineering school. We will get there by fueling initiatives to address grand societal challenges, by inspiring our students, by empowering our faculty, and by augmenting our infrastructure to support state-of-the-art education, training, research and entrepreneurship.

I invite you—alumni, faculty, students, families and friends of the Jacobs School—to join us in realizing this vision. Your support will help the Jacobs School actualize its higher potential, both as a training ground for exceptional engineers and computer scientists and as a force for addressing society’s most pressing challenges.

You can find an archive of my monthly Jacobs School dean's messages here.

Albert ("Al") P. Pisano, Dean
Jacobs School of Engineering
Distinguished Professor, MAE and ECE
Walter J. Zable Endowed Chair of Engineering
Special Adviser to the Chancellor
University of California San Diego
Member, US National Academy of Engineering