About Us
The Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
(MAE) is a large interdisciplinary engineering department
covering Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Engineering
Sciences, and Environmental Engineering. At
present, we have approximately 1300 undergraduate and 235
graduate students. The department is part of the
Irwin and Joan Jacobs School
of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
which grants approximately 72% of the university's B.S.
degrees, 38% of the M.S. degrees, and 55% of the PhD
degrees. Although the MAE department was founded
only 44 years ago, our educational program and laboratory
facilities are outstanding and fully developed, supported
by a dedicated staff and great research faculty.
Indeed, in a recent U.S. News and World Report
survey, we ranked in the top 20 nationwide in both
aerospace and mechanical engineering. Our
experimental and computational facilities are state of
the art, including three new buildings: the
Powell-Focht Bioengineering
Hall, the Computer Science and
Engineering building and the California Institute for Telecommunications
and Information Technology (Cal-(IT)²).
