PROGRAM PARTNERS

UCSD JACOBS SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

The goal of the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering is to be one of the leading and defining engineering schools in the world—a school known for the quality of its students, its stellar research programs, and an environment that fosters innovation and leadership. It is the youngest and fastest rising among the nation’s top engineering schools, currently ranked 9th in one survey, and is the largest engineering school in the renowned University of California system.

The Jacob’s School mission is to educate tomorrow’s technology leaders, to conduct leading edge research and drive innovation, and to transfer discoveries to ensure societal benefit and economic prosperity. Bioengineering, computer science and engineering, communication systems, networks, and security, and systems dynamics and control are among its strengths.

UCSD RADY SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

The Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego educates global leaders for innovation-driven organizations. A leading professional school within one of the top-ranked institutions in the U.S. for higher education and research, the Rady School offers a Full-Time MBA program and a FlexMBA program for working professionals. Our lineage includes 16 Nobel laureates (former and current faculty) and eight MacArthur Foundation award recipients. The Rady School is at the nexus of this research, development and innovation – it underlies our curriculum and our academic model.

The Rady School has a special interest in the life sciences and technology sectors, which are revolutionizing business and the world. We offer tracks in communications, information technology and life and health sciences – sectors where innovation is critical to organizational success.

RESEARCH SPONSORS

The Jacobs and Rady Schools provide the academic basis for the program. But "hands-on" experience is a cornerstone of architecture-based enterprise systems engineering. Critical to the AESE Graduate Program are two UCSD Applied Research Centers, Calit2 and SDSC, as they provide as their raison d'etre broad involvement with a wide range of applications that involve integration of sensors, communication technologies, data bases, human-computer-interfaces, and visualization methods that enable the interoperation of globally distributed researchers and engineers.

CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (CALIT2)

Calit2 represents a new mechanism to address large-scale societal issues by bringing together multidisciplinary teams of the best minds (both on and beyond UC campuses) in a way that had been impossible earlier. It is taking ideas beyond theory into practice, accelerating innovation and shortening the time to product development and job creation. Where the university traditionally has focused on education and research, Calit2 extends that focus to include development and deployment of prototype infrastructure for testing new solutions in a real-world context.

SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER (SDSC)

Today, technology is everywhere and nowhere more so than within the science and engineering community. A cornerstone of the applied research activities at SDSC is the integrated development of the globally accessible information cyberinfrastructure to drive research and education.

Cyberinfrastructure provides a broad and useful spectrum of integrated technologies to support increasingly complex, large-scale and cooperative scientific endeavors. Most science and engineering users work from a "home" research laboratory, academic department, or local environment. When a research project's technological needs outgrows the capabilities of their home environment, cyberinfrastructure can "extend the reach" of the scientist by providing needed databases, computation, and other resources remotely.