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 UCSB is the Number 2 public research institution in the country.
» Graham Diamond Study Engineering has a pace of innovation that has become world recognized.
» Fourteen faculty members are also members of the National Academy of Engineering.
» UCSB College of Engineering is one of the top five research institutions in terms of per capita membership in the National Academy of Engineering.
» UCSB was one of the four original sites of the ARPANET, which later became the Internet. Other nodes were Stanford Research Institute, Utah University and UCLA.
  » The College of Engineering has the greatest number of registered patents per capita out of the entire UC System.
  » In research conducted by Science Watch, UCSB physics was ranked first in the country in terms of research impact as measured by citations per paper, Materials Research was ranked number one, and Engineering overall was ranked number ten in the country (UCSB is home to the world renown Institute for Theoretical Physics and Material Research Laboratory).
  » Glen Culler, UCSB professor emeritus of electrical engineering was awarded the National Medal of Technology, the nation's highest technology honor. (The ARPANET stems from his lab.)
  » UCSB faculty are world leaders in gallium nitride research having successfully recruited Shuji Nakamura. Professor Nakamura invented the blue, green and while LEDs (light emitting diodes).
  » UCSB College of Engineering has demonstrated excellence in nanofabrication, compound semiconductor, fluids and optics research. It is one of five universities participating in the National Nanofabrication Users Network.
  » UCSB recently launched the first and only approved Master's degree program on Media Art and Technology in the UC System. We are combining electrical and computer engineering, computer science, music, art studio, film studies and psychology to educate students on the convergence of technology and art.
  » UCSB has launched the Center for Entrepreneurship and Engineering Management to prepare our world-class engineering students for successful high technology venture creation.