Fusion Engineering Education Spotlights

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For Fusion Energy, the Time is Now. The Place is California
November 24, 2025

More than 200 leaders from government, industry, national labs and academia gathered at UC San Diego...

UC San Diego Will Lead a New California Effort to Make Fusion Energy a Practical Reality
November 12, 2025

UC San Diego has been selected to lead a new multi-institution research effort aimed at solving mate...

General Atomics-sponsored senior project advances fusion target autoloader systems
July 30, 2025

A team of undergraduate mechanical engineering students at UC San Diego developed a prototype of a f...

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Rohan Shah: applying robotics to fusion energy
May 28, 2025

Rohan Shah recently graduated with an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from UC San Die...

Alumna Tammy Ma on fusion engineering workforce needs
May 19, 2025

Jacobs School alumna Tammy Ma, who is now lead of the Inertial Fusion Energy Institutional Init...

Marlene Patino, Fusion Energy Scientist
May 19, 2025

Marlene Patino, an assistant project scientist in the Center for Energy Research at UC San...

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Q&A with Perry Samimy, mechanical engineering graduate student
May 19, 2025

UC San Diego mechanical and aerospace engineering graduate student Perry Samimy shares how he g...