<p>UCSB’s engineering department is world class. This is the oddest thing when I run into people thinking it isn’t. I undertand US News ranks all sorts of things besides actual academics faculty and facilities but even US News has UCSBs engineering program up very high. Here is the National Research Council ranking of computer engineering (listed under electrical and computer engineering, the cs ranking doesn’t work, as you will see if you click it.) To use it you click the subject matter and then go to the table and click ‘s rank high’ to get the scholar’s ranking of the programs from highest to lowest. These are graduate programs, but at UCSB with so few graduate students you will see undergraduates get the research positions, etc often. <a href=“NRC Rankings Overview: Electrical and Computer Engineering”>http://chronicle.com/article/NRC-Rankings-Overview-/124726/</a></p>
<p>It is possible putting computer engineering together with electrical somewhat skews the results, but computer engineering is more the hardware side than the software side, so it makes sense. Here is some recent UCSB stuff on computer engineering AND computer science - note I limited my search on google to stuff coming up in the last month, and these are just the first five listings that came up </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2014/014130/ucsb-places-among-top-10-leiden-ranking-750-major-universities-world”>http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2014/014130/ucsb-places-among-top-10-leiden-ranking-750-major-universities-world</a>
<a href=“http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1113136972/rapid-synthesis-technique-developed-for-bilayer-graphene-high-performance-transistors-050214/”>http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1113136972/rapid-synthesis-technique-developed-for-bilayer-graphene-high-performance-transistors-050214/</a>
<a href=“Research & Development World”>Research & Development World;
<a href=“http://www.pacbiztimes.com/2014/05/02/power-is-knowledge-as-unite-to-light-devices-spread-around-the-world/”>http://www.pacbiztimes.com/2014/05/02/power-is-knowledge-as-unite-to-light-devices-spread-around-the-world/</a>
<a href=“http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2014/014123/future-effects”>http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2014/014123/future-effects</a></p>
<p><a href=“https://www.ce.ucsb.edu/”>https://www.ce.ucsb.edu/</a></p>