Greetings!

Happy holidays from our family to yours! We wanted to remind everyone about the Materials Research Outreach Program (MROP 2019) that will take place Jan 30th and 31st in the UCSB Corwin Pavilion.

The winter quarter is starting soon and it’s time to start planning your recruiting events! To secure your company's spot in our Winter 2019 campus recruiting schedule, please contact Ashley Antoon at antoon@engineering.ucsb.edu to schedule an info session , informal tabling or send out any last minute job postings .

We are proud of our faculty, including Guillermo Bazan, Professor of Chemistry and of Materials, who is in the Journal Advanced Materials’ Hall of Fame! In this newsletter we highlight one industry relationship that has been very successful with Capstone projects, along with conferences that you and your colleagues may attend.

FLIR Systems is a company that specializes in the design and manufacturing of infrared cameras. FLIR offers a diversified solutions portfolio that serves the government, defense, industrial, and commercial markets. The company’s Goleta, California office has been the fastest-growing division, employing more than 500 people and focusing on sensor development and core thermal cameras. According to site leadership, part of its “secret sauce” has been its partnership with UC Santa Barbara, which began small but has evolved and strengthened over the last 10 years. As Marcel Tremblay, Director of Mechanical Engineering at FLIR Goleta says, “Having a good relationship with a leading university has improved FLIR’s hiring, technology and costs.”

Click here to see the FLIR Success Story and the

11/8/18 Corporate Affiliates Board Meeting Agenda

MIT Enterprise Forum Central Coast

Wednesday, January 16, 2018

5-6pm Networking, 6-7:30pm Presentation/Panelist Discussion, 7:30-8pm Q&A

Santa Barbara Women's Club

It’s undisputed that autonomous technologies are advancing across the globe faster than ever before. Join us for an evening of lively discussion exploring smart technologies, intelligent machines and autonomous robots. We will dive into topics including, which industries and countries are making the biggest impact, the societal myths and functional safety of what exists today and what is coming next and how the military, industrial companies and even your living room will continue to see changes.

PANELISTS

The 63rd Annual Faculty Research Lecture was expertly delivered by Umesh Mishra, a UC Santa Barbara Electrical and Computer Engineering professor, on November 26th in the UCSB Corwin Pavilion. It is the highest honor bestowed upon UC Santa Barbara professors in recognition of extraordinary scholarly distinction. Professor Mishra spoke about GaN and its power to not only drive innovation but also to modernize existing technology, reduce power consumption and limit energy waste.