UCSB Engineering

“I have had a lot of hands-on work with many of my professors, who I’ve had classes with - getting to see what’s going on with new research projects at the College has been great.”

Jason Oberg
Computer Engineering

Why I chose UCSB
I chose UCSB because of the many good things I heard about it. I have a lot of friends here, and I heard that it was a great school. It was also one of the best schools I got into, so that pretty much was my main motivation for it.

What I do
The work is a hybrid between computer science and electrical engineering – getting a taste of both. That’s the most general way to put it, it’s more complex if you go farther into it. My work is generally a level above the transistor level and a level below the software level.

I have had a lot of hands-on work with many of my professors, who I’ve had classes with - getting to see what’s going on with new research projects at the College has been great. I worked with one professor on underwater modems, trying to figure out an efficient way to create them and make them “plug and play”. Currently, I am working on hardware security, data flow tracking and hardware, with Professor Sherwood.

Future plans
I haven’t decided yet whether to go into a PhD program or a Masters program. I think eventually it would be cool to be a college professor but it is not what I am striving for initially. If I pursue a PhD I would like to go into the industry afterwards and work for a while.

Related links

• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Professor Timothy Sherwood