The University of California, San Diego, is one of the leading Universities in mixed-signal, microwave and mm-wave RFICs, digital communications, applied electromagnetic, RF MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) and nano-electronics research, and is home to the Center for Wireless Communications and the DARPA S&T Center for RF MEMS Reliability and Design Fundamentals. UCSD has an annual research budget exceeding $700M, and its Jacobs School of Engineering is ranked as Number 11 in the US-News and World Report 2007 ranking. The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, consisting of 52 teaching tenure faculty, trains approximately 400 graduate students per year.