By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout Imagine a home in which every appliance — computer, television, washing machine, refrigerator, air conditioner — can carry on a minute-by-minute "conversation" with the local power grid, allowing...
Year: 2011
New Engineering Student Mentorship Program Helps New Students Ease into University Life
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin All UCLA Engineering students are admitted after having proven themselves by earning top grades in the classroom. However, navigating university life is more than just classes and labs, homework and...
Emerging Contaminants in the Water? Microbes to the Rescue
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin Now, as new threats of environmental contaminants are being identified, UCLA civil and environmental engineering assistant professor Shaily Mahendra is investigating their environmental implications, and...
UCLA Graduate Students Bring Clean Energy Workshops to High School Classrooms
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin Energy takes work. Hard work, and a lot of it, in fact. That’s the starting point in the EnGen Roadshow, a presentation to Los Angeles-area high school science classes created by several UCLA graduate...
UCLA Researchers Enhance Graphene to Enable Multicolor Photodetection
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Work could improve image sensors, biosensors and communications By Wileen Wong Kromhout UCLA RESEARCH ALERT FINDINGS: Graphene, a one-atom–thick layer of carbon lattice with a honeycomb structure, is seen as an attractive...
7 UCLA professors named fellows by American Association for the Advancement of Science
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA Engineering distinguished professor William Yeh selected as one of the seven Seven UCLA scholars have been selected as fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest...
Engineering VI: New Anchor for Innovation
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, established in 1945, consistently ranks among the top 10 engineering schools in public universities. In the last decade, the...
UCLA Researchers Demonstrate Fully Printed Carbon Nanotube Transistor Circuits for Displays
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Jennifer Marcus Since the invention of liquid crystal displays in the mid-1960s, display electronics have undergone rapid transformation. Recently developed organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) have shown several...
Ronald and Valerie Sugar Chair in Engineering Established at UCLA with $1 Million Gift
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has announced the establishment of the Ronald and Valerie Sugar Chair in Engineering, made possible by a $1 million gift from UCLA alumni Ronald D. and...
UCLA Team Develops Highly Efficient Method for Creating Flexible, Transparent Electrodes
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Jennifer Marcus As the market for liquid crystal displays and other electronics continues to drive up the price of indium — the material used to make the indium tin oxide (ITO) transparent electrodes in these devices —...
UCLA Bioengineering Graduate Student Receives the Bronze Medal in National Collegiate Inventors Competition
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Collegiate inventors honored by leading U.S. organizations for pioneering science and technology advances Invent Now, a nonprofit organization that recognizes and encourages invention, announced the first prize winners of...
Archive Illuminates UCLA’s Place in Internet History
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The first ARPANET host-host connection through BBN systems marked its 42nd anniversary last Saturday, Oct. 30. Technobabble translation: In 1969, a UCLA team sent the very first message ever on the Internet — the...