By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout FINDINGS: Stretchable electronics, an emerging class of modern electronic materials that can bend and stretch, have the potential to be used in a wide range of applications, including wearable...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Alison Hewitt UCLA’s power plant had something that professors Yoram Cohen and Panagiotis Christofides wanted: hopelessly filthy water. And they have invented something that the Cogeneration Plant wanted: a way to clean...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has announced the establishment of the William D. Van Vorst Chair in Chemical Engineering, made possible by a $2 million gift from...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By V. Claire Jadulang Tucked away on an underground level of Boelter Hall, the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) hosts a conference room gathering where six computer science researchers discuss a cell phone...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout Bacteria use various appendages to move across surfaces prior to forming multicellular bacterial biofilms. Some species display a particularly jerky form of movement known as "twitching" motility,...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout FINDINGS: The spreading of a liquid drop on a solid surface is a simple, everyday phenomenon. And while it is known that when a drop of oil is placed on a solid surface, its radius increases as its...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Broadcom Corporation, a global innovation leader in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications, held its annual Technical Conference last month at which top engineers from Broadcom offices around the...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Judy Lin For Engineering Professor Rajit Gadh, knowledge is power. In particular, that’s electric power and finding new ways to harness, store and deliver it as growing numbers of American drivers give up their...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout Bahram Jalali, a professor of electrical engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been named to UCLA's Northrop Grumman Endowed Opto-Electronic Chair in...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout Flow cytometry, a technique for counting and examining cells, bacteria and other microscopic particles, is used routinely in diagnosing disorders, infections and cancers and evaluating the...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout A new mechanical engineering (ME) capstone design sequence for all graduating ME seniors was unveiled this winter quarter by the mechanical and aerospace engineering (MAE) department after two...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout Jonathan Stewart, professor and vice chair of the department of civil and environmental engineering, traveled to Japan as part of a four member Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance (GEER) team...