By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button] Lihua Jin’s work in soft materials engineering is helping pave the way for these kinds of advances In the Disney animated film “Big Hero 6,” the character Baymax is a loveable, squishy robot that resembles the Michelin...
Year: 2017
Four faculty members elected to the National Academy of Inventors
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button] Photo, clockwise from top left: Subramanian Iyer, Henry Samueli, Alan N. Willson, Jr., and Eli Yablonovitch. Four faculty members affiliated with the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have been...
Scientists from UCLA, National Gallery of Art pioneer new way to analyze ancient artwork
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button] ‘Macroscale multimodal chemical imaging’ reveals details about second century Egyptian painting Scientists from UCLA and the National Gallery of Art have used a combination of three advanced imaging techniques to produce...
Spearrin receives NSF CAREER Award for combustion research
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button] Applications include next-generation ultra-clean and efficient engines Mitchell Spearrin, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science,...
Hydrogen cars for the masses one step closer to reality, thanks to UCLA invention
UCLA researchers have designed a device that can use solar energy to inexpensively and efficiently create and store energy, which could be used to power electronic devices, and to create hydrogen fuel for eco-friendly cars.
Deep learning to reconstruct holograms and improve optical microscopy
A form of machine learning called deep learning is one of the key technologies behind recent advances in applications like real-time speech recognition and automated image and video labeling.
UCLA bioengineers discover mechanism that regulates cells’ ‘powerhouses’
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button] UCLA bioengineers and their colleagues have discovered a new perspective on how cells regulate the sizes of mitochondria, the parts of cells that provide energy, by cutting them into smaller units. The researchers wrote...
Blizzard CEO advises: Break large projects into bite-size pieces
Mike Morhaime ’90, co-founder and CEO of Blizzard Entertainment, addressed fellow Bruin Engineers as part of the 2017-18 Ronald and Valerie Sugar Distinguished Speaker Series
Chemical engineering post-doc receives prestigious fellowship
Yang Hai, a UCLA post-doctoral fellow in chemical and biomolecular engineering, has received a prestigious three-year fellowship from the Life Sciences Research Foundation.
Robotics may drive the future of healthcare
Rosen, who specializes in medical robotics, leads the engineering school’s Bionics Lab. He supervises groups developing both wearable robots—think exoskeletons useful in
Grad student receives prestigious NASA fellowship
An aerospace engineering doctoral student has been awarded a NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship (NSTRF), to investigate and develop a miniature ion thruster for in-space propulsion.
Nine exceptional researchers join the UCLA Engineering faculty
The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science welcomes nine new faculty members in 2017-18 to a roster that includes 35 affiliated members of the National Academy of Engineering and more than 60 winners of the NSF CAREER Award. The school now has 179 ladder faculty members, the most in its history.