By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Nanoantenna array’s higher signal-to-noise ratios mean it can find faint target signals Researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed a new antenna array that greatly...
Year: 2017
Celebrating National Engineers Week 2017: Faculty Honorees
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]On Saturday, the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science will hold its annual awards dinner, celebrating the achievements of students, faculty and alumni. In recognition of National Engineers Week, the...
Celebrating National Engineers Week 2017: Outstanding Students
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]On Saturday, the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science will hold its annual awards dinner, celebrating the achievements of students, faculty and alumni. In recognition of National Engineers Week, the...
And the Academy Award goes to…
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Two UCLA alumni have turned their engineering degrees into box office gold. Joshua Barratt ’01 and Geoff Wedig MS ’95 have each received a 2017 award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for their technical...
Machine learning helps researchers design less costly optical sensors
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA team creates ‘smart’ mobile tool that may be used to diagnose and treat serious diseases Finding practical solutions to detect proteins, cancer biomarkers, viruses and other small objects has been a key challenge for...
Severe West Coast Erosion During 2015-16 El Niño
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]In a study released today, U.S. Geological Survey scientists and their colleagues, including Timu Gallien, UCLA assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, document how the 2015-16 winter featured one of...
UCLA pioneers elected to National Academy of Engineering
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button] Three faculty members of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science – Jason Cong and George Varghese of Computer Science, and Behzad Razavi of Electrical Engineering (pictured left to right above) –...
Creating safer batteries for the future: KNBC interviews Professor Bruce Dunn
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Bruce Dunn, UCLA professor of materials science and engineering, is leading research on safer lithium ion batteries. Dunn, one the country’s top experts on battery technology, was recently interviewed in a KNBC story on a...
UCLA student receives Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship for work to improve software verification
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Saswat Padhi, a graduate student in the UCLA Computer Science Department, has received a Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship, recognizing his research in practical software verification. Padhi, was one of 10 students in...
Villasenor: Immigrants Have Helped Make America a Leader in Technology Innovation
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]John Villasenor, UCLA professor of electrical engineering, public policy and management, authored a column in The Chronicle of Higher Education on the important role immigrants have played in American technology...
Professor receives grant to develop robots to handle and dispose of ordnance
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Veronica Santos, UCLA associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has received a $719,000 grant from the Department of Defense’s Office of Naval Research to develop a robot that would be capable of...
New tuberculosis therapy could be more potent than current treatments
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA-led team identifies drug and dose regimen that may cut time by as much as 75 percent Taking a new approach toward tuberculosis therapy, a UCLA-led research team has devised a potential drug regimen that could cut the...