Every year, the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering selects and recognizes outstanding achievements by a number of its alumni, faculty members and students who have excelled in various fields. These awardees are honored at a formal school ceremony.
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UCLA Engineering 2021 Award Recipients
Every year, the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering selects and recognizes outstanding achievements by a number of its alumni, faculty members and students who have excelled in various fields. These awardees are honored at a formal school ceremony. Due to the pandemic, the in-person award presentation
Finding Inspiration in the Night Sky with Alumna Keji Sojobi
When Keji Sojobi ’07 looked up in the night sky as a child, she found herself struck by the vastness and mystery that existed in the darkness. “I think I found it sacred, even though I wouldn’t have known to use that word — that there is this
NASA Astronaut Megan McArthur ’93 Shares Insights on Twice Journey to Space
Megan McArthur’s stellar career trajectory has taken her from piloting submarines in a campus pool as an engineering student to piloting the SpaceX Crew-2 mission as a NASA astronaut. She shared her inspiring journey
Turning Wastewater Into a Resource: A Graduate Student’s Solution to Climate Change
These days, civil and environmental engineering doctoral student Kevin Clack spends his time investigating innovative ways to improve water resilience in arid metropolitan regions
Internet Pioneer Leonard Kleinrock Named Computer History Museum Fellow
Leonard Kleinrock, a distinguished professor of computer science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and a towering figure in the creation of the internet, has been named a 2022 Fellow of the Computer History Museum.
UCLA to Host Regional Artificial Intelligence Program in Collaboration with Break Through Tech
UCLA will be the first public university to host a Break Through Tech AI hub — part of a national program designed to teach artificial intelligence to a greater diversity of students — bringing AI education to
UCLA Engineering 2021 Award Recipients Profiles of the Edward K. Rice Outstanding Student Awardees
Every year, the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering selects and recognizes outstanding achievements by a number of its alumni, faculty members and students who have excelled in various fields.
Ultrasound Offers New Avenue to Treat Diabetes
Two UCLA bioengineers are part of a multi-institutional team that has demonstrated a new technique that uses ultrasound to prevent and even potentially reverse Type 2 diabetes. The methodology, now undergoing feasibility trials with a group of Type 2 diabetic patients
UCLA Engineers Develop Emission-Free Process Turning Methane Gas to Hydrogen and Graphitic Carbon
Researchers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have delivered a one-two punch to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while generating valuable products in high demand. Using direct solar power
Engineering 96: Undergraduate Instructors Teach Classes on Design, Build and Test
When third-year mechanical engineering student Jonathan Huang embarked on his career at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, he didn’t expect to see his face laser-etched on the side of a go-kart. But that’s exactly what happened while he was a student
UCLA Materials Scientists Lead Global Team in Finding Solutions to Biggest Hurdle for Solar Cell Technology
Materials scientists at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and colleagues from five other universities around the world have discovered the major reason why perovskite solar cells — which show great promise