The first year at a four-year university can be daunting, especially in the current environment of remote learning, but the Transfer Bridge to UCLA Engineering program aims to ease the transition for transfer students.
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In Memoriam: B. John Garrick, Pioneer in Development and Application of Risk Sciences
B. John Garrick (M.S. ’62, Ph.D. ’68), an international authority on quantitative risk assessment and a distinguished adjunct professor of materials science and engineering at UCLA, died Sunday due to complications from a fall. He was 90.
Computational Medicine Graduate Student on Applying for an NSF Fellowship
A graduate student in the Computational Medicine Department, Paheli Desai-Chowdhry, recently won a National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Award and shared her experience in applying for the program.
UCLA Connection Laboratory Launches Website on Research Breakthroughs
On the 51st anniversary of the birth of the internet, Leonard Kleinrock, internet pioneer and a distinguished professor of computer science at UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has announced the debut of the website for the UCLA Connection Laboratory.
UCLA Samueli Announces 2020-21 New Faculty
The UCLA Samueli School of Engineering is proud to welcome new faculty members to its growing roster of nearly 200 full-time faculty. As the school continues its expansion, these top-notch specialists in their respective fields will enhance UCLA’s mission of teaching, research and service.
Engineering Doctoral Student Named a Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellow
Bloomberg recently announced its 2020 Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship, awarding UCLA Computer Science doctoral student Difan Zou with financial and professional support to pursue his machine-learning research project over the course of degree completion.
UCLA Samueli to Offer One-Year Master of Engineering Degree Focused on Technical Skills and Professional Development
There is rising demand in high-tech sectors for a new breed of cross-disciplinary engineers who are well-versed in the technical, business and management aspects of technology.
UCLA Offers New Green Building LEED Lab Course Beginning Fall 2020
A yearlong course on sustainable-building design with a pathway toward professional certification made its debut this fall quarter, thanks to the collaborative efforts of student engineering club Bruin Home Solutions (BHS) along with UCLA faculty and staff.
Washington Post: Bringing the Chill of the Cosmos to a Warming Planet
The Washington Post recently featured Aaswath Raman, a UCLA Samueli assistant professor of materials science and engineering, and his research using natural radiative cooling to lower temperature without generating greenhouse gas emissions that plague our ecosystem.
UCLA Scientists Pioneer Faster and Cheaper COVID-19 Testing Technology
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency use authorization for scientists at UCLA Health to begin using a new method of COVID-19 detection using sequencing technology called SwabSeq.
Computer Science Alumna on Career at Google and YouTube
After graduating from UCLA Samueli in 2018 with a degree in computer science, Apurva Panse joined Google as an associate product manager on ChromeOS. Today, she works at YouTube as a product manager on the “Responsibility” team. We caught up with Apurva to see how she’s doing.
Engineer Awarded NIH Innovative Grant to Develop AI-Driven Brain-Machine Interfaces
Jonathan Kao, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering has received a Director’s New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health.











