UCLA electrical engineering graduate student Glen Meyerowitz is developing a low-cost ventilator in collaboration with medical professionals at UCLA Health.
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UCLA Samueli Engineers Step Up in COVID-19 Relief Efforts
Bioengineering professor and director of the Makerspace demonstrates laser-cutting face shields and 3D-printing headbands, while electric engineering doctoral student Glen Meyerowitz showcases a ventilator prototype he designed using everyday household materials.
UCLA Engineers Develop First-Ever Drag-Reduction Technology for Boats
A research team from the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering has demonstrated that a specially designed surface is able to reduce friction from flowing water by nearly a third. This was done in a first-ever successful boat test on open water in Marina Del Rey, California.
UCLA Engineers Step Up to Help Health Care Workers
With a deluge of patients suffering from COVID-19 expected to flood hospitals in the very near future, UCLA engineers are part of a quickly growing team working to build up supplies of personal protective equipment for health care workers.
UCLA Engineers Develop Fabric that Harvests AND Stores Energy
Bioengineers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and their colleagues have developed and successfully demonstrated a wearable fabric that can harvest and store energy from the sun.
UCLA Receives Major Grant from High Speed Rail to Study Earthquake Faults Hazards
The California High-Speed Rail Authority has awarded a three-year grant to UCLA to create a database of earthquake fault displacements and develop a predictive model to estimate the fault displacements.
A Reflection on Remote Learning
We want to commend our students, faculty and staff for their continued flexibility and patience during this challenging time as the campus makes critical adjustments in response to COVID-19.
A Bruin Engineer Explores Antarctica
Aerospace engineering doctoral student Dylan Dickstein recently returned from a two-week expedition to Antarctica, one of the planet’s coldest and most remote regions.
Triple-Bruin Andrei Iancu is Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property
Andrei Iancu is the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), one of the largest intellectual property offices in the world.
CS Postdoc Receives Chancellor’s Research Award
Zhe Chen, a computer science postdoctoral scholar, was one of eight people to receive the 2019 Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research. This award honors outstanding research accomplishments by UCLA postdoctoral scholars.
Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Information for the UCLA Campus Community
Due to the impact of novel coronavirus (COVID-19), effective Wednesday, March 11, 2020, UCLA classes will transition from in-person instruction to on-line platforms.
UCLA Engineering Students to Host Hundreds of High Schoolers in Tech Exploration
This Friday, more than 400 high school students from Southern California will get to code, build hardware and experiment with virtual reality at an outreach event organized by UCLA engineering students.