Every year during the week of President George Washington’s birthday, engineers from across the country come together to celebrate all the incredible work engineering can create — and the bright and innovative engineers from the University of California
Paul Eggert may not be the most famous person from Russell, Kansas. That distinction, he says, goes to former U.S. senators Bob Dole or Arlen Specter. But this Midwestern native sure has his finger on the pulse of the most valuable commodity in the world: time.
A team of chemists and engineers from universities in the U.S. and Japan have discovered how an important industrial chemical catalyst — rhodium — undergoes structural changes during chemical reactions for production of chemicals and fuels.
“Growing up, I noticed that after long car travels in Nigeria, I always came back with back pain because the roads were so bad,” says Morolake (Rolake) Omoya, a Ph.D. candidate in civil engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering.
Materials science and engineering graduate Winny Dong ’94, MS ’98, PhD ’00 recently received the highest U.S. award for excellence in science, mathematics and engineering mentoring
Los Angeles philanthropists Anthony and Jeanne Pritzker have pledged $2 million to the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering through their charitable foundation. The funds will create the Pritzker Chair
UCLA researchers have developed a unique design of ultrathin films for highly flexible yet mechanically robust bioelectronic membranes that could pave the way for diagnostic on-skin sensors
Aydogan Ozcan, who holds the Volgenau Chair for Engineering Innovation at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received the 2022 Joseph Fraunhofer Award and Robert M. Burley Prize for optical engineering.
Design, build, program and pitch a device that enhances the outdoor experience in 36 hours. Think you are up to the challenge? Meet the UCLA students who did just that at the eighth annual IDEA Hacks competition. More than 130 UCLA students in 30 teams
Following its Final Four run last year, UCLA men’s basketball team continues to show it’s one of the best NCAA Division I teams this season with several big wins and dominant performances. While the 2022 roster mainly consists of returning players
On a high school field trip in Burkina Faso, Awa Kologo visited another school in a neighboring town in the landlocked country in West Africa. The schoolhouse was a red clay structure with no windows or classroom doors, and the average room
In 2012, Kimberly Cross MS ’07, PhD ’12 became the first Black woman to graduate from the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering with a Ph.D. in chemical engineering.