By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wendy Soderburg In today’s restless, transitory world, Ann Karagozian is a breath of fresh air. The professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, who will assume the 2010-11 chairmanship of UCLA’s Academic Senate...
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Engineering Team Optimizes New Device to Remove Oil from Gulf Waters
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout As fate would have it, when the BP Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded last April, causing the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, UCLA Engineering’s Eric M.V. Hoek was celebrating a feat...
NSF Funds Expedition into Software for Efficient Computing in Age of Nanoscale Devices
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]As semiconductor manufacturers build ever-smaller components, circuits and chips at the nanoscale become less reliable and more expensive to produce. The variability in their behavior from device to device and over their...
Experimental Confirmation of Large Magnetoresistance in Graphene Nanoribbons
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) have been theoretically predicted to have a very large magnetoresistance, and a group from UCLA has now experimentally shown that they in fact do. Magnetoresistance is the property of a material...
Young Innovators Take Research in New Directions
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin and Wileen Wong Kromhout Three young researchers in the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science are opening up new avenues of inquiry and developing new tools for the precise control of...
Bruin Brothers: Jonas, Henrik and Peter Borgstrom
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout With the Borgstrom brothers, one can say engineering runs in the family. Not only did all three brothers, Jonas, 28, Henrik, 26 and Peter, 24, earn their undergraduate and graduate degrees in...
UCLA Engineering Awarded National Pothole-Repair Project with Total Funding of $3 million
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout American drivers may soon be riding a little smoother thanks to UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. A research team led by the school has been awarded a major project by...
Startup Company Donates Gift of Cash and Equity to UCLA Engineering
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Technology has been licensed from UCLA. The school’s Institute of Technology Advancement, a technology development enterprise, was instrumental in getting the company up and running. By Matthew Chin WaveConnex, a start-up...
UCLA Engineering Establishes New Endowed Chair in Civil Engineering with $1.5M gift
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has announced the establishment of the Richard G. Newman AECOM Endowed Chair in Civil Engineering, made possible by a $1.5 million...
UCLA Engineering Professor Aydogan Ozcan Receives Several Accolades for His Work
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]National Science Foundation’s 2010 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award: Aydogan Ozcan, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and a...
Poker Champ Chris ‘Jesus’ Ferguson Discussed Life Lessons, Game Theory recently with Panel at UCLA
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The UCLA Department of Mathematics and the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science presented "Betting on Chris 'Jesus' Ferguson: Math, Computer Science and Poker," on Monday, May 24. The event featured...
Advanced Techniques to study Ancient Civilizations
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin *This article is from the Fall 2009 issue of UCLA Engineer magazine. The UCLA campus is virtually split into two parts — a fact many students learn at freshman orientation. North Campus — the realm of...