By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Over the last several years, UCLA Engineering’s collaboration with industry partners has grown tremendously. The relationship with Symantec is a primary example of this growth…from a traditional starting point of...
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TEC: Creating Entrepreneurs
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin UCLA Engineering students are at the very forefront of technological innovation. Under the supervision of faculty advisors, their advanced research explores new areas, and their education gives them among...
UCLA Engineering researchers identify the world’s smallest coffee ring
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Findings have implications for new types of disease-detecting biosensors that take advantage of a liquid’s evaporation By Matthew Chin The field of biosensing has recently found an unlikely partner in the quest for...
UCLA Engineer Invents World’s Smallest, Lightest Telemedicine Microscope
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Portable, lensless device can deliver health care in resource-limited settings By Jennifer Marcus and Mike Rodewald Aydogan Ozcan, whose invention of a novel lensless imaging technology for use in telemedicine could...
Towards An Affordable Miniature Flow Cytometer for Point-of-Care and Resource Limited Settings
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout Flow cytometry is a technique for counting and examining microscopic particles such as cells and bacteria. Traditionally, the microscopic particles are focused to a narrow stream of fluid, by a...
Computer Science Professor Judea Pearl honored
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Pearl was presented with a Festschrift, at a Celebration of his Lifetime of Work in Artificial Intelligence UCLA computer science professor Judea Pearl was honored last month at an all-day workshop celebrating his...
Hold the Salt: UCLA Engineers Develop Revolutionary New Desalination Membrane
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout Researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have unveiled a new class of reverse-osmosis membranes for desalination that resist the clogging which typically...
New spintronics material could help usher in next generation of microelectronics
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA team couples quantum dots, silicon for room-temperature functionality By Wileen Wong Kromhout As the electronics industry works toward developing smaller and more compact devices, the need to create new types of...
New Statistical Method for Genetic Studies Could Cut Computation Time from Years to Hours
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout In the ongoing quest to identify the genetic factors involved in disease, scientists have increasingly turned to genome-wide association studies, or GWAS, which enable the scanning of up to a...
A Chewing gum Diagnostic Test for Malaria
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Spearmint or winterfresh? A UCLA Engineering graduate student is working to develop a diagnostic tool for malaria, one of the world’s most widespread infectious diseases, which will require only a few minutes chewing on...
Career Advice from Alumna Vera Elson
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]From Engineering to Patent Law Vera Elson ’82 (cybernetics), MS ’85, is a trial lawyer and partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in Silicon Valley. She focuses her practice on intellectual...
UCLA Engineers Develop Faster Method to Detect Bacterial Contamination in Coastal Waters
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Method cuts testing time from a day or more to less than an hour By Matthew Chin Currently, beachgoers are informed about water-quality conditions based on results from the previous day's sample. Scientists must collect...