By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Stimulus funds help educate next generation of clean-tech leaders So she created it — and, working with about 20 other professors, won support for it: $3 million in stimulus funding via a highly competitive grant from the...
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UCLA Engineering Receives $1 Million to Establish Graduate Fellowships
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has received $1 million to establish two fellowships that will support graduate students in electrical engineering. UCLA Engineering...
UCLA Engineering Adds New Faculty for 2009-10
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]This year, six talented researchers and teachers have joined the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. These new faculty members bring a diverse range of expertise in several emerging fields....
Professor Receives Government’s Highest Honor for Young Engineers, Scientists
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout Yu Huang, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been named a recipient of the Presidential Early Career...
Researchers Achieve Major Breakthrough with Water Desalination System
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA Engineering's new M3 helps cut costs, time in producing clean water By Wileen Wong Kromhout Concern over access to clean water is no longer just an issue for the developing world, as California faces its worst drought...
Low-Cost Solution Processing Method Developed for CIGS-Based Solar Cells
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Low-cost solution processing method developed for CIGS-based solar cells. The method could provide an answer to a manufacturing issue. By Wileen Wong Kromhout Though the solar industry today predominately produces solar...
UCLA Engineering Alumnus, Asad M. Madni, to receive Honorary Doctorate from Ryerson University
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Asad M. Madni (‘69, M.S. ‘72), former president, COO and director of BEI Technologies, Inc. in Sylmar, Calif., will present the commencement address and receive the honorary Doctor of Science degree at the Faculty of...
UCLA Engineering’s CEED Awarded $25,000 for Student Participation in the Intel Innovation Challenge
By UCLA Samueli NewsroomIntel awarded UCLA Engineering’s Center for Excellence in Engineering and Diversity (CEED) $25,000 for its students’ impressive accomplishment of the Intel Innovation Challenge last month. The project asked the...
Researchers Engineer Metabolic Pathway in Mice to Prevent Diet-Induced Obesity
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout In recent years, obesity has taken on epidemic proportions in developed nations, contributing significantly to major medical problems, early death and rising health care costs. According to Centers...
Secret to Diet-induced Obesity Unlocked
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Researchers engineer metabolic pathway in mice to prevent diet-induced obesity By Wileen Wong Kromhout In recent years, obesity has taken on epidemic proportions in developed nations, contributing significantly to major...
2009 NIPPON SHEET GLASS LECTURE
By UCLA Samueli NewsroomJean-Pierre Fleurial,Jet Propulsion Lab/Caltech 10:30 a.m. to Noon, June 52101 Engineering V buildingRefreshments Will Be Served Thermoelectric Technology: Challenges and New Application Opportunities...
In Memoriam: Donald K. Edwards
By UCLA Samueli NewsroomDonald K. Edwards, a UCLA Engineering professor from 1959 to 1981, died on May 6 of complications from cancer. He was 76. Edwards was an internationally recognized expert in radiation heat transfer and in the...