By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin and Wileen Wong Kromhout The unexpectedly poor performance of modern buildings during recent major earthquakes has demonstrated that revisions to design practices are needed to ensure that future...
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President and CEO of The Aerospace Corporation to speak at UCLA Engineering Commencement
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Dr. Wanda M. Austin is internationally recognized for work in satellite and payload system acquisition, systems engineering and systems simulation By Wileen Wong Kromhout The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and...
Researchers Develop New Genetic Method to Pinpoint Individuals’ Geographic Origin
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA-Tel Aviv University team models genetic variation in 2-D, 3-D space By Wileen Wong Kromhout Understanding the genetic diversity within and between populations has important implications for studies of human disease...
Start-up Company Donates Gift of Equity to UCLA Engineering
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The school’s Institute for Technology Advancement was instrumental in getting the company up and running By Matthew Chin Holomic LLC, a start-up mobile microscopy company, has given a gift of company equity to the UCLA...
Professor Receives NSF CAREER Award for Cell Biophysical Properties Research and Educational Activities
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Dino Di Carlo, a UCLA assistant professor of biomedical engineering, has received the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation, for “High-throughput Single-cell...
Electrical Engineering Ranked no. 1 and School Ranked no. 4 in the World by Microsoft Academic Search
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science is currently ranked highly in several research areas by Microsoft Academic Search. This includes a no. 1 ranking worldwide for electrical engineering by...
Asking an Expert about Biofuels: PortTech LA’s Q&A with Professor Laurent Pilon
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]PortTechLA, a public/private non-profit technology center and business incubator operated by a coalition consisting of the City of Los Angeles, Port of Los Angeles and the San Pedro and Wilmington Chambers of Commerce,...
Mechanical and Aerospace Department’s Research and Technology Review Highlights Innovation
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA’s Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) Department held its Research and Technology Review (RTR) at the UCLA Faculty Center on April 27. More than 130 people were in attendance at the event, in which...
Five Students Receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Five graduate students at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science were recently awarded prestigious Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation. The NSF program “recognizes...
Game On! UCLA Researchers use Online Crowd-Sourcing to Diagnose Malaria
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout Online crowd-sourcing — in which a task is presented to the public, who respond, for free, with various solutions and suggestions — has been used to evaluate potential consumer products, develop...
When Cells Hit the Wall: UCLA Engineers put the Squeeze on Cells to Diagnose Disease
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout and Matthew Chin If you throw a rubber balloon filled with water against a wall, it will spread out and deform on impact, while the same balloon filled with honey, which is more viscous, will deform...
New study provides Atomic-Scale Insights into Thermal Stability of Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Ultra-high temperature ceramics (UHTCs) are a special class of materials with excellent mechanical properties and superior resistance to oxidation, corrosion, and ablation at high temperatures more than 2,000 degrees...