By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout The National Science Foundation's Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering has awarded a team of researchers led by UCLA $7.9 million to develop a more efficient and robust...

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Director, Center for Excellence in Engineering and Diversity (CEED)At UCLA Engineering since 1989. 1. What does CEED do for UCLA students? for K-12 students in Los Angeles? CEED’s mission is to recruit, retain develop and...

By UCLA Samueli Newsroomby Paul Castenholz ’49 MS ’58 Paul Castenholz ’49 MS ’58 entered UCLA under the GI Bill after serving with the U.S. Navy in World War II. He was a member of UCLA Engineering’s first graduating class.  Following...

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA team to use wireless technology to remotely monitor firefighters in field By Rachel Champeau The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have been...

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Mike Rodewald Graphene, a one-atom-thick layer of graphitic carbon, has great potential to make electronic devices such as radios, computers and phones faster and smaller. But its unique properties have also led to...

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...

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...

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...

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...