By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]On Saturday, the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science will hold its annual awards dinner, celebrating the achievements of students, faculty and alumni. In recognition of National Engineers Week, the...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Two UCLA alumni have turned their engineering degrees into box office gold. Joshua Barratt ’01 and Geoff Wedig MS ’95 have each received a 2017 award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for their technical...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA team creates ‘smart’ mobile tool that may be used to diagnose and treat serious diseases Finding practical solutions to detect proteins, cancer biomarkers, viruses and other small objects has been a key challenge for...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]In a study released today, U.S. Geological Survey scientists and their colleagues, including Timu Gallien, UCLA assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, document how the 2015-16 winter featured one of...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button] Three faculty members of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science – Jason Cong and George Varghese of Computer Science, and Behzad Razavi of Electrical Engineering (pictured left to right above) –...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Bruce Dunn, UCLA professor of materials science and engineering, is leading research on safer lithium ion batteries. Dunn, one the country’s top experts on battery technology, was recently interviewed in a KNBC story on a...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Saswat Padhi, a graduate student in the UCLA Computer Science Department, has received a Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship, recognizing his research in practical software verification. Padhi, was one of 10 students in...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]John Villasenor, UCLA professor of electrical engineering, public policy and management, authored a column in The Chronicle of Higher Education on the important role immigrants have played in American technology...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Veronica Santos, UCLA associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has received a $719,000 grant from the Department of Defense’s Office of Naval Research to develop a robot that would be capable of...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA-led team identifies drug and dose regimen that may cut time by as much as 75 percent Taking a new approach toward tuberculosis therapy, a UCLA-led research team has devised a potential drug regimen that could cut the...
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Research proposals from nine UCLA Engineering faculty members have been awarded grants as part of the UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge. Projects selected include: * Development of high-efficiency integrated solar and...
UCLA Engineering alumnus Ronald Sugar, a retired aerospace and defense industry executive who led Northrop Grumman Corporation from 2003 to 2010, spoke to hundreds of UCLA students Wednesday. The program, held at the California NanoSystems Institute, was part of the school’s distinguished speaker series. The series was made possible by a gift last year from Sugar and his wife Valerie, both longtime supporters of the school.