#EngineerChange

November 2018

WELCOME NEW FACULTY
As part of our strategic initiative to expand by 50 faculty members and 1,000 students in five years, UCLA Samueli welcomes our newest batch of distinguished scholars to the No. 1 public research university in the country.

ENGINEER CHANGE.
Noted as one of today’s “most influential scientific minds,” Prof. Yang Yang has made major insights into flexible and transparent photovoltaic polymers, and continues to set performance records for power efficiency. He is just one of UCLA Samueli’s world-changing leaders.

LATEST BREAKTHROUGHS

	Packing a two-in-one punch Novel combo therapy by Prof. Zhen Gu shows promise to fight leukemia.

	Point-of-care: 15 mins to diagnosis Profs. Hal Monbouquette and Jake Schmidt’s RNA detector quickly tests for infections.

	Using AI to breathe easier Prof. Aydogan Ozcan and team’s mobile AI device tracks airborne particles.

IN THE NEWS
As aerospace giants hunt for talent, Bruins Mia Reyes and Greg Caguimbal share their experience Los Angeles Times
Go back in time with Prof. Len Kleinrock to the day UCLA switched on the internet PC Magazine
3420 Boelter: Tour the birthplace of the internet as it was in 1969 Curbed LA
Magnets manage pain? Prof. Dino Di Carlo and Ph.D. student Alireza Sohrabi explain Voice of America
Prof. Zhen Gu bioengineered a way to direct leukemia-fighting drugs into bone marrow Forbes
Prof. Gaurav Sant’s approach to upcycle CO2 to concrete included in national report The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
Amy Winehouse on tour? Prof. Jeff Burke explains how holograms are created KPCC-FM’s “Take Two” (Approx. 39:00 mark)
Prof. Yongjie Hu and team found defect-free boron arsenide the best to cool electronics Tech Briefs


THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT
To our scholarship fund participants, and all our donors, thank you for your generous support through the years. Enjoy a heartwarming video of Prof. Asad Madni (’69, MS ’72) presenting Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D. candidate Hannaneh Hojaiji with a scholarship he personally funded.

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