Annual UCLA Engineering Welcome Day Kicks Off Fall Quarter for New Students The school hosted 850 first-year and new transfer students at its annual Engineering Welcome Day Sept. 21. The daylong event, which took place at the Court of Sciences, included presentations, a scavenger hunt, a student organization fair and campus tours.
UCLA Samueli Launches New Data Science Engineering Minor Open to All Students The minor, which first became available in spring of 2022, was developed by electrical and computer engineering as well as computer science professor Mani Srivastava alongside fellow computer science professors Vwani Roychowdhury, John Cho and Majid Sarrafzadeh.
Demystifying AI John Villasenor, faculty director of the UCLA Institute for Technology, Law & Policy and a professor of electrical and computer engineering, law and public policy worked with UCLA students to create this series of videos on AI and bias.
The Fast and Fastidious: Bruin Racing at UCLA The student-run organization’s Formula team placed fifth in a national competition. Its Baja and Supermileage teams also performed well in their respective races, which featured vehicles designed and built entirely by UCLA students.
UCLA Welcomes New Materials Science and Engineering Faculty Laura Kim, who is completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will join the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering’s Materials Science and Engineering Department in November as an assistant professor.
UCLA Robotics Engineer Received DARPA Young Faculty Award Ankur Mehta, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, has received the prestigious award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense.
Carbon Sucks! Gaurav Sant, a professor of civil and environmental engineering as well as materials science and engineering, was interviewed on this podcast about his research to remove carbon dioxide from the oceans.
Star Trek Materials science and engineering assistant professor Aaswath Raman was featured in the October issue for his research on a light-powered sail that can propel a probe to our nearest star system.
Five Ways Deep Learning Has Transformed Image Analysis Aydogan Ozcan, who also holds faculty appointments in UCLA’s Bioengineering Department and the California NanoSystems Institute, was highlighted in this article on his virtual tissue imaging research.
Civil Engineering Alumna Breaks World Team Rowing Record Libby Costello ’19, is part of the quartet that completed the 2,400-mile journey in July, which set a world record for the fastest rowing time from the San Francisco Bay to Hawaii by an all-female team.
