Reimagining CO2: UCLA team advances to Carbon XPRIZE finals
Carbon Upcycling team, which developed eco-friendly concrete, is sharing in $5 million prize. Working to upend one of the most stalwart of construction materials, a team of UCLA engineers, scientists and policy experts
MAE Chair named UC Riverside engineering dean
Christopher S. Lynch, professor and chair of the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering’s Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has been named dean of the Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering at UC Riverside.
Engineering VI Grand Opening: new building heralds new era of growth for UCLA Samueli
The UCLA Samueli School of Engineering officially opened its newest building, Engineering VI, in grand style Saturday, with hundreds of alumni and friends touring the state-of-the-art facility.
Prospective student? Three questions on student life with engineering ambassador Melody Young
Melody Young is a fourth-year materials engineering student and is one of the school’s 35 Engineering Ambassadors. The ambassadors are current students who introduce prospective students and their parents to the UCLA and the engineering school.
In Memoriam: Professor Chand R. Viswanathan
Chand R. Viswanathan, a distinguished professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering died on March 12. He was 88.
UCLA researchers develop a new class of two-dimensional materials
A research team led by UCLA scientists and engineers has developed a method to make new kinds of artificial “superlattices” — materials comprised of alternating layers of ultra-thin “two-dimensional” sheets, which are only one or a few atoms thick. Unlike current state-of-the art superlattices, in which
UCLA Samueli honors alumni, faculty, and students at 2018 awards dinner
Capped by emotional speeches from the Alumnus of the Year and the Lifetime Contribution Award honoree, the 2018 UCLA Engineering Awards Dinner honored the very best of the school’s alumni, students and faculty on March 3.
UCLA researchers show a cancer defense mechanism could be turned back to attack tumors
UCLA engineers and scientists have engineered a type of synthetic protein — a chimeric antigen receptor, or CAR, that responds to soluble protein targets. The advance shows great promise for helping the body’s immune system seek out and destroy cancer because it could
Hu receives NSF CAREER Award to explore new thermal management materials
Yongjie Hu, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, the agency’s highest honor for faculty members at the start of their research and teaching careers.