Blizzard CEO advises: Break large projects into bite-size pieces
Mike Morhaime ’90, co-founder and CEO of Blizzard Entertainment, addressed fellow Bruin Engineers as part of the 2017-18 Ronald and Valerie Sugar Distinguished Speaker Series
Chemical engineering post-doc receives prestigious fellowship
Yang Hai, a UCLA post-doctoral fellow in chemical and biomolecular engineering, has received a prestigious three-year fellowship from the Life Sciences Research Foundation.
Grad student receives prestigious NASA fellowship
An aerospace engineering doctoral student has been awarded a NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship (NSTRF), to investigate and develop a miniature ion thruster for in-space propulsion.
Nine exceptional researchers join the UCLA Engineering faculty
The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science welcomes nine new faculty members in 2017-18 to a roster that includes 35 affiliated members of the National Academy of Engineering and more than 60 winners of the NSF CAREER Award. The school now has 179 ladder faculty members, the most in its history.
Nanodiamonds show promise for aiding recovery from root canal
Researchers at the UCLA School of Dentistry and UCLA Engineering found in a clinical trial that nanodiamonds protected disinfected root canals after the nerve and pulp were removed, thereby improving the likelihood of a full recovery. The findings are a milestone for the use of nanodiamonds in humans.
UCLA-led team looks to speed up secure quantum communications
UCLA Engineering has received a four-year, $2-million grant from the National Science Foundation to explore secure quantum communications and memory.
Flexible ‘skin’ can help robots, prosthetics perform everyday tasks by sensing shear force
Engineers from the University of Washington and UCLA have developed a flexible sensor “skin” to accurately convey information about shear forces and vibration to grasp, manipulate objects
UCLA ECE team receives $4 million to develop “internet of things” for the battlefield
A team of UCLA electrical and computer engineering faculty are part of a major Army Research Laboratory-funded initiative to develop an internet of things tailored to the specific challenges of the battlefield
Mahendra receives Paul L. Busch award for technology to clean water of pollutants
Shaily Mahendra, a UCLA associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and a Samueli Fellow, has received the 2017 Paul L. Busch Award from the nonprofit Water Environment & Reuse Foundation.








