UCLA to play role in developing shape-shifting wings for aircraft
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]An international team of engineers and biologists will gain unprecedented insights into how birds fly so efficiently in order to design unmanned aircraft with shapeshifting wings. These planes may prove to be lighter,...
Grad program ranked 8th among public schools by U.S. News
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science’s graduate program was ranked eighth among public universities and 14th overall in the 2017 U.S. News and World Report rankings released Wednesday. The...
Engineer wins 2016 UCLA Grad Slam, will represent campus at UC-wide competition
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Aerospace engineering graduate student Gary Li won first place Thursday, March 3, at UCLA Grad Slam, a campus-wide competition where graduate students give three-minute presentations on their research. Li, who bested...
Chemical Engineering Grad Earns Top Thesis Honor for Water Monitoring Technology
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Sirikarn Surawanvifit, who earned her PhD in Chemical Engineering from UCLA in 2015 and her master’s in 2011, has won the award for best doctoral dissertation from the American Water Works Association. Surawanvifit’s...
Confirming Einstein: Q&A with LIGO Scientist and EE Alum Richard Savage
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Earlier this month, researchers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) announced they had detected gravitational waves, confirming a prediction by Albert Einstein in his theory of general...
Chen Receives NSF CAREER Award
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Grant will support research on engineering tumor-specific T cells for cancer immunotherapy Yvonne Chen, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and...
Three Faculty Win PECASE: Highest Honor for Young Researchers in U.S.
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Three members of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science faculty are among 105 young researchers from across the country who will receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and...
UCLA Engineering Embarks on Major Expansion
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science will increase its faculty roster and student body by more than 20 percent in the next five to seven years, an aggressive expansion that will allow the school...
UCLA Engineering honors top alumni, teachers, students at 2016 awards dinner
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom Several accomplished alumni, teachers and students were honored Feb. 5 at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science’s 2016 Awards Dinner.Structural engineering innovator Robert...