In Memoriam: UCLA Engineering Professor Emeritus Andrew F. Charwat, 1925-2013
By UCLA Samueli NewsroomAndrew F. Charwat, a UCLA professor emeritus of mechanical and aerospace engineering who began his academic career with the school in 1955, died July 5, 2013. He was 88.Charwat received his M.E. from Stevens...
Students’ Assignment: Help Fijians Get Clean Drinking Water
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Cynthia Lee Originally published in UCLA Today on Aug. 13, 2013 Living among farm animals and fields planted with root crops and sugar cane, the rural residents of Vanua Levu and Taveuni, two islands in Fiji, get their...
UCLA Researchers Double Efficiency of Novel Solar Cell
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Device could coat windows, smartphone screens with energy-harvesting material By Bill Kisliuk Nearly doubling the efficiency of a breakthrough photovoltaic cell they created last year, UCLA researchers have developed a...
Computer Scientists Develop ‘Mathematical Jigsaw Puzzles’ to Encrypt Software
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Software remains completely functional but impervious to reverse-engineering By Matthew Chin UCLA computer science professor Amit Sahai and a team of researchers have designed a system to encrypt software so that it only...
Alumnus David Mong Makes Largest Gift from Asia to UCLA: $5 Million Donation Supports New Engineering Building
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Bill Kisliuk The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has received a $5 million gift from Hong Kong-based philanthropist and businessman David Mong. The gift, the largest single donation UCLA...
Three Researchers Win Chorafas Awards
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Bill Kisliuk Three UCLA Engineering students are among the 35 recipients of the Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation 2013 awards. The awards honor innovative research in life sciences, biotechnology, applied mathematics,...
Tech Forum 2013 Focuses on Future of Engineering Research
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Bill Kisliuk Insights into the future of engineering research and displays of ground-breaking work topped the bill at Tech Forum 2013, the annual conference of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied...
2013 UCLA Engineering Commencement Student Awards
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin Several students at the UCLA Henry Sameuli School of Engineering and Applied Science have been honored with school-wide and department awards for 2013. Below, a few profiles of this year's school-wide...
UCLA EE Student Wins $10,000 Broadcom Award
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Bill Kisliuk Rod Yanghyo Kim, a graduate student in electrical engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, was awarded first place and $10,000 at the Broadcom Foundation University...