2013 Senior Dinner and Graduate Student Dinner
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Engineering Graduate Student Dinner On Friday, May 30, approximately 90 engineering graduate students, faculty, and staff, joined Dean Vijay K. Dhir at the James West Alumni Center to celebrate the end of the academic...
NASA Chief to Speak at UCLA Engineering Commencement
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Charles F. Bolden, Former Space Shuttle Astronaut, to Offer June 15 Address By Bill Kisliuk The Honorable Charles F. Bolden Jr., a former combat pilot and Space Shuttle astronaut who now serves as administrator of the...
Two Engineering Post-Docs Receive 2013 Chancellor’s Award
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin Two postdoctoral scholars at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science were among eight winners of the 2013 Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research at UCLA. In total 23...
UCLA Engineering Opens New NSF-Funded Collaboratories
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Bill Kisliuk Researchers developing sustainable fuels, pollution solutions and nanomaterials for harnessing energy and improving healthcare are the latest to move into state-of-the-art “collaboratories” at the UCLA...
Liao Wins ENI Award for Renewable Energy Research
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Bill Kisliuk James C. Liao, UCLA's Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Professor and chair of the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been...
Healthcare Start-Up Wins ITA Student Venture Contest
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Bill Kisliuk A company founded by UCLA students to develop a non-invasive test for life-threatening brain injuries took the $30,000 first prize in the inaugural Student Entrepreneur Venture Competition on May 23. Neural...
Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Receives Award from DuPont
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Shaily Mahendra, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been selected as a 2013 DuPont Young Professor. Mahendra is one of 14...
Professor Jason Speyer named first holder of Ronald and Valerie Sugar Chair in Engineering
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Aerospace, aviation guidance expert worked on NASA's Apollo missions By Bill Kisliuk Jason Speyer, a distinguished professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and...
UCLA Electrical Engineer to Develop Next-Generation Collision Avoidance Systems
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The system’s computational and physical components are designed together from the start, and will result in safer systems that are faster and less expensive to design. By Bill Kisliuk and Matthew Chin UCLA electrical...