New Silicon-Germanium Nanowires Could Lead to Smaller, More Powerful Electronic Devices
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout Microchip manufacturers have long faced challenges miniaturizing transistors, the key active components in nearly every modern electronic device, which are used to amplify or switch electronic...
UCLA Engineering Awards 2009
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Alumnus of the Year – Paul Baran MS '59 Paul Baran, recipient of the 2008 National Medial for Technology and Innovation, is best known as the inventor of packet switching while at the RAND Corporation in 1960. Baran...
NASA Astronaut K. Megan McArthur ’93 Presents UCLA Engineering with a Mini IMP that Flew in Orbit
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]NASA astronaut and UCLA Engineering Alumna K. Megan McArthur presented the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science with an object that flew with her on Space Shuttle Atlantis earlier this year. The...
Researchers Decode Cholesterol Drug Synthesis
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout Researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have for the first time successfully reconstituted in the laboratory the enzyme responsible for producing the...
Two UCLA Engineering Professors Named to Endowed Chairs in Electrical Engineering
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout Two professors from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have been named inaugural holders of endowed chairs in electrical engineering. M.C. Frank Chang will hold the...
Realistic Human Simulation
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]From simulating real-world objects, to creating comprehensive simulations of reality In his distinguished career in computer science, Demetri Terzopoulos has evolved from simulating real-world objects, to creating...
K-12 Students learn from UCLA Engineers
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Middle and High School Students in Los Angeles Learn from UCLA Science and Engineering Experts In an effort to improve science education at the middle and high school levels as well as raise students’ awareness and...
Clean Tech Leaders
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Stimulus funds help educate next generation of clean-tech leaders So she created it — and, working with about 20 other professors, won support for it: $3 million in stimulus funding via a highly competitive grant from the...
UCLA Engineering Receives $1 Million to Establish Graduate Fellowships
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has received $1 million to establish two fellowships that will support graduate students in electrical engineering. UCLA Engineering...