UCLA Study Shows Bacteria Use Batman-like Grappling Hooks to ‘Slingshot’ on Surfaces
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout Bacteria use various appendages to move across surfaces prior to forming multicellular bacterial biofilms. Some species display a particularly jerky form of movement known as "twitching" motility,...
UCLA Engineers Show Dynamic Experimental Evidence for Phenomenon of Spreading Drops
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout FINDINGS: The spreading of a liquid drop on a solid surface is a simple, everyday phenomenon. And while it is known that when a drop of oil is placed on a solid surface, its radius increases as its...
UCLA Engineering Faculty and Students Present Research at Annual Broadcom Technical Conference
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Broadcom Corporation, a global innovation leader in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications, held its annual Technical Conference last month at which top engineers from Broadcom offices around the...
Researchers Use Wireless Technology to Speed Transition to Electric Vehicles
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Judy Lin For Engineering Professor Rajit Gadh, knowledge is power. In particular, that’s electric power and finding new ways to harness, store and deliver it as growing numbers of American drivers give up their...
Bahram Jalali named to Northrop Grumman Endowed Opto-Electronic Chair in Electrical Engineering
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout Bahram Jalali, a professor of electrical engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been named to UCLA's Northrop Grumman Endowed Opto-Electronic Chair in...
Got Flow Cytometry? All You Need is Five Bucks and a Cell Phone
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout Flow cytometry, a technique for counting and examining cells, bacteria and other microscopic particles, is used routinely in diagnosing disorders, infections and cancers and evaluating the...
New Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design Sequence Builds Camaraderie and Competition Among Students
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout A new mechanical engineering (ME) capstone design sequence for all graduating ME seniors was unveiled this winter quarter by the mechanical and aerospace engineering (MAE) department after two...
Geotechnical Earthquake Engineer, Professor Jonathan Stewart, Answers Questions Regarding His Trip to Japan
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout Jonathan Stewart, professor and vice chair of the department of civil and environmental engineering, traveled to Japan as part of a four member Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance (GEER) team...
Professor Yang Yang named to UCLA’s Tannas Endowed Chair in Engineering
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout Yang Yang, a professor of materials science and engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been named the holder of the Carol and Lawrence E. Tannas Jr....