Engineering VI: New Anchor for Innovation
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, established in 1945, consistently ranks among the top 10 engineering schools in public universities. In the last decade, the...
UCLA Researchers Demonstrate Fully Printed Carbon Nanotube Transistor Circuits for Displays
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Jennifer Marcus Since the invention of liquid crystal displays in the mid-1960s, display electronics have undergone rapid transformation. Recently developed organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) have shown several...
Ronald and Valerie Sugar Chair in Engineering Established at UCLA with $1 Million Gift
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has announced the establishment of the Ronald and Valerie Sugar Chair in Engineering, made possible by a $1 million gift from UCLA alumni Ronald D. and...
UCLA Team Develops Highly Efficient Method for Creating Flexible, Transparent Electrodes
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Jennifer Marcus As the market for liquid crystal displays and other electronics continues to drive up the price of indium — the material used to make the indium tin oxide (ITO) transparent electrodes in these devices —...
UCLA Bioengineering Graduate Student Receives the Bronze Medal in National Collegiate Inventors Competition
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Collegiate inventors honored by leading U.S. organizations for pioneering science and technology advances Invent Now, a nonprofit organization that recognizes and encourages invention, announced the first prize winners of...
Archive Illuminates UCLA’s Place in Internet History
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The first ARPANET host-host connection through BBN systems marked its 42nd anniversary last Saturday, Oct. 30. Technobabble translation: In 1969, a UCLA team sent the very first message ever on the Internet — the...
Second Guru Krupa Foundation Fellowship in Electrical Engineering established at UCLA Engineering
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has received an additional $500,000 from engineering alumnus Mukund Padmanabhan to establish the 2011 Guru Krupa Foundation Fellowship in Electrical...
UCLA Engineering Professor Awarded Joint Grant from the NSF and Japan Science and Technology Agency
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The National Science Foundation (NSF) and Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) have issued new joint awards to reduce pesticide pollution and promote biofuel. In particular, James Liao of the UCLA Henry Samueli School...
UCLA Engineering Researchers Awarded $4.5M to Develop Stronger Carbon Nanotube Materials
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout Researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have been awarded $4.5 million over four years by the U.S. Department of Defense to strengthen carbon nanotube yarns...