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....
UCLA Engineering Undergraduates Present Research on Capitol Hill
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin A duo of UCLA electrical engineering seniors were one of only 60 student groups nationwide to participate in the prestigious Posters on the Hill program, held by the Council on Undergraduate Research. The...
2011 UCLA Engineering Senior Class Campaign a Success
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The 2011 UCLA Engineering Senior Class Campaign was a success, raising $20,000 toward furniture for the SEAS Café, which is currently under renovation. Each year, a group of engineering students join together to launch a...
Semiconductor Research Corporation and UCLA Advance Design-Dependent Process Monitoring for Semiconductor Wafer Manufacturing
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Research Promises Semiconductor Manufacturing Cost and Production Savings Up to 15 Percent, Potentially Increasing Profit Per Chip Significantly Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world's leading...
Study: Error Prevention, Rather than Correction, Best for Future of Nanoelectronic Devices
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]FINDINGS: The move toward smarter, lighter and more powerful electronics, computers and smartphones depends on whether transistor circuits, the building blocks of such devices, can process large amounts of information. As...
Biofuels Technology is Latest Example of UCLA Spurring Economic Growth
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Jeremy Rosenberg A company that is commercializing a next-generation biofuels platform and has licensed intellectual property co-developed by a preeminent UCLA professor recently completed a $107 million initial public...
Diabetes Foot Ulcer Diagnosis and Treatment Could Be Improved and Made Earlier with Hyperspectral Imaging Techniques
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin Building on an advanced imaging technique, researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed algorithms that could be used to identify foot ulcers associated...
New Statistical Method Could Improve Search for Genes Involved in Common Diseases
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout FINDINGS: Recent breakthroughs in the analysis of genetic variation in large populations have led to the discovery of hundreds of genes involved in dozens of common diseases. Many of these...
UCLA Engineering Alumnus Vinton Cerf MS ’70, PhD ’72 Honored as UCLA Edward A. Dickson Alumnus of the Year
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA will honor Vinton Cerf, vice president and chief Internet evangelist for Google Inc., at ceremonies on campus on Friday, May 20. The awards tradition, which began in 1946, pays tribute to alumni who manifest...