Homeland Security Selects UCLA to Help Establish Guidelines for Firefighter Health, Safety
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA team to use wireless technology to remotely monitor firefighters in field By Rachel Champeau The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have been...
UCLA Chemists, Engineers Achieve World Record with High-Speed Graphene Transistors
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Mike Rodewald Graphene, a one-atom-thick layer of graphitic carbon, has great potential to make electronic devices such as radios, computers and phones faster and smaller. But its unique properties have also led to...
Engineering Professor to Take Reins of Academic Senate
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wendy Soderburg In today’s restless, transitory world, Ann Karagozian is a breath of fresh air. The professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, who will assume the 2010-11 chairmanship of UCLA’s Academic Senate...
Engineering Team Optimizes New Device to Remove Oil from Gulf Waters
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout As fate would have it, when the BP Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded last April, causing the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, UCLA Engineering’s Eric M.V. Hoek was celebrating a feat...
NSF Funds Expedition into Software for Efficient Computing in Age of Nanoscale Devices
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]As semiconductor manufacturers build ever-smaller components, circuits and chips at the nanoscale become less reliable and more expensive to produce. The variability in their behavior from device to device and over their...
Experimental Confirmation of Large Magnetoresistance in Graphene Nanoribbons
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) have been theoretically predicted to have a very large magnetoresistance, and a group from UCLA has now experimentally shown that they in fact do. Magnetoresistance is the property of a material...
Young Innovators Take Research in New Directions
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin and Wileen Wong Kromhout Three young researchers in the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science are opening up new avenues of inquiry and developing new tools for the precise control of...
Bruin Brothers: Jonas, Henrik and Peter Borgstrom
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout With the Borgstrom brothers, one can say engineering runs in the family. Not only did all three brothers, Jonas, 28, Henrik, 26 and Peter, 24, earn their undergraduate and graduate degrees in...
UCLA Engineering Awarded National Pothole-Repair Project with Total Funding of $3 million
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout American drivers may soon be riding a little smoother thanks to UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. A research team led by the school has been awarded a major project by...