UCLA Engineers Pioneer Affordable Alternative Energy Resource — Solar Energy Cells Made of Everyday Plastic
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]With oil and gas prices in the United States hovering at an all-time high, interest in renewable energy alternatives is again heating up. Researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science hope...
Vehicles That Drive Themselves? UCLA Engineering Pushes Autonomous Control to the Limit
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]2005 DARPA Grand Challenge Contenders Get Their Start on TV's “Jeopardy” By M. Abraham What is the DARPA Grand Challenge? A group of vehicles traveling under their own steam will cross the desert on Saturday, October 8, in...
UCLA Engineering Partners with Cal State LA and Community Colleges on Retention Efforts
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Marlys Amundson The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science plans to double the number of qualified students from traditionally underrepresented communities receiving degrees in engineering and...
University of California System Celebrates the United States Constitution
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]September 17, 2005 - Constitution Day The Constitution of the United States—four pages that created a new government more than 200 years ago—a covenant that continues to shape profoundly the lives of each one of us to this...
Exploring Future Water Independence for California
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]“Reverse Osmosis Desalination: A Glimpse at the Past and a View Toward Future Water Independence for California" explored technology for a more cost-effective and environmentally-responsive approach to seawater...
UCLA Engineering Hosts “Reverse Osmosis Desalination: Future Water Independence for California” on Thursday, September 29
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Event Open to the Public Free of Charge The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science presents “Reverse Osmosis Desalination: A Glimpse at the Past and a View Toward Future Water Independence for...
What Is RFID?
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]It Could Be the Next Breakthrough Technology for Protecting Copyrighted Content Against Piracy Researchers from the Wireless Internet for the Mobile Enterprise Consortium (WINMEC) at UCLA are working on a new radio...
Optoelectronic Tweezers to Round Up Cells, Microparticles
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Researchers Use Light-Emitting Diode, or LED, to Shuffle Single Cells and Particles Rounding up wayward cells and particles under a microscope slide can be as difficult as corralling wild horses on the range, particularly...
Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars Donated to School of Engineering by DaimlerChrysler
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA Among First Educational Institutions to Provide Students Hands-On Experience With Fuel Cell Vehicles A team of chemical engineers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science are studying the...