Engineering Students Develop Community-Owned Rideshare Blueprint in Class Project

A group of 13 UCLA Samueli School of Engineering students recently developed a worker-cooperative rideshare model designed to prioritize drivers and riders while reinvesting profits into public transportation in Los Angeles

Sensor Technology to Help Ease Traffic Woes

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]A UCLA engineering researcher is testing a new combination of rapid-hardening cement and embedded computer sensors that could cut road closures by 20%, potentially saving the public as much as $60,000 or more per hour As...

Booting Up Computer Smarts

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Computers are permanent fixtures in the niches – cubicles, dorm rooms – of everyday life. Social networks, workplace operations, even individual identities have gone to the wires. But few of the computer-dependent even...

Student Engineers Develop Program for Online Class Discussions

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Engineering students are developing CourseChat, an instant messaging service A small group of engineering students in UCLA's chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery are developing CourseChat, an instant...