UCLA Engineering Team Selected as Semifinalist for 2005 Autonomous Vehicle Challenge
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Forty Teams Advance to Next Round in Quest tor $2 Million Prize In March of 2004, just outside of Barstow, California, a series of driverless, robotic vehicles set out across the desert for Las Vegas. One after another...
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...
Institute for Cell Mimetic Space Exploration at UCLA Awarded $2 Million Grant from the National Institutes of Health
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]CMISE to develop tool for viewing metabolomics of cells — the pathways within cells that show researchers how the body works at the smallest level The Institute for Cell Mimetic Space Exploration (CMISE) at the UCLA Henry...
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...
UCLA Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Professors Honored for Groundbreaking Research
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Deborah Estrin to Hold Chair in Computing Networking, Eli Yablonovitch Named Opto-Electronics Chair By Marlys Amundson Vijay K. Dhir, dean of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has announced...
UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science Announces Inaugural Nippon Sheet Glass Lecture
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]John D. Mackenzie, Member of the National Academy of Engineering and Founding Editor of the Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids to Deliver Talk The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science will hold its...
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...
John Marburger, Science Adviser to President George W. Bush, to Deliver 2005 Commencement Address
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Exercises to be Held Saturday, June 18, at 12:30 p.m. John H. Marburger III, science adviser to President George W. Bush and director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, will deliver the 2005 commencement...
Engineering Student Groups Showcase Projects, Outreach Activities at Annual Reception
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Annual design competitions. Local K-12 outreach programs. Symposia, lectures and workshops. These engineering student activities – and others – rely on support from alumni to achieve their goals. In May, a number of...