New Faculty Join UCLA Engineering in 2016-17
By UCLA Samueli NewsroomThe UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science welcomes 11 new faculty members in 2016-17 to a roster that includes 32 affiliated members of the National Academy of Engineering and more than 60...
Daily Bruin: Alum encourages students to explore business field at speaker series
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The Daily Bruin reported on UCLA Engineering alumnus Nick Desai’s talk, the first event in the Ronald and Valerie Sugar Distinguished Speaker Series. Desai, co-founder and CEO of Heal, discussed engineering,...
UCLA Engineering announces new Sugar Distinguished Speaker Series
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science is proud to announce the creation of the Ronald and Valerie Sugar Distinguished Speaker Series. The new annual series will bring national and international...
Ho Named AAAS Fellow
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Chih-Ming Ho, a UCLA distinguished research professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and of bioengineering, has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. AAAS Fellows are...
Changing fuel cell catalyst shape would dramatically increase efficiency, lower cost
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA and Caltech researchers develop method that would require only 1/50 as much platinum An international team led by researchers at UCLA and Caltech has demonstrated how altering the form of platinum nanoscale wires from...
The robot is at your service
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA engineering students built the robot concierge at the UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center Internationally renowned UCLA professor of engineering Dennis Hong gets excited about robots — downright giddy at...
Computers learn to recognize molecules that can enter cells
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Researchers' peptide discovery has broad implications for biomedicine A team of researchers from UCLA and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign originally set out to discover and design antimicrobial peptides —...
UCLA electrical engineering professor named an inaugural Moore Inventor Fellow
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Mona Jarrahi recognized for her work advancing imaging technology Mona Jarrahi, associate professor of electrical engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been named one of five...
UCLA-led team opens new avenues to research on topological insulators
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The class of material, which is a conductor and insulator of electric current, could be used for ultra-low power computing Today’s computers and smartphones feel warm when they’re in use, because some of the electrical...