UCLA Engineering to Demonstrate Smart Grid Technologies for Los Angeles
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has been awarded a $60 million grant from the Department of Energy to develop and test advanced smart grid technologies in partnership with a consortium of top Southern...
2010 UCLA Engineering Tech Forum poster competition winners
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]First place: Katherine Bulgrin, “Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, An Investigation of a Two-Step Thermal Energy Harvesting Device” Honorable Mentions: Kitty Cha, Materials Science and Engineering, “Solution-Processed...
Two UCLA Engineering Faculty to Receive Sloan Research Fellowships
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA ranks third in nation in number of 2010 Alfred P. Sloan fellows Five exceptional UCLA scientists awarded prestigious research fellowships By Stuart WolpertFive outstanding young scientists at UCLA are among 118...
Carnesale joins high-level commission exploring storage of nuclear waste
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Cynthia Lee, UCLA Today Chancellor Emeritus Albert Carnesale has been selected to serve on a high-level national commission that will study and make recommendations for developing a safe, long-term solution to the...
Carbon Emissions Converted to Gasoline Alternative
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA researchers engineer bacteria to turn carbon dioxide into liquid fuel By Matthew Chin Global climate change has prompted efforts to drastically reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas produced by burning...
New Silicon-Germanium Nanowires Could Lead to Smaller, More Powerful Electronic Devices
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout Microchip manufacturers have long faced challenges miniaturizing transistors, the key active components in nearly every modern electronic device, which are used to amplify or switch electronic...
UCLA Engineering Awards 2009
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Alumnus of the Year – Paul Baran MS '59 Paul Baran, recipient of the 2008 National Medial for Technology and Innovation, is best known as the inventor of packet switching while at the RAND Corporation in 1960. Baran...
NASA Astronaut K. Megan McArthur ’93 Presents UCLA Engineering with a Mini IMP that Flew in Orbit
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]NASA astronaut and UCLA Engineering Alumna K. Megan McArthur presented the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science with an object that flew with her on Space Shuttle Atlantis earlier this year. The...
Researchers Decode Cholesterol Drug Synthesis
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout Researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have for the first time successfully reconstituted in the laboratory the enzyme responsible for producing the...