About the Samueli School
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ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
6th Annual Industry Research Symposium
May 15-16, 2007
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine is one of the nation’s fastest growing engineering schools, attracting talented faculty and students from across the nation and abroad. The Samueli School is dedicated to fostering an interdisciplinary community of learning, and is at the forefront of energy and environmental technology research and development, including advancements made in the Advanced Power and Energy Program, the National Fuel Cell Research Center, the Combustion Laboratory, the Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing, and the Urban Water Research Center.
The Department of Biomedical Engineering offers a stimulating array of research and training opportunities with world-renowned researchers. Focus areas include biomedical photonics/optoelectronics, biomedical nano- and microscale systems/fabrication, and biomedical computation/modeling. Included in these opportunities are major campus resources at the Beckman Laser Institute (biophotonics) and the Integrated Nanosystems Research Facility (INRF, nano-fabrication and microfabrication). Faculty members involved in tissue engineering are exploring implantable pre-vascularized tissues and neural tissue. Because of its interdisciplinary nature, biomedical engineering attracts students with a variety of backgrounds.
The Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science focuses its efforts on chemical engineering and materials science. Chemical engineering is concentrated in two areas: biochemical engineering, which includes bioremediation, molecular biotechnology, optimization and control, and bioseparation; and biomedical engineering, where the emphasis is on tissue engineering, biomaterials, biophotonics and bio-opto-electronics. Research in the materials science area primarily concerns nanotechnology, and includes nanostructured electronic and structural materials, nucleation and macromolecules, composites, superplasticity, and fuel cell membranes.
The Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering concentrates on earthquake and structural systems, transportation systems and water resources. As one of the country’s only academic units utilizing a bi-directional shake table, the department is at the leading edge of structural systems research. In collaboration with the Institute for Transportation Studies, research in transportation systems involves traffic network optimization, transportation planning, travel behavior modeling, intelligent transportation systems development, and the application of information technologies and optimization techniques to fleet management and logistics. Research in the area of water resources addresses contaminant transport phenomena in surface and subsurface environments, flow and transport modeling, water and wastewater treatment technologies, and hazard mitigation strategies.
The Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science is creating state-of- the-art technologies in computer science and engineering, computer system design, information theory, broadband communication systems, high-speed analog and digital circuit design, signal and image processing, electromagnetics, photonics, high-efficiency power electronic circuits, and alternative energy power generation. The department includes more than 20 research groups focused on areas as diverse as embedded systems, micro-electro-mechanical systems and nanotechnology, communication systems, machine intelligence, bio-chips, and neural and soft computing.
The Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering focuses on the areas of combustion, flow physics, turbulence, energy and propulsion; environmental analysis; control, dynamics and guidance; robotics and automation; aerospace structures; and manufacturing and materials processing, including micro-electro-mechanical systems. The department is home to excellent experimental and computational facilities, including a robotics and automation laboratory, a biomechatronics laboratory, a micro-electro-mechanical systems laboratory, combustion laboratories, a high Reynolds number mixing facility, a supersonic flow facility, and a large, low-speed wind tunnel.
FOCUSED RESEARCH
The School is equipped with excellent experimental facilities and a state-of-the-art computational infrastructure, occupying more than 210,000 square feet. It offers numerous research centers, institutes and facilities, including the Center for Pervasive Communications and Computing, the Integrated Nanosystems Research Facility, the National Fuel Cell Research Center, the UCI Combustion Lab, the Center for Embedded Computer Systems, the Spray and Droplet Science and Technology Research Center, the Center for Hydrology and Remote Sensing, the Facility for RF Design and Characterization, and the Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics.
The School’s faculty is also active in the
HIGHLY CITED FACULTY
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The school’s corporate affiliates programs and other alliances with industry offer a vital connection to the future by providing an avenue for the continuous flow of new information, and access to a pool of new engineering talent. Membership in these groups enables corporations to mine the wealth of resources available at the school.
Nicolaos G. Alexopoulos joined the UC Irvine engineering faculty in 1997 as dean and professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Prior to joining UC Irvine, he was a faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering at UCLA from 1969 to 1996, where he also served as associate dean of faculty affairs and chair of the department. He is the author of more than 250 professional papers, and he has served on the editorial boards of numerous professional journals and as editor-in-chief of Electromagnetics. In 1985, he was elected a fellow of the
DISTINCTIONS (2006-07)
Full-time faculty: 102
Research expenditures: $24.1 million
Undergraduate enrollment: 2,202
Graduate enrollment: 645
Ranked 37th in U.S. News & World Report’s 2008 listing of best engineering graduate schools