Alumni Spotlight
Five Engineers Inducted into 2017 Hall of Fame
The Samueli School of Engineering and the Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences recognized 11 distinguished alumni at the 2017 Hall of Fame Celebration held last month at the Marconi Automotive Museum in Tustin.
Behind the Games
Gaming and entertainment giant Electronic Arts has a winning hand when it recruits new talent: Who would turn down a job that pays you to play games and create fun?
Q & A with Lauds and Laurels Winner John Labib '94
John Labib, winner of this year’s Lauds and Laurels Distinguished Alumnus Award in Engineering, graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering in 1994.
Q & A with Alumnus Ed Hernandez ‘91
Ed Hernandez, an engineering teacher at Tustin High School, was named the 2015 California Career and Technical Education Teacher of the Year by the Association of College and Technical Educators and the 2014 High Impact Teacher of the Year in STEM by Project Tomorrow, an Irvine-based organization that supports educational excellence in STEM.
Alumnus Wins ACES Award
Samueli School alumnus Salvatore Campione has been awarded the 2017 ACES Early Career award by the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society.
Q&A with Alumna Cynthia Guidry '92
Cynthia Guidry received her bachelor’s in civil engineering from UCI’s Samueli School of Engineering in 1992.
Samueli Alumni Among UCI's Top 50
They’re accomplished, they’re award-winning, they’re Samueli School alumni … and they’re among UC Irvine’s very best.
Anteaters Unite
“I only came because my girlfriend wanted to see the Skyslide,” said UC Irvine alumnus Bhavin Patel, a former software engineer turned entrepreneur.
OC Business Journal Recognizes Alumnus
The Orange County Business Journal named UCI alumnus Benjamin Park, founder and chief technology officer of Enevate Corp., as a 2016 Innovator of the Year.
Alumnus Earns National Recognition
Samueli School alumnus Salvatore Campione, who earned a doctorate in electrical and computer engineering in 2013, has been named the 2016 Outstanding Young Professional by the IEEE Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) honor society.
Engineering Alumna Recognized
Anteater engineering alumna Claire Robertson has received a 2015 For Women in Science Fellowship from L'Oreal USA.
Engineering Alumnus Receives Congressional Fellowship from American Nuclear Society
UC Irvine engineering alumnus Jeremy Pearson has been selected as the 2015 American Nuclear Society (ANS) Glenn T. Seaborg Congressional Science and Engineering Fellow.
Thomas Yuen ’74 earns UCI Alumni Association’s Extraordinarius award
Thomas Yuen, entrepreneur, philanthropist and community leader, will receive UC Irvine’s Extraordinarius award May 15 at the 44th annual Lauds & Laurels ceremony, sponsored by the UCI Alumni Association.