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Alumni
As Henry Samueli School of Engineering alumni, you are part of an exceptional technological community that continues to develop new traditions and welcome individuals worldwide. The School is in an exciting growth spurt, developing innovative advancements each year that help promote UC Irvine as an interdisciplinary, world-class research university.
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After winter storms, California can expect a late start to the wildfire season
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After revival, Iran’s great salt lake faces new peril
The shallow lake was at its most expansive in recent decades in the late 1990s …. But a 5-year dry spell that began in 1998 was coupled with increasing water diversion for irrigation. “We call it anthropogenic drought,” says Amir AghaKouchak, [professor of civil & environmental engineering], a hydrologist at the University of California (UC), Irvine, who first visited Urmia as a student in 1998. … In the past few years, such worries receded as ample precipitation helped boost lake levels by about 1.5 meters.
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Acoustic Thievery: Researchers Find a Way to “Hack” 3-D Printers Using Sound
Mohammad Al Faruque, the director of UCI’s Advanced Integrated Cyber-Physical Systems Lab, led the team which showed that a simple device, such as a smartphone, can capture acoustic signals that carry information about the precise movements of the printer’s nozzle. These recordings can then be used to reverse engineer whatever object is being printed and re-create it somewhere else. Basically, this poses a huge security risk due to how easily detailed and confidential processes can be deciphered using common, everyday gadgets.
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Anisometric Particles
Anisometric particles synthesized by microfluidic stop-flow lithography
Assistant Professor Ali Mohraz, Ph.D.
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Aging Infrastructure May Create Higher Flood Risk in L.A., Study Finds
Hundreds of thousands of people in Los Angeles could experience at least a foot of flooding during a 100-year disaster, a new scientific study has found, highlighting the hazards of aging infrastructure in America’s second-largest city. This is a much higher estimate of flood exposure in Los Angeles than the one produced by the federal government. … The discrepancy is explained, in part, because the new study takes a more realistic view of the city’s water infrastructure, said the report’s lead author, Brett F.
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Alumni and Friends
The continuing success of the Samueli School of Engineering is fueled by the involvement of influential alumni and friends who promote its visibility and help secure philanthropic support to advance its goals of unleashing innovation, creating opportunities and inspiring ingenuity. The school's growing alumni ranks are making significant contributions to society in the fields of technology, business, academia, government, military and social causes.
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After protests, SoCalGas scales back plans to test hydrogen energy at UC Irvine
UC Irvine ended up on the front line of this debate because it is home to the National Fuel Cell Research Center, which has been testing hydrogen for years. The center is led by Jack Brouwer, an engineering professor at UCI who has studied hydrogen for 25 years. Brouwer’s team has worked with SoCalGas on other projects. So he said previously that this next test seemed a natural fit after the CPUC asked gas companies back in 2019 to help develop standards for safely injecting hydrogen into the statewide natural gas system.
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Academics
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A gondola from Union Station to Dodger Stadium? It could happen by 2022, Mayor Garcetti says
The gondola would be most likely to succeed if the Dodgers, Metrolink and Amtrak work to provide late trains for fans who live outside the city, said Sarah Catz, a research associate at UC Irvine's Institute of Transportation Studies and a founding board member of Metrolink. [Subscription required, you can request an electronic copy of the article by sending an email to communications@uci.edu
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