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Campus Connections
The intellectual and technological resources of the Samueli School catalyze and enable large-scale, multidisciplinary partnerships across the UC Irvine campus, including the School of Medicine, School of Physical Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, College of Health Sciences, the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences and The Paul Merage School of Business, toward solutions for some of society’s most pressing challenges.
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The Communications and Events team at the Samueli School of Engineering provide marketing, media relations, photography and event planning and logistics services for the school. The team is responsible for the school's annual report, printed and online communications and social media.
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Could hydrogen be the clean fuel of the future?
As leaders around the world search for cleaner energy solutions to fight climate change, a question has emerged: Could hydrogen be the clean fuel of the future? … Jack Brouwer is director of the National Fuel Cell Research Center at the University of California, Irvine. He is convinced a future that runs on hydrogen … is finally around the corner. … “You could actually design a fuel cell engine that can be just as fast as any battery engine,” [said Brouwer]. Read More
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City of Los Angeles Department of Public Water & Power New Engineering Associate Training Program
Deadline: Continuous
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California blackouts trigger debate about electric grid resilience
“Before the incorporation of all these renewables and other things, you have the load profile, and then you just turn power plants on and off to meet the load profile,” said Brian Tarroja, a researcher in the Advanced Power and Energy Program at the University of California, Irvine. Some blamed California’s adoption of renewable energy for triggering the blackouts, but Tarroja said that’s an oversimplification. The real culprit is a lack of integration of these renewables and the difficulty of getting all that power where it needs to go. Another issue is that there’s no incentive for utilit
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Climate change supercharging wildfires in California, researchers say
Human-caused climate change is largely responsible for an explosion in wildfire damage in California over the past quarter century, and the problem is only going to get worse in coming years, according to a study from the University of California. … “The 10 largest fires in California history have all occurred in the past two decades, and five of those have happened since 2020,” said Amir AghaKouchak, a UC Irvine professor of civil and environmental engineering.
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California’s ‘smart’ energy future glows on the horizon—but how to get there?
Gene Tsudik, a UC Irvine professor and one of the participants, is a computer scientist specializing in privacy and security. … “We are surrounded by smart devices all over the place. Of course, they violate your privacy.” … One takeaway for Scott Samuelsen, director of UCI’s Advanced Power and Energy Program, which ran the project, is that while the adoption of smart home devices is growing fast, regulation and consumer protections that should accompany them are not keeping pace. “The market is out of control with respect to regulation (of devices),” Samuelsen said.
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Chemical Engineering
Chemical Engineering uses knowledge of chemistry, mathematics, physics, biology, and humanities to solve societal problems in areas such as energy, health, the environment, food, clothing, shelter, and materials and serves a variety of processing industries whose vast array of products include chemicals, petroleum products, plastics, pharmaceuticals, foods, textiles, fuels, consumer products, and electronic and cryogenic materials. Chemical engineers also serve society in improving the environment by reducing and eliminating pollution.
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Climate Change, Corporate Development Threaten Groundwater Wells In Texas And Across US
Amir AghaKouchak is an engineering professor at University of California Irvine. He studies the extremes of climate change. “Model projections of the future show that we may see events that you have never experienced, at least in our modern records,” he said. That includes the potential for record-breaking drought in some areas.
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Crystal Cove State Park Cottage Restoration
They are a piece of Southern California history and the work is now underway to complete restoration on the cottages at Crystal Cove.
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Can Iran and Afghanistan cooperate to bring an oasis back from the dead?
Yet Soroosh Sorooshian, a water expert at the University of California, Irvine, is convinced that the Hamouns are not a lost cause. “Experience has shown that water bodies that have dwindled to nothing can bounce back,” he says. “It might take decades, but there is still hope.”