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Message from Chair
Welcome to the UC Irvine Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), where the seemingly magical becomes reality. Ever wonder how your phone can pinpoint your precise location on a map? Or how a self-driving car can parallel park? Or how a thin piece of glass no bigger than a human hair can carry 100 million Zoom sessions at once?
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Major flood would hit Los Angeles Black communities disproportionately hard, study finds
Flooding from a storm event so severe that it occurs only once every 100 years would cause far greater damage to life and property in the Los Angeles Basin than federal emergency officials have forecast, according to UC Irvine researchers who warn also that Black and low-income communities would be hardest hit by the disaster.
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Mimicking squid skin to improve thermoregulating blankets
Engineers at the University of California, Irvine, have made a new and improved space blanket that allows users to control their temperature. The blanket, inspired by the adaptive properties of cephalopod skin, comprises a soft and stretchable polymer matrix that is transparent to infrared radiation covered with an array of infrared-deflecting metal domains anchored within the matrix.