3-D Coil Assembly
3-D coil assembly for a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Gyroscope (NMRG) prototype fabricated using folded MEMS technology.
Photo by: Alexander Trusov
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3-D Coil Assembly
3-D coil assembly for a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Gyroscope (NMRG) prototype fabricated using folded MEMS technology.Photo by: Alexander Trusov
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3D printing technology is vulnerable to hacking say researchers
The team, led by Mohammad Al Faruque, director of UCI's Advanced Integrated Cyber-Physical Systems Lab, showed that a device as ordinary and ubiquitous as a smartphone can be placed next to a machine and capture acoustic signals that carry information about the precise movements of the printer’s nozzle. The recording can then be used to reverse engineer the object being printed and re-create it elsewhere. Detailed processes may be decoded through this new kind of cyberattack, presenting important security risks.
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3D and Virtual Tech Can Transform STEM Education
With new technologies come new ways to learn, especially for students interested in engineering and other STEM disciplines.
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3-D printers' sounds hold secrets that can be stolen, UCI researchers find
"The key is small, but the implication is huge," said Mohammad Al Faruque, director of UCI's Advanced Integrated Cyber-Physical Systems Lab. "It means that valuable processing information can be lost" to hackers who, for example, might capture audio from the printing process to make parts for cars and planes.
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3-D printing forms superstrong, fracture-resistant ceramics
3-D printing offers a way to build ceramics without those fatal flaws, says Lorenzo Valdevit at the University of California, Irvine. He and his team used a commercially available technique called two-photon polymerization direct laser writing to build silicon oxycarbide structures that could withstand up to 7 GPa of pressure before breaking apart. That’s more pressure than high-strength steel can endure before it breaks, Valdevit says.
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3D printers to the rescue
Kevin Mardirossian has used his 3D printers to make a lot of things …. The mechanical engineering student at UC Irvine spent his spring break printing dozens of frames for face shields then teamed up with a Ventura man who produced the shields’ visors from clear plastic sheets. This month, the Conejo Valley native and his partner donated 70 face shields to the Ventura County Department of Public Health …. Because he’s lucky enough to own his own 3D printers, he felt obligated to use them for good, Mardirossian said. “I have the means to help people,” he said.
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3 universities developing technologies to enhance and save lives
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine is ranked 21st in US News & World Report’s current listing of best public engineering graduate schools. Its Department of Biomedical Engineering has a mission statement which succinctly encompasses its teaching and identity: inspire engineering minds to advance human health.
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3 Significant Benefits to Living in a Community Microgrid, and What That Even Means
Clean energy communities are very slowly popping up all over the country, including in Menifee, California, where KB Home recently launched two all-electric, solar, and battery-powered microgrid communities — the first in California — in partnership with solar solutions company SunPower, the University of California, Irvine, the U.S. Department of Energy, Southern California Edison, Schneider Electric, and Kia.