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AghaKouchak, Artemyev, Fischer, Macdonald, and van Sebille Receive 2019 James B. Macelwane Medals
“[UCI Professor] Amir AghaKouchak, has achieved an extraordinary international standing through fundamental contributions at an early stage of his career and has been very proactive in service and outreach and in promoting diversity and inclusive excellence. In just a few years, he has earned the respect and admiration of his peers, and he will continue his leadership role in the field in the future.”
—Isabella Velicogna, University of California, Irvine
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Admissions
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AI Weekly: How the power grid can benefit from intelligent software
Neil Sahota, chief innovation officer at [Global AI Initiatives and a lecturer in the Henry Samueli School of Engineering], University of California, Irvine, says intelligent software opens the door to the deployment of AI designed for power grid use cases. Utilities are already employing AI to address the windfalls and fluctuations in energy usage.
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Alumni Contact
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After the LA Fires, Scientists Study the Toxins Left Behind
Chris Olivares Martinez, an aquatic pollution researcher … at the University of California, Irvine who also became part of the 50-home study, hopes the [LA Fire Health Study] Consortium will serve as a model for academic institutions to build a more collaborative framework for scientific research. “These disasters are happening so quickly, and they wreak havoc in so many domains,” he said. Read More
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Academic Employment
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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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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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Annual Membership Levels
Project Partner
$10,000Access to recruit a select group of engineering candidates through our Internship Initiative program
- One (1) faculty-mentored student team project in an academic year (10-week quarters)
Recruitment Partner
$20,000Access to recruit a select group of engineering candidates through our Internship Initiative program
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About
The UC Irvine Samueli School of Engineering has reorganized the Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science (ChEMS) into two new departments, effective July 1, 2018: Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering (CBE) and Department of Materials Science & Engineering (MSE).
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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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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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A dangerous fire season looms as the drought-stricken Western US heads for a water crisis
Amir AghaKouchak, UCI associate professor of civil & environmental engineering and others write, “Scientists are also closely watching the impact that the rapid warming and drying is having on trees, worried that water stress could lead to widespread tree deaths.
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Academics
