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About
The growth of biomedical engineering at UCI has been rapid, beginning with the formation of the Center for Biomedical Engineering in 1998. The center was funded by a generous $3-million development award from the Whitaker Foundation. In 2002, three major milestones were achieved including the formation of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, two undergraduate degree programs, and the expansion of the graduate program leading to the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in biomedical engineering.
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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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Academic Employment
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Admissions Office
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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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Analyzing a Sample
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After landslide, an Orange County beach town finds itself between a bluff and a hard place
“If you invest in the beach and the sand protects the railroad, then the railroad protects the toe of the slope at Casa Romantica,” said Brett Sanders, a UC Irvine professor of civil and environmental engineering. “But then you have to think about the instability of the slope itself.
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After a year of lobbying, Johnson backs fossil fuel bill over green objections
“The thing that we must realize is that actually achieving a zero emissions goal is a little more complicated than the popular thinking understands,” said Jack Brouwer, director of the National Fuel Cell Research Center at the University of California, Irvine. Read More
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Accelerated Status Program
Exceptionally promising UCI undergraduate Engineering students with a minimum cumulative 3.5 GPA may, during their junior or senior year, may apply for streamlined admission into an M.S. program within The Henry Samueli School of Engineering. Streamlined admission would allow a student to petition for exemption from UCI's GRE requirement for graduate school admission. This exception applies only to current UCI undergraduate engineering students applying for admission to one of the M.S. programs in the UCI Henry Samueli School of Engineering and who are applying for graduate school the Fall quarter immediately after completing their undergraduate studies.
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Advanced Casting Research Center opens new metal process facility
The Advanced Casting Research Center (ACRC) unveiled its new state-of-the-art metal processing lab at University of California-Irvine on March 3. Researchers, professors, and leading metallurgists from around the country gathered for the grand opening event. Read More
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Advancing Nanotechnology
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An AI analysis of 800 companies finds that greenwashing is rampant
Neil Sahota, UCI lecturer, school of engineering writes, “Greenwashing … refers to misleading communication about a company’s environmental practices and impact so as to present an environmentally responsible public image. … But how do we differentiate between greenwashing spin and the true green initiatives when it is incredibly difficult to hold companies accountable for their actions? Thankfully, we have a friend in artificial intelligence.” Read More
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Academic Personnel
Academic Leaves of Absence
The Samueli School follows the campus policy on academic leaves with or without Pay. Academic employees are required to request advance approval for leaves without salary of any length and leaves with salary of 7 or more calendar days during academic service periods. Generally, service periods include academic quarters and exclude intersession periods. Summer is excluded unless teaching during summer session or earning summer salary for research. The full policy can be downloaded, below.