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Body-worn Sensors with Microfluidic Chips Offer Future-Focused Diagnostic Tools
Michelle Khine, a research scientist, entrepreneur, mentor, and professor of biomedical engineering at the Samueli School of Engineering at the University of California, Irvine, still gets to play with her favorite childhood toy. More than 10 years ago, as a founding professor at the University of California, Merced, Khine came up with an elegant, effective and inexpensive solution to creating microfluidic chips using Shrinky Dinks®, a thin plastic that can be cut into any shape and baked into a smaller, thicker size.
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Building An Alternative to GPS
"There is an urgent need to find an alternative robust and accurate navigation system to GPS," says Zak Kassas, an associate professor [of engineering and ICS] at University of California, Irvine, and Director of US Department Transportation Center for Automated Vehicles Research with Multimodal AssurEd Navigation (CARMEN). "We are over-relying on these systems, despite their known limitations." Fortunately, Kassas and his colleagues have devised a novel substitute for GPS. Read More
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BizBrief: Today’s News To Know
Cynthia Guidry, who most recently served as deputy executive director of Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), was today announced as the new director of the Long Beach Airport. … She holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of California, Irvine and a master’s in business administration from Pepperdine University.