The Engineering Student Council (ESC) at the University of California, Irvine is proud to host our Annual National Engineers Week 2018. Engineers Week will be held from February 21st to February 25th, 2018. Events are held throughout the week to encourage student, faculty, alumni, and industry participation.
The company was co-founded in 2005 by [Marc] Madou and Ben Park, who is now Enevate’s chief technology officer and who has a Ph.D. in mechanical and aerospace engineering from UCI. … [Jarvis Tou, Enevate executive vice president for marketing and products], called the company a “spinout” from the University of California, Irvine research. The company isn’t connected to UCI as a majority state is owned by outside investors and a minority share is held by employees.
An electricity incubator project in Menifee, California aims to break new ground in what it means to live, work and play in a connected, sustainable world.
The community is invited to celebrate Engineers Week with a public lecture by Pramod Khargonekar of the University of California, Irvine, on Wednesday, Feb. 19 from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Fuller Lodge in Los Alamos. Khargonekar, the vice chancellor for research and professor of electrical engineering and computer science, will present “Future of Work and Workers in the AI Era.” Read More
After 15 years of study and some 90 reports, researchers have unearthed solutions to cleaning up the Le Sueur River and its tributaries. For so long, scientific disagreements or political divides made solutions elusive. … The latest study, by the University of Minnesota, University of Kansas and University of California-Irvine, showed the best and most cost effective way to reduce sediment and nitrogen runoff would be wetland restoration. Read More
Thomas Yuen spent the final decades of his life funding and promoting stem-cell therapy research, in hopes of finding treatments for chronic diseases like the one that runs in his family. He donated to the University of California, Irvine’s stem research department and spared no expense outfitting his own R&D firm, PrimeGen Biotech, which has been accumulating stem-cell patents since 2004 …. Mr. Yuen immigrated to America and attended community college before transferring to UC Irvine to study electrical engineering. [Subscription required, campus-wide access provided by UCI Libraries.
