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Henry Samueli Endowed Fellowship
One of the premier awards offered to incoming or continuing graduate students in the school. This award is funded by Henry Samueli, co-founder of Broadcom Corporation, after whom the school is named. The award is open to Ph.D. students showing exceptional promise of technical and scholarly work in civil and environmental engineering. The number of awards and amounts varies each year.
Eligibility Criteria:
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Honors and Awards - International Distinctions
This page lists major international distinctions of our faculty. Additional achievements can be found in the individual links provided for each faculty listed.
Professor Derek Dunn-Rankin
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellow, 2008
- Fulbright Research Scholar at Imperial College, London; 1996-1997
Professor Said Elghobashi
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Hands-on Research
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How to save energy in your home with these smart, affordable upgrades
Jack Brouwer, professor of engineering at UCI, recommends: “Let’s start in the kitchen, where appliances suck up the most energy. The best time to run, say, a dishwasher is just before you leave for work or during the day ... That’s when fewer people use these appliances, so it’s helping the grid work more efficiently. And that’s a no-cost change in habit that benefits everyone.”
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Human Health
The marriage of engineering and information technology to biological sciences and medicine has enabled tremendous advances, helping improve the length and quality of human life. Artificial organs and limbs, sensors that monitor physiological functions, non-invasive imaging and miniature drug delivery systems are all examples of how engineers apply their tools and know-how to solve problems in medicine. The school’s faculty works closely with UCI School of Medicine researchers and the large number of biotech industry partners in the region to stay at the forefront of bioengineering.
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Heavy surf pounds the Southern California coast, prompting warnings and shutting down piers
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Hats Off Graduates!
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High School Outreach
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Hydrogen Is Every U.S. Gas Utility's Favorite Hail Mary Pass
In addition, hydrogen behaves differently with certain metals and as result it can degrade and embrittle steel pipelines that are typically found in the nation’s high-pressure gas transmission system, said Jack Brouwer, director of the Advanced Power and Energy Program at the University of California, Irvine. Compressor stations designed to move natural gas don’t work well with hydrogen either, Brouwer said, so those would also need to be upgraded.
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How California’s storms are projected to become more extreme with climate change
“Higher rain over snow ratio, faster snowmelt, and more intense storms can significantly impact water resource management in California,” said Amir AghaKouchak, a UC Irvine professor of civil and environmental engineering.
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Heart Imaging
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High school students go green for Energy Invitational race car competition
Twenty-six high school teams from Orange County and Long Beach have been tasked with building the most efficient electric car they can. Their cars were inspected last weekend, and it’s all been leading up to race day Saturday morning at Parking Lot 70 at UC Irvine.
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How Hydrogen Could Help Clean Up the Global Shipping Industry
Scott Samuelsen, director of the National Fuel Cell Research Center at the University of California, Irvine, sees electricity produced from hydrogen as the inevitable choice of the shipping industry for three reasons ... “It will be an evolution and a changeover in the population of ships over many decades,” Samuelsen said.
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Here are the colleges that will compete to make OC ‘world’s sustainability capital’
“Over the next year-and-a-half we will be designing, building, and testing a 1,200-square foot Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) that is carbon-neutral, resilient, affordable, water- and energy-efficient, and of course attractive and comfortable,” says the website for Team M.A.D.E.-OC — “Modular Affordable Dwellings for the Environment” — which pairs up Orange Coast College and UCI’s School of Engineering.
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How cow poop could power the emissions-free hydrogen car of the future
But who’s going to make sure all the equipment is working properly and negotiate with the gas companies? … “In this day and age, it’s all case by case,” says Scott Samuelsen, a professor and director of the National Fuel Cell Research Center and the Advanced Power and Energy Program at the University of California, Irvine.