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Most vulnerable to flooding: Long Beach north to Bell Gardens
In LA, drought and fire are considered the biggest climate problems. But Angelenos should also worry about flooding, according to a new study from UC Irvine. Researchers found that hundreds of thousands of LA County residents could be inundated by at least a foot of flood water — should a once-in-a-100-year storm hit the area. One of the researchers is Brett Sanders, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at UC Irvine. Read More
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Minor in Materials Science Engineering
The interdisciplinary field of materials science and engineering has become critical to many emerging areas of advanced technology and their applications. As a result, there are needs and opportunities for engineers and scientists with education and training in materials science and engineering.
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M.S. Alumni
2022
Name Current Title and Company Thesis Advisor Thesis Title Undergraduate Institution Ban, Ziyang UC Irvine Du, Chaojie MSE Ph.D. student, UC Irvine Xiaoqing Pan Huazhong University of Science & Technology Glaubensklee, Christopher Julie Schoenung -
Move over, Death Valley: These are the two hottest spots on Earth
Lut [Desert] hit its all-time high in 2018, a record the Sonoran [Desert], in a weird coincidence, matched the next summer, Yunxia Zhao, [graduate student, civll & environmental engineering], of the University of California, Irvine, and colleagues report .… It’s unclear whether climate change is driving up surface temperatures, Zhao says.
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Mapping LA’s Flood Risk at Unprecedented Detail Reveals Hidden Risks
One recent study of flood exposure in Los Angeles suggests that the population exposed to dangerous flooding, or a flooding event with 1 percent annual probability, is between 10 and 40 times greater than US government maps show. … The numbers of at-risk Angelenos surprised even the researchers ….