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See the 20 Best Engineering Graduate Programs
36 (tie). University of California--Irvine (Samueli)
Location: Irvine, California
Total graduate engineering school enrollment in fall 2019: 1,705 students
Acceptance rate for engineering master's programs: 25%
Acceptance rate for engineering Ph.D. programs: 20% Read More -
Sonoma Fire, Microgrids, EV Chargers
Microgrids. Southern California Edison has shut off power to about 1,500 homes in the Southland today. It's a preemptive measure in case heavy winds knock over electricity transmission lines that could spark a wildfire. The move follows a controversial power shutoff in the Bay Area, and it's raising an important question: Isn't there a better way to produce and transmit electricity? Guest: Jack Brouwer, [associate professor, mechanical & aerospace engineering], University of California, Irvine. (Starts: 13:10)
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Scientists Create ‘Living’ Electronic Sensor
In a significant advance that could transform the field of neural monitoring, researchers have developed a bioelectronic implant that grows and adapts alongside living tissue – a feat that has long eluded medical device developers. … “For our innovation, we used organic polymer materials that are inherently closer to us biologically, and we designed it to interact with ions, because the language of the brain and body is ionic, not electronic,” explains Dr. Dion Khodagholy, Henry Samueli Faculty Excellence Professor at UC Irvine’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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Strong beetles and stronger sandwiches
The diabolical ironclad beetle … can withstand 39,000 times its own body weight, comparable to the force of being run over by a car on a dirt road. So what’s the secret to their superstrength? A collection of jigsaw-like joints and exoskeleton-adjacent support structures, an exoskeleton composed of three layered cuticles, and helically arranged proteins that together give the bugs multilayered protection, according to new work by David Kisailus at the University of California, Irvine, and colleagues ….
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Smoke and heat warnings affect more than 170m in US
Heatwaves have become more frequent, intense and last longer because of human-induced climate change, scientists say. Some have warned that climate change is also likely to lead to more wildfires and subsequent smoke warnings. A University of California, Irvine study published on 12 June, for example, found that "an increase in temperatures and dryness has been identified to be one of the major drivers" of summer forest fires. Read More
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Spies can steal objects by recording the sound of a 3D printer
Industrial spies could accurately 'steal' 3D objects by recording the sound of them being produced on a 3D printer. Researchers at the University of California, Irvine, have demonstrated a method by which a 3D design could be reverse-engineered by analysing the vibrations picked up from a common 3D printer.
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Student Affairs, Advising
The UCI Department of Materials Science and Engineering is committed to delivering strong and knowledgeable administrative expertise with superior customer service to faculty, staff, students, researchers, department friends and community. As such, we are proud to provide support in various areas, to include Student Affairs and Advising at the department level. Desiree Rios is the department student services advisor who oversees the following areas in MSE @ UCI:
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Sick Beats: Using Music and Smartphone to Attack a Biosafety Room
As it turns out, perhaps one who has read a new paper on the potential for hacking biosafety rooms using music.
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Supplies And Materials
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Soft Bioelectronic Sensor Implant Can Monitor Signals in the Developing Brain
“Advanced electronics have been in development for several decades now, so there is a large repository of available circuit designs. The problem is that most of these transistor and amplifier technologies are not compatible with our physiology,” said co-author Dion Khodagholy, Henry Samueli Faculty Excellence Professor in UC Irvine’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.