This Startup Raised Over $10 Million To Make Metal Manufacturing More Efficient And Sustainable
Foundation Alloy, a vertically integrated metal part production platform, announced it has raised a $10.5 million seed funding round ….
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Transportation Systems
THE PROGRAM
Among leading programs for transportation research, the UCI Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering offers a graduate program which is distinguished by its interdisciplinary approach to the study of contemporary urban transportation issues, and by its unique relationship with the UC Irvine Institute of Transportation Studies. Our program focuses on the planning, design, operation, and management of modern transportation and logistics systems. Emphasis is on the development of fundamental skills and knowledge in engineering, systems analysis, modeling, and planning, combined with advanced computational techniques, to address transportation problems affecting urban travel and goods movement.
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The Man Who Wants Your Car to Power Your Home—and Save the Grid
“Real-world deployment of bidirectional charging is essential for gathering the data, and the technical and customer adaptation insights needed to scale V2H deployment across the grid,” said Prof. Scott Samuelsen, project director and founding director of the UCI Advanced Power and Energy Program. Read More
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The Compost: How a local university ended up on the front lines of the hydrogen debate
UC Irvine is home to the National Fuel Cell Research Center, which has been testing hydrogen for years. The center is led by Jack Brouwer, an engineering professor at UCI who’s studied hydrogen for 25 years. Brouwer’s team has worked with SoCalGas on other projects, and he told me this next test seemed a natural fit. … SoCalGas hopes to install an electrolyzer at UC Irvine to make hydrogen by shooting an electrical current (powered by the state grid) through water and splitting hydrogen from oxygen.
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The Great Ventilator Rush
“A consortium of physicians, scientists, and engineers led by the University of California, Irvine, and the University of Texas at Austin directed us [to] go and make the simplest possible ventilator,” says Virgin Orbit vice president for special projects Will Pomerantz. “We essentially took all the people who were going to be building next year’s rockets and said, ‘Next year’s rockets can probably wait a little bit—you’re going to be building or testing ventilators.’ ” Read More
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Titanium golf club blamed for Orange County brush fire
That isn't a surprise to James Earthman, a UC Irvine chemical engineering and materials science professor who did a study in 2014. ... "With stainless steel we never saw any sparks," Earthman said. "When we tested a titanium club, every time we hit a rock with a titanium there were a lot of sparks."
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TMJ Horrors: Chronic Pain, Metal Jaws and Futile Treatments
Kyriacos Athanasiou, a biomedical engineering professor at the University of California, Irvine, said it was because TMJ disorders are more prevalent among women that they were historically dismissed as neither serious nor complex, slowing research into the cause and treatment. The resulting dearth of knowledge, which is glaring when compared with other joints, has been "a huge disservice" to patients, Athanasiou said.
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This robotic exoskeleton could help prevent falls in the elderly
The words “robotic exoskeleton” probably bring to mind futuristic soldiers and sci-fi flicks like Aliens, Iron Man, or The Wrong Trousers.
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Taps run dry as water crisis forces Iran to consider evacuating its capital
Amir AghaKouchak, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Irvine, said climate change has exacerbated the problem, but the biggest issue is how water use is governed. “This narrative of climate change is responsible, to be honest, is not really accurate,” AghaKouchak said, adding that Iran has weathered drought throughout its history. Read More
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The coming flood: Meet the flood watchers
Using a new flood modeling and mapping method named PRIMo (Parallel Raster Inundation Model) to show in nearly house-by-house detail the impact of a 100-year flood, the study found existing assessments to be wildly inaccurate and the aging waterway control system to be woefully inadequate for coping with a massive deluge.
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The Aquarium's Free Lectures Make a Splash
William Cooper, a professor of engineering at University of California, Irvine, will talk about visiting a reserve full of butterflies in Costa Rica during his July 1 talk …. Read More
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Team Finds New Source for Sleep-Related Brain Waves
“Our research sheds light on a previously unrecognized aspect of deep sleep brain activity,” says lead author Mengke Wang, formerly an undergraduate student in biomedical engineering at the University of California, Irvine, who is now a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University (Wang conducted the study while at UC Irvine).
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The Bizarre Biological Trick That Makes These Teeth Tougher Than Steel
A new study published August 7 in Science pr