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UC Irvine Teams Earn High Rankings In Orange County Sustainability Decathlon Results
“We were already excited to see our luminOCity house become a reality, but to place so well in the Orange County Sustainability Decathlon is definitely the icing on the cake,” said TeamMADE project manager Jennifer Wilkens, director of special projects in the Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UCI.
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UCI Engineering Alumni Society
The mission of the UCI Engineering Alumni Society is to support and develop the engineering alumni of the University of California, Irvine within the global community. This body will serve to foster mutually beneficial relationships between working engineers, faculty and students. It will also serve to implement programs that embody the entrepreneurial spirit and technical excellence of the campus and alumni.
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UCI researchers expose vulnerability of solar inverters
In a presentation delivered at the recent Usenix Security 2020 conference, Mohammad Al Faruque, UCI associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and his team revealed that the spoofing mechanism can generate a 32% change in output voltage … “Without touching the solar inverter, without even getting close to it, I can just place a coffee cup nearby and then leave and go anywhere in the world, from which I can destabilize the grid,” Al Faruque said.
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UCI Receives $6M Grant to Study Jaw Joint Implant
UCI said it received a $6 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to perform preclinical trial studies on jaw joint implant Hyaleon. Hyaleon, the main product of UCI-based startup Cartilage Inc., aims to treat adults living with a temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disorder. According to officials, about one in four adults suffer from a TMJ pathology, and up to 70% of cases involve displacement of the TMJ disk.
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UCI students showing off their Hyperloop designs in weekend competition
A team of UC Irvine engineering students will go head to head this weekend with some 120 teams from around the world as it presents its sleek, frictionless version of a high-speed train that would travel from Los Angeles to San Francisco in a matter of minutes. UCI students, competing in the first-ever SpaceX Hyperloop Competition, have built a scale model of their HyperXite pod (pronounced Hyper Excite). The concept uses compressed air to levitate and glide the pod along a track.