Undergraduate Research
Today’s global complexities demand new approaches to training tomorrow’s engineers. At the Samueli School, hands-on experience and participation in research play a key role in educating undergraduate students.
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UCI grad named a Microsoft YouthSpark Challenge for Change winner
Nithin Jilla, a 22-year-old University of California, Irvine graduate, is one of only two winners of the Microsoft YouthSpark Challenge for Change 2015 from the United States, and the only winner from the United States for his age group. … I was out of college and I was working on building AppJam+, a project that began during my career at UC Irvine.
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UCI leaders to SoCalGas: don’t test hydrogen blend in dining areas and freshman dorms
Jack Brouwer, an engineering professor at UCI who’s been working with SoCalGas on the project, told students he doesn’t believe we can reach a net-zero carbon climate without hydrogen. And of the pilot project, he said: “I can guarantee you that it will be safe,” … he noted his teams have been safely handling hydrogen in their laboratories for 25 years. …University spokesman Tom Vasich said via email that the school responded to student concerns by verbally directing SoCalGas to move the project out of student housing and dining facilities.
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UCI professor breaking ground in wireless tech
UC Irvine's professor Syed Jafar, 39, of Irvine is one of three winners of the Blavatnik Family Foundation's annual national young scientist award for his work on wireless technology.
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UCI scientists measure local vibrational modes at individual crystalline faults
Often admired for their flawless appearance to the naked eye, crystals can have defects at the nanometer scale, and these imperfections may affect the thermal and heat transport properties of crystalline materials used in a variety of high-technology devices. Employing newly developed electron microscopy techniques, researchers at the University of California, Irvine and other institutions have, for the first time, measured the spectra of phonons – quantum mechanical vibrations in a lattice – at individual crystalline faults, and they discovered the propagation of phonons near the flaws.
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Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)
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UCI & Israeli Initiative
The UC Irvine/Israeli Scholar Exchange Endowment for Engineering Science program supports research activities, international collaborations and educational activities with Israeli universities, including Tel Aviv University, The Technion (Israel Institute of Technology), Ben Gurion University and Hebrew University. The program, established in 2007 with a $2 million endowment from the Samueli Foundation, seeks to build bridges between UC Irvine engineers and their Israeli counterparts and solidify the Samueli School’s role as a global leader among engineering schools.