Engineering

Women's History Month collage featuring: (top left to right: Katrine Whiteson, Sunny Jiang, Joleah Lamb; (bottom left to right) Karen Lincoln, Aomawa Shields, Luiza Osorio Silva and Roxane Cohen Silver.

Profiles of excellence

For Women’s History Month, UC Irvine salutes its influential researchers

Diego Pizzagalli, head of UC Irvine’s Noel Drury, M.D. Institute for Translational Depression Discoveries.

Demystifying depression

Founding director of collaborative research institute is eager to make a difference

UC Irvine students’ winter-quarter 2024 rocket blasts off from the Mojave Desert testing site.

The sky’s the limit

Members of the UC Irvine Rocket Project each year produce new entries for international competition

Henry Samueli awarded IEEE Medal of Honor, the organization’s highest honor

Inventor, business leader and philanthropist has had significant impact on UC Irvine

Head shot photos of two men.

Two UC Irvine faculty members elected to National Academy of Engineering

Kyriacos Athanasiou and Eric Rignot recognized for outstanding research leadership

UC Irvine and UCLA members of Engineers Without Borders construct a house in Tijuana, Mexico.

Building better futures

Student volunteers with Engineers Without Borders aim to improve quality of life in underserved communities worldwide

Gold colored thin film on the wing of a butterfly which is on the end of a human finger.

UC Irvine, Columbia University researchers invent soft, bioelectronic sensor implant

Device conforms to body’s tissues, allowing brain monitoring through development

A valve for the most vulnerable

‘Star’ Ph.D. student helps develop medical device for children with congenital heart defects

Scientists urged to pull the plug on ‘bathtub modeling’ of flood risk

UC Irvine and University of Bristol researchers recommend analysis of complex factors

UC Irvine researchers reveal superconductivity secrets of an iron-based material

Findings could spur advancements in quantum computing and electronics