Engineering

Long-term impact of climate change on US cities is rising, UCI researchers find

UCI is one of 12 member universities active in the Association of American Universities‘ STEM Education Network chosen to receive up to $50,000 along with UCI matching funds to further existing efforts to improve undergraduate education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The network is an outgrowth of the AAU Undergraduate STEM Education Initiative, launched in […]

Device could revolutionize scanning, spectroscopy and wireless communication

$140 million consortium aims to improve competitiveness of US industry

UCI team shows off its prototype for Hyperloop transportation system at competition

EVENT:  UCI’s HyperXite team is going head-to-head with more than 30 other university-based and independent engineering teams from around the world to determine which has designed and built the best human-scale pod for the Hyperloop transportation system proposed by SpaceX and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk. Pods will be evaluated for speed, stability, braking and smoothness of ride on […]

UCI is sustaining its outsized reputation for tracking and tackling environmental challenges

From Nobel Prize-winning findings about the planet’s rapidly changing atmosphere to innovative technologies and solutions, the campus is ahead of the curve on the most daunting challenges of our time. Surging king tides and fiercer storms along the West Coast are being plotted on real-time three-dimensional maps by UCI engineers for Newport Beach and Tijuana, and social […]

Data used by agencies worldwide is now freely available

UCI tests integration of renewable hydrogen into existing natural gas systems