Engineering

Payam Heydari, UCI Chancellor’s Professor of electrical engineering and computer science

UC Irvine is member of Defense Department-funded microelectronics research hub

USC-led business and academic group aims to accelerate domestic manufacturing

November 02, 2023
Clockwise from left: Assistant professor of education Symone Gyles, Professor of Civil & Environmental Enginnering Brett Sanders, Sara Ludovise with the OCDE, Associate professor of education Hosun Kang, and professor of education Rossella Santagata. The National Science Foundation has awarded an interdisciplinary team from the University of California, Irvine a three-year, $1.6 million grant focused on creating an accessible and equity-centered model for high school environmental engineering education intended to inspire and properly prepare students for careers in this field.

NSF funds UC Irvine project to improve climate science learning in high schools

Biological sciences, education and engineering schools team up to create curriculum

October 30, 2023
The blended wing body aircraft that the U.S. Air Force has tasked JetZero to build and fly in four years.

A revolutionary plane coming soon

Robert Liebeck co-designed the blended wing body aircraft set to fly in 4 years

October 30, 2023

Rahim Esfandyar-Pour wins DARPA Young Faculty Award

Researcher’s innovations are useful in medical, defense, and energy applications

October 19, 2023

UC Irvine teams ranked high in Orange County Sustainability Decathlon results

Students presented new ideas for energy efficient and affordable homes

October 17, 2023

Three UC Irvine engineers involved in Energy Earthshot Initiative

DOE-funded projects will accelerate innovations toward more clean energy solutions

October 13, 2023

NIH funds UC Irvine project to measure the severity of heart valve backflow

Support originated by Congressman who lost his wife to sudden cardiac death

September 21, 2023
Stacy Copp standing in a laboratory.

Discovery through mentorship

UCI materials science and engineering project gives student researchers opportunities to excel

July 24, 2023

Carnegie Corporation recognizes Kyriacos Athanasiou as a ‘Great Immigrant’

Originally from Cyprus, the biomedical engineer came to UC Irvine in 2017

June 28, 2023
Photograph of UCI Assistant Professor Quinton Smith

Quinton Smith named 2023 Pew Scholar in the Biological Sciences

Quinton Smith, UC Irvine assistant professor in chemical and biomolecular engineering, has been named a 2023 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences. The Pew Charitable Trusts supports outstanding biomedical researchers at the start of their careers. Pew has honored this year’s group of 22 early-career scientists by furnishing four years of funding for the pursuit of […]

June 13, 2023