UCI to break ground on Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering Building

EVENT:  UCI will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for its innovative Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering Building, a $120 million edifice with 113,000 assignable square feet of room that will host transdisciplinary projects in line with two major themes: biomedicine for human health, and energy use and the environment. UCI Chancellor Howard Gillman will be among the speakers. […]

UCI awarded $5 million NSF grant to boost low-income engineering enrollment

Scholarship program will support 190 transfer students in advanced manufacturing

UCI’s Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, Judith Olson elected to National Academy of Engineering

Distinction honors contributions to research, education and practice

Microsemi gives UCI $1.5 million to create chair in electrical engineering

Endowment will help ensure that graduates’ skills match industry needs

UCI civil engineering students to host peers from 18 schools for annual competitions

EVENT: The UC Irvine student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers will host 18 other school chapters for the Pacific Southwest Conference. The annual event features friendly competition in steel bridge construction, concrete canoe races, water filtration system design and more. There will also be a career fair, recreational activities and a concluding banquet. Over 1,000 civil […]

2 UCI engineering professors included in 2016 class of National Academy of Inventors fellows

UCI engineering professors Michelle Khine and Enrique Lavernia have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors for 2016. The distinction is awarded to academics who’ve demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation with outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society. Lavernia is UCI’s provost and executive vice chancellor […]

Gregory Washington

Engineering dean appointed to second term

­Gregory Washington has been appointed to a second five-year term as the Stacey Nicholas Dean of Engineering, effective July 1. He joined The Henry Samueli School of Engineering as dean in 2011 and has overseen a number of noteworthy accomplishments. Undergraduate enrollment has increased by 19 percent, while graduate enrollment has increased by 21 percent. […]

Engineering professor to get prestigious research award

UCI Distinguished Professor Said Elghobashi will receive the Senior Award at the ninth International Conference on Multiphase Flow, to be held next month in Italy. Presented every three years at the conference, the award recognizes an individual’s significant scientific and technical contributions to the field of multiphase flow research, as well as outstanding leadership in scholarship, development […]

UCI engineering students place in top 5 in SpaceX competition

UCI’s HyperXite team beat out nearly 100 others to finish fifth in the international Hyperloop Pod Design competition Jan. 29-30 at Texas A&M University. The Hyperloop is a concept first proposed by Elon Musk and SpaceX to design and build extreme high speed, energy-efficient transportation. University students and independent engineering teams competed in event, vying for the chance to […]

Engineering professor elected to lead international computing society

Jean-Luc Gaudiot, UCI professor of electrical engineering & computer science at The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, was recently voted 2016 president-elect of the IEEE Computer Society, an international organization dedicated to all aspects of modern computing technology. An IEEE fellow, Gaudiot will begin his term Jan. 1, 2016; he automatically will ascend to the […]