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engineering

Scott Sellars

More than a weatherman

Public Impact Fellow Scott Sellars is developing a better way to predict precipitation

G.P. Li

Collaborator in chief

Don’t let the piles of paperwork fool you – G.P. Li has a systematic strategy for pursuing innovation

Celebrity scientist

In latest honor, UCI engineering professor accepts coveted medal from president of his homeland, India

Fabricating the future

UCI is at the center of the next wave of advanced manufacturing at the Rapid Tech Center, and it shows as federal officials host a related workshop here.

Prototype of the blended-wing-body jet

No mere flight of fancy

As a child, Robert Liebeck loved tinkering with model airplanes. The UC Irvine adjunct professor of mechanical & aerospace engineering is still at it — but now he’s working on a much different kind of model, one that could revolutionize air travel. Called the blended wing body, the concept results in aircraft that look more like […]

No. 2 pencil not required

End-of-year exams, projects can take unorthodox forms.

David Reinkensmeyer with Robert Sanchez

Can robots take over rehab?

Visiting the iMove center at UC Irvine’s Gross Hall is like being on the set of a sci-fi movie. Here, the merging of machines and humans — the premise of such futuristic films as “Alien” and “The Terminator” — has become a reality. Inside the lab, at Sue & Bill Gross Hall: A CIRM Institute, patients whose […]

Alvin Viray

Patents pending

They call it “the baby monitor,” but it’s nothing like the ones sold at Babies “R” Us that alert parents when junior’s crying in his crib. Developed by UC Irvine pediatrics professor Dr. Dan Cooper, the sophisticated wireless device can detect subtle movements in infants that signal increased risk of cerebral palsy, autism and other neurological […]

Building better lives

When four members of the UC Irvine student chapter of Engineers Without Borders headed to Endana, Kenya, last August to see how they could best help the rural community, it proved to be a real-life pass/fail test in leadership. “We didn’t know what we were getting into,” recalls Morgan Bailey, EWB chapter president and a doctoral candidate […]

EarTrumpet on the iPhone

iPhone to hearing aid

UCI team develops iPhone app that mimics a hearing aid and produces basic hearing tests.