The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine

Niche gave UC Irvine an A+ in Academics, A in Value, A in Diversity and A in campus, and ranked UC Irvine the Best College Campus in the nation. 👍🤘🌏

https://www.niche.com/colleges/university-of-california-irvine/

Brett Sanders, Mohammad Javad Abdolhosseini Qomi and Sarah Balaian created a new formula that helps urban planners assess flood risks presented by land development changes. 👍🤘🌏 https://tinyurl.com/33kcttpu

Congrats to Andrei Shkel and Yusheng Wang '20 for receiving the Wiley-IEEE Book Award for their book “Pedestrian Inertial Navigation with Self-Contained Aiding.” Shkel is a global leader in inertial measurement units. 👍🤘
https://tinyurl.com/npd9k2wj

🌞Happy Summer, Anteater Engineers!

Who’s been engineering in a lab this summer? 🤘

👏📘🐜Congrats to Andrei Shkel and Yusheng Wang '20 for winning the 2024 Wiley-IEEE Book Award for their book “Pedestrian Inertial Navigation with Self-Contained Aiding."
https://ow.ly/RuOe50SYVV7

Congratulations Ryan Donahue, recognized as a 30 under 30 University of Miami alum! 🐜👏
https://ow.ly/OrJN50SYGHh

Can households trust private-sector data products for flood and fire risk? Check out UCI Flood Lab research to learn more, featured in a new Bloomberg report.
https://ow.ly/GPpg50SWagV

How to inspire future engineers? Host a free Robotics Camp for high school students and teach them how to build and program autonomous cars. This was part of UCI's summer outreach to underrepresented populations. 👍🤘

The program was hosted by the UCI Samueli School of Engineering and Stacey Nicholas Office of Outreach, Access and Inclusion. Scholarships were provided by the Broadcom Foundation. More at: https://tinyurl.com/yc5cxs8r

Congratulations to Timothy Downing, Abraham Lee, Vojislav Stamenkovic, and Yoonjin Won for been awarded spring 2024 Proof of Product grants from UCI Beall Applied Innovation to advance their innovative research discoveries! 👍🤘https://tinyurl.com/acpbcdmp

Congrats to Kathryn Jones for being selected by the U.S. Department of Energy as an Innovation in Buildings research fellow! Jones is a doctoral student working at Mo Li's lab exploring how recycled materials can be used to develop greener concrete. 🌏👍🤘 https://tinyurl.com/2uzses5k

UCI has had a wonderful 5 years of Anteaters giving back to the community by volunteering and donating to local non-profit organizations.👍👍 The engineering family welcomes your support of the OC Food Bank: https://tinyurl.com/5n7ncurh

The Environmental Engineering Summer Institute at Crystal Cove held its first free summer program in July! Lots of fun, sun, and engineering inspirations hosted by the UCI Samueli School, the Stacey Nicholas Office of Outreach, Access and Inclusion and Crystal Cove Conservancy. 🏝️👍🧑‍🏭 https://tinyurl.com/wu7646f7

Congratulations to Wendy Brown for being named one of the 40 Under 40 by Georgia Tech! She researches cartilage tissue engineering for injuries and in microgravity on the International Space Station. 👍🤘https://tinyurl.com/bdnzcaba

Congratulations to Xizheng Wang for being honored as a New Energy Innovator by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) for her research in the manufacturing of nanomaterials for more efficient hydrogen production. 👍🌏🤘https://tinyurl.com/36wvfxb7

UC Irvine is adding 5 more buses to its electric fleet! As a sustainability leader, UCI is the first university in the U.S. to go with all-electric buses and nearly 1.5 million riders take the buses each year! 👍🌏🤘 https://bit.ly/3y1R1s6

David Kisailus shares about the amazing strength of mantis shrimp and other creatures that have inspired the development of advanced composite materials in a recent lab tour attended by Orange County leaders. 👍🌏🤘
https://tinyurl.com/52sejbns

UCI Chancellor's Professor Brett Sanders is working to provide better data for flood risks in California.👍🤘🌏

Congratulations to Dimitri Papamoschou, Stephen Ritchie and Brett Sanders for being named UC Irvine Chancellor’s Professors! 🎉 Read about their extraordinary contributions in their respective fields at https://tinyurl.com/5t3vtzck 🤘👍

UC Irvine researchers and Assemblymember Diane Dixon gathered key Orange County leaders to discuss solutions to beach erosion which is threatening California's coast. 🏝️ 👍 Their ideas: https://tinyurl.com/mwv2z5mm.

High school students make Alexa-like assistants with unique personalities in a summer program on AI, Privacy and IoT hosted by the UCI Samueli School of Engineering and the ProperData Center. 👍🤘https://tinyurl.com/2e45duxw

Working to save California's beaches! 👍🏝️UCI hosted a groundbreaking forum with Assembly Member Diane Dixon, Professor Brett Sanders, OC Water District's Cathy Green, John Kennedy, Lisa Haney and many more key officials to discuss how to save California's beaches from erosion. 🌏🤘

Congrats to Keyue Smedley for winning the prestigious 2024 R. David Middlebrook Achievement Award from the IEEE Power Electronics Society! 👍🤘 https://tinyurl.com/wre7cduc

Congrats to the UCI CanSat team for placing second in the USA and fourth worldwide for their satellite which completed a challenging mission simulating a planetary probe!🤘👍 https://tinyurl.com/yck8jfs4

The UCI Engineering Alumni Society is welcoming alumni to be a part of its team! 👍🤘Feel free to submit interest form for Communications Chair and Membership Chair at https://tinyurl.com/mrumpfpd