UCLA CarbonBuilt Team, Led by Professor Gaurav Sant, Wins $7.5 Million NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE
The UCLA CarbonBuilt Team, led by Professor Gaurav Sant, has become the first university team to win the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE competition grand prize. Read the full article: Team led by UCLA professor wins $7.5 million NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE
C&EE Department Welcomes Professor Sriram Narasimhan
The UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Department is excited to welcome our newest faculty member, Professor Sriram Narasimhan! Narasimhan’s research expertise spans the areas of structural dynamics, system identification, and condition assessment of structural...
UCLA Engineers without Borders Build Schoolhouse and Water Tank amidst Pandemic
UCLA's chapter of Engineers without Borders continues to make progress on its national and international community development initiatives, despite the pandemic. Read the UCLA Samueli Newsroom article: UCLA Engineers without Borders Build Schoolhouse and Water Tank...
In Memoriam: Raymond Arthur Sholes
IN MEMORIAM RAYMOND ARTHUR SHOLES Raymond A. Sholes passed away peacefully with family by his side on January 17, 2021 at the age of 95. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1948. He was a member of the Engineering honor fraternity Chi...
Wyoming Public Radio Episode Features C&EE’s Iman Mehdipour
Wyoming Public Radio recently published an episode and article about technology developed at UCLA called CO2Concrete, which uses flue gas from power plants to make cement. Iman Mehdipour, UCLA project scientist in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering...
C&EE Professor Xiaoyu “Rayne” Zheng Receives NSF CAREER Award
C&EE's Professor Xiaoyu “Rayne” Zheng has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award, the agency’s highest honor for faculty members in the early stages of their teaching and research careers. Read about the award and Professor Zheng's research: UCLA...
UCLA Hosts Lifelines Webinar Commemorating 50th Anniversary of 1971 San Fernando Earthquake
UCLA Samueli School of Engineering hosted a webinar on the 50th anniversary of the 1971 San Fernando Earthquake, enabling earthquake engineers and civic leaders to come together virtually and share ways to increase infrastructure and societal resilience. Read the...
CEE Professor Jonathan Stewart Featured in Los Angeles Times
CEE Professor Jonathan Stewart was featured in today's front-page story of the Los Angeles Times, which discussed the Sylmar/San Fernando Earthquake that shook Los Angeles fifty years ago. Read the full article: 50 years ago, the Sylmar earthquake shook L.A., and...
C&EE Professor Henry Burton Wins 2021 UC Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives Award
UCLA will host two of 15 MRPI projects, with civil and environmental engineering professor Henry Burton being the lead principal investigator on California Informatics for Equitable Disaster Response and Recovery. Professor Burton will lead a project to develop better...