Professor Mekonnen Gebremichael Leads Water Research in East Africa
Photo courtesy of H. Gunther Water management practices are a key topic of interest for Mekonnen Gebremichael, a professor of the civil and environmental engineering department at UCLA. Curious as to how these practices vary from country to country, principal...
Groundbreaking “Meta-bot” Created by UCLA Team Led by Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Xiaoyu (Rayne) Zheng
Photo courtesy of UCLA Samueli School of Engineering A group of UCLA engineers, led by associate professor Xiaoyu (Rayne) Zheng, developed a new process that uses 3D printing to engineer robots in one step. The resulting metamaterials, or active materials with...
UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D. Student Published in Leading Journal
Photo courtesy of J. Stewart Timothy O'Donnell, a Ph.D. student advised by professor Jonathan Stewart, was part of a Lebanon-US team that investigated the impacts of the 2020 Beirut explosion on infrastructure within Beirut. Working with collaborators at the...
Study Led by UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Student Featured by NASA
In their article “California Fire Led to Spike in Bacteria, Cloudiness in Coastal Waters,” the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory highlights a new study led by a UCLA civil and environmental engineering student. The “eye-opening” study is led by Marisol Cira, a Ph.D....
C&EE Professor Scott Brandenberg Featured in Article on Levee Risk Assessment in the Delta
C&EE Professor Scott Brandenberg is featured in Robin Meadow's piece, Feature: First Field-based Assessment of Levee Risk in the Delta. In the article, Professor Brandenberg offers knowledge about the levee that surrounds Bacon Island in the central Sacramento-San...
Led by C&EE Professor Xiaoyu (Rayne) Zheng, UCLA Researchers Awarded NSF Grant
A team of engineers, led by C&EE Professor Xiaoyu (Rayne) Zheng, has received a $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation to design architected materials that are fine-tuned with dynamic behaviors. Read the full article: UCLA Researchers Awarded NSF...
C&EE PhD Student Studies Water Quality in Belize
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Ileana Callejas ’18, M.S. ’19 kept busy studying how the sudden drop in tourism was affecting the waters off the coast of Belize. Callejas is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in environmental engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of...
UCLA Engineers Earn Top Prize in Global Sustainability Innovation Competition
UCLA startup SeaChange earned the top prize on Wednesday at the 2021 Liveability Challenge for their work on using seawater as a medium for carbon removal. They were awarded S$1 million (US$735,000) from the competition, which had over 450 applicants from more than 60...
C&EE Professor Bauchy and Research Group Show New Path to Make Glass as Tough as Metal
A research group, led by Professor Mathieu Bauchy, has used atomic-level computer simulations to suggest a path toward developing stronger, more ductile glass. The study was published in Materials Horizon in February 2021. About the findings, Professor Bauchy said,...