December 2022: Unleash • Create • Inspire

December 2022

Message from Magnus

One of the central themes in the Samueli School of Engineering is that by teaming up and working together we are able to make the whole greater than the sum of its parts. This is particularly pertinent in the research domain. Our recent inclusion as the only West Coast university in the U.S. Army Automotive Research Center is a testament to the breadth, quality and focus of the coordinated research efforts pursued in the school in areas such as autonomous systems and control theory, advanced materials and additive manufacturing, and efficient and sustainable power generation.

We’ve been very productive this fall in the Samueli School, so please take a few minutes to read this month’s featured news.

Best,

Magnus Egerstedt, Ph.D.

Stacey Nicholas Dean of Engineering

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Researchers demonstrate how to trigger a pathogen release with music

Researchers at UCI have discovered that the safe operation of a negative pressure room – a space in a hospital or biological research laboratory designed to protect outside areas from exposure to deadly pathogens – can be disrupted by an attacker armed with little more than a smartphone.

Samueli School engineer uncovers dislocation patterns in deformed materials

Did you ever wonder why your spoon, which bent while scooping ice cream, could never be perfectly put back to its original shape? It has to do with plasticity, a material’s permanent deformation in response to mechanical force, in this case stainless steel.

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UCI becomes member of U.S. Army Automotive Research Center

The Samueli School of Engineering has been selected as an academic research partner in the U.S. Army’s Automotive Research Center (ARC). Led by the University of Michigan, the ARC is a center of excellence for modeling and simulation of ground systems. UCI is one of 12 university members and the only one on the West Coast.

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UCI launches first all-electric California microgrid project to test smart and resilient homes for the future

The Advanced Power and Energy Program (APEP) at UCI announced that it is working with the Department of Energy (DOE), SunPower®, KB Home, Southern California Edison® (SCE), and Schneider Electric™ (SE) to develop, deploy and test two microgrid communities located in the Shadow Mountain master plan in Menifee, California.

Q&A with Alumna Elizabeth San Miguel ‘02

Elizabeth San Miguel has worked in numerous capacities at Northrop Grumman for nearly 18 years. She devotes herself as equally to her career in aerospace engineering as to supporting young women in the field.

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Longtime professor Said Elghobashi honored at scientific symposium

UCI Distinguished Professor Emeritus Said Elghobashi was recognized for his lifelong achievements as a scholar, educator and administrator at a scientific symposium held in his honor Sept. 15 at the Beckman Center of the National Academies of Science and Engineering.

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