October 2025: The UC Irvine Engineering+ Equation

October 2025

Message from Dean Egerstedt

One major source of pride in the UCI Samueli School of Engineering is how our faculty are winning prestigious awards at an accelerating pace. I like to particularly focus on the awards won by our junior faculty, as they are literally the future of the school. In terms of federal early career awards, we are doing very well and during the past four years, 18 junior faculty, representing all six departments in the school, received Early Career Awards from the National Science Foundation. At the other end of the career spectrum, our senior faculty are equally impressive. As a prime example of this, the American Geophysical Union (AGU) recently awarded the William Bowie Medal to Distinguished Professor Soroosh Sorooshian for “exceptional contributions to water science and practice, and vision in developing a global precipitation product serving millions of people around the world.” This recognition is AGU’s highest honor, given to one of its over 60,000 members in recognition of outstanding contributions to fundamental Earth and space science and for unselfish cooperation in research.

Best,

Magnus Egerstedt, Ph.D.

Stacey Nicholas Dean of Engineering

Samueli School's Solar Car Team Wins Award at National Competition

The Solar Car team won the Capacitance Award at the 2025 Formula Sun Grand Prix, where they raced the SolEater, UCI’s first student-engineered solar car to enter this national competition.

Mendoza Awarded Prestigious Scholarship

UC Irvine biomedical engineering doctoral student Trisha Mendoza has received a predoctoral research fellowship from the American Epilepsy Society in support of her work to help individuals living with epilepsy.

UC Irvine Team Receives NIH Award for Revolutionary Deep Tissue Imaging

A multidisciplinary research team led by Samueli School engineers has been awarded a prestigious $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health Common Fund’s Venture Program to develop a revolutionary optical imaging system capable of seeing deep inside living tissues with unprecedented resolution and speed.

Researchers at UC Irvine are First to Image Directional Atomic Vibrations

A team of scientists including international collaborators have developed a new electron microscopy method that has enabled the first-ever imaging of vibrations, or phonons, in specific directions at the atomic scale.

Dean Egerstedt Honored at Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo

The Mexico-based University President Octavio Castillo Acosta formally conferred the title to Egerstedt in recognition of his outstanding scientific leadership in robotics, control theory, and remote environmental monitoring.

UC Irvine-led Study Reveals Global Wildfire Paradox

Researchers at UCI and other institutions have spotted a contradiction in worldwide wildfire trends: Despite a 26 percent decline in total burned area from 2002 to 2021, the number of people exposed to wildfires has surged by nearly 40 percent.

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