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Laurent Pilon wins 2008 Bergles-Rohsenow Award
May 8, 2008

Laurent Pilon

MAE Professor Laurent Pilon has been awarded the ASME 2008 Bergles-Rohsenow Young Investigator Award in Heat Transfer.  “Established in 2003, the award is given to a young engineer who is committed to pursuing research in heat transfer, and must have demonstrated the potential to make significant contributions to this field.”  Prof. Pilon’s citation commends his “significant contributions to heat, mass and radiation transfer in foams, nanocomposite materials and biological systems.”

Researchers at UCLA Engineering Discover a Theoretical Model to Predict Jamming that Could Provide New Avenues in Materials Innovation and Medicine
May 1, 2008

Pirouz Kavehpour

Researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have come up with a theoretical model to predict when granular materials become jammed. This advancement not only broadens fundamental knowledge, it also provides new avenues to a number of practical areas that ranges from materials innovation to medicine. The study, currently available on the Nature Physics Web site, will be published in the journal's print edition on May 1.

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Jeff Eldredge hosts successful fluid dynamics symposium for graduate students and post-docs
April 25, 2008

Jeff Eldredge

On Saturday, April 12, MAE Prof. Jeff Eldredge hosted the 2nd Southern California Symposium on Flow Physics in Engineering IV at UCLA.  The symposium, called “So Cal Fluids 2”, for short, was jointly organized with Prof. Tim Colonius from Caltech.  The event provided a forum for graduate students and post-docs in Southern California to present their fluid dynamics-related research.  A total of 42 speakers and 95 attendees (students, post-docs and faculty), from 9 different Southern California universities—UC Santa Barbara down to UC San Diego— participated in the day-long event.  Two parallel sessions were held in the morning, early and late afternoon.

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Chih-Ming Ho works with researchers to develop method to rapidly ID optimal drug cocktails
April 21, 2008

Chih-Ming Ho

It has long been a difficult challenge for clinical researchers to determine the optimal dose of individual drugs used in combination. For example, a researcher testing 10 different concentrations of six drugs in every possible arrangement would be faced with 1 million potential combinations.

"With the development of this optimization method, we've overcome a major roadblock," said study author Chih-Ming Ho, UCLA's Ben Rich-Lockheed Martin Professor and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. "There have always been too many choices and too many combinations to sort through. It was like finding a needle in a haystack."

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UCLA Engineering Open House welcomes prospective students, shows MAE's strengths
April 11, 2008

Open House

Sunday, April 6, 2008, was UCLA Engineering's Open House. After an opening session for the entire School of Engineering and Applied Science, our department hosted our prospective undergraduate students and their families for presentations, lunch, and informal conversations with MAE students, faculty, and alumni. Professor Robert M'Closkey (Vice Chair for Undergraduate Affairs) made a presentation on our undergraduate program. Mini Baja's Nick Herron showed a video of the Mini Baja in action on a grueling course. Additionally, a panel of six MAE Alumni gave a talk about their lives and experiences at UCLA MAE and after graduation.

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Jong-Eun Ryu wins this year's Perkin Elmer Award
April 7, 2008

Jong-Eun Ryu

Jong-Eun Ryu (doctoral student in Prof. H. Thomas Hahn's group) has won this year's Perkin Elmer Award. His abstract "The Incorporation of MWNT-Enzyme Biocomposites to Glucose/O2 Biofuel Cell Devices" was judged the best out of the 24 entries received this year. The panel of experts from industry judged the entries in two rounds. All judging was done blind: the judges only saw the title, abstract, current degree of the participant (i.e. undergrad, Masters, Doctoral) and year this degree was started. They did not know the name or university affiliation. The Award carries a $500 travel allowance to SPE's ANTEC this year, $1000 prize money ($500 from PerkinElmer and $500 from the SPE Composites Division) and a plaque at the conference.

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