Dec 11, 2015
UCLA team aims to build prototype habitat with materials found on Red Planet for NASA contest’s next stage By Matthew Chin Buoyed by their success in the first stage of a recent NASA challenge, a team of UCLA engineers and architects aims to design and build a...
Dec 11, 2015
UCLA MAE Professor Rajit Gadh was quoted in The Atlantic in the article “Smart Grids and Microgrids Team Up for a Smarter World”: “Today, we are seeing the convergence of information and communications technology and the Internet of Things,” says Dr. Rajit...
Dec 11, 2015
New Scientist Blood Gushes From Virtual Leg Injury to Help Train Combat Medics (with video) If you’re very squeamish, look away now. Researchers have created the first detailed simulation of a human leg injured by flying shrapnel, gushing blood and all. The goal is to...
Dec 11, 2015
BBC Earth Penguin’s Anti-Ice Trick Revealed Bird feathers are known to have hydrophobic, or non-wetting, properties. But scientists from UCLA, University of Massachusetts Amherst and SeaWorld wanted to know what makes Antarctic penguins’ feathers extra ice repelling....
Dec 11, 2015
Daily Bruin UCLA Engineering Student Helps Create New Bike Helmet Technology Phillipe Videau, an aerospace engineering student, helped design and create a prototype of the helmet over the summer as part of his Applied Innovation Internship with Autodesk, a 3-D design,...