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Xian Shi Named ARPA-E IGNIITE 2025 Awardee...
Xian Shi, UCI assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has been selected as an awardee of the 2025 Inspiring Generations of New Innovators to Impact Technologies in Energy (IGNIITE) program from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E). The program supports early-career scientists and engineers with ideas that have the potential to transform the nation’s energy landscape.
NSBE@UCI President and Honeywell Intern...
Chiyelum Ashley Nwagboso is the president of the National Society of Black Engineers @UCI and has interned at Honeywell and Chevron. An electrical engineering senior who will graduate this spring, she helped NSBE grow from eight members to over 30.
UC Irvine Engineers Invent Wireless...
A new transceiver invented by electrical engineers at the University of California, Irvine boosts radio frequencies into 140-gigahertz territory, unlocking data speeds that rival those of physical fiber-optic cables and laying the groundwork for a transition to 6G and FutureG data transmission protocols. To create the transceiver, researchers in UC Irvine's Samueli School of Engineering devised a unique architecture that blends digital and analog processing.
UC Irvine Researchers Find Differences...
University of California, Irvine and Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health researchers have identified fundamental structural and functional differences between two major causes of mitral valve stenosis. This narrowing restricts blood flow through the heart.
Academic Senate Recognizes Two Biomedical Engineering...
Christine King, associate professor of teaching, and Jim Brody, associate professor, will both be honored by the UC Irvine Academic Senate at the Distinguished Faculty Awards on Wednesday, Feb. 11. Every year, the Academic Senate awards professors for their outstanding contributions in teaching, mentorship and research.
Association for Computing Machinery...
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named Athina Markopoulou as one of 71 ACM Fellows for 2025. The fellows program recognizes the top 1% of ACM members for their outstanding accomplishments.
Creating Materials that Change Color...
A coat that adjusts its temperature with the climate. Military camouflage fatigue that changes colors to blend into its surroundings.
Q&A: Rocket Propulsion Lead and Blue...
The UCI Rocket Project (Liquids) is one of the few undergraduate teams in America that has launched a rocket with cutting-edge methalox fuel. That rocket reached 9,300 feet in 2023.
In Memoriam: Adjunct Professor Robert...
Robert H. Liebeck, UC Irvine adjunct professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and a world-renowned authority in the fields of aerodynamics, hydrodynamics and aircraft design, died on Jan. 12, 2026. He was 87 and passed away peacefully surrounded by family.
Q&A with Alumnus Tiantian Yang ‘15
UC Irvine engineering alumnus Tiantian Yang, M.S. 2011, Ph.D. 2015, has been recognized with the Hydrologic Sciences Early Career Award from the American Geophysical Union (AGU). The award honors early career scientists who have made outstanding contributions to the hydrologic sciences, education or societal impacts and show promise of contributions to hydrology.