May 2022
Message from Magnus
I am happy to share the exciting news that Samueli School Distinguished Professor Efi Foufoula-Georgou has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. This is a remarkable and highly significant achievement recognizing her impactful research contributions, read more below. 

And staying with the theme of impact, the Samueli School annually inducts into its Hall of Fame exceptional alumni who have made significant contributions to their profession or in other ways, have brought distinction to engineering and their alma mater. On May 13, we will celebrate the 2022 honorees: John Olivier, Cecilia Richards and Elizabeth San Miguel. We look forward to bringing this event back in an in-person gathering at the Balboa Yacht Club. Please RSVP and mark your calendar to join us!

Best,
Magnus Egerstedt, Ph.D.
Stacey Nicholas Dean of Engineering
Foufoula-Georgiou elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
UCI’s Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, Distinguished Professor of civil and environmental engineering, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. She is one of four UCI faculty to be selected this year.
ASCE recognizes Lemnitzer for research contribution to geotechnical engineering
Anne Lemnitzer, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, has received the 2022 Thomas A. Middlebrooks Award for her research assessing the seismic hazard and failure potential of levees in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
UCI and 3 other UC campuses collaborate on teaching professor diversity initiative
The University of California system is a bastion of student diversity: Nearly 40 percent are first-generation collegians; 36 percent come from low-income backgrounds; and 29 percent are racial or ethnic minorities.
Samueli Foundation grant supports HEYKUBE outreach program
Solving the puzzle of a Rubik’s cube’s multiple colored squares has fascinated people for decades. Now, an upgraded version of the puzzle called HEYKUBE is at the center of a new outreach effort led by Quoc-Viet Dang, assistant professor of teaching of electrical engineering and computer science.
Engineering graduate student named a 2022 Soros Fellow
UCI biomedical engineering graduate student Alexander (Olek) Pisera is one of 30 graduate students nationwide, selected from a pool of more than 1,800 applicants, who are being named a 2022 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow.
Winter Design Review returns to Engineering Gateway Plaza
It was a welcome scene Friday, March 11, as engineering seniors converged on Engineering Gateway Plaza to present their capstone design projects at the 2022 Winter Design Review.
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