November 2022: Unleash • Create • Inspire

November 2022

Message from Magnus

What’s key to making sure the innovation in our labs and classrooms is relevant and impactful, is that it moves from campus out into the world. Strong industry collaborations are crucial for that to happen. One of this month’s stories highlights how the newly launched Horiba Institute for Mobility and Connectivity can serve as a successful model of an academic-industry collaboration. But this story is so much more than just a partnership between two semi-abstract organizations. It is about a deeply personal relationship between Professor Emeritus Scott Samuelsen and his former student Atsushi Horiba, lasting almost 50 years.

This type of faculty commitment to student success is a hallmark of a UCI engineering experience. To that end, I am grateful to Distinguished Professors Tryphon Georgiou and Efi Foufoula for their generous investment in supporting our incoming graduate students. Please read on to learn more about this and our many other inspirational efforts.

Best,

Magnus Egerstedt, Ph.D.

Stacey Nicholas Dean of Engineering

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Decarbonization leads to more equable air quality in California

As Californians work toward a publicly stated goal of carbon neutrality by 2045, residents of the Golden State stand to reap such additional benefits as cleaner air, widespread improvements in public health and related cost savings, according to researchers at UCI.

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Researchers probe carbon sequestration at the molecular level

In addition to recommending a drastic curtailment and, ultimately, the end of fossil fuel consumption for energy, transportation and industry, some scientists and engineers have advocated vacuuming carbon dioxide out of the air and storing it underground to combat climate change.

Dignitaries mark opening of an advanced mobility research facility on the UCI campus

The HORIBA Institute for Mobility and Connectivity research facility was formally dedicated in a grand opening ceremony held on the UCI campus on Tuesday, Oct. 11.

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Distinguished professors establish the Georgiou and Foufoula Endowed Graduate Student Award

Two UCI Distinguished Professors - Tryphon Georgiou and Efi Foufoula - have made a generous gift to support students at the Samueli School of Engineering.

UCI undergrads take a summer dive into research

This summer, 12 UCI undergraduates participated in a monthlong program that culminated in one of the mainstays of academic life: a research poster session.

ProperData workshop offers underrepresented undergraduates data privacy and IoT research opportunities

Eighteen undergraduate students from underrepresented communities spent 10 days this past summer at UCI engaging in hands-on research to learn about data privacy, security and ethics.

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