UCI Engineering

🎉Congratulations to these graduate students for winning Outstanding Graduate Student Awards! More about their excellent research: tinyurl.com/2wkvm5a9

👏Congratulations to the UCI Solar Car team for winning the Capacitance Award showing excellence in electrical systems and problem-solving at the 2025 Formula Sun Grand Prix. tinyurl.com/bdfyx749

Congratulations to Yanning Shen for winning a National Science Foundation CAREER award to develop trustworthy and socially responsible artificial intelligence AI systems that learn from network data, such as social or transportation networks.👍 tinyurl.com/58h5s6jp

🎉👍Congratulations to Dean Magnus Egerstedt for receiving the 2025 Robotics Outstanding Investigator Award from the International Federation of Automation Control at the joint IFAC Symposium on Mechatronic Systems and Robotics in Paris, France. tinyurl.com/2s3ssd3r

Kumar Wickramasinghe invented the PiFM which enables scientists to study the fundamental characteristics of matter at nanoscale resolution. tinyurl.com/4tnhjzrn

🤘Michelle Khine has developed the first wireless, wearable continuous respiratory monitor that could transform respiratory care. It's about the size of a Band-Aid and will likely hit the market this year. 👍 tinyurl.com/47sm9mr8

🦡 UC Irvine's RaccoonBot is now stationed at Crystal Cove State Park monitoring the environment. Come visit it sometime! 🏖️

The student-designed home for homeless youth opened in Placentia! The award-winning home is an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) with many innovative sustainable features. It was gifted to the homeless center by UC Irvine and Orange Coast College. tinyurl.com/4jb3n5p4

🤘UC Irvine alumni built First Element Fuel, the world’s most extensive hydrogen fueling network with 40 stations and 12 more planned for the future: tinyurl.com/2uhu9u3a. #hydrogen #fuelcell #fuelcells

🤘The UC Irvine Anti-Cancer Challenge gave has given Herdeline Ardoña $40,000 in seed funding for her cutting-edge research into how chemotherapy affects the heart health of people with cancer. 👍tinyurl.com/mr3rf7mp

Congratulations to the UC Irvine Biomedical Engineering Society for winning the Outstanding Achievement Award from the National Biomedical Engineering Society for 2024-2025! tinyurl.com/ycykdt4m

Alon Gorodetsky's lab is creating material that mimics the color-changing capabilities of squid and can be used by the military for adaptive camouflage. 👍More at tinyurl.com/322wuspn

Congrats to the UCI Rocket Project for placing first at the 2025 International Rocket Engineering Competition for the 10,000 feet Student Researched And Designed (SRAD) category! They made every part of the winning rocket!🚀 tinyurl.com/4fsk8vvp

Dion Khodagholy is working with the school of medicine to identify a potential new treatment for preventing epilepsy progression and preserving long-term memory. 👍 tinyurl.com/4andx45p

Congratulations to Pim Oomen and Xizheng Wang for being named Hellman Fellows! Oomen's research is on the impact of sex hormones on the heart while Wang is researching the accelerated discovery and electrified manufacturing of high entropy alloys (HEAs). tinyurl.com/ds7tpww5

High School students learn about environmental robots and more at the UCI-Crystal Cove Environmental Engineering Summer Institute. 👍 @oai_uci tinyurl.com/3tvwy55a

Alon Gorodetsky's lab has discovered cell structures that squids use to change color which could be used to make adaptable camouflage, smart textiles and thermal-management skins. 👍 tinyurl.com/322wuspn

Congratulations to Quoc-Viet Dang for being selected as a Fulbright Scholar to teach and conduct research at Vietnam National University in Hanoi next year! tinyurl.com/2vxea5ty

UCI researchers have seen successful preclinical tests of the Iris Valve, a replacement heart valve for young children with congenital cardiac defects that grows with the size of their hearts. 👍 More: tinyurl.com/463ermvy

🎉 Read all about the Class of 2025 Commencement. Congratulations to all graduates! 🧑‍🎓👩‍🎓 engineering.uci.edu/news/2025/6/uc…