August 19, 2009 – After a big earthquake, it’s key to keep the water system afloat. Water is necessary for life, and it fights the fires that often accompany such disasters. UC Irvine engineers plan to outfit the local water system with sensors that will alert officials wh

August 17, 2009 – A lunchtime audience last week became acquainted with two more SURF-IT research projects as the summer seminar series continued. Dmitri Kalashnikov, assistant adjunct professor of computer science and researcher on the NSF-funded ResCUE emergency management pro

August 05, 2009 – Information technology was front and center this week in the SURF-IT Summer Lunchtime Seminar Series presentations. From online research resources to Web 2.0-powered healthcare-delivery systems, presenters Julia Gelfand and Mark Bachman demonstrated the higher

July 31, 2009 – Biomedical engineering student Bryce Kubo is creating microfluidic platforms for biomedical testing on plastic CDs, moving tiny particles around using valving, metering and dielectrophoresis techniques. Isaac Mahgrefteh, computer science major, is developing tool