August 07, 2013 – Enric Grustan Gutierrez studies propulsion so maybe it’s not surprising that he’s a force of nature himself. The high-energy mechanical and aerospace engineering doctoral candidate designs and microfabricates tiny arrays of electric-propelled thrusters that cou

August 01, 2013 – This year’s SURF-IT Fellows have spent five weeks peering into microscopes, writing computer code, analyzing data and synthesizing chemical compounds. For some, this has been their first foray into applied research. This week the seven undergraduates marked a n

July 30, 2013 – A respected collaborator and steadfast friend of CALIT2 passed away last week. Rui J.P. de Figueiredo, UC Irvine professor emeritus of electrical engineering and computer science, and mathematics, died on July 22, 2013, in College Station, Texas, after a long bat

July 26, 2013 – A couple of old pros returned to the SURF-IT program this week to share their school/work/life expertise with the current group of research Fellows. Jordan Sinclair and Johnway Yih, SURF-IT Fellows in 2008 and 2010 respectively, both went on to master’s programs