UCLA Engineer

Published bi-annually, UCLA Engineer magazine highlights the best of UCLA Engineering faculty, alumni and students with features on innovative research, special UCLA Engineering events, Q&A's with school leaders, profiles of exceptional students and alumni, and columns on employment and career opportunities. UCLA Engineer is distributed each spring and fall to more than 30,000 alumni, donors, and friends of the school.

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Current issue:

The spring 2012 issue of UCLA Engineer centers on the themes of safety and security. This includes stories on Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty who are leading efforts to dramatically improve our infrastructure resiliency, including John Wallace, Jonathan Stewart, Scott Brandenberg, and Ertugrul Taciroglu. It also includes Q&A’s with faculty who are among the world’s foremost experts on hardware and cybersecurity, in Rafail Ostrovsky and John Villasenor.  This issue also profiles 2011 Alumnus of the Year, Ernst Volgenau PhD ’66, founder of SRA international, a global company with more than $1.7 billion in sales. The career column features another successful alumnus, Shioupyn Shen PhD ’91, co-founder of CloudMosa Inc., who talks about the challenges and excitement of starting your own company.  In addition, this issue highlights the impact of the important work our engineering students are making with both their fellow students, and area K-12 schools. Finally, this issue includes new research of mouse genomes and cell-penetrating peptides;  a story on a new faculty startup fostered by our Institute for Technology Advancement;  exciting new developments within our Boelter Society; and  our new endowed faculty chairs.