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In partnership with the Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum, @UCIEngineering students are building a full-scale replica of the iconic WWI-era Curtiss JN-4D “Jenny,” which will be a featured piece at the museum when it opens at the Great Park in 2027 ➡️ greatparkframework.org.

Imagine powering the planet with limitless clean energy—straight from space! 🚀✨ Join us March 31 at 6 p.m. for a free screening and discussion of “Bright Harvest: Powering Earth from Space,” at the Irvine Barclay Theater. RSVP now to secure your spot! ow.ly/HKIU50Yv2q5

🎉The Annual Design Review showcased the engineering ingenuity of 235 senior projects and teams! Way to go, Anteater Engineers! 🤘

UC Irvine students explore sending sand by rail to California's eroding beaches. tinyurl.com/4kapm7my

The Annual Design Review is this Friday! Engineering seniors will showcase 235 design projects! Register for the event here: lnkd.in/g93uuBMM

From pancakes to prototypes, we had a great E-Week! 🎉Read more about it: tinyurl.com/y4r7ezty

UCI Society of Women Engineers president Julia McWilliams talks about empowering women in engineering. tinyurl.com/3d7r9385

UC Irvine is launching a new institute that will focus one extracting and processing rare earth elements, critical materials and developing greener ammonia and cement. More: tinyurl.com/2ypdxwyj

Congratulations to Herdeline Ardoña and Seunghyun Sim for being recognized as 2026 Sloan Research Fellows! More about their research: lnkd.in/dCuSkZMr

We welcome interim dean Faryar Jabbari! Jabbari has served as senior associate dean for academic affairs in the UCI Samueli School of Engineering since 2011. engineering.uci.edu/news/2026/2/ja…

🤘We welcomed many alumni, friends and the greater UC Irvine community at Homecoming this weekend! 🎉

UCI Biomedical Engineering Professor Chang Liu co-founded Eira Bio, which uses a new approach to antibody drug development, that targets disease-related proteins previously considered out of reach. Read: tinyurl.com/45w53fmf

Students and professors are celebrating E-Week with many activities including pancakes served at the Dean's Breakfast this morning!

Congratulations to Jean-Luc Gaudiot for being honored with the Richard E. Merwin Award for Distinguished Service from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society. tinyurl.com/y92vy9fy

We celebrated the naming of the Hoang Nhu Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Irvine after a transformational gift by Hoang Nhu and his sister Thuc Trinh Thi Nhu, M.D. ’93. Read more about this remarkable family: tinyurl.com/unay3mda

Ty Christoff-Tempesta launched an Edible Materials class in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UCI (MSE UCI). Check out this innovative way to learn materials science! #materialsscience #engineeringstudent

Calling all innovators! The Stella Zhang New Venture Competition (NVC) is your chance to launch a startup, build a team, and compete for over $100,000 in prizes—all in just seven months. Find out more: tinyurl.com/529yrrx3

Anna Grosberg and Mary Tran offer a way to study sex-based variations in cardiac tissues and function through their first characterization of the difference between male and female neonatal rat ventricular myocytes (NRVMs) in vitro tissues. More at: tinyurl.com/53jy47xa

Congratulations to Henry Samueli for being inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame! 👏 🎊 tinyurl.com/3yvd8k73

While some California beaches are facing erosion, Brett Sanders has found that California beaches overall have widened by 500 acres in the past 40 years. More on California's beaches: tinyurl.com/kxjezthn