Monday, March 30

UCLA Concrete Canoe team aims to maintain quality, artistic design

Civil engineering students will paddle in the waters of Marina del Rey in their self-built canoe this fall. Every year, the UCLA Concrete Canoe team designs and builds a canoe made of concrete and participates in regional and national concrete canoe competitions held by the American Society of Civil Engineers. Read more...

Photo: The UCLA Concrete Canoe team recently won second place at the national competition race. The team will spend the summer and fall contacting suppliers, designing the canoe and perfecting the concrete formula. (Courtesy of Nate de Ropp)


UCLA research team developing efficient, recycled concrete material

An interdisciplinary research team at UCLA is recycling carbon dioxide in a novel process to develop sustainable building material. Carbon Upcycling consists of 13 UCLA faculty members, students and staff from various fields such as engineering, chemistry and public policy. Read more...

Photo: Bu Wang and Gabriel Falzone are members of Carbon Upcycling, an interdisciplinary team at UCLA that came up with a way to incorporate carbon dioxide into the manufacture of concrete, making it carbon-neutral. (Miriam Bribiesca/Photo editor)





Couple loans unexpected find to UCLA Meteorite Gallery

It took Ken and Jill Eltrich three years to realize the 5-pound rock they were using as a doorstop was a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite. After almost another year of reading up on the meteorite, the couple decided they wanted to share the stone with others and loaned it to the UCLA Meteorite Gallery. Read more...

Photo: The petal-shaped depressions on Ken and Jill Eltrich’s meteorite make it stand out among other oriented meteorites. (Emaan Baqai/Daily Bruin senior staff)


UCLA to head research center in national manufacturing network

President Barack Obama announced Monday that UCLA will house a new manufacturing research center to increase manufacturing efficiency in the U.S. The UCLA center will be part of a national network of manufacturing institutes under the Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute, with locations in Texas, New York, Washington and North Carolina, according to a White House press release. Read more...



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