Gabriel San Martin 2nd place graduate student winner of the 2023 SERAD Student Safety Innovation Challenge

Congratulations Gabriel, Civil and Environmental Engineering, for his paper being accepted as the 2nd place graduate student winner of the 2023 SERAD Student Safety Innovation Challenge. He will be awarded and will present his paper during the IMECE 2023 conference in New Orleans, LA on October 29-November 2, 2023.

2023 Student Paper on Safety Innovation Challenge Contest

Annually, Safety Engineering, Risk, and Reliability Analysis Division (SERAD) hosts a challenge to undergraduate and graduate students to submit papers on Safety Engineering, Risk, and Reliability Analysis topics, including papers already submitted to the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE) 2023. The papers are peer-reviewed by experts in these areas. The top winning papers in each of the undergraduate and graduate groups will be presented in a SERAD session co-located with IMECE and honored at a SERAD awards banquet during the conference. Recognitions also include cash honorariums for first-place winning authors, and reimbursement with a limit for the conference-related expense (registration) for all students presenting their paper at the special session.

California Energy Commission awards a $5.7 million research grant to UCLA Risk Institute on Assessment of Safety and Integrity of Hydrogen Blending in Gas Infrastructure for Decarbonization

The California Energy Commission (CEC) has awarded a $5.7 million research contract to UCLA Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences on Pilot Testing and Assessment of Safety and Integrity of Targeted Hydrogen Blending in Gas Infrastructure for Decarbonization. The Goal of the project is to develop the knowledge base and integrated assessment that will help natural gas utilities introduce hydrogen in the current California natural gas pipeline network, and therefore help California meet its decarbonization goals. The multidisciplinary research involves a number of other leading research centers and public and private sectors providing an additional match fund of over $1.4 million in support of the project.  

“The project has a broad scope including extensive large-scale testing, modeling and simulation, and techno-economic analysis to assess the readiness of gas infrastructure for hydrogen blending, and use by the industry” said Professor Ali Mosleh, the project’s Principal Investigator, and Director of the UCLA Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences. The project Co-PI is Prof. Vasilios Manousiouthakis, from Chemical Engineering Department.

The project draws from expertise in multiple departments at Samueli School of Engineering and Anderson School of Business, as well as teams form UCI, Sandia National Lab, DNV, and several California utilities, including SoCalGas, and PG&E.    

Congratulations Class of 2023!

To the Class of 2023,

On behalf of the Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences, we want to extend our warmest congratulations to you on reaching this major milestone in life. Your hard work, patience, perseverance, and creativity has paid off. We recognize the last few months have been extremely difficult. However, you’ve managed to see the light during these dark times and your accomplishments will not be diminished. Together, we will continue to engineer change for the current and future generations to come.

Congratulations!

Samueli School of Engineering Graduate Commencement: Sunday, June 18 at 1:30pm PT

Samueli School of Engineering Undergraduate Commencement: Saturday, June 17 at 12:30pm PT

Special shout out to GIRS Class of 2023!

(Left) Theresa M. Stewart, Ph.D. and (RIGHT) Lixian Huang, PH.D. in Materials Science and Engineering

Wenhao Zhang, Ph.d. Computer Science

(Left) Mohammad Pishahang, M.S. and (Right) Gabriel San Martin , M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering