Prof. Rimoli took part as a selector in the 2026 Schmidt Science Fellows Selector Workshop, held on June 30 and July 1 at the Interdisciplinary Science Summit in association with Duke University. An invited working group …
Read morePhD student Sofia Pilar Brown took part in the UCI-LANL-SoCalHub Research Fellowship, co-mentored by Prof. Rimoli and Los Alamos National Laboratory senior scientist Ricardo Lebensohn. Her project translates simulations …
Read moreUC Irvine hosted the 2025 MAES Leadership Academy on October 10 to 12, bringing together 66 student leaders from 12 universities. Prof. Rimoli was one of the faculty speakers and talked about his path as one of the first …
Read moreBetween 80 and 100 UCI engineering students are building a full-scale replica of the Curtiss JN-4 “Jenny”, a World War I training biplane, for the Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum. Prof. Rimoli initiated …
Read moreA UC Irvine team led by Prof. Penghui Cao, with Prof. Rimoli among the co-authors, reported in Nature Communications that two distinct types of slip bands form in the CrCoNi alloy under compression. Confined bands follow …
Read moreUC Irvine and Pratt & Whitney have established a Center of Excellence for Solidification Science, directed by Distinguished Professor Diran Apelian, to advance the materials processing behind jet-engine components …
Read moreThe American Society of Mechanical Engineers has elected Prof. Rimoli a Fellow, a distinction that recognizes significant engineering achievements. The announcement highlights his work on numerical methods for nonlinear …
Read moreDean Magnus Egerstedt announced the appointment of Prof. Rimoli as chair of the UCI Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering for a three-year term that began on July 1, 2023. He succeeds Prof. Roger Rangel. …
Read moreProf. Rimoli joined the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UC Irvine in fall 2022 as one of five new Samueli School of Engineering faculty members, coming from Georgia Tech, where he was the Pratt …
Read moreEngineers at UC Irvine and Georgia Tech have created a new class of ultralightweight mechanical metamaterials based on tensegrity, in which isolated rigid bars are held in a mesh of tensioned tethers. The lattices spread …
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