Dean Forouzan Golshani welcomed new and returning faculty and staff at the Fall convocation on Thursday. With current enrollment at 4,649, the College of Engineering is now CSULB’s fourth-largest. Of that number, 3,492 are transfer students, 580 are freshmen, 534 graduate students and 43 post-graduate students. Continue reading “College Holds Fall Convocation”
Engineering for the Body: Reproducing Body Functions
Human biologists, computer scientists and engineers are teaming to advance neuroscience toward achieving yet another one of NAE’s Grand Challenges, namely, understanding the complex network we call brain. Modern noninvasive methods can simultaneously measure the activity of many brain cells. Comprehension of how the brain works will enable engineers to simulate its activities, leading to deeper insights about how and why the brain works and fails.