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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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Timothy Fisher
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Our Latest Research News
UCLA Engineering Graduate Student Develops Low-Cost Ventilator
UCLA electrical engineering graduate student Glen Meyerowitz is developing a low-cost ventilator in collaboration with medical professionals at UCLA Health. The device is a much simpler version of ventilators used at hospitals. It is designed to address specific...
UCLA Engineers Step Up to Help Health Care Workers
With a deluge of patients suffering from COVID-19 expected to flood hospitals in the very near future, UCLA engineers are part of a quickly growing team working to build up supplies of personal protective equipment for health care workers. Bioengineering professor...
Richard Wirz: Cold plasma patch could make immunotherapy more effective for treating melanoma, study finds
Denise Heady | UCLA Newsroom An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center has developed a medicated patch that can deliver immune checkpoint inhibitors and cold plasma directly to tumors to help boost the immune response and...
Department Announcements
UCLA MAE 2020 Poster Competition – Winners Announced!
UCLA's MAE Department would like to congratulate the five winners (selected by our faculty judges) of the 2020 Poster Competition! We also thank everyone who entered. There were many wonderful posters. Winners Amin Farzaneh Elijah Harris Simon He Weicheng Huang...
