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Mentor Professor Open Rank Faculty Position in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles
UCLA Samueli
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
48-121 Engineering IV
Timothy Fisher
Department Chair
- 38
Faculty Members - 32
Research Labs & Centers - 836
Undergraduate Enrollment - 305
Graduate Enrollment
Our Latest Research News
Richard Wirz and colleagues develop new cold plasma jet that can kill coronavirus in 30 seconds on multiple surfaces
Advance may offer safe and effective way to curb spread of COVID-19. UCLA engineers and scientists have demonstrated that treatments with near-room-temperature, cold atmospheric plasma can kill the coronavirus present on a variety of surfaces in as little as 30...
Peter Ferguson, Bionics Lab grad student, featured in Generation Genius video
Peter Ferguson, a graduate student in UCLA MAE Professor Jacob Rosen's Bionics Lab, was featured in a short video clip entitled "How To Be A Scientist (College & Careers)", produced by MEET GENERATION GENIUS, A New Tool For Teaching Science (a company owned by...
Rajit Gadh panelist in VJEL Symposium “Protecting our Grid Panel”
UCLA MAE Professor Rajit Gadh, Director of UCLA SMERC, was a panelist at the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law Symposium: Protecting our Grid Panel, on October 19, 2020. One of the panelists was Sarah Hoffman, Vermont Public Utilities Commission Board Member.
Department Announcements
MAE alumna Kathy McCarthy (Ph.D. ’89) named Associate Lab Director at ORNL
On October 1, 2020, MAE alumna Kathy McCarthy (Ph.D. '89) became an Associate Lab Director (ALD) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). She is a former student of MAE Prof. Mohamed Abdou. Dr. McCarthy received her Ph.D. in 1989 in Nuclear Engineering with a...
