COVID-19
For information about COVID-19 policies and restrictions on campus, please visit the UCLA Samueli COVID-19 info page.
UCLA Samueli
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
48-121 Engineering IV
Xiaolin Zhong
Department Chair
-
38
Faculty Members -
32
Research Labs & Centers -
820
Undergraduate Enrollment -
311
Graduate Enrollment
Our Latest Research News
UCLA MAE Alumna Mei-Li Hey: Engineering as Art: From James Webb Space Telescope to Pit Latrines in Uganda
For Mei-Li Hey M.S. ’19, engineering isn’t all that different from art. In fact, the Northrop Grumman mechanical design engineer says that if she hadn’t discovered an enthusiasm for engineering, she probably would have ended up an artist. Hey was Northrop Grumman’s...
UCLA Engineering Postdoc Alexis Block Receives Otto Hahn Medal for “HuggieBot”
Alexis Block, a mechanical engineering postdoctoral research fellow at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has been awarded an Otto Hahn Medal from Germany’s Max Planck Society to support her research in human-robot interaction. Each year, the nonprofit premier...
How Spiders Fly: Untangling the Mystery of Arachnids’ Electrically Charged Ability to Soar
Discovery could aid in development of new devices for environmental science It was a Halloween mystery that baffled Charles Darwin to the end of his days. On Oct. 31, 1832, thousands of tiny red spiders suddenly started dropping from a clear sky onto Darwin’s ship,...
Department Announcements
UCLA Engineer Sam Taira Receives Department of Defense’s Most Prestigious Research Grant — Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship
Kunihiko “Sam” Taira, a UCLA professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering who specializes in computational fluid dynamics, has received a 2022 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD). It is the most prestigious research grant...
Featured Videos
Events
Aug 18, 2022 — 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm MAE Seminar featuring Prof Tagliabue, “Nanoengineering of Light Absorption: from Hot Carrier Devices to Reconfigurable Metasurfaces” 37-124 Engineering IV DETAILS