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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 - 820
Undergraduate Enrollment - 311
Graduate Enrollment
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UCLA Samueli Alumna Shares Experience Landing Mars Rover Amid Pandemic
UCLA mechanical engineering alumna Anais Zarifian ’16 has had an amazing career “win” with the recent Mars Perseverance rover landing. Zarifian is a NASA system testbed engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and helped test the rover’s mobility systems prior to its...
UCLA Researchers Develop New, Noninvasive AI Method to Inspect Live Cells and Gain Critical Data
Researchers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have discovered a new artificial intelligence-based method to discern the properties of live biological cells without destroying them. The advance could enable laboratories to conduct drug-safety screening faster...
UCLA Aerospace Engineering Alumna to Pilot SpaceX Dragon on Return to Space
UCLA aerospace engineering alumna and NASA astronaut Megan McArthur ’93 will pilot the SpaceX Crew-2 Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) this spring. Portrait of NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew-2 Pilot Megan McArthur (Credit: NASA) Set to launch...
Department Announcements
NASA Selects Artur Davoyan’s Solar Sail Concept
Space agency NASA has announced selection of seven concepts for future space exploration—and they include some exceptionally creative ideas. Among these is Artur Davoyan’s concept of breakthrough space exploration with CubeSat solar sails. Space missions take decades...
