COVID-19
Remote learning will continue through the end of summer. Student resources remain available online.
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
Our Latest Research News
UCLA Professor Launches YouTube Channel on Compliant Mechanisms
While browsing through science videos on YouTube one day, mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Jonathan Hopkins experienced a lightbulb moment. Hopkins found himself inspired by the many creative ways YouTube channels are used to share scientific information...
Soft Focus: A Flexible Future for Robots
UCLA engineers lay the groundwork for machines with astounding abilities. Picture a robot. In your mind’s eye, do you see a shiny protocol droid from a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away? Perhaps a large, moving steel arm from our industrial present? Or even an...
Veronica Santos Part of Avatar Team Advancing to $10M XPRIZE Semifinals
A multidisciplinary team developing an immersive avatar system that enables remote human connection has advanced to the semifinals for the $10 million ANA Avatar XPRIZE competition. XPRIZE announced on April 5 that 38 teams from 16 countries were selected out of 77...
Department Announcements
Commencement Awards 2021
HARRY M. SHOWMAN PRIZE Angela Linghao Gao, BS, Mechanical Engineering, Sp21 Weicheng Huang, PhD, Mechanical Engineering, W21 RUSSELL R. O’NEILL DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD Gabriel Luis Carlos Alpuerto, BS, Mechanical Engineering, W21 ENGINEERING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD IN...
