Nov 27, 2017
MAE Assistant Professor Mitchell Spearrin received an NSF CAREER Award for “Compressive Laser Absorption Spectroscopy for Supercritical Combustion Studies.” The grant is for five years and $549,892. ABSTRACT The next generation of ultra-clean, efficient...
Nov 16, 2017
MAE Professor Richard Wirz was quoted in the November 8, 2017, Los Angeles Times article “SpaceX says rocket engine test failure won’t affect its launch schedule” on the use of qualification tests for rocket engines: Qualification tests are generally...
Nov 7, 2017
UCLA Engineering professor Jacob Rosen develops wearable and surgical robots By Katherine Kornei Robots might someday be a regular presence in hospitals, and that’s not a scary future, says Jacob Rosen. “We are in a midst of a robot revolution,” he says. “It’s focused...
Oct 31, 2017
UCLA MAE Professor Yong Chen was elected a 2017 ASME Fellow. His citation is as follows: Dr. Yong Chen has invented a synaptic device and a neuromorphic circuit for machine learning to overcome the shortages of programmable Si circuits with superior parallel signal...
Oct 27, 2017
Stephen Samples, an Aerospace Engineering Ph.D. student in Prof. Richard Wirz’s Plasma & Space Propulsion Laboratory at UCLA, has been awarded the prestigious NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship (NSTRF) to investigate and develop a miniature ion thruster for...