Oct 18, 2017
Engineers from the University of Washington and UCLA have developed a flexible sensor “skin” to accurately convey information about shear forces and vibration to grasp, manipulate objects. From UW News. If a robot is sent to disable a roadside bomb — or delicately...
Oct 16, 2017
UCLA’s MAE Department has established two new undergraduate scholarships: Klug Memorial Scholarship funded by a donation from Alcoa/Arconic. Mal Family Endowed Scholarship funded by a donation from Professor Ajit Mal. Both donations are augmented by the...
Oct 13, 2017
UCLA MAE Professor Jeff Eldredge was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). His citation reads as follows: Eldredge, Jeff [2017] University of California, Los Angeles Citation: For significant contributions to the computational and theoretical...
Oct 12, 2017
Hamidreza Nazaripouya has received the 2017-2018 Dissertation Year Fellowship. The program selects doctoral students who are advanced to candidacy at the time of nomination and are within one year of completing and filing the dissertation. The competition is held...
Oct 10, 2017
UCLA MAE Professor and SMERC Director Rajit Gadh was quoted in the October 2017 edition of American Recycler, in the article “Recyclability of Electric Vehicle Batteries Scrutinized.” Excerpted from article: According to Rajit Gadh, PhD, professor at...