(Content excerpted from the LA Times.) UCLA student Lionel Zhang, left, professor Veronica J. Santos and student Shengxin Jia talk about a minesweeping robot in one of the school's labs. (Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times) UCLA announced a $100-million gift to...

CHANCELLOR’S SERVICE AWARD Christopher C'habo Vincent, B.S., ME, Sp19 Bao Khoa Vinh, B.S., ME, Sp19 2019 ENGINEERING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR STUDENT WELFARE Alexandra Marguerite Dembry, B.S., AE, Sp19 Owen Paul Hemminger, B.S., ME, Sp19 Marc Anthony Magaña, B.S., AE,...

Unsurprisingly, the majority of recently selected astronauts have extensive flying experience. Whether learned in the armed forces or at a privately-owned flight school, understanding how to translate human mechanics to those of an aircraft is an essential skill for...

Yide Wang, ME Ph.D candidate in Professor Richard Wirz's Research Group, won 2nd Best Poster at the Energy Storage Technologies and Applications Conference hosted in UC Riverside, April 11-12, 2019, for his presentation on "Performance and Cost Analysis of...

Kathryn McCarthy, MS '86, PhD '89, was elected as a 2019 member of the National Academy of Engineering She is Vice-President, R&D for the Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, and received her UCLA degrees in Nuclear Engineering. Her advisor was Mohamed Abdou. From her...

UCLA's MAE Department held a graduate student poster competition Friday, March 8, 2019. It included a presentation by the MAE Industrial Advisory Board members. The MAE Department would like to congratulate the 5 Winners and 11 Honorable Mentions! Winners Matthew...

Please read the full article here. From the article: Junior aerospace engineering student Mia Reyes would not have been able to attend UCLA at all. Two days before the deadline to commit to UCLA — her “dream school” — she reluctantly selected a more affordable...

(Image from Mitsubishi) MAE Professor and SMERC Director Rajit Gadh was quoted in the Fast Company article "This SUV powers your house - and your house powers this SUV". From the article: Mitsubishi isn’t the first company to propose this idea. As The Verge points...

UCLA MAE graduate student Gary Li was awarded a Summer 2019 Matthew Isakowitz Fellowship. Li is a student in Associate Professor Richard Wirz’s Plasma and Space Propulsion Lab. Li’s Summer 2019 host company is The Aerospace Corporation. Learn more at...