UCLA Engineering Professor CJ Kim Launches New Journal ‘Droplet’
First-of-its kind publication focused on cross-disciplinary droplet research. Chang-Jin “CJ” Kim, the Volgenau Chair in Engineering and a distinguished professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and bioengineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has...
Xiaolin Zhong Named UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department Chair
Effective July 1, Xiaolin Zhong, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has been appointed chair of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department. A member of the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering faculty for more than 30 years, Zhong succeeded...
UCLA Engineering Professor Xiaochun Li Receives Prestigious Manufacturing Technology Award
UCLA mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Xiaochun Li has received the 2022 William T. Ennor Manufacturing Technology Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) for “significant contributions to solidification processing, scalable...
MAE alumnus Dr. Hanchen Huang appointed UMass Dartmouth Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
UCLA MAE alumnus Dr. Hanchen Huang was appointed the UMass Dartmouth Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. Dr. Huang was a student of UCLA MAE Professor Nasr Ghoniem. Huang graduated from UCLA with a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering in 1995, with a...
Xiaochun Li named to National Academy of Inventors
UCLA MAE Professor Xiaochun Li has been chosen as a 2021 fellow by the National Academy of Inventors, along with three other professors from the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering. Xiaochun Li is the Raytheon Endowed Chair in Manufacturing. He is a pioneer and has...
UCLA MAE and UCLA Biodesign Program present new course “Anderson Healthtech Entrepreneurship Class”
Join the UCLA Biodesign Accelerator and the Anderson Price Center for Entrepreneurship in a new course offering for the development of healthcare technology. Learn the product development framework for medical devices and software, including market research,...
MAE Ph.D. Student Yayun Du selected as a “Rising Star” by MIT CEE
Yayun Du, a Ph.D. student who majored in robotics and control from the Structures-Computer Interaction lab supervised by UCLA MAE Assistant Professor M. Khalid Jawed was selected to participate in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Rising Star Workshop...
Wirz Lab doctoral student Shehan Parmar receives DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
Aerospace engineering Ph.D. candidate Shehan Parmar has become the third UCLA student ever to receive the Department of Energy (DOE) Computational Science Graduate Fellowship. Established in 1991, the fellowship was created to train the top minds in computational...
Student researchers from Khalid Jawed’s lab are finalists at the top robotics conference
At the recent 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (one of the top two conferences in robotics), a paper co-authored by UCLA MAE Assistant Professor M. Khalid Jawed was selected as a finalist for the best paper awards in two...