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...

MAE’s Professor Yongjie Hu, is awarded with the prestigious 2019 Sloan Research Fellowship. Hu is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, studies nanoscale transport processes and advanced materials for energy science and sensor systems. His...

Image: A motorcyclist rides near the SpaceX prototype Starship hopper on Jan. 12 at the Boca Chica Beach site in Texas. SpaceX test-fired a version of the engine that will power its Starship Mars spaceship. (Miguel Roberts / Associated Press) MAE Professor Ann...

UCLA MAE Ph.D. graduate Dr. Hanchen Huang was appointed University of North Texas College of Engineering Dean. Dr. Huang is a former student of MAE Prof. Nasr Ghoniem. Please read UNT announcement here.

MAE Distinguished Research Professor Chih-Ming Ho delivered a plenary talk at Micro TAS, an international flagship conference on microfluidic systems and bio-molecular sensors. The title of the presentation was "AI-based Personalized Theranostics." When cancer...

The IEEE Board of Directors, at its November 2018 meeting, elevated MAE Professor Eric Pei-Yu Chiou to an IEEE Fellow, effective 1 January 2019, with the following citation: for contributions to optofluidics for high throughput single cell manipulation