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...
Rajit Gadh quoted in LA Business Journal article “LA Companies Give Renters More Ways to Charge EVs”
UCLA MAE Professor Rajit Gadh was quoted in the Los Angeles Business Journal article "LA Companies Give Renters More Ways to Charge EVs". From the article: “People who want to buy EVs, if they can’t charge at home, where else do they charge?” said Rajit Gadh, director...
Pirouz Kavehpour’s new MAE class: Fluid Mechanics (Transport Phenomena) of Pandemic
From formation of droplets/aerosols in lung that carry pathogens, such as coronavirus and measles virus, to the way it transports in air, how a droplet contains pathogens evaporates on surfaces and how the pathogens can be detected, there is one common theme....
Two UCLA Engineering Professors Receive 2021 ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award
Professor Laurent Pilon and adjunct professor Wilbur “Webb” Marner of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have been awarded the 2021 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Heat Transfer Memorial Award. The award...
WE@UCLA Director Honored for Campus Diversity Efforts
Audrey Pool O’Neal, an adjunct associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and the founding director of UCLA Women in Engineering (WE@UCLA), has received the UCLA Academic Senate’s 2020-2021 Staff Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award. Launched in...
Artur Davoyan named 2021-22 UCLA Hellman Fellow
UCLA MAE Assistant Professor Artur Davoyan was selected into the UCLA Society of Hellman Fellows. The campus-wide program was established by the Hellman Family Foundation to provide support and encouragement for the research of promising assistant professors who show...