UCLA MAE Assistant Professor Jonathan Hopkins, and ME Ph.D. candidate Frederick Sun, received the 2016 Freudenstein/General Motors Young Investigator Award at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE) for their paper “Mobility Analysis of Interconnected Hybrid Flexure Systems Using Screw Algebra and Graph Theory.” They also received a Best Paper Honorable Mention Award for the same paper. The conference was held in Charlotte, North Carolina, and they received the awards on August 16, 2016.
Pictured above: ME Ph.D candidate Frederick Sun and Professor Jonathan Hopkins.