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How Spiders Fly: Untangling the Mystery of Arachnids’ Electrically Charged Ability to Soar
Discovery could aid in development of new devices for environmental science It was a Halloween mystery that baffled Charles Darwin to the end of his days. On Oct. 31, 1832, thousands of tiny red spiders suddenly started dropping from a clear sky onto Darwin’s ship,...
Jonathan Hopkins wins the 2021 JMR Best Paper Award
UCLA MAE Professor Jonathan Hopkins and three other researchers’ paper "Compliant Mechanisms That Use Static Balancing to Achieve Dramatically Different States of Stiffness” was chosen as the Winner of the 2021 Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics (JMR) Best Paper...
Amped Up: How smart technology is changing the face of the country’s infrastructure system
Whether you’re turning on a lamp in your house or plugging your electric vehicle into a designated charging outlet, you are interacting with one of the most significant developments of the 19th century: the power grid.
Latest Department Announcements
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,...
