Latest Research News
Lihua Jin: New protective metamaterial takes hit, bounces right back
Mechanical engineers at UCLA and China’s Tsinghua University have opened a new path toward reusable energy-absorbing materials – ones designed to take an impact, then bounce back to their original shape and strength. The study was published in Advanced Functional...
Xiaochun Li’s research paper “Aluminum with dispersed nanoparticles by laser additive manufacturing” published in Nature Communications
MAE Professor Xiaochun Li's research paper "Aluminum with dispersed nanoparticles by laser additive manufacturing" was published in Nature Communications. The paper discusses how the laser printed nanocomposite delivers a record-high yield strength of up to 1000 MPa,...
Dennis Hong’s new robot ALPHRED 2 featured in IEEE Spectrum article “RoMeLa’s Newest Robot Is a Curiously Symmetrical Dynamic Quadruped”
Dennis Hong's new robot ALPHRED 2 was featured in IEEE Spectrum article "RoMeLa's Newest Robot Is a Curiously Symmetrical Dynamic Quadruped". Excerpt: As it turns out, bipeds aren’t the only robots that can potentially benefit from a bit of a kinematic rethink. RoMeLa...
Latest Department Announcements
Jacob Rosen one of the founding editors of new “Wearable Technologies” journal
MAE Professor Jacob Rosen is one of the founding editors of a new journal entitled "Wearable Technologies" (Cambridge University Press) and was appointed as a member of its editorial board. Wearable robotics is a subset of medical robotics and the main research field...
Professor Yongjie Hu Selected to attend NAE’s Frontiers of Engineering
Professor Yongjie Hu of UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering is among 87 of the nation’s brightest young engineering innovators who have been selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) 25th U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium. “This...
Ph.D. student Yuzhen Chen receives the 2019 Haythornthwaite Foundation Student Travel Award
Yuzhen Chen, a Ph.D student in MAE Assistant Professor Lihua Jin's Mechanics of Soft Materials Lab, was selected by the Executive Committee of the Applied Mechanics Division of the ASME to receive the 2019 Haythornthwaite Foundation Student Travel Award to attend...
