UCLA Engineers Unveil Algorithm for Robotic Sensing and Movement
A trio of UCLA engineers has developed a new computational procedure that allows autonomous robots to perceive, map and adjust to their environments more quickly and accurately
Race to the Finish
If it hadn’t been for its muffler, a Bruin-built racing car that corners faster than a Porsche might have won the NASCAR Clash at the Los Angeles Coliseum in February. A 9-foot-long blue rocket, the car was so, so close to that checkered flag. Instead, for want of a widget, the muffler came loose — allowing those crosstown rivals from the University of Southern California to take the race…
Min Jong Kil wins Itherm Best Paper Award
Min Jong Kil, a 2nd year ME Ph.D. student in UCLA MAE Professor Tim Fisher’s Nanoscale Transport Research Group lab, won the Itherm Best Paper Award. The paper is "Direct Solar-Thermal Formation of Graphitic Heat Spreaders on Organic Substrates". The paper was...
Vedasri Godavarthi awarded a Zonta International Amelia Earhart (AE) Fellowship for the 2023-2024 academic year
Vedasri Godavarthi was awarded a Zonta International Amelia Earhart (AE) Fellowship for the 2023-2024 academic year. Godavarthi is part of UCLA MAE Prof. Sam Taira’s research group. The Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowship is awarded to about 30 women a year...
Lihua Jin awarded the 2023 ASME Sia Nemat-Nasser Early Career Award
UCLA MAE Assistant Professor Lihua Jin was awarded the 2023 ASME Sia Nemat-Nasser Early Career Award. Prof. Jin was selected to receive the 2023 ASME Sia Nemat-Nasser Early Career Award "for unraveling coupled non-equilibrium processes in stimuli-responsive soft...
Lihua Jin selected for the 2023 PMSE Early Stage Investigator Award
UCLA MAE Assistant Professor Lihua Jin was selected for the 2023 PMSE Early Stage Investigator Award. From https://pmsedivision.org/early-investigator-symposium/: The twenty five members of the 2023 PMSE Early Stage Investigators class are a collective group of...
Dennis Hong’s ARTEMIS highlighted by Reuters, others
ARTEMIS, a Soccer-Playing Humanoid Robot, is Ready for the Pitch The second largest wire service in the world highlighted Dennis Hong, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and director of the Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory, on his full-sized...
MAE alumna Marianne So is a UCLA Engineering 2023 Award Recipient
Every year, the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering selects and recognizes outstanding achievements by a number of its alumni, faculty members and students who have excelled in various fields. Engineering Alumni Association Service Award Marianne So, P.E., ’07, MBA ’17...
5 Questions with UCLA’s Laurent Pilon, ARPA-E Program Director
A face familiar to UCLA is serving an appointment as a new Program Director at the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Project Agency – Energy (ARPA-E). Laurent Pilon, professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and...