Elisa Franco, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received a $711,000 research grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to continue developing DNA-based synthetic molecules. Such molecules could be...

Above image: Dexterous underwater robot developed by RE2 Robotics for handling dangerous devices. (RE2 Robotics.) UCLA MAE Associate Professor Veronica Santos, along with her University of Washington ME collaborator Professor Jonathan Posner, was awarded part of $3M...

By Enrique Rivero | UCLA Newsroom link Tuberculosis is a potentially deadly though curable disease. Each year about 10 million people develop active cases, and 1.6 million people die. In addition, about 1.7 billion people around the world are infected with TB...

Magnetic pump built by Bruin Space launches on Blue Origin reusable rocket By Emmanuel Masongson | UCLA Newsroom link It took only 10 minutes and a ride aboard the Blue Origin New Shepard reusable rocket for 11 students in the Bruin Spacecraft Group to make history....

UCLA MAE Associate Professor Sam Taira studies a variety of fluid mechanics problems with research interests in the areas of computational fluid dynamics, flow control, data science, network theory, and unsteady aerodynamics. Taira’s studies leverage numerical...

UCLA MAE Assistant Professor M. Khalid Jawed researches a data-driven approach to modeling the mechanics of structures and fluid-structure interaction using robotics, automation, computation, and machine learning. What was your journey from Dhaka, Bangladesh to UCLA?...

Researchers Abolfazl Sadeghpour, the study's co-lead author, Hangjie Ji and Navid Dehdari Ebrahimi with their experimental water capture setup. | Oszie Tarula/UCLA. Article by Matthew Chin Inspired by how dew drops form on spider webs, UCLA engineers and...

Super-strong but lightweight, AA 7075 now could be more widely used in automobiles and other manufacturing thanks to UCLA research An aluminum alloy developed in the 1940s has long held promise for use in automobile manufacturing, except for one key obstacle. Although...

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom New manufacturing process could lead to microscale soft robots, advanced sensors, and materials that release stored strain energy in controlled ways for shape morphing and energy absorbing applications. How small can you make a...