Congratulations to the Recipients of the MAE Student Awards!
PhD Awards: Vedasri Godavarthi Outstanding PhD Mechanical Engineering Nicholas Kuenning Outstanding PhD Aerospace Engineering MS Awards: Weixuan Liu Outstanding MS Mechanical Engineering Jonathan Gray Outstanding MS Aerospace Engineering BS Awards:...
Assistant Professor Brett Lopez Receives Over $1M Research Grant from the Army Research Laboratory
Brett Lopez, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at UCLA, has received a grant from the Army Research Laboratory worth more than $1.1 million to develop autonomy algorithms for long-duration operations of autonomous vehicles in complex...
2025 MAE Faculty Teaching Award: Elisa Franco
The Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department is pleased to announce Professor Elisa Franco as the recipient of the 2025 MAE Faculty Teaching Award. Selected by the department’s Awards and Honors Committee, Professor Franco was recognized for outstanding...
2025 MAE Staff Award Recipient: Persida Radu
The Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department is proud to recognize Ms. Persida Radu as the recipient of the 2025 MAE Staff Award. This year’s selection process was especially competitive, with many outstanding staff members nominated. Ms. Radu stood out for...
UCLA Samueli Students Earn Second and Third Place at 2025 Grad Slam
This article was originally published by UCLA Samueli Newsroom Shreeram Athreya and Parnian Hemmati — two graduate student researchers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering — placed second and third, respectively, at the annual campuswide UCLA Grad Slam. The 2025...
Aiden BeGole, Elizabeth Van Blommestein, Charlene Poon, Ryan Pham Awarded the 2025 Klug Memorial Scholarship
Aiden BeGole, Elizabeth Van Blommestein, Charlene Poon, and Ryan Pham were awarded the 2025 William S. Klug Memorial Scholarship. This merit-based scholarship is designated for MAE undergraduates who have demonstrated leadership and active participation in UCLA...
Emma Neal Awarded the 2025 Vishal Parikh Memorial Scholarship
Emma Neal was awarded the 2025 Vishal Parikh Memorial Scholarship. This merit-based scholarship includes a monetary award and in addition is tied to a summer internship at AFRL/RQR at Edwards AFB, CA during the summer of 2025. Emma is a third-year Aerospace...
Design Build Fly at UCLA place 10th out of 112 teams at the AIAA DBF competition!
The DBF at UCLA team placed 10th out of 112 teams with this year’s aircraft “Bell-Air”, achieving their best ever result. Their design report, an important scoring measure detailing the club’s engineering process and design workflows throughout the year, placed 2nd...
Professor Xiaochun Li awarded the 2025 SME Frederick W. Taylor Research Medal
Professor Xiaochun Li was awarded the 2025 SME Frederick W. Taylor Research Medal, that honors significant published research leading to a better understanding of materials, facilities, principles, operations and their application to improve manufacturing processes....