UCLA Engineering Appoints Ann Karagozian Collins Aerospace Chair for Innovation
UCLA Samueli School of Engineering has named Ann Karagozian, a distinguished professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and the director of the Collaborative Center for Aerospace Sciences, the Collins Aerospace Term Chair for Innovation, effective retroactively...
UCLA Engineering Dedicates Boelter Hall Penthouse in Memory of William Klug
More than six years after the death of former mechanical and aerospace engineering professor William Klug, the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering has completed the renovation of 8500 Boelter Hall and renamed it the William S. Klug Memorial Seminar Room in honor of his...
MAE PhD student Yu Zhou receives the 2022 Haythornthwaite Foundation Student Travel Award to attend IMECE 2022
MAE PhD student Yu Zhou received the 2022 Haythornthwaite Foundation Student Travel Award to attend the International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE) 2022. Zhou presented in the Track: Mechanics of Solids, Structures and Fluids on November 1,...
Rajit Gadh quoted in LAist webzine on how we avoided critical blackouts
UCLA MAE Professor Rajit Gadh was quoted in LAist webzine on how we avoided critical blackouts: UCLA engineering professor Rajit Gadh said the million electric vehicles in California today alone could be their own massive battery in conjunction with large-scale...
UCLA Hosts 2022 Southern California Robotics Symposium
For the first time, UCLA played host to the annual Southern California Robotics Symposium, which made its triumphant return after a two-year hiatus. The sold-out day-and-a-half event attracted nearly 250 robotics researchers and entrepreneurs from various corporations...
UCLA Engineers Design AI Material That Learns Behaviors and Adapts to Changing Conditions
Just like a pianist who learns to play their instrument without looking at the keys or a basketball player who puts in countless hours to throw a seemingly effortless jump shot, UCLA mechanical engineers have designed a new class of material that can learn behaviors...
Professor Yongjie Hu Received $2M Research Grant to Push the Boundaries of Fundamental Research
MAE associate professor Yongjie Hu receives about two-million dollars research grant to support his group’s interdisciplinary research in developing new instrument platforms to study energy science and biotechnology, for the next five years. Hu has been a pioneer in...
Tyler Clites Awarded NIH New Innovator Award to Develop Restorative Joint Implants
Tyler Clites, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received a 2022 Director’s New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health. The five-year, $2.4 million award (with initial funding...
MMM10 holds symposium in honor of Professor Nasr Ghoniem
The 10th International Conference on Multiscale Materials Modeling (MMM10) held a symposium in honor of UCLA MAE Distinguished Professor Emeritus Nasr Ghoniem. It was held in Baltimore MD on October 3, 2022. The symposium was titled "Mechanics and Physics of Defects...