Successful 2024 MAE Town Hall

AIAA at UCLA hosted a successful and productive 2024 MAE Town Hall on January 17th, bringing together students and faculty to communicate and work together, taking on student concerns as...
Watch: Dennis Hong Rolls Out his Robot Posse

Watch: Dennis Hong Rolls Out his Robot Posse

The UCLA roboticist unveils his latest crop of creatures in a TEDx talk and takes one for a stroll on campus From the moment he saw C-3PO and R2-D2 waddle across the screen in “Star Wars” as a 7-year-old, Dennis Hong knew he wanted to build robots. These days, the...

Rajit Gadh quoted in Cal Matters “Race to Zero” article

Rajit Gadh quoted in Cal Matters “Race to Zero” article

UCLA MAE Professor Rajit Gadh was quoted in Cal Matters in the article "Race to Zero: California's bumpy road to electrify cars and trucks". Rajit Gadh, director of UCLA’s Smart Grid Energy Research Center, said challenges exist. Some car owners may not want to use...

Rajit Gadh quoted in The Hill on the vulnerability of the power grid

Rajit Gadh quoted in The Hill on the vulnerability of the power grid

UCLA MAE Professor Rajit Gadh was quoted in The Hill on 12/7/22 regarding the vulnerability of the power grid. “A single cyberattack can shut down hundreds if not thousands of substations at once,” said Rajit Gadh, director of UCLA’s Smart Grid Energy Research Center....

UCLA-Led Research Unearths Obscure Heat Transfer Behaviors

UCLA-Led Research Unearths Obscure Heat Transfer Behaviors

Discovery shows heat movement slowing down under extreme pressure instead of speeding up. UCLA researchers and their colleagues have discovered a new physics principle governing how heat transfers through materials, and the finding contradicts the conventional wisdom...