Aviation Week’s 2008 Workforce Study lists UCLA’s MAE UG program in top 5, and grad program in top 3 Aviation Week’s 2008 Workforce Study, which ranks schools that aerospace and defense companies prefer to recruit from, listed UCLA’s Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering undergraduate program in the top five, and its graduate program in the top three.
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Chang-Jin Kim's recent paper highlighted in the journal Nature
MAE Professor Chang-Jin Kim's recent paper was highlighted in the journal Nature. Research Highlights / Nature 454, 920 (21 August 2008) | doi:10.1038/454920d; Published online 20 August 2008 / Fluid dynamics: Slip and slide / Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 064501 (2008) Please click here to read more.
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Air Force officials consider applications of Pirouz Kavehpour's 'jamming' model
Granular fluids, like salt or sand, and viscous liquids, like toothpaste or wood glue, can behave like liquids or solids depending on certain conditions. When these fragile materials stop flowing, scientists refer to the transition as "jamming."
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Richard E. Wirz joins UCLA's MAE faculty
Richard E. Wirz (PhD – Caltech, 2005) has joined UCLA's MAE faculty. He brings a diverse range of expertise in several emerging fields. Wirz’s research interests are in advanced propulsion concepts; including Ion, Hall, Colloid, and Field Emission Electric Propulsion thrusters, new cathode technologies, spacecraft integration and mission design. His research also includes alternative energy technologies. Prior to joining UCLA, Wirz was a senior engineer in the Advanced Propulsion Technologies Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he was also the lead for solar thermal energy technologies. He developed the world’s first miniature noble gas ion thruster (MiXI) which is now an enabling technology for a wide range of new missions. He also developed the first self-consistent, multi-dimensional plasma discharge model for ion thrusters. Welcome aboard, Richard!
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MAE Profs. Ju, Karagozian, and Speyer use technology to change how battles are fought Different organizations, such as the aerospace and mechanical engineering departments at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, have been conducting research that has been applied to military technology use, with funding from organizations such as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. A team of UCLA researchers led by Professor Sungtaek Ju recently received a multimillion dollar award from DARPA in March to conduct innovative research and development research in the area of electronics cooling, which is now an ongoing project within the department and several months away from completion. Ann Karagozian, a professor in the department of mechanical and aerospace engineering at UCLA, said her department has been funded by many government and military organizations as well, and the technology they develop can have multiple applications – not only for warfare, but also commercially. Additionally, in the department of mechanical and aerospace engineering, Professor Jason Speyer worked with a team of professors at UCLA on a project funded by DARPA a few years ago that would potentially use a computer program to provide military leaders with fast, easy-to-understand information to assist them in managing various military operations, from humanitarian missions to large-scale border defense.
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Chih-Ming Ho works on oral cancer sensor
For the first time, an optical sensor, developed by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), can measure proteins in saliva that are linked to oral cancer. The device is highly sensitive, allowing doctors and dentists to detect the disease early, when patient survival rates are high. The researchers are currently working with the National Institute of Health (NIH) to push the technology to clinical tests so that it can be developed into a device that can be used in dentists' offices. Chih-Ming Ho, a scientist at UCLA and principal investigator for the sensor, says that it is a versatile instrument and can be used to detect other disease-specific biomarkers. Please click here to read the entire story. Also please click here to read another version of the story on the Engineering Main Site.
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UCLA Rocket Team Takes First in ESRA Competition!
It was the UCLA Rocket Project’s first year both as a project at UCLA and a team competing in an intercollegiate competition. Therefore it was fitting that the Project also placed first out of five university teams in the Experimental Sounding Rocket Association (ESRA)’s Third Annual Rocket Competition. The goal of the competition - which was held in Green River, Utah, June 26-27 - was to design, build, and launch a rocket capable of taking a 10 lb. payload to 10,000 ft. as well as submit a paper and give a team presentation. The competition was designed by the ESRA to give students hands-on design and construction experience that cannot be taught in a classroom.
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