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Lihua Jin: Toward stretchable phones and squishy robots

Lihua Jin: Toward stretchable phones and squishy robots

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button] Lihua Jin’s work in soft materials engineering is helping pave the way for these kinds of advances In the Disney animated film “Big Hero 6,” the character Baymax is a loveable, squishy robot that resembles the Michelin...

Four faculty members elected to the National Academy of Inventors

Four faculty members elected to the National Academy of Inventors

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button] Photo, clockwise from top left: Subramanian Iyer, Henry Samueli, Alan N. Willson, Jr., and Eli Yablonovitch. Four faculty members affiliated with the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have been...

Spearrin receives NSF CAREER Award for combustion research

Spearrin receives NSF CAREER Award for combustion research

By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button] Applications include next-generation ultra-clean and efficient engines Mitchell Spearrin, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science,...

Robotics may drive the future of healthcare

Robotics may drive the future of healthcare

Rosen, who specializes in medical robotics, leads the engineering school’s Bionics Lab. He supervises groups developing both wearable robots—think exoskeletons useful in

Nine exceptional researchers join the UCLA Engineering faculty

Nine exceptional researchers join the UCLA Engineering faculty

The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science welcomes nine new faculty members in 2017-18 to a roster that includes 35 affiliated members of the National Academy of Engineering and more than 60 winners of the NSF CAREER Award. The school now has 179 ladder faculty members, the most in its history.