The UCLA Samueli School of Engineering is proud to welcome the following new faculty members. They bring expertise across a broad range of fields critical to the 21st century and will enhance the research, teaching and service mission of UCLA.

A research team led by UCLA materials scientists and chemists has designed a new catalyst that could make fuel cells more durable, nearly doubling

With temperatures rising globally, the need for more sustainable cooling options is also growing. Researchers at UCLA and their colleagues have now

Common push puppet toys in the shapes of animals and popular figures can move or collapse with the push of a button at the bottom of the toys’ base. Now, a team of UCLA engineers has created a new class of tunable dynamic material

Jiaqi Ma and Bolei Zhou at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have received a two-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to build

Ariya Olaee and Jason Wu of the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have each received a 2024 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship, one of the country’s most prestigious honors

UCLA engineers dominated at RoboCup 2024 July 18–21 in Eindhoven, Netherlands, with a pair of humanoid ARTEMIS robots winning every game in the soccer tournament to snag the world championship.

A team of researchers led by UCLA chemical engineers has discovered a way to make tough and durable composite materials with strength comparable to that of cement, by recycling a common polymer foam found in sofas and mattresses. 

Guy Van den Broeck, a professor of computer science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received a three-year, $2.8 million research grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to lead