Congrats to our most recent PhD graduate Christopher Jelloian! He pioneered our lab's research on radiative heat transfer during Mars entry and led a highly successful test series with NASA Ames. Congrats on the new job in Northrop Grumman's Future Technical Leaders program!

Lab night out, Go Dodgers!

Congrats to Kate Oberlander for winning best poster and runner-up best oral presentation at the UCLA Samueli Engineering summer undergraduate research symposium for her work in our lab on hybrid combustion and toxicant formation in fires involving fluorinated polymers UCLA MAE

Congrats to our UCLA Samueli Engineering students Rocket Project at UCLA on breaking their own record, launching their student-built liquid rocket to 24,111 ft in Mojave, with throttling and complete recovery. This marks 3 consecutive years launching over 20K ft with improved performance each year!

It was great to celebrate UCLA engineering commencement this weekend with Kevin and Isabelle, our lab's two most recent PhD graduates!

Congratulations to Kevin Schwarm on completing his PhD in our lab UCLA Samueli Engineering. He made major contributions in the advancement of laser diagnostics for real-time analysis of polyfuel engines, wildfires, and even exhaled breath! He's now applying his expertise NASA JPL

Congrats to Isabelle Sanders for earning the UCLA Samueli Engineering Outstanding PhD award in Aerospace Engineering for her contributions to improved understanding of hybrid combustion relevant to rockets and fires! She's joined NASA JPL to continue her career in space technologies

Congrats to our PhD student Ariya Olaee on receiving the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) fellowship! samueli.ucla.edu/2-engineering-…

A third of our undergraduates are first-generation college students

Lab graduates Isabelle and Kevin (now working for NASA) helped inspire some of the next generation of space engineers on a tour of NASA JPL facilities, with rover demonstrations and a tour of the command center for deep space missions.

Annual lab BBQ, 2024. Kicking off the academic year by welcoming new lab members and bringing back some alums.

Congratulations to our lab member Alex Keller on receiving the Walter Lempert Best Student Paper from the AIAA SciTech Forum for his work on characterizing coaxial rocket injection using laser tomography! AIAA UCLA Samueli Engineering UCLA MAE

Congratulations to UCLA University of California Assoc. Profs. Elaheh Ahmadi of UCLA Electrical and Computer Engineering and Mitchell Spearrin of UCLA MAE on each receiving a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). samueli.ucla.edu/elaheh-ahmadi-…

Lab dinner at C&Os with a few alums!

Congrats to our undergraduate engineers in UCLA Rocket Project Rocket Project at UCLA on designing and successfully hot-firing their first regeneratively cooled liquid oxygen - ethanol rocket engine with nearly 2,000 lb thrust! Sound on! UCLA Samueli Engineering UCLA MAE

Honored to be recognized by colleagues in the combustion community with the Tsuji award and thankful for their mentorship and collaboration!