2021-2022 Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

48-121 Engineering IV
Box 951597
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597

310-825-7793
Department e-mail
Department website

Timothy S. Fisher, PhD, Chair
Eric Pei-Yu Chiou, PhD, Vice Chair
Jeffrey D. Eldredge, PhD, Vice Chair
Chang-Jin (CJ) Kim, PhD, Vice Chair

Faculty Roster

Professors

Mohamed A. Abdou, PhD

Andrea L. Bertozzi, PhD (Betsy Wood Knapp Professor of Innovation and Creativity)

Robert N. Candler, PhD

Gregory P. Carman, PhD (Ben Rich-Lockheed Martin Professor of Advanced Aerospace Technologies)

Yong Chen, PhD

Eric Pei-Yu Chiou, PhD

Vijay K. Dhir, PhD

Dino Di Carlo, PhD

Jeffrey D. Eldredge, PhD

Timothy F. Fisher, PhD

Rajit Gadh, PhD

Vijay Gupta, PhD

Dennis W. Hong, PhD

Jean-Pierre Hubschman, MD, in Residence

Tetsuya Iwasaki, PhD

Y. Sungtaek Ju, PhD

Ann R. Karagozian, PhD

H. Pirouz Kavehpour, PhD

Chang-Jin (CJ) Kim, PhD (Volgenau Endowed Professor of Engineering)

Adrienne G. Lavine, PhD

Xiaochun Li, PhD (Raytheon Company Professor of Mechanical Engineering)

Jaime Marian, PhD

Robert T. M’Closkey, PhD

Ali Mosleh, PhD, NAE (Evalyn Knight Professor of Engineering)

Jayathi Y. Murthy, PhD, Dean

Sriram Narasimhan, PhD

Laurent G. Pilon, PhD

Jacob Rosen, PhD

Jason L. Speyer, PhD (Ronald and Valerie Sugar Endowed Professor of Engineering)

Kunihiko (Sam) Taira, PhD

Tsu-Chin Tsao, PhD

Richard E. Wirz, PhD

Xiaolin Zhong, PhD

Professors Emeriti

Peretz P. Friedmann, ScD

Nasr M. Ghoniem, PhD

James S. Gibson, PhD

H. Thomas Hahn, PhD (Raytheon Company Professor Emeritus of Manufacturing Engineering)

Chih-Ming Ho, PhD (Ben Rich Lockheed Martin Professor Emeritus of Aeronautics)

J. John Kim, PhD (Rockwell Collins Professor Emeritus of Engineering)

Ajit K. Mal, PhD

Anthony F. Mills, PhD

D. Lewis Mingori, PhD

Peter A. Monkewitz, PhD

Philip F. O’Brien, MS

Lucien A. Schmit, Jr., MS

Owen I. Smith, PhD

Richard E. Stern, PhD

Russell A. Westmann, PhD

Daniel C.H. Yang, PhD

Associate Professors

Elisa Franco, PhD

Jonathan B. Hopkins, PhD

Yongjie Hu, PhD

Veronica J. Santos, PhD

Raymond M. Spearrin, PhD

Assistant Professors

Tyler R. Clites, PhD

M. Khalid Jawed, PhD

Lihua Jin, PhD

Neil Y.C. Lin, PhD

Brett T. Lopez, PhD

Ankur Mehta, PhD

Xiaoyu (Rayne) Zheng, PhD

Lecturers

Ravnesh C. Amar, PhD

Amiya K. Chatterjee, PhD

Robert J. Kinsey, PhD

Damian M. Toohey, PhD

Adjunct Professors

Portonovo S. Ayyaswamy, PhD

S. Amir Faghri, PhD

Dan M. Goebel, PhD

Vinay K. Goyal, PhD

Leslie M. Lackman, PhD

Christopher S. Lynch, PhD

Wilbur J. Marner, PhD

Audrey P. O’Neal, PhD

Neil Siegel, PhD

Adjunct Associate Professor

Abdon E. Sepulveda, PhD