2024-2025 Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

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

310-825-7793
Department e-mail
Department website

Xiaolin Zhong, PhD, Chair
Jonathan B. Hopkins, PhD, Vice Chair, Graduate Education
Yongjie Hu, PhD, Vice Chair, Undergraduate Education
Ann R. Karagozian, PhD, Vice Chair, Industry Relations

Faculty Roster

Professors

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

Dino Di Carlo, PhD (Armond and Elena Hairapetian Professor of Engineering and Medicine)

Jeffrey D. Eldredge, PhD

Timothy S. Fisher, PhD (John P. and Claudia H. Schauerman Endowed Professor of Engineering)

Elisa Franco, PhD

Rajit Gadh, PhD

Vijay Gupta, PhD

Dennis W. Hong, PhD

Jonathan B. Hopkins, PhD

Yongjie Hu, PhD

Tetsuya Iwasaki, PhD

Anya R. Jones, PhD

Y. Sungtaek Ju, PhD

Ann R. Karagozian, PhD (Collins Aerospace Term Professor of Innovation)

H. Pirouz Kavehpour, PhD

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

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)

Sriram Narasimhan, PhD

Laurent G. Pilon, PhD

Jacob Rosen, PhD

Veronica J. Santos, PhD

Jason L. Speyer, PhD

Kunihiko (Sam) Taira, PhD

Tsu-Chin Tsao, PhD

Xiaolin Zhong, PhD

Professors Emeriti

Mohamed A. Abdou, PhD

Oddvar O. Bendiksen, PhD

Vijay K. Dhir, PhD

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)

Adrienne G. Lavine, PhD

Ajit K. Mal, PhD

Anthony F. Mills, PhD

D. Lewis Mingori, PhD

Peter A. Monkewitz, PhD

Philip F. O’Brien, MS

Owen I. Smith, PhD

Richard E. Stern, PhD

Russell A. Westmann, PhD

Daniel C.H. Yang, PhD

Associate Professors

Artur R. Davoyan, PhD

Lihua Jin, PhD

M. Khalid Jawed, PhD

Ankur M. Mehta, PhD

Raymond M. Spearrin, PhD

Assistant Professors

Tyler R. Clites, PhD

Anushri Dixit, PhD

Neil Y.C. Lin, PhD

Brett T. Lopez, PhD

Adjunct Professors

Portonovo S. Ayyaswamy, PhD

Dan M. Goebel, PhD

Vinay K. Goyal, PhD

Abdon E. Sepulveda, PhD

Adjunct Associate Professor

Audrey P. O’Neal, PhD