COMPREHENSIVE MEMS CURRICULUM AT UCLA

UCLA has spent the last 15 years pioneering the thorough development of possibly the most comprehensive graduate-level MEMS curriculum in the world, which is jointly offered by the EE and MAE departments.Students from EE and MAE are admitted directly into a formal MEMS major field, complete a set of 4 core courses, take a MEMS preliminary exam, complete the rest of their course work by selecting from MEMS and non-MEMS electives, take a qualifying exam, and complete their theses (M.S. and/or Ph.D.).To date at least 9 specifically MEMS/nano-related graduate-level elective courses have been developed and are presently being offered.To date well over 100 graduate students have completed or are completing this unique program.Those that have graduated have gone on to be productive faculty at U.S. and international academic institutions, engineers at MEMS and non-MEMS companies, and have started a number of MEMS start-up companies.