Current Teaching
Senior undergraduate machine design course, emphasizing mechanics-based analysis, material behavior, stress and deflection, failure criteria, and design of mechanical components.
Previous Teaching
Core undergraduate mechanics course covering equilibrium, internal forces, stress and strain, axial loading, torsion, beam bending, and failure concepts.
Student course rating 7.3 / 9.0, above the UCLA faculty average.
Research Mentoring
Lab811 students are trained to connect mechanics, computation, and data. Depending on the project, this can include continuum modeling, finite-element implementation, machine learning, uncertainty quantification, additive manufacturing, and mechanical characterization of printed specimens.
Before establishing Lab811, Yupeng Zhang mentored graduate and undergraduate researchers at Caltech, UCLA, and Northwestern. A full list appears on the People page.
Graduate Topics
Continuum mechanics · elasticity · plasticity · fracture · finite elements · computational mechanics · plates and shells · inverse problems · uncertainty quantification · scientific machine learning for mechanics