Each year, the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering honors alumni, faculty, students and other engineering leaders for outstanding achievements in their fields.

The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science kicked off the 2026-27 academic year with two days of welcome events this week at the Court of Sciences. Nearly 700 new master’s and doctoral students and more than 1,100 first-year and transfer students have enrolled in the school this fall.

Each year, the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering honors alumni, faculty, students and other engineering leaders for outstanding achievements in their fields.

Roboticists at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and the University of Michigan have shown that elastic rods can be bent and twisted to repeatedly snap between shapes, releasing built-up energy that enables small robots to hop, flip and swim.

Judea Pearl has spent most of his life thinking about some of the hardest questions there are.
How can machines reason when they don’t have all the information? How can scientists distinguish correlation from cause and effect?