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Faculty Positions
Please note that each position requires a separate application for an independent search process. Candidates interested in applying to multiple positions must complete each application separately.
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
Open Rank Faculty Position - Materials Science and Engineering
Open Rank Faculty Position
Staff Positions
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Our goal at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering is to enable positive change on society and individuals. As part of our Engineer Change philosophy, we are focused on research that targets today’s greatest societal challenges, education that empowers students to become future change agents, access for diverse populations to succeed in engineering careers and entrepreneurship that helps bring great ideas to the market.
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News
UCLA Samueli Announces 2026 Lifetime Contribution Award
Every year, the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering selects and recognizes outstanding achievements by a number of its alumni, faculty members and students who have excelled in various fields.
UCLA Samueli Announces 2026 Professional Achievement Awards
Each year, the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering honors alumni, faculty, students and other engineering leaders for outstanding achievements in their fields.
UCLA Samueli Welcomes the Next Generation of Bruin Engineers
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.
UCLA Samueli Announces 2026 Alumni Service and Rising Professional Achievement Awards
Each year, the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering honors alumni, faculty, students and other engineering leaders for outstanding achievements in their fields.
Frog-like Hopping Robot Propelled by Twisting Elastic Rods
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.
At 90, UCLA’s Judea Pearl Is Still Asking the Big Questions
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?