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The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science includes more than 6,500 undergraduate and graduate students and 190 full-time faculty members. Established in 1945, UCLA Samueli is known as the birthplace of the internet, and where countless other fields took some of their first steps — from artificial intelligence to reverse osmosis, from mobile communications to human prosthetics.
The school academic departments include Bioengineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, as well as the recently added Department of Computational Medicine, which is affiliated with both the David Geffen School of Medicine and Samueli. In addition, UCLA Samueli offers the Master of Science in Engineering Online program and a Master of Engineering professional degree program.
In 2000, the engineering school was re-named in honor of alumnus Henry Samueli, following a $30 million gift that supported capital improvements as well as fellowships for graduate students and early career faculty. In 2019, Samueli and his wife Susan gave another gift of $100 million to support the school’s expansion well into the next decade.
UCLA Samueli is in the midst of an extraordinary period of growth, with expansion in the number of research labs, faculty and students. New faculty will bring expertise in emerging research areas, such as engineering in medicine, quantum technologies, and sustainable and resilient urban systems.
The school’s facilities include four major buildings — Boelter Hall, Engineering-IV, Engineering-V and Engineering-VI. Recent renovations have added the Student Creativity Center — home to many of its student organizations, and the Innovation Laboratory — a makerspace for hands-on learning and creativity.
The school is ranked No.1 as of 2023 for its online master’s program by U.S. News & World Report.
To see what makes the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering so special, book a tour with one of our Engineering Ambassadors on campus, and download our Viewbook.
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Team receive $5.9 million grant to design energy efficient computing systems
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For faster and cheaper diagnosis, UCLA engineers are using deep learning to digitally stain tissue
To help identify diseases, pathologists typically manually apply colored dyes, or stains, to label tissue samples.
Bazinga!: ‘The Big Bang Theory’ to support twice as many UCLA students
25 undergraduates who received the scholarship visited the cast and crew as the show wraps its final season
Over the airwaves: An icon and a professor share the same frequency
UCLA electrical engineering professor Danijela Cabric shares an interest with iconic Hollywood glamour queen Hedy Lamarr: wireless communications.
CS professor looks at how AI can use causal reasoning to make a big leap
Judea Pearl, UCLA Chancellor’s Professor of Computer Science, has authored a think piece on the future of machine learning in Communications of the ACM.
Hu, Raman named Sloan Research Fellows
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom The fellowship is one of the highest honors for an early career researcher Two assistant professors at UCLA Samueli School of Engineering – Yongjie Hu and Aaswath Raman – were among 126 outstanding...