Transforming Southern California and the World
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.
News
Frank Chang Receives John J. Guarrera Engineering Educator of the Year Award
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Frank Chang, the Wintek Chair in Electrical Engineering at UCLA’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and chair of the department, has been selected to receive the 2014 John J. Guarrera Engineering...
Ozcan Named 2014 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Bill Kisliuk Aydogan Ozcan, Chancellor’s Professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been named a 2014 Howard Hughes Medical Institute...
Six Researchers Named to 2014 Highly Cited List
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Six UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science researchers are among the scholars with the greatest impact in the world in their fields, according to a new ranking compiled by Thomson Reuters. Thomson...
UCLA Engineering to Lead NSF Project to Improve Timekeeping for ‘Internet of Things’
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin The National Science Foundation has announced a $4 million "Frontier" award to a UCLA-based team that will tackle the challenge of timekeeping in cyber-physical systems (CPS) — often called the "Internet of...
2014 Commencement Awards
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]2014 UCLA Engineering Award Winners at Commencement Several students at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have been honored with school-wide and department awards for 2014. Below, a few...
UCLA AISES Team Wins Rocket Competition
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Bill Kisliuk A team from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science was first in flight at the First Nations Launch 2014 rocket competition, sponsored by the American Indian Science and Engineering...