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.
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Huffington Post: Mona Jarrahi on how terahertz research could impact medicine, security and more
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Mona Jarrahi, associate professor of electrical engineering, was recently interviewed in the Huffington Post as part of an ongoing interview series from the West Asia Council highlighting prominent Iranian Americans making...
UCLA researchers combat antimicrobial resistance using smartphones
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]A simple, inexpensive attachment could help to expand testing to regions with limited resources A team of UCLA researchers has developed an automated diagnostic test reader for antimicrobial resistance using a smartphone....
Ozcan receives inaugural Medal of Science from Turkey’s Koç University
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Aydogan Ozcan, Chancellor's Professor of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering, has been granted Koç University's inaugural Rahmi M. Koç Medal of Science, in recognition for his work on telemedicine technology that...
‘Turbocharged artificial intelligence’ could personalize combination therapy in pediatric leukemia
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA team’s digital health platform is capable of optimizing efficacy and safety during chemotherapy A team of UCLA bioengineers has demonstrated that its technology may go a long way toward overcoming the challenges of...
UCLA team makes step toward long-lasting, fast-charging and high-powered energy storage
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Promising advance could lead to laptop computers that fully charge in minutes, last for hours A UCLA research team has made a major advance toward developing oxide supercapacitors, energy-storage devices that would combine...
UCLA researchers teach computer to read the internet
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Sifting through nearly 2 million posts, their algorithm could identify an underlying narrative Teaching computers to read is one thing. But by designing an algorithm that examined nearly 2 million posts from two popular...