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
Students’ Assignment: Help Fijians Get Clean Drinking Water
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Cynthia Lee Originally published in UCLA Today on Aug. 13, 2013 Living among farm animals and fields planted with root crops and sugar cane, the rural residents of Vanua Levu and Taveuni, two islands in Fiji, get their...
UCLA Researchers Double Efficiency of Novel Solar Cell
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Device could coat windows, smartphone screens with energy-harvesting material By Bill Kisliuk Nearly doubling the efficiency of a breakthrough photovoltaic cell they created last year, UCLA researchers have developed a...
Computer Scientists Develop ‘Mathematical Jigsaw Puzzles’ to Encrypt Software
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Software remains completely functional but impervious to reverse-engineering By Matthew Chin UCLA computer science professor Amit Sahai and a team of researchers have designed a system to encrypt software so that it only...
Alumnus David Mong Makes Largest Gift from Asia to UCLA: $5 Million Donation Supports New Engineering Building
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Bill Kisliuk The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has received a $5 million gift from Hong Kong-based philanthropist and businessman David Mong. The gift, the largest single donation UCLA...
Three Researchers Win Chorafas Awards
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Bill Kisliuk Three UCLA Engineering students are among the 35 recipients of the Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation 2013 awards. The awards honor innovative research in life sciences, biotechnology, applied mathematics,...
Tech Forum 2013 Focuses on Future of Engineering Research
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Bill Kisliuk Insights into the future of engineering research and displays of ground-breaking work topped the bill at Tech Forum 2013, the annual conference of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied...