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
UCLA Civil Engineer Professor to Lead Data Reconnaissance Team on Central Italy Earthquake
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Press Release from the Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance Association. Turning Disaster into Knowledge. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance (GEER) Association...
UCLA researchers develop method to speed up detection of infectious diseases, cancer
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The team aims to implement the technique with portable readers, benefitting clinics in resource-poor areas A team of UCLA researchers has found a way to speed and simplify the detection of proteins in blood and plasma...
Nanomaterial safety screening could become faster, cheaper with new laboratory test
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA researchers have designed a laboratory test that uses microchip technology to predict how potentially hazardous nanomaterials could be. According to UCLA professor Huan Meng, certain engineered nanomaterials, such as...
Werner Herzog film follows internet from its birth at UCLA
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]“Lo and Behold” examines good and bad outcomes of the communication revolution Famed director Werner Herzog’s newest film opens with a view of UCLA’s Kerckhoff Hall taken from the northern corner of the Court of Sciences....
Diagnosing gout could become easier, more cost-effective with new portable device
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Platform developed at UCLA uses computational microscopy to analyze uric acid crystals UCLA researchers have designed a portable imaging system that can diagnose gout, a condition that affects more than 8 million adults in...
Solving big data’s ‘fusion’ problem
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA, Purdue computer scientists develop technique for combining massive sets of research data As the field of “big data” has emerged as a tool for solving all sorts of scientific and societal questions, one of the main...