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
Towards An Affordable Miniature Flow Cytometer for Point-of-Care and Resource Limited Settings
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout Flow cytometry is a technique for counting and examining microscopic particles such as cells and bacteria. Traditionally, the microscopic particles are focused to a narrow stream of fluid, by a...
Computer Science Professor Judea Pearl honored
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Pearl was presented with a Festschrift, at a Celebration of his Lifetime of Work in Artificial Intelligence UCLA computer science professor Judea Pearl was honored last month at an all-day workshop celebrating his...
Hold the Salt: UCLA Engineers Develop Revolutionary New Desalination Membrane
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout Researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have unveiled a new class of reverse-osmosis membranes for desalination that resist the clogging which typically...
New spintronics material could help usher in next generation of microelectronics
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA team couples quantum dots, silicon for room-temperature functionality By Wileen Wong Kromhout As the electronics industry works toward developing smaller and more compact devices, the need to create new types of...
New Statistical Method for Genetic Studies Could Cut Computation Time from Years to Hours
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout In the ongoing quest to identify the genetic factors involved in disease, scientists have increasingly turned to genome-wide association studies, or GWAS, which enable the scanning of up to a...
A Chewing gum Diagnostic Test for Malaria
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Spearmint or winterfresh? A UCLA Engineering graduate student is working to develop a diagnostic tool for malaria, one of the world’s most widespread infectious diseases, which will require only a few minutes chewing on...