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
Homeland Security Selects UCLA to Help Establish Guidelines for Firefighter Health, Safety
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA team to use wireless technology to remotely monitor firefighters in field By Rachel Champeau The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have been...
UCLA Chemists, Engineers Achieve World Record with High-Speed Graphene Transistors
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Mike Rodewald Graphene, a one-atom-thick layer of graphitic carbon, has great potential to make electronic devices such as radios, computers and phones faster and smaller. But its unique properties have also led to...
Engineering Professor to Take Reins of Academic Senate
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wendy Soderburg In today’s restless, transitory world, Ann Karagozian is a breath of fresh air. The professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, who will assume the 2010-11 chairmanship of UCLA’s Academic Senate...
Engineering Team Optimizes New Device to Remove Oil from Gulf Waters
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout As fate would have it, when the BP Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded last April, causing the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, UCLA Engineering’s Eric M.V. Hoek was celebrating a feat...
NSF Funds Expedition into Software for Efficient Computing in Age of Nanoscale Devices
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]As semiconductor manufacturers build ever-smaller components, circuits and chips at the nanoscale become less reliable and more expensive to produce. The variability in their behavior from device to device and over their...
Experimental Confirmation of Large Magnetoresistance in Graphene Nanoribbons
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) have been theoretically predicted to have a very large magnetoresistance, and a group from UCLA has now experimentally shown that they in fact do. Magnetoresistance is the property of a material...