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
Debugging the Brain Circuit: ofMRI holds Great Promise
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin Since the early 1990s, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has been used to give insight to the inner workings of the brain. This powerful tool has been used in numerous research studies, starting...
UCLA Bioengineers Discover How Particles Self-Assemble in Flowing Fluids
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin and Wileen Wong Kromhout From atomic crystals to spiral galaxies, self-assembly is ubiquitous in nature. In biological processes, self-assembly at the molecular level is particularly prevalent....
UCLA Smart Grid Energy Research Center (SMERC) Celebrates Its Start
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]The Smart Grid Energy Research Center (SMERC) held a kickoff event last month celebrating the start of new research programs and partnerships in making a smart electrical grid into a reality. The center, based at the UCLA...
UCLA Engineering Awarded Grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA Engineering has been awarded a $100,000 Grand Challenges Grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for innovative global health research based on an idea proposed by Peter Lillehoj, a Ph.D. student in...
Radically Simple Technique Developed to Grow Conducting Polymer Thin Films
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Mike Rodewald A team of UCLA chemists and engineers has developed a new method for coating large surfaces with nanofiber thin films that are both transparent and electrically conductive. Their method involves the...
New Study Led by UCLA Engineering Team Shows Graphene Grows as Single Crystals on Nickel Islands
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Moiré patterns are spatial superstructures formed by overlaying two planar lattices. Observed for a long time as watered effects made by overlaying fine silk sheets, moiré patterns could appear at much lower length scales...