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.
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UCLA’s SINAM Reaches Out to Youth
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA’s Center for Scalable and Integrated Nanomanufacturing (SINAM) Reaches out to Young Minds to Replenish the Engineering Workforce By Wileen Wong Kromhout The Center for Scalable and Integrated Nanomanufacturing (SINAM)...
UCLA Engineering: DARPA Awards $3.8 Million to Research Team
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA Engineering-led Team of Researchers Awarded $3.8 million to Conduct Research on Electronics Cooling By Wileen Wong Kromhout An interdisciplinary team of researchers led by UCLA professor of mechanical and aerospace...
UCLA Engineering: Eggert’s Computer Science 130 Course
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Computer Science Department’s CS130 Course Brings the World to Its Classroom By Wileen Wong Kromhout When Paul Eggert began teaching software development in his CS 130 course for the computer science department in 2003 at...
UCLA Engineering: Researchers Develop Method to Rapidly Identify Optimal Drug Cocktails
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]New scheme holds promise for treating cancer, other diseases By Wileen Wong Kromhout UCLA researchers have developed a feedback control scheme that can search for the most effective drug combinations to treat a variety of...
UCLA Engineering: Yang Endowed Term Chair in Electrical Engineering
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA Engineering Receives Gift to establish New Endowed Faculty Term Chair in Electrical Engineering By Matthew Chin and Wileen Wong Kromhout The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has received a...
UCLA Engineering Solution to Chemical Mystery Could Yield More Efficient Hydrogen Cars
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA researchers' findings could eventually lead to commercially practical designs of storage materials for use in hydrogen vehicles. By Wileen Wong Kromhout Environmentally friendly vehicles that use hydrogen gas can...