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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Bioengineering Professor Receives NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin Andrea M. Kasko, assistant professor of bioengineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has received a 2011 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award from the National...
Rutgers, UCLA Awarded $2 Million To Develop ‘Intelligent’ Technology That Reduces Urban Traffic Congestion, Air Pollution
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Three-year study funded by National Science Foundation aims to integrate today’s largely disconnected traffic management systems The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a grant worth nearly $2 million to Rutgers...
UCLA Engineering Faculty Highlighted in Article on New UC Discovery “Proof of Concept” Grants
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Proving a concept and leaping the `valley of death` By Wallace Ravven An instrument to quickly detect traumatic brain injury, a vaccine to save unborn calves from a deadly bacteria and a technology to clean up grimy water...
Snow Days: Hydrology of Mountain Watersheds Course Takes Classroom into the Field
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Matthew Chin Southern California imports between 80 to 90 percent of its water from outside the metropolitan region. And much of it comes from the Sierra Nevada. So to learn right at the source, UCLA students in the...
Di Carlo Receives DARPA Young Faculty Award
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Dino Di Carlo, an assistant professor of bioengineering, was awarded a Young Faculty Award (YFA) from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The goal of the DARPA YFA program is to identify and engage...
UC-Developed Technology Saving Consumers Trillions of Watt-Hours, Millions of Dollars
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]A University of California technology that significantly reduces the amount of energy wasted by chips in computers, mobile phones and other electronic devices has recently passed the trillion watt-hour milestone in energy...