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
UCLA Study Shows Bacteria Use Batman-like Grappling Hooks to ‘Slingshot’ on Surfaces
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout Bacteria use various appendages to move across surfaces prior to forming multicellular bacterial biofilms. Some species display a particularly jerky form of movement known as "twitching" motility,...
UCLA Engineers Show Dynamic Experimental Evidence for Phenomenon of Spreading Drops
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout FINDINGS: The spreading of a liquid drop on a solid surface is a simple, everyday phenomenon. And while it is known that when a drop of oil is placed on a solid surface, its radius increases as its...
UCLA Engineering Faculty and Students Present Research at Annual Broadcom Technical Conference
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Broadcom Corporation, a global innovation leader in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications, held its annual Technical Conference last month at which top engineers from Broadcom offices around the...
Researchers Use Wireless Technology to Speed Transition to Electric Vehicles
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Judy Lin For Engineering Professor Rajit Gadh, knowledge is power. In particular, that’s electric power and finding new ways to harness, store and deliver it as growing numbers of American drivers give up their...
Bahram Jalali named to Northrop Grumman Endowed Opto-Electronic Chair in Electrical Engineering
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout Bahram Jalali, a professor of electrical engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been named to UCLA's Northrop Grumman Endowed Opto-Electronic Chair in...
Got Flow Cytometry? All You Need is Five Bucks and a Cell Phone
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]By Wileen Wong Kromhout Flow cytometry, a technique for counting and examining cells, bacteria and other microscopic particles, is used routinely in diagnosing disorders, infections and cancers and evaluating the...