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
Biometric-based Cryptography Applied to Enable Secure Communication
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Someday, doctors may use your fingerprints to lock your medical records or computer technicians to secure transactions between servers, ensuring that you’re the only person able to view the encrypted data. Earlier this...
Engineering Professor Jennifer Jay Named Recipient of Presidential Early Career Award
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science professor Jennifer Jay has been chosen as one of only 20 young National Science Foundation (NSF)-supported scientists and engineers to receive the prestigious...
UCLA Engineering Team Selected as Semifinalist for 2005 Autonomous Vehicle Challenge
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Forty Teams Advance to Next Round in Quest tor $2 Million Prize In March of 2004, just outside of Barstow, California, a series of driverless, robotic vehicles set out across the desert for Las Vegas. One after another...
Sensor Technology to Help Ease Traffic Woes
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]A UCLA engineering researcher is testing a new combination of rapid-hardening cement and embedded computer sensors that could cut road closures by 20%, potentially saving the public as much as $60,000 or more per hour As...
Institute for Cell Mimetic Space Exploration at UCLA Awarded $2 Million Grant from the National Institutes of Health
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]CMISE to develop tool for viewing metabolomics of cells — the pathways within cells that show researchers how the body works at the smallest level The Institute for Cell Mimetic Space Exploration (CMISE) at the UCLA Henry...
Booting Up Computer Smarts
By UCLA Samueli Newsroom [social_share_button]Computers are permanent fixtures in the niches – cubicles, dorm rooms – of everyday life. Social networks, workplace operations, even individual identities have gone to the wires. But few of the computer-dependent even...