The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, informally known as UCLA Samueli School of Engineering or UCLA Engineering, is the
school of engineering
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at the
University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California S ...
(UCLA). It opened as the College of Engineering in 1945 and was renamed the School of Engineering in 1969. Since its initial enrollment of 379 students, the school has grown to approximately 6,500 students. The school is ranked 16th among all engineering schools in the United States. The school offers 28 degree programs and is home to eight externally funded interdisciplinary research centers, including those in space exploration, wireless sensor systems, and nanotechnology.
History
The school was renamed for its alumnus and professor
Henry Samueli
Henry Samueli (born September 20, 1954) is an American businessman, engineer, and philanthropist.
He is the co-founder of Broadcom Corporation, owner of the National Hockey League's Anaheim Ducks, and a prominent philanthropist in the Orange Co ...
, who received his B.S. (1975), M.S. (1976), and Ph.D. (1980) in Electrical Engineering there.
Samueli is co-founder, chairman, and chief technology officer of
Broadcom Corporation
Broadcom Corporation is an American fabless semiconductor company that makes products for the wireless and broadband communication industry. It was acquired by Avago Technologies in 2016 and operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of the merged ...
and a philanthropist in the
Orange County
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community. He and his wife Susan donated $30 million to the school in 1999.
It was at UCLA that Dr.
Henry Nicholas and Dr. Henry Samueli met and later formed Broadcom.
The main building is Boelter Hall (Engineering II and III), named after
Llewellyn M. K. Boelter, a Mechanical Engineering professor at
UC Berkeley
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who became the first Dean of the school. He "often took an active role in the lives of the school's students, and his approach to engineering impacted many of their careers," according to the school. He retired in 1965 and was succeeded by Chauncey Starr, a pioneer in nuclear power development.
HSSEAS is housed in two other buildings: Engineering IV, and Engineering V, which houses the Department of Bioengineering and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Engineering I was demolished in August 2011, to be replaced by Engineering VI, which houses the Western Institute of Nanotechnology on Green Engineering and Metrology (WIN-GEM) in 2014. The ground breaking ceremony for Engineering VI building was held October 26, 2012 with Congressman
Henry A. Waxman
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and Henry Samueli. On March 19, 2015, Engineering VI phase I was dedicated and phase II broke ground with the help of
James L. Easton, class of '59 alumnus. Engineering VI was completed and opened in 2018.
The school is credited as the birthplace of the
Internet
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, where the first message was sent to a computer at
Stanford University on October 29, 1969, by Professor
Leonard Kleinrock
Leonard Kleinrock (born June 13, 1934) is an American computer scientist and a long-tenured professor at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science.
In the early 1960s, Kleinrock pioneered the application of queueing theor ...
and his research team at UCLA. On September 29, 2008, President
George W. Bush
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presented the 2007
National Medal of Science
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to Kleinrock for "his fundamental contributions to the mathematical theory of modern data networks, and for the functional specification of packet switching, which is the foundation of Internet technology. His mentoring of generations of students has led to the commercialization of technologies that have transformed the world." Room 3420 at Boelter Hall, where the first message was sent, has been converted into The Kleinrock Internet Heritage Site and Archive (renamed KIHC – The Kleinrock Internet History Center at UCLA).
UCLA conferred its first Bachelor of Science degree in engineering in 1947, its first Master of Science degree in 1948, and its first Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1950. Annual Engineering commencement ceremonies are held in June at
Pauley Pavilion
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.
Departments and programs
The Samueli School of Engineering has seven departments and one interdepartmental program, which are accredited by the
Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). The school offers the following degrees:
#Online M.S. Degree
#Graduate Certificate of Specialization
Undergraduate admissions
For Fall 2019, UCLA Engineering received 25,804 freshman applications and admitted 2,505 for an admission rate of 9.7%.
For Fall 2015 admitted students had a median weighted grade point average (GPA) of 4.5 and a median SAT score of 2190.
The breakdown of SAT scores by subject is as follows:
Median SAT Mathematics II score: 790
For Fall 2020, UCLA Engineering received 24,039 freshman applications and admitted 2,640 for an admission rate of 11.0%.
Admitted students had a median unweighted grade point average (GPA) of 4.00, a median weighted GPA of 4.59, and a median SAT score of 1540.
Enrollment (2018)
Graduate Enrollment: 2,503
*M.S. Students: 1,386
*Ph.D. Students: 1,117
Total HSSEAS Enrollment: 6,584
Alumni
;Winners of the UCLA Engineering Alumni of the Year award
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;Other notable alumni
* Allen Adham ’90: co-founder of
Blizzard Entertainment
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* Michael Morhaime ’90: co-founder of
Blizzard Entertainment
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* Frank Pearce ’90: co-founder of
Blizzard Entertainment
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* James Collins ’50: founder of
Sizzler
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* Chris “Jesus” Ferguson ’86, Ph.D. ’99: professional poker player
* Klein Gilhousen ’69: co-inventor of
CDMA
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technology and co-founder of
Qualcomm
* Blake Krikorian ’90: founder of
Sling Media
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*
K. Megan McArthur
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, ’93:
NASA
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astronaut
*
James D. Plummer ’66, M.S. ’67, Ph.D. ’71: Dean of
Stanford University School of Engineering
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Deans
* Llewellyn M.K. Boelter, 1944-1965
Engineering Deans
, UCLA Engineering
* Chauncey Starr, 1967-1973
* Russell R. O'Neill, 1974-1983
* George L. Turin, 1983-1986
* A.R. Frank Wazzan
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, 1986-2001
* Vijay K. Dhir, 2003 - 2015
* Jayathi Murthy 2016 - present
Faculty
Faculty members: 164
National Academy of Engineering members: 28
Faculty distinctions:
Research centers
*Center for Cell Control (CCC)
*Center for Domain Specific Computing (CDSC)
*Center for Molecularly Engineered Energy Materials (MEEM)
*Center for Nanoscience Innovation for Defense (CNID)
* Smart Grid Energy Research Center (SMERC)
*Western Institute of Nanoelectronics (WIN)
*Center for Energy Science and Technology Advanced Research (CESTAR)
*Center for Research in Engineering, Media, and Performance (REMAP)
*California Nanosystems Institute
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(CNSI)
*Center for Embedded Networked Sensing
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(CENS)
*Center for High Frequency Electronics
*Center for Information and Computation Security (CICS)
*Center for Scalable and Integrated Nano-Manufacturing
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(SINAM)
*Center for Systems, Dynamics and Controls (SyDyC)
*Center for Materials Research in Art and Archaeology (CMRAA)
*Water Technology Research Center (WaTeR)
*Wireless Health Institute (WHI)
*Flight Systems Research Center
*Functional Engineered Nano Architectonics Center
*Fusion Science and Technology Center
*Institute for Cell Mimetic Space Exploration
*Institute for the Risk Sciences (IRS)
*Institute for Technology Advancement
*Nanoelectronics Research Facility
*Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation
*Southern California Particle Center and Supersite
*Wireless Internet for Mobile Enterprise Consortium
See also
* History of the Internet
The history of the Internet has its origin in information theory and the efforts of scientists and engineers to build and interconnect computer networks. The Internet Protocol Suite, the set of rules used to communicate between networks and de ...
* University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California S ...
References
External links
UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science
KIHC – The Kleinrock Internet History Center at UCLA
Enrollment and Degree Statistics
at the UCLA Department of Electrical Engineering
The Samueli Foundation
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