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UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science

Established	1945
Parent institution	University of California, Los Angeles
Dean	Alissa Park
Academic staff	191 (2022)
Students	6,584 (2021)
Undergraduates	4,081 (2021)
Postgraduates	2,503 (2021)
Doctoral students	1,117 (2021)
Location	Los Angeles, California, U.S. 34°04′08″N 118°26′39″W / 34.0688°N 118.4443°W / 34.0688; -118.4443
Website	samueli.ucla.edu

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 at the University of California, Los Angeles (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 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, 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 and a philanthropist in the Orange County 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 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 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, where the first message was sent to a computer at Stanford University on October 29, 1969, by Professor Leonard Kleinrock and his research team at UCLA. On September 29, 2008, President George W. Bush presented the 2007 National Medal of Science 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.

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:

1. Online M.S. Degree
2. 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.

Undergraduate Enrollment (2022)

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

Other notable alumni

• Allen Adham ’90: co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment
• Michael Morhaime ’90: co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment
• Frank Pearce ’90: co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment
• James Collins ’50: founder of Sizzler
• Chris “Jesus” Ferguson ’86, Ph.D. ’99: professional poker player
• Klein Gilhousen ’69: co-inventor of CDMA technology and co-founder of Qualcomm
• Blake Krikorian ’90: founder of Sling Media
• K. Megan McArthur, ’93: NASA astronaut
• James D. Plummer ’66, M.S. ’67, Ph.D. ’71: Dean of Stanford University School of Engineering

Deans

• Llewellyn M.K. Boelter, 1944-1965
• Chauncey Starr, 1967–1973
• Russell R. O'Neill, 1974–1983
• George L. Turin, 1983–1986
• A.R. Frank Wazzan, 1986–2001
• Vijay K. Dhir, 2003–2015
• Jayathi Murthy, 2016–2022
• Bruce Dunn, 2022–2023 (interim)
• Ah-Hyung "Alissa" Park, 2023–present

Faculty

Faculty members: 164

National Academy of Engineering members: 28

Faculty distinctions:

Research centers

See also

• History of the Internet
• University of California, Los Angeles

References

1. ^ Washington, James. "Report to the University-Wide Council on Engineering Education (UCEE)" (PDF). UCLA Engineering Office of Academic and Student Affairs. UCLA. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
2. "Style Guide". UCLA Samueli School of Engineering. Retrieved 2022-11-03.
3. UCLA Engineering School Timeline Archived May 17, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
4. ^ "UCLA Engineering News". UCLA. 1999. Archived from the original on September 6, 2006. Retrieved 2008-05-11.
5. Remembering Dean Boelter, UCLA Engineer, Fall 1999 Archived September 6, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
6. "Engineering IV: UCLA Engineering Introduction 2007". Youtube.com. 2008-08-18. Retrieved 2011-12-17.
7. "Engineering VI: New Anchor for Innovation". Engineer.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2011-12-17.
8. Bill Kisliuk, UCLA Engineering Celebrates Opening of Engineering VI, UCLA Engineering, March 20, 2015
9. "Engineering VI Grand Opening: new building heralds new era of growth for UCLA Samueli". Engineer.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2022-02-04.
10. "UCLA: Birthplace of the Internet". UCLA Conferences & Catering. 2020-09-28. Retrieved 2022-08-10.
11. 1969 -- First On the 'Net Archived May 11, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
12. "35th Anniversary of the Internet". Internetanniversary.cs.ucla.edu. 2004-10-29. Retrieved 2011-12-17.
13. White House News Sept. 29, 2008
14. Beginning of the Internet commemorated in new UCLA museum Archived 2013-02-16 at the Wayback Machine, Southern California Public Radio, July 19, 2011
15. Corpuz, Erkki. "Report to the University-Wide Council on Engineering Education (UCEE)". UCLA Engineering Office of Academic and Student Affairs. UCLA. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
16. ^ "About The Students". UCLA Engineering. UCLA. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
17. ^ "SAT® Percentile Ranks" (PDF). The College Board. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
18. "SAT® Percentile Ranks for Males, Females, and Total Group" (PDF). The College Board. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
19. "2020 UCEE Report" (PDF).
20. "Incoming freshmen share why they are #uclabound2022". UCLA Samueli School of Engineering. UCLA. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
21. Washington, James. "Report to the University-Wide Council on Engineering Education (UCEE)" (PDF). UCLA Engineering Office of Academic and Student Affairs. UCLA. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
22. "Past Engineering Award Recipients". Retrieved 2014-11-04.
23. "UCLA Samueli honors alumni, faculty, and students at 2018 awards dinner | UCLA Samueli School Of Engineering". Retrieved 2020-07-28.
24. "2018 Alumnus of the Year: Reza Rofougaran - YouTube". www.youtube.com. 7 March 2018. Retrieved 2020-07-28.
25. "In Memoriam: Paul Baran MS '59". UCLA Engineering web site. Archived from the original on June 11, 2011. Retrieved March 28, 2011.
26. "UCLA Engineering Celebrates Accomplishments at Annual Awards Dinner". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2014-11-04.
27. Former UCLA Baseball Player Jack Gifford Passes Away Archived 2012-04-05 at the Wayback Machine, UCLABruins.com, January 16, 2009
28. Engineering Deans Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine, UCLA Engineering
29. ^ "About the Faculty — UCLA Engineering". UCLA. Retrieved 2014-08-30.

External links

• UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science
• KIHC – The Kleinrock Internet History Center at UCLA
• Enrollment and Degree Statistics
• Samueli's biography at the UCLA Department of Electrical Engineering
• The Samueli Foundation
• The first Internet connection, with UCLA's Leonard Kleinrock on YouTube

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