Engineering great futures through exceptional faculty and students, ground breaking research, and innovative educational programs.

UCLA began as the Los Angeles State Normal School, a teachers college that became the southern branch of the University of California on May 23, 1919. In the fall of 1945, the College of Engineering opened with an enrollment of 379 students. The School now has seven academic departments and a total enrollment of more than 4,000. The School is also home to five major externally funded interdisciplinary research centers, as well as many other multidisciplinary ventures.

For nearly 60 years, the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has been redefining excellence in education, research and community outreach. We are a place where innovation is expected.

The School is well poised to address the challenges of the coming century, boasting exceptional faculty and students, groundbreaking research, and dynamic educational programs and opportunities. Our work today will impact our everyday lives in ways we cannot yet imagine.

Our students are among the best and brightest in the nation, and bring fresh approaches and perspectives into our classrooms and laboratories. We continue to admit extraordinary students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels who are eager to learn and contribute to engineering scholarship.

To better prepare our graduates for an increasingly interconnected world, we have added a new three-course minor requirement and are strengthening the curricula in all of our departments. We are creating new opportunities for our students to conduct hands-on research in their departments and in our interdisciplinary research centers.

The School has recruited 21 exceptional new faculty members in the last two years, academicians who are outstanding researchers and inspirational educators. These scholars excel not only in the discovery and development of new technologies in traditional disciplines but also in emerging fields of study and collaborative activities.

In just two years, the School has been awarded five multimillion-dollar research centers, funded by distinguished national and professional agencies. These centers will foster exciting new discoveries in space exploration, wireless sensor systems, nanomanufacturing and defense.

Our close ties to the community and industry ensure that the impact of our work goes well beyond the research laboratory. Outreach programs to Los Angeles area schools are generating interest in engineering and science in middle and high school students, and our research will help improve the quality of the lives we lead.