About the Alumni

Number of Alumni As of Fall 2010:  30,765

Alumni reside in every state across the country and 65 different nations across the globe.

Sample of employers of UCLA Engineering alumni:

AT&T, Raytheon Co., Northrop Grumman Corp., Boeing Co., IBM, Intel Corp.,Hewlett-Packard Co., Chevron Corp., Xerox Corp., Amgen, Inc., NASA, US Airforce, Deloitte & Touche LLP, Cisco

Notable alumni:

• Allen Adham ’90, Michael Morhaime ’90 and Frank Pearce ’90, Co-founders of Blizzard Entertainment
• Paul Baran MS ’59, Internet Pioneer
• Vinton G. Cerf MS ’70, PhD ’72, Google Internet Evangelist, one of the Fathers of the Internet, and creator of TCP/IP
• James Collins ’50, Founder of Sizzler Steakhouse
• James L. Easton ’59, Chairman and CEO of sports equipment company Jas. D. Easton Inc.
• Chris “Jesus” Ferguson ’86, PhD ’99, Professional Poker Player
• Jack Gifford ’63, Co-founder of Advanced Micro Devices & Maxim Integrated Products
• Klein Gilhousen ’69, Co-inventor of CDMA Technology and Co-Founder of Qualcomm
• Blake Krikorian ’90, Founder of Sling Media
• Henry Samueli ’76, MS ’76, PhD ’80, Co-founder of Broadcom Corporation
• Ronald D. Sugar ’68, MS ’69, PhD ’71, Former Chairman and CEO, Northrop Grumman Corporation

Notable alumni in Academia:

• Linda Katehi MS ’81, PhD ’84, Chancellor of UC Davis
• James D. Plummer ’66, MS ’67, PhD ’71, Dean of Stanford Engineering