| Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science | |
|---|---|
| Motto | Birthplace of the Internet |
| Established | 1945 |
| Type | Public |
| Dean | Vijay K. Dhir |
| Academic staff | 160 |
| Undergraduates | 3311 |
| Postgraduates | 1845 |
| Doctoral students | 921 |
| Location | Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Campus | Urban |
| Nickname | UCLA Engineering |
| Mascot | Bruins |
| Affiliations | UCLA |
| Website | Official website |
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science (HSSEAS) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) was opened with an enrollment of 379 students in the fall of 1945.[1] It opened as the College of Engineering until it was changed to school on February 21, 1969. The School now has seven academic departments and a total enrollment of approximately 5100 students. It is among the top 10 public engineering schools in the United States.[2] The School offers 28 academic and professional degree programs, including an interdepartmental graduate degree program in biomedical engineering, and is also home to eight major externally funded multimillion-dollar interdisciplinary research centers, in space exploration, wireless sensor systems, nanotechnology, nanomanufacturing and nanoelectronics, as well as many other multidisciplinary ventures.
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 at UCLA.[3] Samueli is co-founder, chairman, and chief technology officer of the Broadcom Corporation and a philanthropist in the Orange County, California community. He and his wife Susan donated $30 million to the school in 1999.[3] It was at UCLA that Dr. Henry Nicholas and Dr. Henry Samueli met and later formed Broadcom.
Llewellyn M. K. Boelter, who was a Mechanical Engineering professor at the University of California, Berkeley, became the first Dean of the UCLA engineering school. The main building is known as Boelter Hall (Engineering II and III). 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.[4] He retired in 1965 and Chauncey Starr, a pioneer in nuclear power development, succeeded him. Vijay K. Dhir is the current Dean.
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.[5] Engineering I was demolished in August 2011, to be replaced by Engineering VI, which will house the Western Institute of Nanotechnology on Green Engineering and Metrology (WIN-GEM), in 2014.[6]
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.[7][8] 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." [9] Room 3420 at Boelter Hall, where the first message was sent, is being converted into The Kleinrock Internet Heritage Site and Archive.[10]
Annual Engineering commencement ceremonies are held in June at Pauley Pavilion. 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.
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The Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has seven departments and one interdepartmental program, all of which are accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), the nationally recognized accrediting body for engineering programs. The Computer Science and Computer Science and Engineering programs are accredited by the Computing Accreditation Commission of ABET. The school offers the following degrees:
| Field | B.S. | M.S. | Ph.D. | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aerospace Engineering | * | * | * | |
| Bioengineering | * | |||
| Biomedical Engineering | * | * | ||
| Chemical Engineering | * | * | * | |
| Civil Engineering | * | * | * | |
| Computer Science | * | * | * | |
| Computer Science and Engineering | * | |||
| Electrical Engineering | * | * | * | |
| Engineering | 1 | |||
| Engineering and Applied Science | 2 | |||
| Manufacturing Engineering | * | |||
| Materials Engineering | * | |||
| Materials Science and Engineering | * | * | ||
| Mechanical Engineering | * | * | * |
Median weighted GPA (2010): 4.33[11]
Median SAT I composite score (2010): 2080[11]
| SAT exam | Median score (2010)[11] |
|---|---|
| Math | 750 |
| Reading | 650 |
| Writing | 680 |
| Math II | 770 |
| Undergraduate major | Enrollment (2011)[12] |
|---|---|
| Aerospace Engineering | 198 |
| Bioengineering | 261 |
| Chemical Engineering | 358 |
| Civil Engineering | 382 |
| Computer Science | 354 |
| Computer Science & Engineering | 287 |
| Electrical Engineering | 759 |
| Materials Engineering | 121 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 424 |
| Undeclared | 167 |
| Total | 3311 |
Graduate students: 1845[12]
| Name | Degrees | Distinctions |
|---|---|---|
| Paul Baran | M.S. ’59 | Internet Pioneer (1926-2011)[13] |
| Linda P.B. Katehi | M.S. '81, Ph.D. '84 | Provost and Vice Chancellor of University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Chancellor of University of California, Davis |
| Henry T. Nicholas III | Ph.D. '98 | |
| Asad M. Madni | M.S. '72 | |
| Vint Cerf | M.S. '57, Ph.D. '70 | Google Internet Evangelist, creator of TCP/IP |
| Dwight Streit | Ph.D. '86 | |
| Henry Samueli | Ph.D. '80 | Co-founder of Broadcom |
| Jack S. Gordon | M.E. '76 | |
| Ronald D. Sugar | Ph.D. '71 | Former Chairman and CEO, Northrop Grumman |
| Robert F. Graham | B.S. '55 | |
| Richard S. Simonsen | B.S. '55 | |
| Peter Staudhammer | (?) '55, Ph.D. '57 | NASA Distinguished Public Service Medalist, 2002 (1935-2008) |
| John (Jack) F. Gifford | B.S. '63 | Co-founder of Advanced Micro Devices and Maxim Integrated Products (1941-2009)[14] |
| Gerald A. Johnston | M.S. '72 | |
| James L. Easton | B.S. '59 | Chairman and CEO of sports equipment company Jas. D. Easton Inc., now merged into Easton-Bell_Sports |
| Edsel D. Dunford | M.E. '73 | |
| Eugene C. Gritton | Ph.D. '66 | |
| John F. Cashen | Ph.D. '71 | |
| Edward P. Smith | B.S. '57 | |
| Russell R. O'Neill | Ph.D. '56 | Dean Emeritus (1916-2007) |
| Ben Rich | M.S. '50 | |
| Brien D. Ward | Ph.D. '67 | |
| Sam F. Iacobellis | M.S. '63 | |
| Gary E. MacDougal | B.S. '58 | |
| John B. Slaughter | Ph.D. '71 | |
| Robert N. Parker | M.S. '56 | |
| Leonard F. Buchanan | Ph.D. '68 | |
| Jacob B. Frankel | Ph.D. '51 | |
| Paul D. Castenholz | M.S. '58 | |
| Norman E. Friedmann | Ph.D. '57 | |
| Myron Tribus | Ph.D. '49 | |
| Robert Bromberg | Ph.D. '51 | |
| Ralph E. Crump | B.S. '50 | |
| Raymond M. Hill | B.S. '55 | |
| Trude C. Taylor | B.S. '49 | (? - 2008) |
| Armond Hairapetian | B.S. '87, M.S. '88, Ph.D. '93 | |
| Josephine M. Cheng | B.S. '75, M.S. '77 |
Faculty members (2010): 160[11]
National Academy of Engineering members (2010): 21[11]
| Name | Department | Distinctions |
|---|---|---|
| Asad Ali Abidi | Electrical Engineering | Pioneer of CMOS RF circuits, National Academy of Engineering |
| Birgitte Ahring | Civil & Environmental Engineering | First woman to receive the Villum Kann Rasmussen Award in Denmark |
| Thomas Connolly (1923–2006) | Nuclear Engineering | American Nuclear Society |
| Vijay K. Dhir | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | National Academy of Engineering |
| Deborah Estrin | Computer Science | National Academy of Engineering |
| Thelma Estrin | Computer Science | Member of the Women in Technology International's Hall of Fame |
| Sheila Greibach | Computer Science | Greibach normal form |
| Chih-Ming Ho | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | National Academy of Engineering |
| Tatsuo Itoh | Electrical Engineering | National Academy of Engineering |
| Leonard Kleinrock | Computer Science | Internet pioneer, 2007 National Medal of Science |
| Alan Kay | Computer Science | Turing Award |
| John Kim | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | National Academy of Engineering |
| Tung Hua Lin (1911–2007) | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Designer of China's first twin engine aircraft |
| Henry John Orchard (1922–2004) | Electrical Engineering | Pioneer of the field of filter design |
| Judea Pearl | Computer Science | Pioneer of Bayesian networks and the probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence |
| Jason Speyer | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | National Academy of Engineering |
| Demetri Terzopoulos | Computer Science | Shared honor from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences |