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Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science
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The Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science at UCLA (also known as HSSEAS) 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 more than 4,000 students. It is among the top 10 best engineering schools in public universities nationwide[2]. The School offers 28 academic and professional degree programs, including an interdepartmental graduate degree program in biomedical engineering, and is also home to five 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.
Engineering IV building on campus
The school was renamed for its famous alumnus and professor Henry Samueli, who received his bachelor's degree (1975), master's degree (1976), and Ph.D (1980), all in the field of electrical engineering, at UCLA (UC Irvine also renamed its school after him)[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 T. Nicholas III and Dr. Henry Samueli met and later formed Broadcom.
Llewellyn M. K. Boelter, who was a Mechanical Engineering professor at UC 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.
Additionally, HSSEAS is housed in three other buildings on campus, Engineering I, Engineering IV, and the newly opened Engineering V (October 16, 2007). This new state-of-the-art facility houses the departments of Bioengineering and Materials Science and Engineering.
The school is credited as the birthplace of the Internet[5], where the first message was sent to a computer at Stanford on October 29, 1969 by Professor Leonard Kleinrock and his research team at UCLA[6]. 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." [7]
Professor Leonard Kleinrock with the computer to send first message
Commencement ceremonies for the engineering school are held each year in June at Pauley Pavilion. UCLA conferred its first Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering in 1947, its first Master's in 1948, and its first Doctor of Philosophy in 1950.
Facts
- Undergraduate Enrollment (04-05) 2,404
- Graduate Enrollment (04-05) 1,387
- Faculty Members (04-05) 151
- Major Research Centers 5
- NAE Members 15
List of Departments and Programs
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.
Degrees
The school offers the following degrees:
- Aerospace Engineering (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.)
- Bioengineering (B.S.)
- Biomedical Engineering (M.S., Ph.D.)
- Chemical Engineering (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.)
- Civil Engineering (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.)
- Computer Science (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.)
- Computer Science and Engineering (B.S.)
- Electrical Engineering (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.)
- Engineering (M.Engr., online M.S., Engr.)
- Engineering and Applied Science (Graduate Certificate of Specialization)
- Manufacturing Engineering (M.S.)
- Materials Engineering (B.S.)
- Materials Science and Engineering (M.S., Ph.D.)
- Mechanical Engineering (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.)
Admissions
HSSEAS accepts both freshman and transfer applicants for all of its majors.
Alumni
Engineering V, the most recent addition to the Engineering school
Alumni who have won the "UCLA Engineering Alumni of the Year Award":
- Linda Katehi PhD '84
- Henry T. Nicholas III PhD '98
- Asad M. Madni MS '72
- Vint Cerf MS '57, PhD '70, UCLA Engineering commencement speaker, 2006
- Dwight Streit PhD '86
- Henry Samueli PhD '80
- Jack S. Gordon ME '76
- Ronald D. Sugar PhD '71
- Robert F. Graham BS '55
- Richard S. Simonsen BS '55
- Peter Staudhammer '55, PhD '57, NASA's Distinguished Public Service Medalist, 2002 (1935-2008)
- John F. Gifford BS '63
- Gerald A. Johnston MS '72
- James L. Easton BS '59
- Edsel D. Dunford ME '73
- Eugene C. Gritton PhD '66
- John F. Cashen PhD '71
- Edward P. Smith BS '57
- Russell R. O'Neill PhD '56, Dean Emeritus (1916-2007)
- Ben Rich MS '50
- Brien D. Ward PhD '67
- Sam F. Iacobellis MS '63
- Gary E. MacDougal BS '58
- John B. Slaughter PhD '71
- Robert N. Parker MS '56
- Leonard F. Buchanan PhD '68
- Jacob B. Frankel PhD '51
- Paul D. Castenholz MS '58
- Norman E. Friedmann PhD '57
- Myron Tribus PhD '49
- Robert Bromberg PhD '51
- Ralph E. Crump BS '50
- Raymond M. Hill BS '55
- Trude C. Taylor BS '49 ( - 2008)
Notable Faculty
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