Message from the Associate Dean

Building creative collaborations among students and faculty within the Samueli School of Engineering is essential for generating new insights that drive key partnerships and innovations. So is developing multidisciplinary research studies and programs that bring different paradigms together. Both approaches actively advance the school’s strategic vision of boldly confronting society’s most pressing challenges and creating new opportunities to improve lives. In the Samueli School of Engineering, we call this inclusive concept Engineering Plus, or simply “e+.”

The Samueli School of Engineering is a vibrant academic community with 157 faculty, 1056 graduate students and 3,504 undergraduate students in six departments: mechanical and aerospace engineering, electrical engineering and computer science, biomedical engineering, civil and environmental engineering, chemical and biomolecular engineering and materials science and engineering.

We tackle real-world problems by joining forces with leading organizations, from industry and hospitals to community and government institutions. Both faculty and students contribute to our advances in entrepreneurship, clean energy, new materials, innovative manufacturing, biomedical engineering, aerospace engineering, complex systems and infrastructure innovation. We invent, build and deliver solutions in partnership with industry leaders in three most pressing Engineering+ themes: Climate, Health and Society. We do so by leveraging existing strength in energy, materials, synthetic biology and cellular engineering, while developing at the accelerated rate our strength in manufacturing, AI/data science and social entrepreneurship. Our aspirations to address the grand challenges are outlined in the school’s 2030 Strategic Plan.

Students are the lifeblood of our faculty and of this university, and we invest deeply and thoughtfully in their development and success. We support their unique research agendas or their work with faculty members who are leading the way, nationally and internationally. Altogether, we draw on our diversity of talent and perspectives to provoke thought, generate creativity, drive excellence and be agents of positive change.

Collaborate with us on solving the e+ equation: Engineering + , where X₁ = Health, X₂ = Climate, X₃ = Society.

Andrei M. Shkel, Ph.D.
Associate Dean, Research and Innovation
Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering