Building for the Future Engineering VI
Given the grand challenges we face as engineers in the 21st century, common research themes in green energy, personalized health care, personalized learning, sustainability and clean water have emerged within UCLA Engineering.
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To address these critical research themes, we are proposing a bold and ambitious new addition to the UCLA Engineering complex — Engineering VI (to be constructed in two phases) will replace Engineering IA. We hope you will join us in this vital capital campaign.
The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, established in 1945, has risen to rank among the top 10 engineering schools in public universities. It boasts exceptional faculty and students, groundbreaking research, and dynamic educational programs. The School features seven academic departments. It offers bachelors, masters and doctorate degrees, and comprehensive research and education in several disciplines as well as multi- and inter-disciplines of science and engineering. Given the grand challenges we face as engineers in the 21st century, common research themes in green energy, personalized health care, personalized learning, sustainability and clean water have emerged within UCLA Engineering. These efforts are led by faculty who are among the world’s best in their respective fields, and have made collaborative research a hallmark of the School.
Since 2000, UCLA Engineering has been awarded nine multimillion-dollar interdisciplinary research centers, funded by federal agencies and industrial organizations.
However, advances in technology and enriched training of the next generation of society’s leaders require UCLA Engineering to continuously refine and expand its facilities. At the same time, emerging disciplines and research place new demands on the University and School to supply flexible working spaces and seamless technological integration.
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challenges UCLA Engineering’s teaching and research enterprise has grown and expanded significantly in the last decade, with a 70 percent growth in the number of students to more than 3,400 undergraduates and nearly 1,800 graduate students. The full-time faculty equivalent number has grown by 30 percent to 160 with the goal to reach more than 175. Most significantly, the research revenue of the School has grown from approximately $50 million in 1997 to $110 million in 2011, an increase of more than 100 percent. While these statistics are exciting and reflect the significant growth within UCLA Engineering, the School has lost nearly 50,000 square feet, or about 10 percent of the assignable space available in the engineering complex.
IMpact The impact of Engineering VI will be multi-fold and will enable opportunities to catalyze new scientific discoveries, new technology and new areas of education. It will provide easy access and special interactive space uniquely designed for entrepreneurs, scientists and engineers from UCLA, institutions in Los Angeles, other government labs and industry partners. This will allow for the incubation of creativity and accelerate inventions and ideas, research and development, and technology transfer to the marketplace. Specialized space and infrastructure will be developed where students can be trained, postdoctoral scholars can conduct state-of-the-art experiments and faculty across disciplines can interact to enable maximum collaboration. With your help, Engineering VI will serve as bedrock for novel discoveries and inventions in green energy, personalized health care, personalized learning, sustainability and clean water.
Building for the Future Engineering VI
The impact of Engineering VI will be multi-fold and will enable opportunities to catalyze new scientific discoveries, new technology and new education.
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These efforts will naturally become an engine to stimulate new jobs and inspire collaborative work to address the current and future challenges facing our region and our world.
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CRUCIBLE OF NEW INVENTIONS In a report recently issued by UCLA titled, “An Ecosystem for Entrepreneurs at UCLA,” by Professor William Ouchi, of UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, which critically assessed the responsibility of a great university like UCLA, he states, “In Southern California, UCLA is the largest source of academic invention and it will therefore be the example of UCLA that will begin the process that will eventuate in a new definition of the Southern California region as the crucible of new inventions, new jobs, and new solutions that will lift the spirits and the prospects of tens of millions of Californians and of those beyond.” We feel strongly that this is an opportune time for the School to reinvigorate faculty, attract the talents and support the creative work by our students and staff. These efforts will naturally become an engine to stimulate new jobs and inspire collaborative work to address the current and future challenges facing our region and our world.
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Multi-disciplinary centers like UCLA are replacing industrysponsored research labs. That’s where the biggest changes in applied research are taking place. That’s where the lion’s share of all research is migrating. That’s the future.” – Henry Samueli ’75, MS ’76, PhD ‘80, CTO and Co-founder, Broadcom Corporation
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The impact of Engineering VI will be multi-fold accelerate inventions and ideas, research and development
enable new technology and new education
easy access and special interactive space
catalyze new scientific discoveries incubation of creativity
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“In Southern California, UCLA is the largest source of academic invention and it will therefore be the example of UCLA that will begin the process that will eventuate in a new definition of the Southern California region as the crucible of new inventions, new jobs, and new solutions that will lift the spirits and the prospects of tens of millions of Californians and of those beyond.” – Professor Ouchi, UCLA Anderson School of Management
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Specifications & Highlights Phase 1
Phase 2
The Western Institute of Nanoelectronics on Green Engineering and Metrology (WIN-GEM) for nanosystems to support research in the metrology and characterization for green nanosystems and nanoelectronics (seed funding has already been secured from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, allowing us to move forward with Phase I/WIN-GEM)
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udget: $50 million B Six levels 61,000 square feet Test-bed facility for technology advancement/ commercialization • Carbon nanoelectronics and topological insulator laboratories • LEED gold certification* • • • •
B udget: $75 million S ix levels 8 9,000 square feet 2 50-seat distance learning center S tate-of-the-art laboratories L EED gold certification*
Tentative schedule Demolition of Engineering IA – summer 2011 Phase I begins – summer 2012 Phase I completion – fall 2014 Phase 2 begins – winter 2013
* U.S. Green Building Council rating.
LEED platinum certification could be achieved with necessary funding.
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Photo by Stephanie Diani
Engineering VI will set a new standard for integrated high performance design at UCLA and will serve as a living example of sustainable design and green energy.
Phases of Engineering VI project
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Engineering VI will be located at the intersection of Westwood Boulevard and Strathmore Avenue, steps from Ackerman Student Union, the James West Alumni Center and Pauley Pavilion. The University considers this intersection the new “main entrance� to the campus.
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WITH YOUR DEDICATED SUPPORT UCLA Engineering’s research labs, centers and institutes advance the scope of human understanding and produce breakthroughs that transform people’s lives. Its remarkable progress can be credited to visionary leaders, a brilliant faculty, exceptional students — and in no small part to private philanthropists. Dedicated philanthropic support has enabled the continuation of promising research, the establishment of innovative public programs, and new ways to treat disease and enrich lives. Gifts to support state-of-the-art infrastructure at the University and the School leverage potential. Excellent facilities draw world-class scholars, support pioneering work at the leading edge of discovery, and position UCLA Engineering for ongoing scholarly achievement. Capital improvement gifts also enable a donor to link his or her name with excellence on a worldwide platform in perpetuity. Alternatively, they provide a meaningful way to pay tribute to or memorialize an individual of the donor’s choosing.
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Naming Opportunities • Engineering
VI Building • Distance Learning Center • Research Laboratory Suites • Post-Doctoral Suites • Individual Research Laboratories • Seminar Rooms • Conference Rooms • Lobby • Floors • Conversation
Images/renderings by Assassi Robert Benson Al Forster Moore Ruble Yudell/BNIM Ron Pollard UCLA
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To learn more, please contact: Vijay K. Dhir Dean Office of the Dean 7400 Boelter Hall Box 951600 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1600 Phone: 310-825-2938 engrdean@ea.ucla.edu OR Salvador Rivas Director of Corporate & Foundation Relations srivas@support.ucla.edu Brandon Baker Associate Director of Major Gifts bbaker@support.ucla.edu Office of External Affairs 7256 Boelter Hall Box 951600 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1600 Phone: 310-206-0678