Endowed professorships or chairs, funded by gifts from individuals or corporations, support the research and educational activities of distinguished members of the faculty. The following endowed chairs have been established in the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science.
L.M.K. Boelter Chair in Engineering
Traugott and Dorothea Frederking Endowed Chair in Cryogenics
Norman E. Friedmann Chair in Knowledge Sciences
Leonard Kleinrock Chair in Computer Science Evalyn Knight Chair in Engineering
Levi James Knight, Jr., Chair in Engineering Richard G. Newman AECOM Endowed Chair in Civil Engineering
Nippon Sheet Glass Company Chair in Mate- rials Science
Northrop Grumman Chair in Electrical Engineering
Northrop Grumman Chair in Electrical Engineering/Electromagnetics
Northrop Grumman Opto-Electronic Chair in Electrical Engineering
Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Chair in Chemi- cal Engineering
Jonathan B. Postel Chair in Computer Systems
Jonathan B. Postel Chair in Networking Raytheon Company Chair in Electrical Engineering
Raytheon Company Chair in Manufacturing Engineering
Charles P. Reames Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering
Edward K. and Linda L. Rice Endowed Chair in Materials Science
Ben Rich Lockheed Martin Chair in Aeronautics
Rockwell Collins Chair in Engineering William Frederick Seyer Chair in Materials Electrochemistry
Ronald and Valerie Sugar Endowed Chair in Engineering
Symantec Chair in Computer Science
Carol and Lawrence E. Tannas, Jr., Endowed Chair in Engineering
William D. Van Vorst Chair in Chemical Engineering Education
Volgenau Endowed Chair in Engineering Wintek Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering