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
Vijay K. Dhir Chair in Engineering
Englekirk Presidential Endowed Chair in Structural Engineering
Traugott and Dorothea Frederking Endowed Chair in Cryogenics
Norman E. Friedmann Chair in Knowledge Sciences
Armond and Elena Hairapetian Chair in Engineering and Medicine
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 Materials 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 Chemical 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
Ben Rich Lockheed Martin Chair in Aeronautics
Rockwell Collins Chair in Engineering
John P. and Claudia H. Schauerman Endowed Chair in Engineering
William Frederick Seyer Chair in Materials Electrochemistry
Ronald and Valerie Sugar Endowed Chair in Engineering
Symantec Term Chair in Computer Science
Carol and Lawrence E. Tannas, Jr., Endowed Chair in Engineering
Carol and Lawrence E. Tannas, Jr., Endowed Term Chair in Engineering
William D. Van Vorst Chair in Chemical Engineering Education
Volgenau Chair for Engineering Excellence
Volgenau Chair for Engineering Innovation
Volgenau Endowed Chair in Engineering
Wintek Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering