2022-2023 Engineering Endowed Chairs

Endowed professorships or chairs, funded by gifts from individuals or corporations, support the research and educational activities of distinguished faculty members. The following endowed chairs have been established in the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science.

L.M.K. Boelter Chair in Engineering

Collins Aerospace Term Chair for Excellence

Collins Aerospace Term Chair for Innovation

Vijay K. Dhir Chair in Engineering

Englekirk Presidential Endowed Chair in Structural Engineering

Traugott and Dorothea Frederking Endowed Chair

Norman E. Friedmann Chair in Knowledge Sciences

Armond and Elena Hairapetian Chair in Engineering and Medicine

Tatsuo Itoh Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Leonard Kleinrock Chair in Computer Science

Evalyn Knight Chair in Engineering

Levi James Knight, Jr., Chair for Innovation

Levi James Knight, Jr., Term Chair for Excellence

Fang Lu Endowed Chair in Engineering

J.M. Maguire Term 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

Mukund Padmanabhan Term Chair

Muhund Padmanabhan Term Chair Electrical Engineering

Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Chair in Chemical Engineering

Jonathan B. Postel Chair in Computer Systems

Jonathan B. Postel Chair in Networking

Pritzker Chair in Sustainability

Raytheon Company Chair in Electrical Engineering

Raytheon Company Chair in Mechanical Engineering

Charles P. Reames Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering

Ben Rich Lockheed Martin Chair in Aeronautics

Sabol-Scott Term Chair in Civil and Environmental Engineering

John P. and Claudia H. Schauerman Endowed Chair in Engineering

William Frederick Seyer Chair in Materials Electrochemistry

Ronald and Valerie Sugar Dean of Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science

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

Neria and Manizheh Yomtoubian Endowed Chair in Cancer and Risk Sciences