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.
Armond and Elena Hairapetian Chair in Engineering and Medicine
Ben Rich-Lockheed Martin Chair in Advanced Aerospace Technologies
Betsy Wood Knapp Chair for Innovation and Creativity
Carol and Lawrence E. Tannas, Jr., Endowed Chair in Engineering
Carol and Lawrence E. Tannas, Jr., Endowed Term Chair in Engineering
Charles P. Reames Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering
Collins Aerospace Term Chair for Excellence
Collins Aerospace Term Chair for Innovation
Evalyn Knight Chair in Engineering
Fang Lu Endowed Chair in Engineering
J.M. Maguire Term Chair in Engineering
John P. and Claudia H. Schauerman Endowed Chair in Engineering
Jonathan B. Postel Chair in Computer Systems
Jonathan B. Postel Chair in Networking
L.M.K. Boelter Chair in Engineering
Leonard Kleinrock Term Chair in Computer Science
Levi James Knight, Jr. Chair for Innovation
Levi James Knight, Jr. Term Chair for Excellence
Mukund Padmanabhan Term Chair
Mukund Padmanabhan Term Chair Electrical Engineering
Neria and Manizheh Yomtoubian Endowed Chair in Cancer and Risk Sciences
Nippon Sheet Glass Company Chair in Materials Science
Norman E. Friedmann Chair in Knowledge Sciences
Northrop Grumman Chair in Electrical Engineering
Northrop Grumman Chair in Electrical Engineering/Electromagnetics
Northrop Grumman OptoElectronic Chair in Electrical Engineering
Presidential Chair in Chemistry
Presidential Endowed Chair in Structural Engineering
Pritzker Chair in Sustainability
Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Chair in Chemical Engineering
Raytheon Company Chair in Electrical Engineering
Raytheon Company Chair in Mechanical Engineering
Richard G. Newman AECOM Endowed Chair in Civil Engineering
Ronald and Valerie Sugar Dean of Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science
Ronald and Valerie Sugar Endowed Chair in Engineering
Sabol-Scott Term Chair in Civil and Environmental Engineering
Symantec Term Chair in Computer Science
Tatsuo Itoh Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Traugott and Dorothea Frederking Endowed Chair
Vijay K. Dhir Chair in Engineering
Volgenau Chair for Engineering Excellence
Volgenau Chair for Engineering Innovation
Volgenau Endowed Chair in Engineering
William D. Van Vorst Chair in Chemical Engineering
William Frederick Seyer Chair in Materials Electrochemistry
Wintek Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering