Engineering organizations at UCLA
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- 3D Printing for Everyone (3D4E)
An intercollegiate network of 3D printing and rapid-prototyping enthusiasts running modeling workshops and builds.
Open to all majors
BuildLearn - AI Safety at UCLA
Reading groups, fellowships, and projects on making advanced AI systems safe and aligned.
Computer Science
ResearchLearn - American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) & Bearospace
The only professional society created by and for Native people in STEM. Part of the CEED Tri-Org with SOLES and NSBE; its Bearospace project builds and launches rockets.
Open to all majors
IdentityBuildLearn - American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
Company info sessions, workshops, facility tours, and the front door to Rocket Project, Design Build Fly, and UAS.
Mechanical & Aerospace
BuildIndustry - AIAA Design Build Fly (DBF)
An annual competition: design and fabricate a radio-controlled airplane that meets a set of performance requirements, then fly it.
Mechanical & Aerospace
CompeteBuild - AIAA Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS)
UCLA's undergraduate aerial robotics team — designing, manufacturing, and testing autonomous drone hardware and software, with technical workshops to get you there.
Mechanical & Aerospace · Electrical & Computer
CompeteBuildResearch - American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
Networking, career, and mentorship events, plus Chem-E Car: a vehicle powered entirely by chemical reactions.
Chemical Engineering
LearnCompeteIndustry - American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Industry networking and hands-on projects covering every corner of civil engineering.
Civil & Environmental · Materials Science
LearnBuildIndustry - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Professional development plus the combat robotics and underwater robotics teams.
Mechanical & Aerospace
LearnBuildCompete - Arab American Association of Engineers and Architects (AAAEA)
A professional Arab American association dedicated to helping, strengthening, and empowering its members.
Open to all majors
IdentityIndustry - Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
The umbrella for everything CS. Hack, AI, Cyber, Studio, Teach LA, ICPC — pick the room that already feels like home.
Computer Science · Electrical & Computer
BuildLearnCompete - Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)
Bringing together bioengineering undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and alumni with academic, career, and social events.
Bioengineering
ResearchLearnIndustry - Blockchain at UCLA
Law, business, and undergraduate students educating and engaging the Los Angeles community on blockchain technology.
Open to all majors
ResearchLearn - Bruin AI
Reading group, project tracks, and a steadfast refusal to put "AI" in the name of every demo.
Computer Science
ResearchBuild - Bruin Amateur Radio Club (BARC)
Call sign W6YRA. A shack on the roof of Boelter Hall, license classes, repeaters, satellite work, and Thursday-night nets — on the air since the 1940s.
Open to all majors
BuildLearn - Bruin Earth Solutions (BES)
A student-run environmental club fighting climate change through sustainability projects with quantifiable impact.
Open to all majors
BuildResearch - Bruin Entrepreneurs (BE)
Empowering students from every major to turn ideas into real ventures — workshops, networking, and connections to startups, accelerators, and investors.
Open to all majors
IndustryBuild - Bruin Racing
Four teams, one shop. Formula, Baja, supermileage, and a lot of hours nobody logs.
Open to all majors
CompeteBuild - Bruin Racing — Baja
Design, assemble, test, and race an off-road vehicle in national competition.
Mechanical & Aerospace
CompeteBuild - Bruin Racing — Formula
Design, assemble, test, and race an open-wheel Formula-style car in international competition.
Mechanical & Aerospace
CompeteBuild - Bruin Racing — Supermileage (SMV)
Builds and races a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle in the Shell Eco-Marathon. Award-winning chassis, custom telemetry, and an obsession with using as little energy as possible.
Mechanical & Aerospace
CompeteBuild - Bruin Software Engineers (BSE)
Preparing for a rapidly evolving software industry by teaching AI-era tools and guiding real projects.
Computer Science
BuildIndustryLearn - Bruin Spacecraft Group (BSG)
Hands-on space engineering: high-altitude balloons, low Earth orbit satellites, and scientific payloads built by undergraduates.
Open to all majors
BuildResearch - Building Engineers and Mentors (BEAM)
Bringing STEM activities to underserved K-8 schools across Los Angeles.
Open to all majors
Learn - California Geotechnical Engineering Association (CalGeo)
Geotechnical engineering through info sessions, field trips, student projects, and socials.
Civil & Environmental
LearnIndustry - Chi Epsilon (XE)
The national civil engineering honor society, upholding scholarship, character, practicality, and sociability.
Civil & Environmental
Learn - Computer Science Graduate Student Association (CSGSA)
The CS graduate student governing body — company visits, invited talks, panels, workshops, and the social calendar.
Computer Science
LearnIndustry - CruX @ UCLA
Building the neurotech community by developing skills, networking, and working on brain-computer interface projects relevant to the industry.
Bioengineering · Electrical & Computer · Computer Science
CompeteResearchBuild - Design Create Solar
A multidisciplinary club building solar solutions to combat inequity — refugee-camp roof installations, sun-tracking campus chargers, solar-integrated hydroponics.
Open to all majors
BuildLearn - Earthquake Engineering Research Institute & SEAOSC (EERI-SEAOSC)
Scholars working to reduce earthquake risk in California and beyond — research roundtables, an annual symposium, career fair, and office visits with structural engineers.
Civil & Environmental
ResearchLearnIndustry - Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate and PostDoc Society (ECEGAPS)
Professional and social events for ECE MS students, PhD students, and postdocs.
Electrical & Computer
LearnResearch - Engineering Ambassadors (EA)
Showing prospective students and alumni what the engineering undergraduate experience actually looks like — tours, panels, external events.
Open to all majors
Learn - Engineering Graduate Students Association (EGSA)
Activities and communication that make the graduate experience productive, and occasionally fun.
Open to all majors
Learn - Engineering Society at UCLA (ESUC)
The oldest engineering club on campus and the umbrella over all of them — StartUp Fair, Engineering Welcome Day, Engineers Week.
Open to all majors
IndustryLearn - Engineers Without Borders (EWB)
Volunteer work locally and abroad, designing and implementing sustainable engineering development programs.
Open to all majors
BuildLearn - Eta Kappa Nu (HKN)
Electrical and computer engineering honor society — free tutoring, socials, and industry job fairs.
Electrical & Computer · Computer Science
LearnIndustry - exploretech.la
An annual day of workshops, panels, and exhibitions bringing high schoolers from Title I communities across greater LA onto campus.
Open to all majors
Learn - GLITCH
UCLA's Hackathon Club.
Computer Science
BuildCompeteLearn - IEEE Women Advancing Technology through Teamwork (WATT)
A technical advocacy group for women and minorities in electrical engineering, run as a branch of IEEE.
Electrical & Computer
IdentityLearn - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Soldering nights, MicroMouse, the always-running PCB workshop. Where hardware people find each other.
Electrical & Computer
BuildLearnCompete - Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)
Field trips, speaker sessions, and conferences with transportation engineering professionals.
Civil & Environmental
IndustryLearn - International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE)
Networking with academic and industry professionals across biotech, biomedical, and pharma.
Chemical Engineering · Bioengineering
IndustryResearch - Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA)
Leadership, volunteering, and a network reaching every KSEA chapter in Southern California.
Open to all majors
IdentityIndustry - LA Blueprint
Student developers and designers work with nonprofits to deliver applications that best suits their needs.
Computer Science
BuildIndustry - LA Hacks
Southern California's premier collegiate hackathon, now in its fourteenth year — 1,000+ participants and $60,000 in prizes, held in Pauley Pavilion.
Computer Science
BuildCompete - Linux User Group (LUG)
Free as in Freedom. Quarterly installfests where you leave with Linux on your laptop and pizza in hand, plus workshops on whatever the club is into that quarter.
Computer Science
BuildLearn - Materials Research Society (MRS)
Research talks, alumni networking, and finding the summer internship or lab spot you didn't know existed.
Materials Science · Chemical Engineering · Mechanical & Aerospace · Electrical & Computer
ResearchIndustry - mentorSEAS
That's us! The official UCLA School of Engineering mentorship program.
Open to all majors
LearnIndustry - Music Art Design Engineering (MADE)
Where the technical side of campus and the creative side actually build something together.
Open to all majors
Build - National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)
Mentorship, conventions, and a whiteboard that holds the year together.
Open to all majors
IdentityLearnIndustry - Nova for Good
Creating high-impact technology that empowers nonprofits to better serve their communities.
Computer Science
BuildIndustry - Out in STEM (oSTEM)
Community and professional development for LGBTQ+ students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Open to all majors
IdentityIndustry - Phi Sigma Rho
A social sorority for women in engineering and engineering technologies.
Open to all majors
Identity - Pilipinos in Engineering and Science (PIES)
Resources, social, academic and networking opportunities for Pilipino engineering and science students at UCLA.
Open to all majors
IdentityLearn - Quantum Computing Student Association (QCSA)
Learning quantum algorithms and hardware from the ground up.
Computer Science · Electrical & Computer
ResearchLearn - QWER Hacks
UCLA's LGBTQIA+ hackathon — three days each winter, built by students for students.
Computer Science
BuildIdentityCompete - Rocket Project at UCLA
Liquid rocketry built by undergraduates. We launch in the Mojave; we learn in the parking lot.
Mechanical & Aerospace · Electrical & Computer · Computer Science
CompeteBuild - Society of Latinx Engineers and Scientists (SOLES)
Empowering the Hispanic community to impact the world through STEM awareness, access, and support.
Open to all majors
IdentityIndustry - Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
A long, careful network of women in engineering — the kind of place where "you'll figure it out" is not the answer to anything.
Open to all majors
IdentityIndustryLearn - SolidWorks User Group (SWUG)
Everything SolidWorks — student licenses, the certification program, career opportunities, and User Group Network events.
Open to all majors
LearnBuild - Tau Beta Pi (TBP)
Engineering honor society — free drop-in tutoring for lower-division math and science, competitions, mentorship, and outreach.
Open to all majors
Learn - Theta Tau
A co-ed, professional engineering fraternity dedicated to the principles of brotherhood, professionalism, and service.
Open to all majors
IndustryIdentity - Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE)
The international honor society for computing — career development, mentorship, and tutoring.
Computer Science · Electrical & Computer
LearnIndustry