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. Tandon is the second oldest private engineering and technology school in the United States. The school dates back to 1854 when its predecessor institutions, the University of the City of New York School of Civil Engineering and Architecture and the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute, were founded. The school was renamed in 2015 in honor of NYU Trustees Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon following their donation of $100 million to the school. The school's main campus is in

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, an urban academic-industrial

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. It is one of several engineering schools that were founded based on a European polytechnic university model in the 1800s, in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States. It has been a key center of research in the development of

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History

Founding institutions

Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute

On May 17, 1853, a group of Brooklyn businessmen wrote a charter to establish a school for young men. Founded as the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute, the school moved into its first home at 99 Livingston Street in Brooklyn. The first class, admitted in 1855, consisted of 265 young men aged nine to 17. The school conferred its first bachelor's degrees in 1871. Graduate programs began in 1901, and the school awarded its first doctoral degree in 1921. From 1889 to 1973 the school became known as Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. In 1917, the preparatory program separated from the Institute and became the Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School. Polytechnic Institute moved to its present location in 1957, the former site of the

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factory, where it became a co-educational institution.

School of Civil Engineering and Architecture

In 1854, the University of the City of New York, now

, founded the School of Civil Engineering and Architecture at a time when specialized schools of engineering were uncommon in America. Classes began in 1855 and the school awarded its first undergraduate degree in 1857. As the industrial revolution took shape, the school formalized its engineering curriculum and the school's first dean, Charles H. Snow, changed the name of the school to the School of Applied Science. During this time the engineering school officially separated from the university's arts and science school then called University College. In 1894 the University of the City of New York moved its engineering school to a new campus in

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. The new campus gave the university space to build larger science laboratories that could not be constructed at its Washington Square site. With the addition of the new campus, under the leadership of Chancellor Henry Mitchell MacCracken, the University of the City of New York renamed itself New York University. The neighborhood surrounding the Bronx campus eventually became known as University Heights. By 1920 separate electrical and chemical engineering departments were created and the school changed its name to the College of Engineering.

Expansion, financial difficulties and acquisition

Enrollment at New York University expanded considerably from the early 1900s into the postwar decades. However, by the early 1970s this growth ceased due to rising crime and financial troubles in New York City. New York University faced financial hardships leading it to sell its University Heights campus that housed its engineering school to

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, which in turn renamed the campus

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. Also during that period from 1969 to 1975, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn was forced to rely on subsidies provided by New York state to keep the school afloat. The state supported Polytechnic on the basis that closing the school would create economic hardship locally. With both Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and New York University facing financial difficulties, the state brokered a merger with New York University's engineering school. Polytechnic Institute acquired the faculty, programs and students of New York University's engineering school to form Polytechnic Institute of New York. Polytechnic Institute of New York gained university status in 1985 and changed its name to Polytechnic University. NYU Tandon - Church (48228034036)

Distinction through technology

By 1986 Polytechnic University in Brooklyn was the largest technological university in the

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and the second-largest in graduate enrollment in the nation after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Of the 300 engineering schools in the United States, Polytechnic had the second-largest graduate enrollment and was among the most successful institutions in the country as a producer of science and engineering graduates who went on to doctoral studies. An average of 7.2 percent of Polytechnic graduates went on to achieve a Ph.D., compared with two other schools with large engineering programs: Carnegie Mellon, with an average of 6 percent, and Princeton, with 4.5 percent. Polytechnic University became well known for its research centers in electrophysics and polymer blends.

Present

Discussions about a merger with Polytechnic University and New York University began in 2004. Four years later Polytechnic University and New York University agreed to take steps toward a merger beginning with a formal affiliation between the two schools. This affiliation resulted in the school changing its name to Polytechnic Institute of New York University. The schools officially merged in 2014 when the

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approved the change of charter making NYU the sole member of Polytechnic University. Since the merger, applications to the school and incoming SAT scores have increased substantially. The school has also experienced an influx of students coming from outside of New York state. Fundraising and faculty research awards have increased since the merger. The school also opened a bioengineering facility in partnership with the medical and dental schools. A gift of $100 million from Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon in 2015 resulted in the school changing its name to the Tandon School of Engineering. New York University has committed to investing over $500 million to its engineering school in the coming years. In 2022, NYU announced it will invest $1 billion in the school to hire 40 tenure-track faculty members, improve lab and student spaces, and bolster the cybersecurity and artificial intelligence programs.

Fundraising

The school has had several fundraising campaigns over the years. From 2001 to 2005 the school raised more than $275 million. Alumnus Joseph J. Jacobs, who founded

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, one of the largest engineering and construction companies in the world, gave the school more than $30 million over the course of his life.

Name

Electrostatic Laboratory of the Polytechnic Institute

The school started from two origins and has carried a number of different names: *1854: Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute; University of the City of New York School of Civil Engineering and Architecture (founding names, separate institutions) *1889: Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (also spun out Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School) *1896: New York University School of Applied Science (separate from Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn) *1920: New York University College of Engineering (separate from Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn) *1973: Polytechnic Institute of New York (acquired the faculty, programs and students of New York University College of Engineering) *1985: Polytechnic University (acquired university status) *2008: Polytechnic Institute of New York University (affiliated with New York University) *2014: New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering (merged with New York University) *2015: New York University Tandon School of Engineering

Campuses

The NYU Tandon School of Engineering main campus is in

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and is close to public transportation routes. It is located in th
Brooklyn Tech Triangle
and about a 20-minute subway ride from NYU's main campus in

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. It is also connected to the Washington Square campus by the NYU Shuttle Bus system. In addition to its main address at

in Downtown Brooklyn, the school offers programs in

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. The school is an integral part of NYU Abu Dhabi,

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and the NYU Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) in downtown Brooklyn.

Brooklyn campus

Jacob's building of NYU Tandon School of Engineering

The school played a major role in bringing about

, one of the largest urban university- corporate parks in the United States, while closing down the larger campus at its former Long Island Graduate Center. Today, the 16-acre, $1 billion complex in Brooklyn includes the school's main campus, along with several technology-dependent companies such as Securities Industry Automation Corporation (SIAC), as well as

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Headquarters and the U.S. technology and operations functions of

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. The school has seven buildings in Brooklyn, as well as leased spaces in some other nearby buildings. The seven buildings are as follows: * Jacobs Academic Building * Jacobs Administration Building * Rogers Hall *

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* Dibner Building * Othmer Residence Hall * Civil Engineering Building (currently closed) An eighth 460,000-square-foot space at 370 Jay St, adjacent to Rogers Hall, which houses the Centre for Urban Science and Progress and other academic units within NYU, opened in Fall 2017. Jay St Bklyn td 58 - 370 Jay Street

Manhattan sites

The Bioengineering Institute research facility is located at 433 First Avenue in Manhattan. The School of Engineering and Colleges of Nursing and Dentistry are located in the building where chemical, biomolecular engineers, as well as mechanical engineers do research in biomaterials and biotherapeutics for regenerative medicine. The engineering school also has a location in downtown Manhattan. The downtown site offers degree programs in Financial Engineering, Management of Technology, Information Management and Accelerated Management of Technology, and the Exec 21

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certificate.

Online

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is the online learning unit at NYU Tandon School of Engineering which offers 6 master's degrees, 2 graduate certificates, and 3 certificates of completion programs fully online. Focused on peer-to-peer engagement, the unit has been recognized as providing one of the top online learning programs by U.S. News & World Report, and the Online Learning Consortium among others.

Academic profile

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Departments

*Applied Physics *Biomedical Engineering *Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering *Civil and Urban Engineering *Computer Science and Engineering *Electrical and Computer Engineering *Finance and Risk Engineering *Mathematics (merged into the Courant Department of Mathematics) *Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering *Technology, Culture and Society *Technology Management and Innovation (affiliated with

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)

Accreditation

All undergraduate and graduate programs at the engineering school are accredited by the Middle States Association. Undergraduate chemistry students have the option to pursue a degree approved by the American Chemical Society (ACS). The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), the Computer Science Accreditation Board (CSAB),

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(IEEE),

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(ASCE),

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(IAFE),

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(IIE),

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(ASME), Construction Management Association of America (CMAA),

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(SME),

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(AAEE),

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(BMES),

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(ACS),

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(APS) and the

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(JPBM) have recognized the school's undergraduate and graduate programs in engineering, computer science and physics, chemistry and mathematics.

Admissions

Tandon's incoming classes typically consist of about 700 students, with a total academic population of over 5,000. For Fall 2019, the average SAT scores for incoming freshmen was 1448. The acceptance rate for the graduate programs in 2016 was 28%. The PhD student-faculty ratio in 2018 was 3.6:1. For Fall 2018, the international students represented 91 countries and domestic students represented the 47 U.S States. The student body comprises 28.8% females and 71.2% males.

Rankings

*Ranked #2 by U.S. News & World Report Best Online Graduate Computer Information Technology Program in 2019 * *Ranked #20 by U.S. News & World Report Best Online Graduate Engineering Programs in 2019 *Ranked #1 by The Princeton Review Top Graduate Schools for Video Game Design in 2019 *Ranked #5 by Risk.net's Top 25 quant finance master's programmes in the world *Ranked #25 in 2020 U.S. News Best Global Universities for Electrical and Electronic Engineering *Ranked #21 in Construction Week Online -The world's top 25 universities for civil engineering in 2019 * *Ranked #38 in U.S. News Best Engineering Schools Ranked in 2021. *Ranked #66 in U.S. News 2019 undergraduate engineering programs. *Ranked #65 in 2020 ''Times Higher Education'' World University Rankings by subject: engineering and technology *Ranked #81 in 2020 U.S. News Best Global Universities for Engineering

Research

In 2018, the school received about $52.5 million in externally sponsored research expenditures. Some of the school's first research institutes included the Polymer Research Institute, established in 1942, and the Microwave Research Institute, established in 1945. The American Chemical Society designated the Polymer Research Institute as a National Historic Chemical Landmark on September 3, 2003. The Microwave Research Institute developed electromagnetic and microwave defense and communication systems and later renamed itself the Weber Research Institute. Other notable research centers of the institute include NSF-sponsored

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s in funding and #2 in the number of industry participants according to the United States

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, Center for Advanced Technologies in Telecommunications (CATT), a New York State and NSF sponsored research center that is also affiliated with Columbia University, NSF-funded Internet Security and Information Systems Lab, a U.S.

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(NSA) designated Center of Excellence in Information Assurance, Information Assurance Education and a Center of Excellence in Research, and the New York State Resiliency Institute for Storms & Emergencies (NYS RISE), which is housed jointly at NYU's Brooklyn campus, and Stony Brook University. Over the years the school has been a key center of research in the development of microwave physics, radar, polymers and the space program. During World War II the school's Microwave Research Institute worked on problems whose solution led to the development of radar, and later broke ground in electromagnetic theory and electronics in general. In later years the school participated in the space program, solving re-entry problems of crewed space capsules. The school has been affiliated with some major inventions and innovations including: the Panama Canal locks; lockmaking; the Brooklyn Bridge cables; cable-lift elevators; cordless phones; ATMs; bar codes; laser; radar; penicillin; polymers; elevator brakes; lightweight, ultra durable automotive brake rotor; light beer; cardiac defibrillator; artificial cardiac pacemaker; RFID; contact lenses; zoom lens; first telephone handset; commercial television; non-stick coating as an application of Teflon; suspension system for the largest radio telescope; microwave technology;

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, the first, and to date only, crewed spacecraft to operate exclusively in the airless vacuum of space; X-ray crystallography; structure of the DNA molecule; submarine; modern refrigerator; A/C generator; electric motors; transformer; submarine communications facilities; development of the artificial sweetener aspartame; development of nontoxic processes to create food colorings and remove caffeine from coffee; the quasi-complementary (transistor) amplifier circuit; lateral transistor; the wireless microphone; as well as Eugene Kleiner’s first semiconductor (and much of the

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), and

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's investing and supporting of Thomas Edison's invention of the electric light bulb.

Academic labs

Academic labs and research centers include: *Computational Mechanics Laboratory *Dynamical Systems Laboratory *Brooklyn Experimental Media Center (formerly Integrated Digital Media Institute) *Wireless Implementation Testbed Laboratory *Bio-interfacial Engineering and Diagnostics Lab *Control and Telecommunications Research Laboratory *High-Speed Networking Lab *Power and Power Electronics Engineering Laboratory *CITE Game Innovation Lab *Protein Engineering and Molecular Design Laboratory *Translational Neuroengineering (associated with the NYU Center for Neural Science and the NYU Langone Medical Center) *Urban Future Lab (founded in partnership with the New York City Economic Development Corporation)

Research centers

Research at the engineering school is conducted either through academic departments or through one of many interdisciplinary research centers including: *Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications (CATT) *Center for Finance and Technology (CFT) *Institute for Mathematics and Advanced Supercomputing (IMAS) *Polymer Research Institute (PRI) *Urban Intelligent Transportation Systems Center (UITSC) *

* CRISSP (Cyber-Security. Includes Tandon School of Engineering, Wagner Graduate School, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Stern School of Business, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development) * Weber Research Institute *Research Center for Risk Engineering *Materials Research Science and Engineering Center *Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center *The Games for Learning Institute *Media and Games Network (MAGNET) *New York State Resiliency Institute for Storms & Emergencies (includes NYU, Stony Brook University, Columbia University, Cornell University, City University of New York and Brookhaven National Laboratory) * NYU WIRELESS *Biomatrix Research Center (located in Manhattan)

CUSP

The Center for Urban Science and Progress (''CUSP'') is a degree-granting research facility of NYU located at

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and is adjacent to NYU School of Engineering's Rogers Hall.

Notable faculty and alumni

New York University Tandon School of Engineering has just over 33,000 living alumni living in 68 countries as of 2015. The school's alumni include inventors, scientists, entrepreneurs, politicians, country presidents, university presidents, academic leaders (including

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's founder

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) and more than 2,000 CEOs and leaders at large corporations. Among its past and present graduates and faculty are at least four Nobel Prize winners, seven National Medals for Science, Technology and Innovation winners, two astronauts,

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, Gordon Prize and

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winners and over 100

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members.

Nobel laureates

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for being a co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule *

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in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton

National Medals for Science, Technology and Innovation

* John G. Trump * Joel S. Engel *

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Herman Francis Mark Herman Francis Mark (May 3, 1895, Vienna – April 6, 1992, Austin, Texas) was an Austrian-American chemist regarded for his contributions to the development of polymer science. Mark's x-ray diffraction work on the molecular structure of fibers ...

Rudolph A. Marcus Rudolph Arthur Marcus (born July 21, 1923) is a Canadian-born chemist who received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems". Marcus theory, named after him, provid ...

* Ernst Weber *

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, developed early optical strategies for barcode scanning technologies

Russ Prize, Gordon Prize, Draper Prize

* Joel S. Engel *

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* Harold S. Goldberg *

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IEEE Edison Medal

* William B. Kouwenhoven, invented the closed-chest cardiac defibrillator * Bancroft Gherardi, Jr.

Turing Award

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Astronauts

* Paolo A. Nespoli * Charles Camarda

DARPA directors

Jack Ruina Jack P. Ruina (August 19, 1923 – February 4, 2015) was a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1963 until 1997 and thereafter an MIT professor emeritus. From 1966 to 1970, he was also vice pr ...

Pulitzer Prize winners

James Truslow Adams James Truslow Adams (October 18, 1878 – May 18, 1949) was an American writer and historian. He was a freelance author who helped to popularize the latest scholarship about American history and his three-volume history of New England is well r ...

, writer who coined the term " American Dream

Business leaders

Alumni leaders at large companies include: *

Ursula Burns Ursula M. Burns (born September 20, 1958) is an American businesswoman. Burns is mostly known for being the CEO of Xerox from 2009 to 2016, the first among black women to be a CEO of a Fortune 500 company, and the first woman to succeed another a ...

, Chairperson and CEO of

Xerox Xerox Holdings Corporation (; also known simply as Xerox) is an American corporation that sells print and digital document products and services in more than 160 countries. Xerox is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut (having moved from St ...

* Arthur C. Martinez, Chairman and CEO of

Sears Sears, Roebuck and Co. ( ), commonly known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began a ...

* Robert J. Stevens, Chairman and CEO of

Lockheed Martin The Lockheed Martin Corporation is an American aerospace, arms, defense, information security, and technology corporation with worldwide interests. It was formed by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta in March 1995. It ...

* Alfred Amoroso, Chairman of

Yahoo! Yahoo! (, styled yahoo''!'' in its logo) is an American web services provider. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and operated by the namesake company Yahoo Inc., which is 90% owned by investment funds managed by Apollo Global Mana ...

John Dionisio John M. Dionisio leads AECOM (NYSE: ACM), an $8-billion global provider of professional technical and management support services, as chief executive officer from 2005 to 2011. He served as chairman of the company's board of directors from 2011 ...

, Chairman and CEO of

AECOM AECOM (, ; formerly AECOM Technology Corporation) is an American multinational infrastructure consulting firm. AECOM has approximately 51,000 employees, and is number 157 on the 2019 Fortune 500 list. The company's official name from 1990 t ...

* Herbert L. Henkel, Chairman of

Ingersoll Rand Ingersoll Rand is an American multinational company that provides flow creation and industrial products. The company was formed in February 2020 through the spinoff of the industrial segment of Ingersoll-Randplc (now known as Trane Technologies) ...

, Chairman of

The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...

Jason Hsuan Jason Hsuan is the chairman, executive director and chief executive officer of TPV Technology. Hsuan graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering of the National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan in 1968, and holds a doctorate degree in sy ...

, Chairman and CEO of

TPV Technology TPV Technology Limited (informally TPV, ) is a Fortune China 500 multinational electronics manufacturing company headquartered in Kwun Tong, Hong Kong, and incorporated in Bermuda. It is the world’s largest manufacturer of computer monitors w ...

* John Trani, Chairman and CEO of

Stanley Black & Decker Stanley Black & Decker, Inc., formerly known as The Stanley Works, is a Fortune 500 American manufacturer of industrial tools and household hardware and provider of security products. Headquartered in the greater Hartford city of New Britain ...

* John Elmer McKeen, Chairman and CEO of

Pfizer Pfizer Inc. ( ) is an American multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporation headquartered on 42nd Street in Manhattan, New York City. The company was established in 1849 in New York by two German entrepreneurs, Charles Pfize ...

* Mark Ronald, Chairman and CEO of

BAE Systems BAE Systems plc (BAE) is a British multinational arms, security, and aerospace company based in London, England. It is the largest defence contractor in Europe, and ranked the seventh-largest in the world based on applicable 2021 revenue ...

* Vincent A. Calarco, Chairman and CEO of Chemtura *

Sunil Godhwani Sunil Godhwani is an Indian business executive who was associated with Religare from 2007 to 2018. Godhwani was the Managing Director since April 9, 2007 and Chairman since April 6, 2010 of Religare. Since 2019, court proceedings have been in p ...

, Chairman and CEO of

Religare Religare Enterprises Limited (REL) is an Indian Investment company registered with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), headquartered in New Delhi, India. REL is listed on National Stock Exchange of India and Bombay Stock Exchange. It is an holdi ...

* Robert Prieto, Chairman and CEO of

Parsons Brinckerhoff WSP USA, formerly WSP, Parsons Brinckerhoff and Parsons Brinckerhoff, is a multinational engineering and design firm with approximately 14,000 employees. WSP stands for Williams Sale Partnership. The firm operates in the fields of strategic con ...

* Richard Santulli, Chairman and CEO of

NetJets NetJets Inc. is an American company that sells fractional ownership shares in private business jets. Founded as Executive Jet Airways in 1964, it was later renamed Executive Jet Aviation. NetJets became the first private business jet chart ...

* Stav Prodromou, Chairman and CEO of

Peregrine Semiconductor Peregrine Semiconductor, known as pSemi, is a San Diego-based manufacturer of high-performance RF (radio frequency) CMOS integrated circuits. A Murata Manufacturing company since December 2014, the company's products are used in aerospace and defe ...

Michael H. Kappaz Michael H. Kappaz (died January 27, 2013) was the Chairman and CEO of K&M Engineering and Consulting. He was also a vice president at Bechtel. He earned a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Polytechnic University in Brooklyn and an MBA from Gold ...

, Chairman and CEO of KM Group * Israel Borovich, Chairman and CEO of

EL AL El Al Israel Airlines Ltd. (, he, אל על נתיבי אויר לישראל בע״מ), trading as El Al (Hebrew: , "Upwards", "To the Skies" or "Skywards", stylized as ELAL; ar, إل-عال), is the flag carrier of Israel. Since its inaugura ...

Hugh John Casey Hugh John "Pat" Casey CBE (24 July 1898 – 30 August 1981) was a major general in the United States Army. A 1918 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Casey served in Germany during the Occupation of the Rhineland. He later retu ...

, Chairman of

New York City Transit Authority The New York City Transit Authority (also known as NYCTA, the TA, or simply Transit, and branded as MTA New York City Transit) is a New York state public-benefit corporations, public-benefit corporation in the U.S. state of New York (state), New ...

Stewart G. Nagler Stewart may refer to: People * Stewart (name), Scottish surname and given name *Clan Stewart, a Scottish clan *Clan Stewart of Appin, a Scottish clan Places Canada *Stewart, British Columbia *Stewart Township, Nipissing District, Ontario (histo ...

, Vice Chairman, Director and CFO of

MetLife MetLife, Inc. is the Holding company, holding corporation for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (MLIC), better known as MetLife, and its affiliates. MetLife is among the largest global providers of insurance, Annuity (US financial produc ...

* Craig G. Matthews, President, CFO and Chief Operating Officer of

KeySpan KeySpan Corporation was the fifth largest distributor of natural gas in the United States. KeySpan was formed in 1998 as a result of the merger of Brooklyn Union Gas Company (founded 1895 by merging several smaller companies) and Long Island Ligh ...

* Charles D. Strang, Chairman, CEO and President of

Outboard Marine Corporation Outboard Marine Corporation (OMC) was a maker of Evinrude, Johnson and Gale Outboard Motors, and many different brands of boats. It was a multibillion-dollar Fortune 500 corporation. Evinrude began in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1907. OMC was based ...

Charles Ranlett Flint Charles Ranlett Flint (January 24, 1850 – February 26, 1934) was the founder of the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company which later became IBM. For his financial dealings, he earned the moniker "Father of Trusts". He was an avid sportsman ...

, founder of IBM *

Nils Lahr Nils Lahr (born August 1973) is an American entrepreneur, inventor and computer scientist known for his work in the streaming media industry. He founded Synergy Sports Technology and several other companies. He has also been a senior developer at ...

, Chairman, CEO and founder of IBEAM Broadcasting Corporation *

Fadi Chehadé Fadi Chehadé (Arabic: فادي شحادة) (born 1962) is an information technology executive, founder of RosettaNet and former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of ICANN. Through Ethos Capital, he unsuccessfully tried to gain control over the .org i ...

, CEO of

ICANN The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN ) is an American multistakeholder group and nonprofit organization responsible for coordinating the maintenance and procedures of several databases related to the namespaces ...

* Joseph J. Jacobs, Chairman, CEO and founder of

Glenford Myers Glenford Myers (born December 12, 1946) is an American computer scientist, entrepreneur, and author. He founded two successful high-tech companies (RadiSys and IP Fabrics), authored eight textbooks in the computer sciences, and made important con ...

, Chairman, CEO and founder of

Radisys Radisys Corporation is an American technology company located in Hillsboro, Oregon, United States that makes technology used by telecommunications companies in mobile networks. Founded in 1987 in Oregon by former employees of Intel, the compan ...

* Bern Dibner, Chairman, CEO and founder of

Burndy Burndy LLC is a manufacturer of connectors, fittings and tools for electrical utilities, commercial, industrial, and maintenance companies. The company, headquartered in Manchester, New Hampshire, has approximately 3000+ employees and operates thr ...

* Eugene Kleiner, Chairman, CEO and founder of

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Kleiner Perkins, formerly Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), is an American venture capital firm which specializes in investing in incubation, early stage and growth companies. Since its founding in 1972, the firm has backed entrepreneurs ...

* Ta-lin Hsu, Chairman, CEO and founder of H&Q Asia Pacific * Paul Ferri, Chairman, CEO and founder of

Matrix Partners Matrix Partners is a US-based private equity investment firm focusing on venture capital investments. The firm invests in seed and early-stage companies in the United States and India, particularly in the software, communications, semicondu ...

* William C. W. Mow, Chairman, CEO and founder of

Bugle Boy Bugle Boy Industries, Inc. was a clothing company founded by William Mow in 1977. It is perhaps best known for its namesake brand of denim jeans that were popular in the 1980s. The company declared bankruptcy in 2001. William C. W. Mow (Traditio ...

, Chairman, CEO and founder of

Symbol Technologies Symbol Technologies is an American manufacturer and supplier of mobile data capture and delivery equipment. The company specializes in barcode scanners, mobile computers, RFID systems and Wireless LAN infrastructure. In 2014, Symbol Technolog ...

Alfred P. Sloan Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. ( ; May 23, 1875February 17, 1966) was an American business executive in the automotive industry. He was a long-time president, chairman and CEO of General Motors Corporation. Sloan, first as a senior executive and l ...

(attended, but transferred), Chairman, CEO and founder of

General Motors The General Motors Company (GM) is an American Multinational corporation, multinational Automotive industry, automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, United States. It is the largest automaker in the United States and ...

* Rachelle Friedman, Chairperson, CEO and founder of J&R * Bill Friend (engineer), President of

Bechtel Bechtel Corporation () is an American engineering, procurement, construction, and project management company founded in San Francisco, California, and headquartered in Reston, Virginia. , the '' Engineering News-Record'' ranked Bechtel as the se ...

* Michael Horodniceanu, President of the MTA Capital Construction * Ami Miron, Vice President,

General Instrument Corporation General Instrument (GI) was an American electronics manufacturer based in Horsham, Pennsylvania, specializing in semiconductors and cable television equipment. They formed in New York City in 1923 as an electronics manufacturer. During the 1950s, ...

* Charles Hinkaty, Vice President,

Citibank Citibank, N. A. (N. A. stands for " National Association") is the primary U.S. banking subsidiary of financial services multinational Citigroup. Citibank was founded in 1812 as the City Bank of New York, and later became First National City ...

Eugene Fasullo Eugene Fasullo (April 20, 1931 - October 20, 2020) was the Chief Engineer of Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. He graduated with BS from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute MS from University of Illinois. He was also a professor at NYU Poly ...

, Chief Engineer of

Port Authority of New York and New Jersey The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, PANYNJ; stylized, in logo since 2020, as Port Authority NY NJ, is a joint venture between the U.S. states of New York and New Jersey, established in 1921 through an interstate compact authorize ...

Jay Greene Jay Henry Greene (May 17, 1942 – October 8, 2017) was a NASA engineer. Between 2000 and 2004, he served as Chief Engineer at Johnson Space Center, where his role consisted primarily of advising the Center Director. He worked as a FIDO flight c ...

NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research. NASA was established in 1958, succeedin ...

chief engineer * George W. Melville, chief engineer of the United States Navy.

Congressional Gold Medal The Congressional Gold Medal is an award bestowed by the United States Congress. It is Congress's highest expression of national appreciation for distinguished achievements and contributions by individuals or institutions. The congressional pract ...

winner. * Howard A. Chinn, Chief Engineer of

CBS CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS, the abbreviation of its former legal name Columbia Broadcasting System, is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainm ...

. Pioneered techniques of analog audio recording as well as radio and television broadcasting practices. * Virginia P. Ruesterholz, President,

Verizon Verizon Communications Inc., commonly known as Verizon, is an American multinational telecommunications conglomerate and a corporate component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The company is headquartered at 1095 Avenue of the Americas ...

Alan Schriesheim Alan Schriesheim is the Director Emeritus and the retired CEO of Argonne National Laboratory, one of the U.S. Department of Energy's largest research centers. In a January 2008 announcement issued by Penn State University upon the establishment o ...

, Director and CEO of

Argonne National Laboratory Argonne National Laboratory is a science and engineering research national laboratory operated by UChicago Argonne LLC for the United States Department of Energy. The facility is located in Lemont, Illinois, outside of Chicago, and is the l ...

, Board member of

Rohm and Haas Rohm and Haas Company is a manufacturer of specialty chemicals for end use markets such as building and construction, electronic devices, packaging, household and personal care products. Headquartered in Philadelphia, the company is organized i ...

Inventors

Partial list of inventors affiliated with the school: * Barouh Berkovits, contributed to invention of the cardiac defibrillator and

artificial cardiac pacemaker An artificial cardiac pacemaker (or artificial pacemaker, so as not to be confused with the natural cardiac pacemaker) or pacemaker is a medical device that generates electrical impulses delivered by electrodes to the chambers of the heart eit ...

Gordon Gould Gordon Gould (July 17, 1920 – September 16, 2005) was an American physicist who is sometimes credited with the invention of the laser and the optical amplifier. (Credit for the invention of the laser is disputed, since Charles Townes and A ...

, invented the

laser A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation. The word "laser" is an acronym for "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation". The ...

Mario Cardullo Mario Cardullo is an American inventor who received the first patent for a passive, read-write Radio-frequency identification. He is a 1957 graduate of the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, now known as the New York University Tandon School of En ...

, contributed to the invention of the

Radio-frequency identification Radio-frequency identification (RFID) uses electromagnetic fields to automatically Automatic identification system, identify and Tracking system, track tags attached to objects. An RFID system consists of a tiny radio transponder, a radio receiver ...

(RFID) * Robert G. Brown, invented the first

telephone handset A handset is a component of a telephone that a user holds to the ear and mouth to receive audio through the receiver and speak to the remote party using the built-in transmitter. In earlier telephones, the transmitter was mounted directly on ...

Jasper H. Kane Jasper Herbert Kane (July 15, 1903 – November 23, 2004) was an American biochemist who had a central role in moving antibiotics such as penicillin from the laboratory table into industrial production in World War II. He was an alumnus of what is ...

, invented the practical, deep-tank fermentation method for production of large quantities of pharmaceutical-grade

penicillin Penicillins (P, PCN or PEN) are a group of β-lactam antibiotics originally obtained from '' Penicillium'' moulds, principally '' P. chrysogenum'' and '' P. rubens''. Most penicillins in clinical use are synthesised by P. chrysogenum usin ...

Maurice Karnaugh Maurice Karnaugh (; October 4, 1924 – November 8, 2022) was an American physicist, mathematician, computer scientist, and inventor known for the Karnaugh map used in Boolean algebra. Career Karnaugh studied mathematics and physics at City Co ...

, inventor of the

Karnaugh map The Karnaugh map (KM or K-map) is a method of simplifying Boolean algebra expressions. Maurice Karnaugh introduced it in 1953 as a refinement of Edward W. Veitch's 1952 Veitch chart, which was a rediscovery of Allan Marquand's 1881 ''logi ...

(K-map) * Norman Gaylord, played a prominent role in the development of permeable

contact lenses Contact lenses, or simply contacts, are thin lenses placed directly on the surface of the eyes. Contact lenses are ocular prosthetic devices used by over 150 million people worldwide, and they can be worn to correct vision or for cosmeti ...

Ronald R. Yager Ronald Robert Yager (born New York City) is an American researcher in computational intelligence, decision making under uncertainty and fuzzy logic. He is currently Director of the Machine Intelligence Institute and Professor of Information ...

, invented

Ordered weighted averaging aggregation operator In applied mathematics – specifically in fuzzy logic – the ordered weighted averaging (OWA) operators provide a parameterized class of mean type aggregation operators. They were introduced by Ronald R. Yager. Many notable mean operators such a ...

* Thomas J. Kelly, designed and built the

* Fredric J. Harris, co-inventor of the Blackman–Harris filter *

David J. Thomson David J. Thomson is a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Queen's University in Ontario and a Canada Research Chair in statistics and signal processing, formerly a member of the technical staff at Bell Labs. He is a profess ...

, invented the multitaper *

Erol Gelenbe Sami Erol Gelenbe (born 22 August 1945, in Istanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish and French computer scientist, electronic engineer and applied mathematician who pioneered the field of Computer System and Network Performance in Europe, and is active ...

, invented

G-networks In queueing theory, a discipline within the mathematical theory of probability, a G-network (generalized queueing network, often called a Gelenbe network) is an open network of G-queues first introduced by Erol Gelenbe as a model for queueing syst ...

and

random neural network The random neural network (RNN) is a mathematical representation of an interconnected network of neurons or cells which exchange spiking signals. It was invented by Erol Gelenbe and is linked to the G-network model of queueing networks as well as ...

s * Joseph Owades, inventor of Lite beer * John Colagioia, invented Thue (programming language) * Paul Peter Ewald, inventor of

X-ray diffraction X-ray crystallography is the experimental science determining the atomic and molecular structure of a crystal, in which the crystalline structure causes a beam of incident X-rays to diffract into many specific directions. By measuring the angles ...

method for determination of molecular structure * Henry C. Goldmark, designed and installed the

Panama Canal locks The Panama Canal locks ( es, Esclusas del Canal de Panamá) are a lock system that lifts ships up to the main elevation of the Panama Canal and down again. The original canal had a total of six steps (three up, three down) for a ship's passage. ...

* Helias Doundoulakis, patented the suspension system for the largest

radio telescope A radio telescope is a specialized antenna and radio receiver used to detect radio waves from astronomical radio sources in the sky. Radio telescopes are the main observing instrument used in radio astronomy, which studies the radio frequency ...

in the world *

George Glauberman George Isaac Glauberman (born 1941) is a mathematician at the University of Chicago who works on finite simple groups. He proved the ZJ theorem and the Z* theorem. Born in New York City on March 3, 1941, Glauberman did his undergraduate stu ...

, discovered the

ZJ theorem In mathematics, George Glauberman's ZJ theorem states that if a finite group ''G'' is ''p''-constrained and ''p''-stable and has a normal ''p''-subgroup for some odd prime ''p'', then ''O'p''′(''G'')''Z''(''J''(''S'')) is a normal subgroup ...

and the Z* theorem *

Torunn Atteraas Garin Torunn Atteraas Garin (1947/1948 - 2 May 2002) was a Norwegian chemical engineer who worked on notable food projects. She worked on the artificial sweetener aspartame and was a national spokesperson for the product. She also developed nontoxic proc ...

, oversaw the development of the artificial sweetener

aspartame Aspartame is an artificial non- saccharide sweetener 200 times sweeter than sucrose and is commonly used as a sugar substitute in foods and beverages. It is a methyl ester of the aspartic acid/phenylalanine dipeptide with the trade na ...

; developed nontoxic processes to create food colorings and remove caffeine from coffee * James Wood, fabricated the steel cables for the

Brooklyn Bridge The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/ suspension bridge in New York City, spanning the East River between the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn. Opened on May 24, 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge was the first fixed crossing of the East Rive ...

, making cable-lift elevators possible. He also contributed to the inventions of lockmaking, submarine, A/C generator, electric motors, transformer and the design of the modern refrigerator. He held 240 patents. * Joe Landolina, invented Vetigel * Hung-Chang Lin, invented the quasi-complementary (transistor) amplifier circuit, the lateral transistor, and the

wireless microphone A wireless microphone, or cordless microphone, is a microphone without a physical cable connecting it directly to the sound recording or amplifying equipment with which it is associated. Also known as a radio microphone, it has a small, battery ...

. He held 61 patents *

Hans Reissner Hans Jacob Reissner, also known as Jacob Johannes Reissner (18 January 1874, Berlin – 2 October 1967, Mt. Angel, Oregon), was a German aeronautical engineer whose avocation was mathematical physics. During World War I he was awarded the Iron ...

, designed the first successful all-metal aircraft, the Reissner Canard (or Ente) with both skin and structure made of metal. Also, first solved Einstein's equation for the metric of a charged point mass. His closed-form solution, rediscovered by several other physicists within the next few years, is now called the

Reissner–Nordström metric In physics and astronomy, the Reissner–Nordström metric is a static solution to the Einstein–Maxwell field equations, which corresponds to the gravitational field of a charged, non-rotating, spherically symmetric body of mass ''M''. ...

. * Harold Horton Sheldon, invented a precision photoelectric color-scope measurement instrument, more accurate than the human eye *

Fred Waller Frederic Waller (1886 – May 18, 1954) was an American inventor and film pioneer. Career Waller is most known for his contributions to film special effects while working at Paramount Pictures, for his creation of the Waller Flexible Gunnery Tr ...

, invented

Cinerama Cinerama is a widescreen process that originally projected images simultaneously from three synchronized 35mm projectors onto a huge, deeply curved screen, subtending 146° of arc. The trademarked process was marketed by the Cinerama corporati ...

, the Waller Gunnery Trainer, and patented the

water ski Water skiing (also waterskiing or water-skiing) is a surface water sport in which an individual is pulled behind a boat or a cable ski installation over a body of water, skimming the surface on two skis or one ski. The sport requires suffi ...

* Joginder Lal, Goodyear Polymer Research Manager and expert in the synthesis and mechanism of the formation of high polymers

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