The Case School of Engineering is the engineering school of

Case Western Reserve University Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) is a Private university, private research university in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It was established in 1967 by a merger between Western Reserve University and the Case Institute of Technology. Case ...

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. It traces its roots to the 1880 founding of the Case School of Applied Science. The school was endowed by Leonard Case, Jr. in 1877 and became the Case Institute of Technology in 1947 until merging with Western Reserve University in 1967. It was officially named the Case School of Engineering in 1992.

Departments

Biomedical Engineering Biomedical engineering (BME) or medical engineering is the application of engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology for healthcare applications (e.g., diagnostic or therapeutic purposes). BME also integrates the logica ...

* Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering * Civil And Environmental Engineering * Computer & Data Sciences * Electrical, Computer And Systems Engineering * Macromolecular Science & Engineering * Materials Science & Engineering * Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Notable Alumni

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(BS '98, MS '98) - 23rd

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employee and creator of

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* Herbert H. Dow (BS 1888) - Founder of

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* Siegfried Hecker (BS '65, MS '67, PhD '68) - Former director of

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and co-recipient of the 2009

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* Robert J. Herbold (MS '66, PhD '88) - Former executive vice president and COO of

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* Samuel Hibben (BS '10) - Pioneer in blacklight technology and lighting display designer for the

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, and other United States monuments * Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez – Professor of Biomedical Engineering at

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who works on scaffolds for tissue regeneration *

Alexander Kummant Alexander K. Kummant (born 1962) was named by Amtrak on August 29, 2006, as the railroad company's new president and chief executive officer effective September 12 of that year. He succeeded David L. Gunn in this position who was dismissed in No ...

(BS '82) - Former president and

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* Craig Newmark (BS '75, MS '77) - Founder of

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* Frank Rudy (BS '50) - Inventor of the Nike Air Sole

References

External links

Official site
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