Research

Research Numbers


Top 25% of engineering colleges nationwide, as ranked by U.S. News and World Report

220 tenured and tenure track faculty, with 22 endowed chairs and professorships and 13 Distinguished and University Professors

28 NSF Presidential/New Young Investigator and CAREER Awards

2 TR-100 Awards, awarded by MIT’s Technology Review magazine to the Top 100 Young Innovators of the world

16 R&D 100 Awards

3 members of the National Academy of Engineering
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68 Expenditures (in the millions) on research in 2007–08

60+ research centers and institutes
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947 graduate students, of whom 52% are working on doctoral degrees

82 PhD and 214 MS degrees awarded in 2006–07

160 is the minimum number of graduate alumni of the college who are presidents or CEOs of companies or leaders in academia