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Brown University School of Engineering
Established1847 (first in Ivy League, third oldest civilian engineering program in U.S.)
DeanLawrence E. Larson
Academic staff
50 full-time tenure-track faculty
Students538 undergraduate, 262 graduate
Location
Providence
,
Rhode Island
,
United States
Degrees offeredSc.B., A.B., Sc.B and A.B., five-year Sc.B/Sc.M, Sc.M., Sc.M.I.M., Ph.D.
Undergraduate concentrations:
Biomedical Engineering, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Engineering-Physics, Environmental Engineering, Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering


Master's and doctoral programs:

Biomedical Engineering, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Fluids and Thermal Sciences, Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanics of Solids, Program in Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship (PRIME - master's only)
Websitebrown.edu/academics/engineering
Brown's Engineering Research Center opened in 2018. This three-story facility features a 4,000-square-foot cleanroom for nanotechnology and electronics research. It has 20 lab modules which support large, collaborative research groups.[1][2]

The Brown University School of Engineering is the engineering school at Brown University, a private Ivy League research university located in Providence, Rhode Island. The school offers both graduate and undergraduate study in the field. Although undergraduate students may officially declare their major in engineering as late as the end of their sophomore year, students with an intention in majoring in engineering typically must begin the engineering curriculum their first semester at Brown.

History

The oldest undergraduate engineering program in the Ivy League, Brown's first course specifically in engineering was offered in 1847. It was a professional engineering program called, "English and Scientific Course", and was a one or two-year program and included courses in mechanics, geometry, surveying, navigation, mensuration of heights and distances, chemistry and trigonometry. In 1850, the civil engineering curriculum was inaugurated as a focused one and a half year program. During the late 19th century, engineering instructional laboratories were held in University Hall, Sayles Hall and Wilson Hall. Engineering then moved to a new site over the heating station in the rear of the Chemical Laboratory (renamed Rogers Hall in 1900 and the Salomon Center for Teaching in 1989). In 1903, engineering moved into its own new building on Lincoln Field.

The current program was formed in 1916 from the combination of civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering departments.[3] Engineering was a Division at Brown until 2010 when the university elevated it to its current status as the Brown University School of Engineering, making it the only undergraduate department at Brown with such status.[4] In July 2011, Lawrence Larson became the school's inaugural Dean. Prior to this appointment he served as the chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department in the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego.[5]

Undergraduate education

The Brown University School of Engineering offers ABET-accredited engineering concentrations in biomedical, chemical and biochemical, computer, electrical, materials, and mechanical engineering (Sc.B.). Also offered are programs in engineering-physics and environmental engineering. In addition, the Brown School of Engineering offer a bachelor of arts degree in engineering.

Master's and Ph.D. programs

The Brown University School of Engineering offers Sc.M. programs in biomedical engineering, chemical and biochemical engineering, electrical sciences and computer engineering, fluids and thermal sciences, materials science, and mechanics of solids. An integrated five-year Sc.B./Sc.M. degree is also available. The Program in Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship (PRIME) is also a one-year master's degree in technology entrepreneurship.

The Brown University School of Engineering offers Ph.D. programs in biomedical engineering, chemical and biochemical engineering, electrical sciences and computer engineering, fluids and thermal sciences, materials science, and mechanics of solids.

Ranking

The School of Engineering ranks as one of the top engineering schools in the United States. The U.S. News & World Report ranks Brown as the 38th best undergraduate engineering school in the country. The School of Engineering graduate program ranks tied for 47th.[6]

Field Ranks
Undergraduate School of Engineering T-38
Graduate School of Engineering T-47

Engineering chairs and deans

  • William Herbert Kenerson,[7] 1st Chairman, Division of Engineering, 1916–1941
  • Leighton Teeterick Bohl,[8] 2nd Chairman, Division of Engineering, 1941–1947
  • John Henry Marchant, 3rd Chairman, Division of Engineering, 1947–1953
  • Daniel Charles Drucker, 4th Chairman, Division of Engineering, 1953–1959
  • Paul Southworth Symonds, 5th Chairman, Division of Engineering, 1959–1962
  • Paul Fritz Maeder, 6th Chairman, Division of Engineering, 1962–1968
  • Joseph John Loferski, 7th Chairman, Division of Engineering, 1968–1974
  • Rodney James Clifton, 8th Chairman, Division of Engineering, 1974–-1979
  • L. Ben Freund, 9th Chairman, Division of Engineering, 1979–1983
  • Richard Andrew Dobbins, 10th Chairman, Division of Engineering, 1983–1988
  • Alan Needleman, 1st Dean, Division of Engineering, 1988–1991
  • Harvey Fox Silverman, 2nd Dean, Division of Engineering, 1991–1997
  • Rodney James Clifton, 3rd Dean, Division of Engineering, 1998–2003
  • Clyde L. Briant, 4th Dean, Division of Engineering, 2003–2006
  • Gregory Philip Crawford, 5th Dean, Division of Engineering, 2006-2008
  • Rodney James Clifton, Interim and Founding Dean, Division of Engineering/School of Engineering, 2008–2011
  • Lawrence E. Larson, 1st Sorensen Family Dean, Brown University School of Engineering, 2011–

Notable alumni

  • Sangeeta Bhatia '90 - biological engineer and professor at MIT; researches applications of micro- and nano-technology for tissue repair and regeneration; named by MIT Technology Review in 2003 as one of the Top 100 Innovators Under 35;[9] received the Brown Engineering Alumni Medal (BEAM) award in 2011[10]
  • Aneel Bhusri '88 - co-founder and co-CEO of Workday, Inc., a cloud-based human capital management and financial management software vendor
  • Brian Binnie '75 Sc.M. '76 - former United States Navy officer; test pilot for SpaceShipOne, the experimental spaceplane developed by Scaled Composites
  • Igor Boraska '95 - Croatian rower; three-time Olympian; won bronze in the heavyweight eights competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney; first Croat who participated in both the Summer and the Winter Olympic Games
  • John S. Chen '78 - president and chief executive officer of Sybase, 1998–2012; interim CEO of Blackberry; received the Brown Engineering Alumni Medal (BEAM) award[10] in 2003
  • Tejal A. Desai '94 - professor in physiology in the Division of Bioengineering at University of California, San Francisco; head of the Therapeutic Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory; researcher of therapeutic micro- and nanotechnology; named to MIT's Technology Review 1999 Top 100 Innovators Under 35[11]
  • James Develin '10 - professional football fullback for the New England Patriots of the NFL; played defensive end in college
  • Mark Donohue '59 - racecar driver known for his ability to set up his own race car as well as driving it to victories; winner of the 1972 Indianapolis 500
  • Dick Dreissigacker '69 - Olympic rower; founder of Concept2, a manufacturer of rowing equipment; coached rowing at Stanford University
  • George M.C. Fisher Sc.M. '64 Ph.D. '66 - CEO of Motorola, 1988–1993; CEO of Eastman Kodak 1993–1999
  • Charles Giancarlo '79 - CEO of PureStorage; executive vice president and chief development officer of Cisco and president of Cisco-Linksys; received the Brown Engineering Alumni Medal (BEAM) award[10] in 2002
  • Theresia Gouw '90 - entrepreneur and venture capital investor in the technology sector; co-founded Aspect Ventures, a female-led venture capital firm, in 2014; named one of the 40 most influential minds in tech by Time magazine ; recognized seven times on the Forbes Midas List as one of the "world's smartest tech investors"
  • Alexander Lyman Holley, Ph.B. 1853 - one of the first two Brown graduates with a bachelor's degree in engineering; his innovations in steel making laid the foundations for the American steel industry following the Civil War; received 15 patents; namesake of the Holley medal given out by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • Ayanna Howard '93 - professor and chair at the School of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology;[12] named by MIT Technology Review in 2003 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35[13]
  • Richard D. James '74 - mechanician and materials scientist; Russell J. Penrose Professor and Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Minnesota; researcher in phase transitions
  • Mary Lou Jepsen '87 Ph.D. '97 - CEO and founder of Openwater;[14] former head of the Display Division at Google X Lab and executive at Facebook / Oculus VR;[15] co-founder and the first chief technology officer of One Laptop per Child; Time magazine named her on its 2008 list of the 100 most influential people in the world;[16]received the Brown Engineering Alumni Medal (BEAM) award in 2012.
  • Steve Jordan '82 - former professional football tight end who played his entire career with the Minnesota Vikings (1982–1994); selected to six consecutive Pro Bowls, 1986–1991; now a civil engineer
  • Dara Khosrowshahi '91 - CEO of Uber; former CEO of Expedia
  • Jamie Koven '95 - member of the U.S. Rowing team, 1993–2000; won gold medal at the 1994 World Championships in the men's heavyweight eight; won the World Championships in the men's heavyweight single scull in 1997; two-time Olympian
  • Suzan G. LeVine '93 - United States Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein, 2014–17; first U.S. ambassador to be sworn in with her hand on an e-reader, a Kindle, displaying the United States Constitution
  • Byron K. Lichtenberg '69 - fighter pilot who flew aboard two NASA Space Shuttle missions as a payload specialist; he and Ulf Merbold were the first payload specialists to fly on the shuttle in 1983; flew on Spacelab-1 (STS-9) mission for ten days, conducting multiple experiments
  • Baltasar Mena Sc.M. '69 Ph.D. '73 - Spanish-born Mexican mechanical engineer specialized in rheology; Mexico's National Prize for Arts and Sciences (1997) and the UNESCO Science Prize (2001); has chaired the International Committee on Rheology (1984–88) and the Mexican Society of Rheology (1976–97); received the Brown Engineering Alumni Medal (BEAM) award in 2000
  • George Musser '88 - contributing editor for Scientific American magazine; author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to String Theory
  • Thomas O. Paine, A.B. 1942 - third administrator of NASA (1969–1970); during his administration, the first seven Apollo manned missions were flown, including the first ever manned lunar landing by Apollo 11
  • Ainissa Ramirez '90 - materials scientist and science communicator; developed a "universal solder" that can bond metal to glass, ceramics, diamond, and semiconductor oxide substrates; in 2003, named on the MIT Technology Review's "Top 100 Innovators Under 35"[17]
  • Ares J. Rosakis Sc.M.’80 Ph.D.’83 - Otis Booth Leadership Chair, Division of Engineering and Applied Science, and Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology; Chair of the Division of Engineering and Applied Science at Caltech; author of more than 250 publications
  • Barbara Shinn-Cunningham ‘86 - director of the Carnegie Mellon University Neuroscience Institute; known for her research on sound localization, acoustics, and "hidden hearing loss" and hearing aid development recipient of Helmholtz-Rayleigh Interdisciplinary Silver Medal
  • Nikola Stojić '97 - rower from Serbia; competed in four consecutive Summer Olympics; in 2006, the Olympic Committee of Serbia declared him its Sportsman of the Year
  • Robert Henry Thurston, Ph.B. 1859 - a founder (along with Alexander Lyman Holley) and the first president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME); in 1871, he became the first professor of mechanical engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology
  • Yang Wei Ph.D. '85 - president of Zhejiang University, 2006–2013; president of China's National Natural Sciences Foundation, the nation's top science agency; received the Brown Engineering Alumni Medal (BEAM) Award in 2009[10]
  • Melanie Whelan '99 - CEO of SoulCycle
  • Frank E. Winsor, Ph.B. 1892, A.M. 1896, Sc.D. 1929 - civil engineer; chief engineer for the Boston Metropolitan District Water Supply Commission, now the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, 1926–1939; involved in the design and construction of Winsor Dam and Goodnough Dike; namesake of Winsor Dam
  • John Chen
    John Chen
  • Mark Donohue '59—winner of 1972 Indianapolis 500
    Mark Donohue '59—winner of 1972 Indianapolis 500
  • Alexander Lyman Holley
    Alexander Lyman Holley
  • Ayanna M. Howard—SnoMote
    Ayanna M. Howard—SnoMote
  • Suzan LeVine '93—United States Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein (ret.)
    Suzan LeVine '93—United States Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein (ret.)
  • Byron Lichtenberg
    Byron Lichtenberg
  • Dr. Thomas O. Paine '42—Administrator of NASA during the Apollo 11 landing on the moon
    Dr. Thomas O. Paine '42—Administrator of NASA during the Apollo 11 landing on the moon
  • Robert Henry Thurston
    Robert Henry Thurston

See also

References

  1. ^ Stacey, Kevin (20 October 2017). "Let the move-in begin: Engineering Research Center opens its doors". Brown University. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
  2. ^ "Brown University, Engineering Research Center". BuroHappold Engineering. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
  3. ^ History of Engineering at Brown
  4. ^ Brown University Establishes School of Engineering
  5. ^ Larson Named Inaugural Dean
  6. ^ http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/brown-university-217156/overall-rankings
  7. ^ Encyclopedia Brunoniana, "Kenerson, William H."
  8. ^ Encyclopedia Brunoniana, "Bohl, Leighton, T."
  9. ^ 2003 MIT Technology Review, Top 100 Innovators Under 35, "Sangeeta Bhatia"
  10. ^ a b c d Brown Engineering Alumni Medal (BEAM) award
  11. ^ MIT Technology Review, "1999 Top 100 Innovators Under 35"
  12. ^ Ayanna Howard Bio, Georgia Tech
  13. ^ 2003 MIT Technology Review, Top 100 Innovators Under 35, "Ayanna Howard"
  14. ^ Openwater, About Us
  15. ^ "Oculus Has Hired Mary Lou Jepsen Away From Google X"
  16. ^ The 2008 TIME 100, "Mary Lou Jepsen"
  17. ^ 2003 MIT Technology Review, Top 100 Innovators Under 35, "Ainissa G. Ramirez"
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