School of Engineering

Facts & Statistics

University of Connecticut

• Land Grant (1881), Sea Grant and Space Grant institution

• #19 nationwide among public research universities ((U.S. News & World Report 2011)

• # 1 public university in New England (U.S. News & World Report 1999 - 2011)

• Carnegie Foundation Research Universities/Very High institution

• Campus revitalization fueled by the $1 billion UConn 2000 and $1.3 billion 21st Century UConn state matching funds initiatives

• 14 Schools and Colleges

• 21,881 undergraduates at the Storrs and regional campuses

• 8,153 graduate/professional students

School of Engineering - 111 Years of Instruction

• Year Founded: 1901

• # Undergraduates: 2,006 Full Time

• # Freshmen fall 2011: 433 Full Time

• Ave. SAT incoming freshmen fall 2011: 1294

• Demographics, freshman class: 25% female; 12% diverse

• Honors Program participants: ~ 25% freshmen; 16% total undergrad

• # Graduate students: 728 M.S. and Ph.D.

• 130 Full-Time Faculty

  • 2 Elected member2, National Academy of Engineering

  • 1 Elected member, National Academy of Sciences

  • 2 Elected Fellows, American Assn. for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

  • 26 NSF CAREER Awards

  • 1 Presidential Early Career Award

  • 5 Office of Naval Programs Young Investigator Awards

  • 2 U.S. Army Research Office Young Investigator Awards

  • 3 Fulbright Awards

  • 1 NASA Young Investigator Award recipient

  • Over 40 Fellows of prestigious professional societies

  • 44 Editors-in-Chief, Associate Editors, and Editors of top technical journals

• Centers of Excellence and Major Initiatives

• Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence in Transportation Security

• Pratt & Whitney Corp. Center of Excellence in Aviation Systems

• National Security Agency, Department of Homeland Security National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research (CAE-R)

• $1.1 million USAID/HED water resources capacity-building project in Ethiopia

• Five Departments:

• Chemical, Materials & Biomolecular Engineering

• Civil & Environmental Engineering

• Computer Science & Engineering

• Electrical & Computer Engineering

• Mechanical Engineering

• Majors:

  • Biomedical Engineering (B.S.E., M.S., Ph.D.)

  • Chemical Engineering (B.S.E., M.S., Ph.D.)

  • Civil Engineering (B.S.E., M.S., Ph.D.)

  • Computer Engineering (B.S.E.)

  • Computer Science (B.S.)

  • Computer Science & Engineering (B.S.E., M.S., Ph.D.)

  • Electrical Engineering (B.S.E., M.S., Ph.D.)

  • Engineering Physics (B.S.)

  • Environmental Engineering (B.S.E., M.S., Ph.D.)

  • Management & Engineering for Manufacturing (B.S.)

  • Materials Science & Engineering (B.S.E., M.S., Ph.D.)

  • Mechanical Engineering (B.S.E., M.S., Ph.D.)

  • Polymer Science (M.S., Ph.D.)

• Undergraduate Minors:

  • Bioinformatics

  • Biomedical Engineering

  • Computer Science (excl. majors in Computer Science and Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering)

  • Electronics & Systems

  • Engineering Management

  • Environmental Engineering

  • Information Technology

  • Materials Science & Engineering

  • Nanomaterials (excl. majors in Materials Science & Engineering

  • Nanotechnology

• Major Research Centers & Institutes:
  Centers/Institutes Operated by the School of Engineering

  • Bioinformatics & Biocomputing Institute

  • T.L. Booth Engineering Center for Advanced Technology

  • Center for Clean Energy Engineering

  • Center for Transportation & Livable Systems

  • Connecticut Transportation Institute

  Multi-disciplinary University Centers in which Engineering Faculty Participate

• Center for Environmental Science & Engineering

• Institute of Materials Science
  

• Scholarships
  2011 - $530,000 in scholarships to 235 continuing students

• Physical Space

  2015 - dedicated new $62 million, 80,000 sq. ft. building to be opened, for:

• Interdisciplinary, collaborative research in systems engineering; undergraduate and graduate instruction; conferences and outreach activities

  • Advanced high performance computing and communications technologies unit serving the entire University of Connecticut community

2015 - $170 million State-funded technology park in Storrs. Anchor building will house the Connecticut Collaboratory for Materials & Manufacturing (C2M2) to feature incubation space and shared laboratories with highly specialized instrumentation and equipment for use by industry engineers and scientists alongside faculty researchers, students and manufacturing entrepreneurs.