Brown University School of Engineering
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The Brown University School of Engineering is the engineering
school at Brown University
. The school offers both graduate and undergraduate study in the field. Undergraduate students may declare their major in engineering as late as the end of their sophomore year.
, Brown's first course specifically in engineering was offered in 1849. The current program was formed in 1916 from the combination of Civil, Mechanical, and Electrical Engineering Departments. Engineering was a Division at Brown until 2010 when the university elevated it to its current status as the School of Engineering. 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
.
Engineering
Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...
school at Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
. The school offers both graduate and undergraduate study in the field. Undergraduate students may declare their major in engineering as late as the end of their sophomore year.
History
The oldest undergraduate engineering program in the Ivy LeagueIvy League
The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group...
, Brown's first course specifically in engineering was offered in 1849. The current program was formed in 1916 from the combination of Civil, Mechanical, and Electrical Engineering Departments. Engineering was a Division at Brown until 2010 when the university elevated it to its current status as the School of Engineering. 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
Jacobs School of Engineering
The Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego is an undergraduate and graduate-level engineering school offering Bachelors of Science , Master of Engineering , Master of Science , and Doctorate degree programs...
at the University of California, San Diego
University of California, San Diego
The University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States...
.