New York University Tandon School of Engineering
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The New York University Tandon School of Engineering (commonly referred to as Tandon) is the engineering and applied sciences school of New York University. Tandon is the second oldest private engineering and technology school in the United States.[2][3][4][5]
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Type | Private |
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Established | 1854 (as the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute) |
Parent institution | New York University |
Academic affiliations | Space-grant |
Dean | Jelena Kovačević |
Academic staff | 396 |
Students | 6,323 |
Undergraduates | 2,761 |
Postgraduates | 3,562 |
Location | , , United States 40.694412°N 73.986531°W / 40.694412; -73.986531 |
Campus | Urban, 15 acres (excluding CUSP and leased space)[1] |
Website | engineering |
The school dates back to 1854 when its predecessor institutions were separately founded: the University of the City of New York[6] School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, which evolved into the NYU College of Engineering; and the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute, which evolved into Polytechnic Institute.[7] In 1973, Polytechnic Institute acquired the College of Engineering from NYU, but in 2008, Polytechnic was absorbed by NYU to become its new engineering school. In 2015 NYU renamed the engineering school in honor of NYU Trustees Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon following their donation of $100 million to the school.[8]
The school's main campus is in Brooklyn's MetroTech Center, an urban academic-industrial research park. It is one of several engineering schools that were founded based on a European polytechnic university model in the 1800s, in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States. It has been a key center of research in the development of microwave, wireless, radar, electronics in general, polymers, industrial engineering, operations research and the US space program.[9]