Type | Private |
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Established | 1854 |
Endowment | $200 Million |
Dean | Aaron Bobick |
Academic staff | 229 |
Undergraduates | 1,292 |
Postgraduates | 1,157 |
Location | , , 38°38′56″N90°18′08″W / 38.64899°N 90.30230°W |
Campus | Suburban |
Website | engineering.wustl.edu |
The James McKelvey School of Engineering is a part of Washington University in St. Louis. Founded in 1854, the engineering school is a research institution occupying seven buildings on Washington University's Danforth Campus. Research emphasis is placed on cross-disciplinary technologies in the areas of alternative energy, environmental engineering & sustainable technology, biotechnology, information technology, and nanotechnology/materials science.
On January 31, 2019, the School of Engineering & Applied Science was renamed the James McKelvey School of Engineering, in honor of trustee and distinguished alumnus Jim McKelvey Jr., the co-founder of Square, after his donation of an undisclosed sum that the school's dean, Aaron Bobick, said has been the largest in the school's 162-year history. [1] [2]
Washington University finished in 2021 a $360 million campus transformation project which included the construction of two new McKelvey buildings: Henry A. and Elvira H. Jubel Hall, which houses the Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, and James M. McKelvey, Sr. Hall, which houses the Department of Computer Science & Engineering. [3] [4]
The Princeton Review ranks Washington University's Graduate Engineering Program 13th in the nation.[ citation needed ]
The U.S. News & World Report ranks Washington University's Undergraduate and Graduate Engineering Program 42nd and 47th in the nation, respectively. [5]
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