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Drexel university college of engineering
The Drexel University College of Engineering is one of the oldest schools of the university and the primary focus of the university when it was founded. Drexel continues to be well known for its engineering curriculum.
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The modern College of Engineering houses the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department, the Electrical and Computer Engineering department, Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics department, the Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering department, and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. In addition to working on departmental research and teaching, professors from the College of Engineering participate in other interdisciplinary research areas such as nanotechnology, software engineering, biotechnology, earthquake engineering, robotics, information technology. The College of Engineering is the 3rd largest private engineering college in the United States.
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Notable alumni
Alumni from the college of engineering include astronauts Christopher Ferguson and Paul W. Richards, inventor of the packet-switch network Paul Baran, professor Eli Fromm, financier Bennett S. LeBow, and engineer David H. Geiger.
Legal issues
Drexel's Department of Materials Science and Engineering has been the subject of two lawsuits since 2005. The first was a professor taking a nylon product from a commercial company and sharing it with its competitor, a company in Taiwan. Drexel lost the case and was fined $602,759. The second was brought by Alia Sabur, where Drexel University was accused of fraud and defamation when her advisor, Yury Gogotsi, sabotaged her Ph.D, stole her research and applied for grants based on her research in nanotechnology. The case went to binding arbitration in 2010.