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Stanford University School of Engineering

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Total enrollment
  
1,539 (2008)

Phone
  
+1 650-725-1575

Dean
  
Persis Drell

Undergraduate tuition and fees
  
29,847 USD (2003)

Founder
  
Theodore J. Hoover

Address
  
Stanford University, 475 Via Ortega, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

Subsidiaries
  
Stanford Management Science and Engineering

Notable alumni
  
David M Kreps, Brian Witlin, Chang San‑cheng, Martin Roscheisen, Erik Straser

Similar
  
Stanford University, USC Viterbi School of, Columbia University Graduate, University of Southern California, University of Minho

Profiles

Stanford University School of Engineering is one of the schools of Stanford University. The current dean is Persis Drell, the former director of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. She is the school's ninth dean, and first female dean.

Contents

List of deans

  1. Theodore J. Hoover (1925–1936)
  2. Samuel B. Morris (1936–1944)
  3. Frederick E. Terman (1944–1958)
  4. Joseph M. Pettit (1958–1972)
  5. William M. Kays (1972–1984)
  6. James F. Gibbons (1984–1996)
  7. John L. Hennessy (1996–1999)
  8. James D. Plummer (1999–2014)
  9. Persis Drell (2014–2016)
  10. Thomas Kenny (interim dean) (2016–2017)
  11. Jennifer Widom (2017-current)

Current departments at the school

  • Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Bioengineering (also in the School of Medicine)
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Computer Science
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Materials Science and Engineering
  • Management Science and Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • In addition, the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering is an interdisciplinary program.

    History

    The School of Engineering was established in 1926 when Stanford organized the previous independent academic departments into a school. The original departments in the school were

  • Civil Engineering one of the original university departments (1891), later to become Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Electrical Engineering established in 1892.
  • Mechanical Engineering one of the original university departments.
  • Mining and Metallurgy established in 1918 and eventually disbanded in 1945.
  • Departments added afterwards:

  • Aeronautics and Astronautics started as Aeronautical Engineering in 1958
  • Chemical Engineering in 1961 (split from Chemistry)
  • Computer Science in 1965 in the School of Humanities and Sciences but moved to the School of Engineering in 1985
  • Materials Science and Engineering in 1961 (originally known as Materials Science)
  • Management Science and Engineering in the 1950s (originally Industrial Engineering)
  • Bioengineering is the newest department and established in 2002.
  • References

    Stanford University School of Engineering Wikipedia


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