The University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences— or UB Engineering, to use our everyday name—is the largest and most comprehensive public school of engineering in New York State.
We offer undergraduate and graduate degree programs in six departments:
UB Engineering was founded in 1946.
We currently have 156 faculty members.
Our enrollment (Fall 2008) is 2,302 undergraduates and 1,003 graduate students.
In 2007-08 we conferred 506 BS (and 4 BA), 22 MEng, 315 MS, and 64 PhD degrees.
We have 23,000 alumni living in all 50 states and 52 countries.
Our annual research expenditures are currently about $50 million and our per faculty research expenditure puts us in the top 10 percent of U.S. engineering schools according to NSF collected data.
Our research portfolio includes exceptional accomplishment in such areas as:
Our research portfolio includes exceptional accomplishment in such areas as:
├earthquake damage mitigation
├tissue engineering
├photonics and biophotonics
├machine learning and pattern recognition
├nanostructures
├biosensors
├human factors in transportation safety
├computer-aided visualization
├information fusion
UB Engineering works with corporate partners in a variety of ways that range from joint research ventures, to continuing education, to co-op work arrangements for our students. We are active in the community, both with our colleagues in the profession and with school students who are the future of engineering.