UB Engineering

Excellent Undergraduate and
Graduate Education,
World-Class Research

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.

Academics

We offer undergraduate and graduate degree programs in six departments:

Chemical and Biological Engineering 
Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering 
Computer Science and Engineering 
Electrical Engineering 
Industrial and Systems Engineering 
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 

Vital Statistics

UB Engineering was founded in 1946.
We currently have 150 faculty members.
Our enrollment (Fall 2007) is 2,334 undergraduates and 1,015 graduate students.
In 2006-07 we conferred 515 BS (and 6 BA), 36 MEng, 248 MS, and 62 PhD degrees.
We have 23,000 alumni living in all 50 states and
52 countries.

Research

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:

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

Our Partners

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.