The School of Engineering at Stanford University was founded in 1925 and is now home to nine departments, 241 faculty, and nearly 4,000 students. In fact, over a quarter of all Stanford students are enrolled in the school. The School of Engineering offers undergraduate programs leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science (BS), programs leading to both BS and Master of Science (MS) degrees, other programs leading to a BS with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in a field of the humanities or social sciences, dual-degree programs with certain other colleges, and graduate curricula leading to the degrees of MS, Engineer, and PhD.
The school’s nine academic departments are: Aeronautics and Astronautics, Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Management Science and Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering. These departments and one interdisciplinary program, the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering, are responsible for graduate curricula, research activities, and the departmental components of the undergraduate curricula. The school operates 65 departmental laboratories, centers, and affiliate programs, many of which are multidisciplinary, bringing in academic areas including medicine, business, linguistics, and physics.
Stanford Engineering houses several institutes that embody the trend toward teaching and research that cut across academic boundaries, each engaging students, faculty, and staff from many disciplines across the campus. The Hasso Plattner Institute of Design encourages the practice of “design thinking” to drive innovation. The Woods Institute for the Environment promotes an environmentally sound and sustainable world. The Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency strives to improve opportunities for and implementation of energy efficient technologies, systems, and practices, with an emphasis on economically attractive deployment. In addition to these institutes, Stanford Engineering is home to the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, which teaches entrepreneurship skills to Stanford students and offers technology entrepreneurship outreach around the world.
Stanford Engineering’s facilities are located on the west side of the university’s Main Quad. The Terman, Durand, Thornton, Skilling, Keck, and Stauffer buildings, along with the laboratories along the Panama Mall corridor, made up the historical heart of the School of Engineering. In 1999, several new engineering buildings were completed: the David Packard Electrical Engineering building, the William Gates Computer Science Building, and the Paul G. Allen Building. These buildings form a unified complex for science and engineering teaching and research programs.
The Mechanical Engineering Research Laboratory, a collaborative research facility along the Panama corridor, opened in 2002. In 2003, the School of Engineering along with the Schools of Medicine and Humanities and Sciences celebrated the opening of the James H. Clark Center for Biomedical Engineering and Sciences. The facility fosters collaboration among scientists from different disciplines in order to meet some of the most pressing scientific and medical challenges of the coming decades.
In November 2007, the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building, known informally as Y2E2, was completed as the first of four buildings in the new SEQ (see sidebar). The next two buildings, the Jen-Hsun Huang School of Engineering Center and the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, are currently under construction.
Degrees Granted (2006-07)
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| | BS | MS | PhD/ENG |
| Men | 253 | 714 | 184 |
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| Women |
84 |
227 |
54 |
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| Total |
337 |
941 |
238 |
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| Ethnic minority students, including African Americans, Asians, Hispanics, and Native Americans, comprised 45 percent of undergraduates and 19 percent of graduate degrees granted to students of U.S. residency and known ethnicity. Foreign students accounted for 9 percent of undergraduate and 44 percent of graduate degrees granted.
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Faculty
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| Professors | 132 |
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| Associate Professors | 37 |
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| Assistant Professors | 53 |
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| Research or Teaching Faculty (non-tenure line) | 19 |
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| Total | 241 |
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Faculty Distinctions*
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| American Academy of Arts and Sciences | 32 |
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| National Academy of Engineering | 75 |
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| National Academy of Sciences | 15 |
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| National Institute of Medicine | 3 |
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| National Medal of Science | 8 |
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| National Medal of Technology | 4 |
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| Nobel Prize | 1 |
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| Kyoto Prize | 2 |
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| NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program Awardees | 37 |
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| NSF Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) |
6 |
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| Royal Society of London | 3 |
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| Academie des Sciences (Paris) | 1 |
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| Norwegian Academy of Sciences | 1 |
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| Charles Stark Draper Prize (NAE) | 1 |
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| Marconi Prize | 1 |
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| Medal with Purple Ribbon (Japan) | 1 |
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| Turing Award | 3 |
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| Academy Award (Hollywood) | 3 |
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* Includes Emeriti |
Research revenues earned by the School of Engineering for indirect cost recovery and tuition far exceed the amount allocated to the school by the university. In 2006-07, the total research volume of the school, both direct and indirect, was $116,611,179. There also was an additional $13,378,693 in direct and indirect costs attributed to SoE faculty research projects managed outside the School of Engineering.
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