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University at Buffalo The State University of New York at Buffalo, commonly called the University at Buffalo (UB) and sometimes called SUNY Buffalo, is a public research university with campuses in Buffalo and Amherst, New York. The university was founded in 1846 ...

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, or UB Engineering, is the largest public engineering school in the state of New York and is home to eight departments. Established in 1946, UB Engineering is ranked 59th by U.S. News & World Report and has an annual research expenditure of $72 million.

Moving to Davis Hall

Since May 10, 2012 UB Engineering has officially moved to its new home, Davis Hall. The building, as a part of UB 2020 Strategic Plan, hosts Computer Science and Electrical Engineering departments.

Department locations

* Bell Hall - Industrial and Systems Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering * Bonner Hall - Biomedical Engineering, Engineering Development and Alumni Relations, Undergraduate Education Offices * Davis Hall - Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Dean's Office * Furnas Hall - Chemical and Biological Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering * Jarvis Hall - Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering (Environmental Engineering), Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering * Ketter Hall - Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering (Civil Engineering)

Departments

The school includes eight departments offering undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees in following disciplines: * Biomedical Engineering (BME) * Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBE) * Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering (CSEE) * Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) * Electrical Engineering (EE) * Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) * Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) * Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) * Computational Data Science and Engineering (CDSE)

Main research areas

UB Engineering has six schoolwide Research Areas as follow: * Bioactivities * Infrastructure and Environment *

Photonics Photonics is a branch of optics that involves the application of generation, detection, and manipulation of light in form of photons through emission, transmission, modulation, signal processing, switching, amplification, and sensing. Though ...

Microelectronics Microelectronics is a subfield of electronics. As the name suggests, microelectronics relates to the study and manufacture (or microfabrication) of very small electronic designs and components. Usually, but not always, this means micrometre-sc ...

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Materials Material is a substance or mixture of substances that constitutes an object. Materials can be pure or impure, living or non-living matter. Materials can be classified on the basis of their physical and chemical properties, or on their geologic ...

Information Technology Information technology (IT) is the use of computers to create, process, store, retrieve, and exchange all kinds of data . and information. IT forms part of information and communications technology (ICT). An information technology system (I ...

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Computing Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computing machinery. It includes the study and experimentation of algorithmic processes, and development of both hardware and software. Computing has scientific, e ...

* Energy, Flows and Materials Processing *

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and Modelling

Research Centers and Labs

* Center for Biomedical Engineering (CBE) * Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition (CEDAR) * Center for Excellence in Global Enterprise Management (GEM) * Center of Hybrid Nanodevices and Systems (CoHNS) * Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors (CUBS) * Center of Excellence in Information Systems Assurance Research and Education (CEISARE) * Center for Integrated Waste Management (CIWM) * Center for Multisource Information Fusion (CMIF) * New York State Center of Excellence in Materials Informatics (NYSCEMI) * Energy Systems Institute (ESI) * Great Lakes Program (GLP) * MCEER: Earthquake Engineering to Extreme Events (MCEER) * New York State Center for Engineering Design and Industrial Innovation (NYSCEDII) * Research Institute for Safety and Security in Transportation (RISST) * The Center for Industrial Effectiveness (TCIE) * Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulation Laboratory (SEESL) * Center for Computational Research (CCR) * Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics (Photonics) * Center for Spin Effects and Quantum Information in Nanostructures (CSEQuIN) * Buffalo Center for Biomedical Computing (BCBC) * Center for Cognitive Sciences (COGSCI) * Research Institute for Safety and Security in Transportation (RISST) * Calspan-University at Buffalo Research Center (CUBRC) (member of the Alliance for Biosecurity, a group of biopharmaceutical companies and universities that promote the development of medical countermeasures for bioterrorist attacks or infectious disease pandemics) * Center for Excellence in Home Health and Well-Being through Adaptive Smart Environment (Home BASE) * Institute for Sustainable Transportation and Logistics (ISTL) * Institute for Bridge Engineering (IBE)

Deans

Alumni

As of 2016, the school of engineering and applied sciences has 30,000+ alumni in 50 states and 70 countries.

Notable alumni

Norman McCombs Norman McCombs (born c. 1937) is a businessman and 2013 recipient of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. McCombs developed an oxygen production system that helped ease the pain of millions suffering from lung diseases. President Bara ...

, Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering, won

National Medal of Technology The National Medal of Technology and Innovation (formerly the National Medal of Technology) is an honor granted by the President of the United States to American inventors and innovators who have made significant contributions to the development ...

for his portable oxygen source inventions and refinements *

Erich Bloch Erich Bloch (January 9, 1925 – November 25, 2016) was a German-born American electrical engineer and administrator. He was involved with developing IBM's first transistorized supercomputer, 7030 Stretch, and mainframe computer, System/360 ...

, Director of the

National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National I ...

from 1984 to 1990 and recipient of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation *

Wilson Greatbach Wilson Greatbatch (September 6, 1919 – September 27, 2011) was an American engineer and pioneering inventor. He held more than 325 patents and was a member of the National Inventors Hall of Fame and a recipient of the Lemelson–MIT Prize ...

, Recipient of the

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and

National Medal of Technology and Innovation The National Medal of Technology and Innovation (formerly the National Medal of Technology) is an honor granted by the President of the United States to American inventors and innovators who have made significant contributions to the development ...

in 1990 *

Gregory Jarvis Gregory Bruce Jarvis (August 24, 1944 – January 28, 1986) was an American engineer and astronaut who died during the destruction of the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' on mission STS-51-L, where he was serving as payload specialist for Hughes ...

NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research. NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...

Astronaut and American engineer who died during the destruction of the

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on mission

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* Robin Yanhong Li, billionaire and founder of

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, the largest search engine in

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. *

Christopher Scolese Christopher J. Scolese is an American engineer and intelligence official serving as the director of the National Reconnaissance Office. He was appointed the 19th director of the National Reconnaissance Office (DNRO) on August 1, 2019. Scolese was ...

, director of the

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Ira Flatow Ira Flatow (; born March 9, 1949) is a radio and television journalist and author who hosts Public Radio International's popular program ''Science Friday''. On TV, he hosted the Emmy Award-winning PBS series ''Newton's Apple'', a television scie ...

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winner and host of

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's popular,

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Angelo F. Coniglio Angelo F. Coniglio (born August 21, 1936) is an American civil engineer, educator, genealogist and author. He was in the first graduating class (BSCE,1961) of the School of Civil Engineering established by Robert L. Ketter at the University of B ...

, American civil engineer, educator, genealogist and author * Shenthuran Maheswaran, Global Peace Ambassador for

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

Global Peace Index Global Peace Index (GPI) is a report produced by the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP) which measures the relative position of nations' and regions' peacefulness. The GPI ranks 163 independent states and territories (collectively accountin ...

* Jeffrey Umland, PhD in Mechanical Engineering, is the chief mechanical engineer for the Curiosity Rover, NASA's Mars Science laboratory project.

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