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University at Buffalo The State University of New York at Buffalo (commonly referred to as UB, University at Buffalo, and sometimes SUNY Buffalo) is a public university, public research university in Buffalo, New York, Buffalo and Amherst, New York, United States. ...

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 *

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and

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and

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

* 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 Hybrid Rocket Exascale Simulation Technology (CHREST) * 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, Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering, won

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for his portable oxygen source inventions and refinements *

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, Director of the

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from 1984 to 1990 and recipient of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation * Wilson Greatbach, Recipient of the

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and

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in 1990 * Gregory Jarvis,

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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, director of the

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* Ira Flatow,

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winner and host of

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's popular,

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* Angelo F. Coniglio, American civil engineer, educator, genealogist and author * Shenthuran Maheswaran, Global Peace Ambassador for

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* 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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