Engineering Education Resource Fund

UB Chemical and Biological Engineering professor Eli Ruckenstein.

This fund supports a department that aims to advance the engineering profession and transform the way in which students are educated.

At the Department of Engineering Education within the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, we believe that the engineering education system in the United States succeeds in producing knowledgeable, competent and qualified engineers, but it could do so more effectively and efficiently. At the same time, the engineering education system in the U.S. fails to produce a diverse population of engineers at all degree levels.

Our vision is to lead in both the discovery of research-proven educational innovations for engineering and the propagation, scaling and translation of those innovations to classroom practice. We believe that success will result in a robust and adaptive U.S. engineering education system that efficiently and effectively yields a diverse population of more highly knowledgeable, competent and qualified engineers.

We are a highly interdisciplinary department with academic offerings that encompass not only engineering education, but also technical communication and other popular aspects of undergraduate engineering.

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News from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

  • Neelamegham elected Fellow of BMES
    1/27/20
    Sriram Neelamegham, a professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, has been elected Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society for his contributions to the fields of vascular bioengineering and glycoengineering.
  • Mitin elected Fellow of the Optical Society of America
    10/8/20

    As an OSA Fellow, Mitin joins a distinguished group of members who have made significant contributions to the advancement of optics and photonics through education, research, engineering, business leadership and service.

  • Moving the transportation industry forward
    3/4/20

    “The quality of the education you get is in your hands,” Jahmil Campbell (BS ‘07, MS ‘10 electrical engineering) regularly tells students, whether it’s in groups or one-on-one. “People are invested in you and want you to succeed, but it’s up to you to plot your own adventure.”

  • Li receives NSF CAREER Award
    1/7/20

    Huamin Li is the tenth faculty member in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences to receive a CAREER Award in 2019. Li, an assistant professor of electrical engineering, will investigate a novel transistor concept offering faster switching speeds and less energy consumption.

  • UB esports club team to compete in Esports Collegiate Conference
    6/12/20

    UB’s esports club team will compete this fall as part of an esports venture with a newly created independent conference, the Esports Collegiate Conference.

  • UB team to improve wood stoves, save energy
    10/22/20

    UB engineers Paul DesJardin and Joseph Mollendorf are collaborators on a $2.5 million project funded by the Department of Energy to develop and test low-emission, high-efficiency residential wood-fueled heaters.

  • Goyal named SUNY Distinguished Professor
    4/9/20

    Amit Goyal was one of five UB faculty members to be named a SUNY Distinguished Professor, the highest faculty rank in the SUNY system.