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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    Frank Lagor is one of 36 scientists around the country to receive funding from the competitive U.S. Air Force Young Investigator Program. He will use the $450,000 award to study the aerodynamics of small unmanned aerial vehicles, more commonly known as drones.

  • Junsong Yuan named IEEE Fellow
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    UB is ranked among the nation’s top public universities and is a cited as one of the nation’s “best values” in U.S. News & World Report’s Best Colleges rankings, released today.
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    Nika Rajabian, a PhD candidate in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, won first place for her research poster in the annual SEAS Graduate Student Poster Competition.

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    Jun Zhuang, a professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Director of the Decision, Risk and Data Laboratory, was honored by SRA with its 2019 Chauncey Starr Distinguished Young Analyst Award.